Iran’s foreign minister vowed before the UN Security Council on Thursday that Tehran would make Israel “regret” any attack on the Islamic Republic.

“Iran’s legitimate defense actions and countermeasures have ended, so the terrorist Israeli regime should stop any military adventurism against our interests,” Hossein Amirabdollahian said during the SA meeting on the Middle East situation.

“If the Israeli regime uses force and violates our national sovereignty, the Islamic Republic of Iran will not hesitate for a second to reassert its rights by retaliating decisively and sufficiently to make this regime regret its actions,” he added.

Israel has said it reserves “the right to defend itself” against Iran after a weekend attack with more than 350 drones and missiles fired at its territory, almost all of which were destroyed in flight.

He gave no information on the means, date or objectives of a possible retaliation operation.

Tehran presented the attack as retaliation for the deadly April 1 airstrike on the Iranian consulate in Damascus, which it blamed on the Israeli armed forces. It was a “limited and proportionate” operation, Hossein Amirabdollahian said yesterday, assuring that Iran was showing “restraint” at this stage.