The Iranian attack was in response to an alleged Israeli airstrike in Damascus earlier this month that killed a top Quds Force commander.
In what the article describes as a "subtle" acknowledgement, the source told Kan News that the Saudi air defenses automatically intercept "any suspicious entity" that enters its airspace, which could be in reference to attacks from Iran's terror proxy the Houthis in Yemen.
“We confront every suspicious object that enters Saudi airspace. This is a matter of sovereignty," the source said.
On October 7, Hamas led a mass invasion of southern Israel, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, wounding thousands more and kidnapping some 250 others, of which more than one hundred remain in captivity.
Riyadh put US-brokered Israeli normalisation talks on ice after the October 7 massacre and amid the ensuing war but has maintained that a potential deal is still on the table.
