Unlike the Iranian buffoons, Israel will hurt their enemies.

https://twitter.com/WallStreet.../1781134613475135788

Russian news agency claiming Israel hitting significant targets. Take that for what it's worth.

https://twitter.com/mrbarnicoa.../1781134043376980014

Hey Iran, it'd be a real shame if something were to happen to your facility.

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Originally posted by downtownv:

We are funding Israel AND Hamas? sounds like a page outta the globalist bankers playbook

There was a similar scenario in Catch-22, where one of the characters was coordinating bombing runs and anti-aircraft fire.

I haven't looked in a few years, but Iran used to have a severe gasoline issue. They were subsidizing gasoline to the point it was about a 0.25 per gallon so people were powering their homes off gasoline generators instead of powering their home off the grid. If that is still the case, Israel could sew a lot of discontent taking out the reformer, cracker, and alky units at a refinery.

BREAKING NEWS Israel strikes back at Iran: Explosions are reported near bases housing Islamic Republic's nuclear facilities as Netanyahu defies Biden days after unprecedented missile barrage on Jewish state

By WILL POTTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 21:41 EDT, 18 April 2024 | UPDATED: 22:26 EDT, 18 April 2024

Israel has conducted airstrikes on a target in Iran, US officials say.

An official told ABC News that strikes hit a site in Iran, however it is unclear what exact target was hit or the extent of the damage.

Footage shared on social media appeared to show anti-aircraft fire striking over the city of Isfahan in central Iran, which hosts one of Iran's nuclear facilities.

Iranian news outlet FARS reported that the strikes hit the region at approximately 5am local time, and were located 'near Isfahan Airport and the eighth hunting base of the Army Air Force.'

It comes in response to Iran launching a barrage of hundreds of drones and rockets at Israel on Saturday, which was largely thwarted by Israel and its international allies.

The Biden administration had stressed the need for de-escalation from Israel following Saturday's strikes, urging them to 'take the win' of the foiled Iranian attack.


Footage shared on social media appeared to show anti-aircraft fire striking over the city of Isfahan in central Iran, which hosts one of the nation's nuclear facilities


Strikes have hit at least one target in Iran, US officials confirmed


https://twitter.com/i/status/1781136980283097371



Multiple airports in Iran have been closed following the Israeli strikes, and further unconfirmed explosions have reportedly hit Iraq and Syria.

Florida Senator Marco Rubio tweeted soon after reports of the strikes: 'Israel has the ability to conduct strikes against targets inside Iran without entering Iranian air space from aircraft over Syrian and Iraqi airspace.'

Although the US military played a central role in halting Iran's strikes on Saturday, President Biden said he made it 'very clear' to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he had to act 'carefully and strategically.'

Biden urged Netanyahu to 'take the win' of the derailed attack, and cautioned that the US would not participate in any Israeli counter-offensive.

The Iranian attack came in retaliation to Israel's strike on Iran's consulate in Syria on April 2, which killed 13 people including two generals in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard.

As Israel maintained its plans to retaliate on Iran, a senior Iranian official warned that the nation would respond by starting production of nuclear weapons if Israel attacked its nuclear facilities.

Iran threatened to use 'weapons it has never used' if Israel struck, and indicated that it did not wish to continue escalating the conflict unless Israel fired back.

As the West urged for calmer heads to prevail in the Jewish state, Iranian Parliament's National Security Committee Abolfazl Amoue stated that Iran is prepared for a 'painful response' to the 'slightest action.'

On Thursday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian also cautioned that Iran would strike back at the 'maximum level' if Israel fired.

'In case the Israeli regime embarks on adventurism again and takes action against the interests of Iran, the next response from us will be immediate and at a maximum level,' Amir-Abdollahian told CNN.

RIA Novosti is part of the Putin regime, they are not a trustworthy news source. Clearly trying to escalate the situation and the fear.

