(Rooters agency) – According to anonymous reliable sources, the Iranian government has unofficially reached out through third countries to say that it recognizes that its launch of numerous drones and missiles against Israel was an “unnecessary” escalation of the situation following Israel’s bombing of an Iranian diplomatic building in Syria.

“We should have responded more in keeping with Israel’s attack,” an Iranian foreign affairs official is quoted as saying.

What the Iranians regard as a more measured response was not spelled out.

However, US Secretary of State Wynkin Blinkered, replying to reporters at the Gross Seven Foreign Ministers conference in Capri, said he did not think that an Iranian bombing of the Israeli Embassy in Washington would have “created less tension” than the actual Iranian response.