SpaceWar.com reports: “Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Wednesday that there was ‘no exchange’ of messages with the United States before Iran’s missile attack on Israel.

Iran on Tuesday launched a barrage of missiles at Israel in response to the killing of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah alongside Revolutionary Guards commander Abbas Nilforoushan in a strike on the Lebanese capital last week.

Iran’s missile attack also came in retaliation for the killing of Palestinian Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in a July strike in Tehran widely blamed on Israel.

‘Before the attack, there was no exchange of messages,’ Araghchi told state TV, adding that Iran communicated with the US after the attack through the Swiss embassy in Tehran.

‘The main point of the message we conveyed to the Americans was that we were taking defensive action within the framework of the United Nations Charter,’ he said.

‘We have also warned the US forces to withdraw from this matter and not to intervene, otherwise they will face a harsh response from us.’…”