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Sunday, February 22, 2026
Iran’s FM says country’s missiles hit Israel in last war ‘and can do it again’
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleLazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
Iran is a “in a better situation” defensively than in the June 2025 war with Israel and is prepared to strike Israel again with its missiles should it come under attack, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told CBS News.
“Yes, we had problem with our air defense, but Israelis had also problem with their air defense and our missiles were able to hit targets inside Israel,” he said in the interview that aired earlier.
“They started the war, but after 12 days, they asked for a ceasefire, unconditional ceasefire,” he claims. “Why? Because they couldn’t defend themselves against our missiles. So we have a very good capability of missiles, and now we are even in a better situation than previous war.”
Iran’s missiles, he claims, “hit their targets in a very exact way, and they can do it again.”
The Iranian Foreign Minister to Fox News: Although Israel had air superiority over us with planes, we also have air superiority over them with our ballistic missiles that hit.
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During the 12-day war last June, six missiles are said to have struck military bases, while 36 others impacted elsewhere inside Israel, having evaded interception by Israeli and US air defenses, killing 32 people and damaging 2,305 homes in 240 buildings, along with two universities and a hospital, and leaving over 13,000 Israelis displaced.
The Times of Israel Community.