Iranian foreign minister dismisses Israeli strike as 'toys,' says there'll be no retaliation

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Iran's apical overseas affairs charismatic dismissed weapons launched against nan country by neighboring Israel arsenic "toys" and said location was nary scheme to retaliate.

Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian downplayed nan Israeli onslaught during an question and reply connected Friday, hours aft nan impact.

"What happened past nighttime wasn’t a strike," Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told NBC News. "They were much for illustration toys that our children play pinch — not drones."

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Minister for Foreign Affairs of Iran Hossein Amir-Abdollahian photographed during a gathering astatine United Nations Headquarters.  (Lev Radin/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

"As agelong arsenic location is nary caller adventurism by Israel against our interests, past we are not going to person immoderate caller reactions," he added.

Amir-Abdollahian besides stated that nan Iranian authorities is not wholly convinced nan onslaught came from Israel, though he grounded to connection replacement theories.

"If Israel takes a decisive action against my state and this is proven to us, our consequence will beryllium contiguous and to nan maximum and will origin them to regret it," nan overseas curate said.

IRANIAN 'NUCLEAR ENERGY MOUNTAIN' IS 'FULLY SAFE' AFTER ISRAELI STRIKE: STATE MEDIA

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This outer image from Planet Labs PBC shows Iran's atomic tract successful Isfahan, Iran. Iran fired aerial defenses astatine a awesome aerial guidelines and a atomic tract early Friday greeting adjacent nan cardinal metropolis of Isfahan aft spotting drones, which were suspected to beryllium portion of an Israeli onslaught successful retaliation for Tehran's unprecedented drone-and-missile battle connected nan country.  (Planet Labs PBC via AP)

Israel carried retired constricted strikes successful Iran early Friday successful retaliation for Tehran firing a barrage of missiles and drones astatine Israel past Saturday. A well-placed subject root told Fox News that nan onslaught was "limited."

There person been nary reports of large-scale harm aliases casualties.

Explosions were reported successful nan Isfahan province, which is wherever Natanz, 1 of Iran's atomic facilities, is located. 

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Vehicles thrust past an anti-Israeli banner showing missiles being launched, successful a quadrate successful downtown Tehran, Iran.  (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Following nan attack, Iranian authorities media stated that nan nation's atomic sites were "fully safe" and had not been struck by nan missiles.

The International Atomic Energy Agency, a United Nations affiliate watchdog organization, later confirmed "there is nary harm to Iran’s atomic sites."

Timothy Nerozzi is simply a writer for Fox News Digital. You tin travel him connected Twitter @timothynerozzi and tin email him astatine [email protected]

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