On FNC, Jennifer Griffin is bringing down the temperature by contradicting the Israeli SF "source" who was talking about aircraft--her source says explosion likely from a missile, not a bomb (of course could have been fired from an F-15 or F-35 outside of Iranian air space).

As ticked off as many of us are about FNC in general, they still have the best real reporters on defense issues.

Yes, I'm usually quite skeptical of initial reports by foreign news agencies.

https://twitter.com/DougAMacgr.../1781147151189360865

https://www.wsj.com/world/midd...els-flights-27b6d416

Iran activated air-defense systems and canceled flights, state media reported, amid reports of explosions at a time when the country and world are bracing for a possible Israeli strike.

Much remained unclear about the circumstances in Iran the early hours of Friday morning. Iranian media and social media reported explosions near Isfahan, where Iran has nuclear facilities and a drone factory.

An explosion was heard in Tabriz after Iran’s air defense detected a suspicious object and fired, the state-run news agency IRNA said.

It said air-defense systems were activated in provinces across the country in response to a suspicious object in the sky. State-media reports attributed the explosions to air-defense fire.

It also reported flights across the country were put on hold.

https://www.breitbart.com/midd...-near-nuclear-sites/

Reports emerged early Friday morning local time that Israel had attacked several Iranian sites — including targets near the suspected locations of Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Israel’s Army Radio reported at 5:00 a.m. local time that ABC News had identified Israeli strikes near the town of Isfahan, Iran, as well as in locations in Syria and Iraq.

The Times of Israel reported:

Iran’s Fars news agency says that explosions have been heard near the airport at the country’s central Isfahan city, but the reason is unknown.

“The cause of these sounds is still unknown, and investigations continue until the exact details of the incident are determined,” the semi-official Fars news agency says.

Several Iranian nuclear sites are located in Isfahan province, including Natanz, centerpiece of Iran’s uranium enrichment program.

Speculation mounted on social media that the Syrian and Iraqi targets were linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the external terrorist wing of the Iranian military.

Iran is a punching bag. The Israelis will do what they want, then go home for breakfast.

Well, that quickky progressed to the "...and find out" phase.

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Originally posted by DennisM:

If true-- and the administration isn't denying it, so make what you will of this-- then the White House.

Green-lit.
An attack.
Against an ally.

As long as it was "just the tip."

Again.

I didn't get that from my first reading. Had to read a second post quoting you for me to go back and read it twice more before i got it.

Doesn't this echo what Biden said to Russia in regards to Ukraine???

It's a warning to the the Mad Mullahs who rule this unfortunate country.

'You shoot 300 drones at us, without any aim except Eretz Israel. We shoot two missiles at you, that you could neither detect, intercept or destroy, that hit exactly where they were aimed. Your nuclear development facilities CAN be toast - any time WE want. IOW, we can hit where we like.'

All the media sources state that Iran claims to have “shot down some drones” and that the explosions were possibly caused by unknown “infiltrators”, and that a retaliatory response isn’t necessary.

Translation- Israel fired a couple of accurate missile shots that essentially said “we can knock your attacks out of the sky and you are powerless to defend against obliteration if we so choose”. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this exact sentiment wasn’t conveyed to Tehran.

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:

I didn't get that from my first reading. Had to read a second post quoting you for me to go back and read it twice more before i got it.

Doesn't this echo what Biden said to Russia in regards to Ukraine???

Exactly. Back then, it was about "minor incursions" being different from a full-scale invasion. Here, Iran's attack had to be "within limits."

Being a U.S ally is a dangerous hobby these days.

And somehow we’re the suckers giving billions to every country involved.

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Originally posted by gearhounds:
All the media sources state that Iran claims to have “shot down some drones” and that the explosions were possibly caused by unknown “infiltrators”, and that a retaliatory response isn’t necessary.

Translation- Israel fired a couple of accurate missile shots that essentially said “we can knock your attacks out of the sky and you are powerless to defend against obliteration if we so choose”. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if this exact sentiment wasn’t conveyed to Tehran.

