Iran's attack on Israel was a 'declaration of war', the country's president has told Sky News.
Iran's attack on Israel was a 'declaration of war', the country's president has told Sky News. Isaac Herzog said it was 'about time the world faces this empire of evil in Tehran'. World leaders need to 'make it clear' to the Iranian regime that its behaviour is 'unacceptable', Mr Herzog added. 'We should be looking lucidly at the phenomena called Tehran and Iran.
Analysis:Will Israel let an attack by Iran go unpunished? Probably notAll-out war, or not, in the Middle East? Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said its direct assault on Israel was in retaliation for an 'attack on the consular section of the Iranian embassy in Damascus' on 1 April. Two generals and seven members of the IRGC were killed in the strike, which Tehran blamed on Israel. Israel has not publicly commented.
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