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Podcast: Mission Network News - Middle East
Episode: Iran retaliates, Israel weighs response, and allies fear regional war
Description: Iran (MNN) — Israel and Iran square off as Western allies urge restraint.
Iran’s assault on Saturday was the first time the Islamic Republic directly attacked Israel since the regime’s formation in 1979. According to an Israeli military spokesman, nearly all of the missiles and drones were intercepted.
“Iran attacked Israel [with] full force, about 300 missiles, intending for a mass casualty. Fortunately, that did not happen, but this was the first time they fired from inside Iran,” Heart4Iran’s Nazanin Baghestani says.
“They were [previously] using the neighbors and using Hezbollah (to attack Israel...