There may have been small drones launched by agents from within the country and shot down as Iran claims, but if so they were probably for target reconnaissance/damage assessment. Clearly that was not the only thing that happened, as per their version; there are suggestions that the actual attack was by air-launched ballistic missiles fired from F-15Is in Syrian airspace. Boosters found in Iraq imply a new variant of ROCKS, possibly based upon the two-stage "Blue" rather than the "Black" variant of the Sparrow family of BMD target missiles. Just like Iran, which seems to have targeted sites connected to the original Israeli strike on their Damascus embassy compound - an intelligence center in the Golan Heights (unsuccessfully), and two airbases which incurred minor damage from a reported total of nine ballistic missiles getting through - Israel apparently aimed for an airbase and/or drone factory at Isfahan linked to the Iranian barrage.

Looks to me like Israel did what they could manage with national means and without endangering the coalition which helped defend them against the Iranian strike. Particularly Jordania, which stuck its neck out shooting down drones and permitting use of its airspace for American, British and French aircraft to do the same. While their government has been one to have normalized relations with Israel the longest, their heavily Palestinian-descended population is actually one of the most anti-Israeli among Arabs, so they have to tread carefully; after the Iranian attack, they promptly declared they would shoot down anything crossing the other way, too. Overall, none of Israel's allies was going to stand for doing the same for them over and over again in an escalating spiral of strike and counter-strike. Iran downplaying the effects of Israel's response is a likely sign that the two of them will now zip their flies back up and return to the more indirect means of their decades-long shadow warfare against each other.

From what I'm hearing today the attack on Iran was limited in scope. A base that had nuclear elements to it were hit, but the nuclear elements were not the target. The Israelis basically went after bases that launched missiles or drones against them. Here's the kicker. They flashed a capability that Iran didn't know that they had. Guided glide bombs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glide_bomb

The planes that launched these munitions did so outside Iranian airspace. The bombs didn't show up on any radar. The Iranians knew nothing of them until they exploded. We'll see if the Iranians insist on being stupid. The Israelis have proven we can shoot your stupid shit down, and you can't even see ours coming.

https://www.foxnews.com/world/...y-during-iran-attack

According to Israeli army estimates, Iran fired some 30 cruise missiles, 120 ballistic missiles and 170 suicide drones that carried about 60 tons of warheads and explosives combined. While most of the projectiles were shot down before reaching Israel’s borders, two air force bases were lightly hit and a 7-year-old Israeli girl was seriously injured. Forces from the U.S., British and French militaries, as well as from several countries in the region, including Saudi Arabia and Jordan, participated in the operation.

"To coordinate such an attack is not an easy task because all three weapon systems have [different] velocities and performances," said Tal Inbar, a senior research fellow at Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance.

He said that the UAVs, mostly Iranian-produced Shahed 136s, would have been fired first because they move at the slowest pace; followed by the cruise missiles and finally the ballistic missiles, which have a relatively short flight time from Iran to Israel, depending on the launch site.

Inbar noted that Iran’s decision to use drones gave Israel several hours to "prepare itself to the maximum."

In addition to deploying advanced missile defense systems and scrambling fighter planes, he said Israel also put in place some levels of cyberprotection, including disrupting satellite navigation, which is effective in stopping some of the projectiles from reaching their targets.

"Ballistic missiles cannot be jammed because they use an internal navigation system, but this is not the case with drones," Inbar said, noting that Israelis have become used to GPS disturbances over the past six months.

Recent media reports also suggest that Israel deployed its new $1 billion spy plane, the Oron, which provided vital information that was used to track and destroy the drones and missiles in flight. The high-tech jet, which Israel unveiled at last year’s Paris Air Show, is equipped with thousands of advanced sensors. The Oron has the ability to scan vast terrain and gather an unprecedented amount of information at a considerable distance from the targets being tracked. When asked about the Oron spy plane, the IDF did not comment.