Iran’s supreme leader hints that Tehran hit little in massive attack on Israel

(Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/AP)

Iran’s supreme leader has dismissed any discussion of whether Tehran’s unprecedented drone-and-missile attack on Israel hit anything there, a tacit acknowledgment that, despite launching a massive assault, few projectiles actually made it to their targets.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s comments to senior military leaders on Sunday did not not touch on the apparent Israeli retaliatory strike on the central city of Isfahan on Friday, even though air defences opened fire and Iran grounded commercial flights across much of the country.