Iran's Revolutionary Guards have prepared both defensively and offensively to reenact the missile attack on Israel with "multiplied intensity," said the head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, General Mohammad Bagheri.
He stressed that if Israel "intends to do anything against our sovereignty or territorial integrity, tonight's operation will be repeated on a much larger scale and we will attack the entire Israeli infrastructure."
General Bagheri noted that Iran avoided targeting Israeli civilians when launching the attack, although it was "entirely feasible."
Meanwhile, according to AP, Iran's Ambassador to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani warned that any aggressive reaction by Israel against Iran would be met with "faster, more decisive and stronger" moves.
Iran's ambassador to the United Nations said in a letter to the UN Security Council and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on October 1 that missile attacks on military and security targets in Israel were carried out in self-defense, in accordance with the UN Charter, and in response to Israel's "aggressive actions."
He pointed to the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31, the pager explosion in Lebanon in September that killed at least 12 people and injured 2,800 others, including the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon, and the assassinations of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Iranian general Abbas Nilforoushan in Beirut on September 27.
Ambassador Iravani reiterated Iran's call to the UN Security Council for "urgent and decisive intervention" to stop Israel's actions in Lebanon, Gaza and Syria and prevent the situation from escalating into a full-blown regional war.
For his part, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Danny Danon, said that Israel would decide how and when to respond to Iran's barrage of nearly 200 ballistic missiles that forced 10 million Israelis into shelters. "The response will certainly be noticeable, it will be painful," he stressed.
"We do not seek war or escalation, but we cannot sit idly by while our civilians are attacked in such a manner," said Israel's ambassador to the United Nations.
