{"id":57818,"date":"2024-04-18T22:15:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-19T03:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=57818"},"modified":"2024-04-18T22:15:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-19T03:15:20","slug":"breaking-israel-hits-irans-nuclear-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=57818","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Israel Hits Iran&#8217;s Nuclear Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/israeli-reprisal-strikes-reported-in-iran\/?utm_source=email&#038;utm_medium=breaking&#038;utm_campaign=newstrack&#038;utm_term=35088512\">Israel isn&#8217;t messing around<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p>\n<p>However, local sources report explosions in Iran\u2019s city of Isfahan, the home of the Iranian regime\u2019s nuclear and conventional-missile programs. Meanwhile, further explosions were reported near Baghdad, in an area used by Iran\u2019s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to meet with proxies in the region.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The reported strikes come hours after Iran\u2019s foreign minister, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, said in an exclusive interview with CNN that Iran\u2019s response to military action from Israel would be \u201cimmediate and at a maximum level.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One wonders how much &#8220;maximum effort&#8221; Iran has left in the can as their previous 300 missile\/drone barrage accomplished jack and squat. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Amir-Abdollahian remarks come after Iran\u2019s 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Best YouTube footage I could find, which isn&#8217;t great.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xXWZ84jBki0?si=jwvLIjXkm3Ni2tZu\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Developing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel isn&#8217;t messing around. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":47,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,31,194,411],"tags":[2870,54,634,72,2867,74,2874,486,537,2878],"class_list":["post-57818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-jihad","category-military","category-video","tag-foreign-policy","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-israel","tag-jihad","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-syria","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57818"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57825,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57818\/revisions\/57825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}