Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday chaired the Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) meet to discuss situations in the Middle East. The CCS meeting was held shortly after Modi arrived in the national capital at around 9.30 pm following his two-day tour of Rajasthan, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.
The meeting, which was attended by committee members, including Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, Home Minister Amit Shah, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar and Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, was briefed by top officials on the prevailing situation in West Asia and its implications on India.
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, principal secretaries to the prime minister, P K Mishra and Shaktikanta Das, Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan, Cabinet Secretary T V Somanathan and Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri also attended the meeting.
This comes after Israel continued its attack on Iran, targeting the Islamic Republic's army headquarters in Tehran, destroying several of its fighter aircraft. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have targeted the Basij forces headquarters and also the Tabriz airport that destroyed at least two Iranian F-5 and F-4 fighter jets.
"Two F5 and F4 fighter jets at the airport of Tabriz in western Iran, as the jets were prepared for takeoff. The strike was conducted to degrade the Iranian Air Force’s activities and to further expand the degradation of their aerial defense," said the IDF on X (previously Twitter), while sharing a video of the strike.
While Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has already been killed in the strikes, Israel has said it would continue striking the Islamic Republic. Israel, which has always been against Iran's nuclear programme, has also released a video showing the precision strikes on Khamenei's compound in Tehran, naming its mission as Operation Roaring Lion.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said Israel's operation will continue as long as necessary, as he in his Saturday's address highlighted that the Iranian regime has called for "death to Israel and death to America" in the past 47 years. Because of Iran, people in the Middle East stay in fear, Netanyahu said, adding that Tehran has armed proxies against Israel in Gaza, Syria and other countries.
"It trampled on the citizens of its country, it instilled fear in the peoples of the region, it spread a vast network of terror across the entire world, it invested enormous resources to develop atomic bombs and tens of thousands of missiles intended, as it defined it, to erase Israel from the map of the world," he said.
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