Iranian officials have downplayed a predawn attack by the Zionist regime on military targets in Tehran and other Iranian cities as ‘restricted’, which has caused the country’s financial markets to gain after weeks of fears about a Zionist response to Iran’s major missile attack on the Israeli-occupied territories.
Iran had launched a barrage of missiles on Zionist military and security targets in response to the regime’s assassination of resistance leaders in Tehran and Beirut on October 1. Tel Aviv leaders had pledged revenge.
There is no immediate assessment of the damage caused by the Zionist airstrikes early Saturday, but the Iranian authorities have claimed that the attacks were by no means proportionate to the strength of Iran’s October 1 missile attack.
Iran’s downplaying the Zionist attack has convinced the Iranian investors that the heightened tensions are probably going to ease.
At the start of trading at Tehran Stock Exchange on Saturday, 60% of the listed companies were positive. That was the first surge of its kind in nearly two months.
The US dollar fell nearly 2.5% against Iran’s rial so that one USD was traded for 674,000 rials on Saturday.
Iranian financial markets had witnessed fluctuations over the past months due to tit-for-tat attacks between Iran and the Zionist regime.