After Israeli security agencies foiled a planned Iranian attack against Israelis in Turkey and an Iranian drone attack in Iraq, spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Saeed Khatibzadeh said Monday that "the response to the Zionist entity will come when the time is right, and not via a third country."
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According to the Iranian news agency Fars, Khatibzadeh declined to discussed a recent drone attack at Erbil in northern Iraq, which injured three people. Iranian media outlets claimed that the target of the attack had been a Mossad operations base, a claim that was not confirmed by any other sources.
The spokesman also touched on a recent airstrike at the Damascus airport, which foreign reports attributed to Israel.
Speaking at a weekly ministry press briefing, Khatibzadeh said that "Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian has spoken to his Syrian counterpart and condemned the strike, and also talked about ways of solving the problem at the airport and the work needed [to rebuild]."
"The proper response is resistance and to defeat this aggressive entity [Israel]. The peoples of the region know that the response to aggression is a slap. The resistance the Syrian people are demonstrating is an axis along which members of the resistance move. Syrian cannot be the backyard of the occupying entity," Khatibzadeh continued.
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