Bombs over Tehran. “In response to months of continued attacks by the Iranian regime against the State of Israel, the Israel Defense Forces are carrying out targeted strikes against military targets in Iran,” Army spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari announced Friday. the night: “The Iranian regime and its allies in the region have been relentlessly attacking Israel since October 7 on seven fronts, including direct attacks from Iranian soil. Like any other sovereign country in the world, the State of Israel has the right and duty to respond. Our defensive and offensive capabilities are fully mobilized. “We will do whatever is necessary to defend the State of Israel and the people of Israel.”
After the assassination of the top leader of Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah, in an Israeli attack in Beirut on November 27, with 17 other leaders of the Iranian satellite group and the beginning of the ground incursion of Israeli troops into southern Lebanon, Iran launched a major attack against Israel on October 2.
“The Iranian regime and its allies in the region have been relentlessly attacking Israel since October 7, on seven fronts, including direct attacks from Iranian soil,” said Hagari, who insisted on the “right and duty to respond.”
The Prime Minister’s Office released an image of Benjamin Netanyahu at the command headquarters of the Kyria military base, following the attack against Iran, its greatest enemy, which it has accused for years of creating dozens of satellite groups in the region to conspire against. Israel, like Hamas, Islamic Jihad or Hezbollah.
The Minister of Defense himself, Yoav Gallant, advanced this Wednesday that the attack on Iran “would be soon” and the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, swore last Saturday to punish “the Iranian agents who tried to assassinate him”, after a drone launched from Lebanon by Hezbollah hit his private residence in Caesarea, central Israel.
“Our defensive and offensive capabilities are fully mobilized. We will do everything necessary to defend the State of Israel and the people of Israel,” Hagari stressed in a video statement released by the Israel Defense Forces.
Iran’s defense systems have repelled Israeli attacks against military bases in Tehran, reported the Tasnim agency, linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. “No missiles or attacks have hit any Guard military base in the west and southwest of Tehran,” said Tasnim, citing anonymous security sources.
“The sounds (of explosions) were due to the actions of the Army’s defense systems in three places around Tehran against Israeli military action,” he added. Previously, the Fars agency, also linked to the Revolutionary Guard, had reported that there had been attacks against several military bases in the west and southwest of Tehran, without offering more details.
The Israeli army has acknowledged the attack as “precise actions.” According to a statement from the IDF spokesperson, these actions come in response to Iran’s “continuous attacks” against Israel. These attacks have occurred, they point out, against military targets, as Iranian agencies have also reported.
As reported by The Guardian, Israel previously informed the White House, which has denied its participation in this Israeli army offensive. Although, he has framed it within “an exercise in self-defense.” A US spokesman has asked Iran not to respond with new attacks on Israel.
According to a US official in a call with the press, tonight’s Israeli attack on Iran was “proportionate” and moderate enough not to provoke a counterattack by Iran. The White House highlighted that, unlike the Iranian attack on October 1, which had Tel Aviv as one of its objectives, the Israeli response “was a self-defense exercise that avoided populated areas and focused only on military objectives.”
The air offensive has occurred in several waves of explosions, as reported by Iranian agencies. The Iranian Civil Aviation Organization announced this Saturday the cancellation of flights throughout the country until further notice, in the midst of the Israeli attack against the Persian nation, the state agency IRNA reported. This was announced by the spokesperson for the Civil Aviation Organization, Jafar Yazerlou, who indicated that all air routes in the country are suspended. “Passengers who have purchased tickets will be informed about the rescheduling of flights through the airlines,” added the spokesperson, in statements reported by IRNA.
Iran already launched a previous attack against Israel on April 13, in the midst of regional hostilities and after several members of the Revolutionary Guard were killed in an attack attributed to Israel against the Iranian embassy in Damascus; to which Israel also responded in a limited way.
After the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh on July 31 in another attack attributed to Israel in Tehran, the Persian regime also promised retaliation but international diplomacy managed to stop the response, which did come with an attack of about 300 rockets. and missiles by Hezbollah on August 25, which also avenged the assassination of its military chief and military leader, Fuad Sukr, in Beirut hours before Haniyeh’s.
Iran attack on Israel
Iran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles at Israel on October 2, many of which were intercepted by the country’s defenses with the help of the United States. The attack came after massive Israeli bombings against Tehran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon, followed by the Israeli ground invasion, the extent of which is still unclear.
“Our action has ended unless the Israeli regime decides to incite new retaliation,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi wrote this Wednesday in a message on X. “In that case, our response will be stronger and more powerful.” ”, warned the diplomat. Araqchí pointed out that Iran has maintained “enormous moderation for almost two months, to make room for a ceasefire in Gaza,” something that has not happened. For this reason, he maintains, the country decided to launch the attack against “exclusively military and security objectives.”
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard had previously confirmed launching missiles in response to the assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah and an Iranian general. “With the firing of dozens of ballistic missiles, the targets in the heart of the occupied territories have been hit,” indicated the elite military body. “If the Zionist regime responds to the Iranian operation, it will face harsh attacks,” he said, according to the IRNA agency. For its part, the Iranian mission to the UN has defended the attack, claiming that it is a “legal, rational and legitimate response to terrorist acts” by Israel, while Hamas has also praised the Iranian action.
Israel said, for its part, that the attack “will have consequences.” “We will choose when to take the price,” said Israeli Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi. “We have plans and we will act at the time and place we choose,” said Daniel Hagari, spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces, moments before, who was in charge of reporting that the attack had ended, ensuring that there were no more. threats” coming from Iran towards Israel, while citizens were notified that they could leave the bomb shelters.
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