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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor

Iran vows revenge for Israeli strikes, saying it will write ‘end of this story’

An Iranian at a protest in Tehran holds a poster of the Iranian army chief of staff, Gen Mohammad Bagheri, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike.
An Iranian at a protest in Tehran holds a poster of the Iranian army chief of staff, Gen Mohammad Bagheri, reported killed in an Israeli airstrike. Photograph: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA

Iran has vowed to avenge the attack on its nuclear sites and the assassination in Tehran of its senior military leadership, saying it would respond forcefully and that the “end of this story will be written by Iran’s hand”.

In the first signs of a counterstrike, Israel said Iran had launched 100 drones towards Israel and that its air defences were intercepting them outside Israeli territory.

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