Israeli missiles have hit a site in Iran, according to confirmation from a U.S. official as first reported by ABC News. The official was unable to confirm whether the reports of additional Israeli strikes against military targets in Syria and Iraq were true. Iran has activated its air defenses over several cities, according to Iranian state media.
However, local sources report explosions in Iran’s city of Isfahan, the home of the Iranian regime’s nuclear and conventional-missile programs. Meanwhile, further explosions were reported near Baghdad, in an area used by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to meet with proxies in the region.
Dubai-based air carriers FlyDubai and Emirates were observed diverting around Isfahan, located in central Iran, in the early hours of Friday morning local time.
The reported strikes come hours after Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, said in an exclusive interview with CNN that Iran’s response to military action from Israel would be “immediate and at a maximum level.”
One wonders how much “maximum effort” Iran has left in the can as their previous 300 missile/drone barrage accomplished jack and squat.
Amir-Abdollahian remarks come after Iran’s Sunday attack when Iran launched approximately 300 missiles and drones at Israel in a blanketing effort to overwhelm Israeli missile defenses. Coalition forces, the U.S. foremost among these, shot down the overwhelming majority of the incoming munitions.
Best YouTube footage I could find, which isn’t great.
Developing…
Tags: Foreign Policy, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jihad, Middle East, Military, nuclear weapons, Syria, video
“This business will get out of control. It will get out of control, and we’ll be lucky to live through it.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZuMe5RvxPQ
Act II of Jake Sullivan’s theatrical production: Israelis hit nothing on the ground in Iran, and the only damage all night was to a radar site in Syria’s southern province of Daraa. From ZeroHedge:
“Market reaction: initial panic selling, but gradually as it becomes clear that this is just a token “scripted” response to the token “scripted” initial attack by Iran – which achieved absolutely nothing – markets are rebounding.”
Cannot understand this action by Israel. Was it a probe? Posturing? An accident? A failure? Hope some answers will be available later.
I came across an intriguing hypothesis at Samizdata shortly after Iran’s attack. The summary is
Here’s the full post.
If 10x25mm is right, then the guess at Samizdata could be correct… though I should admit I don’t pay enough attention to give an informed opinion. Also, my apologies if this idea came up earlier in another comment (or post!) and I just overlooked it.
Is it possible there was no Iraeli activity, it was all Iranian panic fire?
“Is it possible there was no Israeli activity, it was all Iranian panic fire?”
Israel’s National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, used one word on ‘X’ to confirm their strike:
דרדל׳ה!
Hebrew for ‘scarecrow’, in response to Israel’s alleged attack in Iran on Friday.
“Cannot understand this action by Israel.”
This was a shot across the bow. It indicates that Israel can precisely strike the sensitive site where Tehran has its nuclear facility. Next time, the payload will be significantly larger.
Syria and Iraq were thrown in for good measure to demonstrate that Israelis have sufficient coordination to chew gum, kick ass and walk like an Egyptian at the same time.
Assuming it was an Israeli strike, it sees to have proven that Iranian/Russian radar is pretty useless.
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There seems to be evidence of a strike.
“There seems to be evidence of a strike.”
The WarZone yesterday had a series of images of an Ukrainian (actually U.S. SOCOM) ATACMS strike on an S-300 site at Dzhankoi AFB in Crimea:
https://www.twz.com/news-features/major-damage-at-russian-airbase-in-crimea-after-ukrainian-attack
Real, successful attacks on missiles and TELs produce a lot of secondary explosions, not evident in the fake NRO IDR imagery. Rocket motors and warheads release a lot of energy when they are detonated. Flaming debris is spread all over.
The satphoto damage at the Iranian SAM site was localized to where the radar was located, not the TELs surrounding it. That’s rather… precise; and, it doesn’t cause much in the way of secondaries. If the imagery is accurate, that sounds like a message to me.