AN ISRAELI cabinet minister boasted yesterday that his country was able to kill Iranians with impunity and Tehran was too frightened to strike back.

Regional Co-operation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi told Israel Radio that only a minority of the country’s bombing raids on Iranian targets in Syria had been publicly acknowledged.

“Iranians are very limited in their reactions and it’s not because they don’t have the capabilities, it’s because they understand Israel means business,” he bragged.

Like Russia, Iran and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia have provided military assistance to the Syrian government in its war against Isis and al-Qaida-affiliated jihadists.

Israel claims both are a threat to it and has bombed a number of Iranian and Hezbollah targets within Syria in defiance of international law — leading Damascus to accuse it of actively supporting Islamist terror groups.

Iran’s Press TV channel retorted: “This is how Israelis are freely and proudly talking about killing Iranians. Just imagine what would happen if it was the other way around!”