State Department calls on entire world to condemn Iran’s ‘brazen and unacceptable’ attack

US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller calls Iran’s missile attack against Israel “brazen and unacceptable” and says that “every nation in the world must join us in condemning it.”

Miller says at a press briefing that US partners assisted Israel and the US in helping thwart the attack, but he declines to reveal those countries, saying he’ll let them speak for themselves.

He fiercely denies reports that Iran passed along a message to the US warning of the impending attack shortly before it was launched.

“What you saw Iran do today was come to the defense of a terrorist organization,” Miller adds.

The State Department spokesperson also flatly rejects Iran’s claim that its attack was in response to Israel’s violation of its sovereignty when it killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July.

“This event had nothing to do with Iran’s sovereignty. It has to do with the fact that a number of the terrorist organizations that Iran has set up for years as a way to undermine and attack the State of Israel have been weakened first over the past few months and then most recently over the past few weeks,” Miller says, highlighting the recent Israeli killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

“To the extent that any Iranian officials have been killed in the past few days in Lebanon or in Syria, it’s because they were meeting with terrorist leaders,” the State Department spokesperson says.

“The president has made clear our support for Israel’s security is ironclad. We will continue to stand with the people of Israel at this critical moment,” Miller adds.