u.s. department of defense: u.s. warships participated in intercepting iranian missiles attacking israel, and the united states fully supports israel’s exercise of its right to self-defense
u.s. department of defense spokesman ryder said on october 1, local time,pentagonlarge-scale missile attack on iranisrael"without prior warning from iran," two u.s. navy destroyers launched about a dozen interceptors at iranian missiles aimed at israel. in addition, "no other u.s. military assets were used to shoot down these missiles launched from iranian territory." missile". ryder said that the scale of iran's attack this time was about twice that of the attack on israel in mid-april this year. he also stressed that the united states fully supports israel's right to defend itself following a "major" iranian attack.
