Iran denies firing rockets at Israel — report

A senior Iranian security official denies that his country was behind a missile barrage fired from Syria at Israeli territory which prompted Israel to respond with airstrikes against dozens of Iranian targets inside Syria.

Iran’s Supreme National Security Council Deputy head Abu al-Fadl Hassan al-Baiji said, “Iran has nothing to do with the missiles that struck yesterday on the enemy entity,” reports the Al-Manar television network which is affiliated with Lebanon’s Iran-backed terror group Hezbollah.

Some 20 rockets were fired at northern Israeli military bases by Iranian forces from southern Syria just after midnight Wednesday, Israel said, prompting extensive retaliatory raids. The Israel Defense Forces said that it suffered no casualties, either on the ground or in the air, and that none of the rockets fired from Syria landed in Israeli territory.