In response, Israeli Defense Forces fired over 70 missiles into Syria; targeting Iranian military units and infrastructure throughout the country. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov commented on a statement, which acting Russian Presidential Aide for Military and Technical Cooperation Vladimir Kozhin gave in an interview with the newspaper Izvestia, reported Russian state news agency TASS, "Technologically, it is absolutely incorrect to link this [Kozhin's words] with Netanyahu's visit because the interview was given before Netanyahu's visit", the acting Kremlin spokesman pointed out.
In the meantime, a member of the Iranian parliament's commission on security and foreign policy, Abolfazl Hassan Beigi, emphasized that Tehran does not maintain a military presence in Syria.
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In retaliation to the attacks on Iran's military systems in Syria, prominent Iranian cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami threatened attack on two of Israel's most important cities if the Jewish nation continued on its "foolish" ways.
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Germany alone exported three billion euros worth of goods to Iran in 2017, Italy 1.7 billion and France 1.5 billion. Iran needs a $68 a barrel average price at current export levels, the International Monetary Fund said .
The attacks came just days after US President Donald Trump walked out of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, a move long advocated by Israel. Iranian officials have rejected any new accord. Israel considers the government in Iran an existential threat. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has constantly maintained that Iran is sticking to the terms of the agreement and is not cheating, a fact independently verified by the US military as well.
Israel had already acknowledged launching more than 100 airstrikes in Syria since that country's civil war broke out in 2011.
According to the Israeli military intelligence, now in Syria are from 1000 to 2000 the Iranian military experts and fighters of divisions "al-Quds".
According to the Syrian human rights organization, as a result of the blow inflicted by the IDF on the Iranian military installations in Syria on may 10 that killed 11 Iranians.
In a separate development, Yemen's Houthi rebel group fired at least one missile at Saudi Arabia on Wednesday.
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