IRGC: “DESTROYED IMPORTANT ISRAELI MILITARY TARGETS” (video). Storm of 146 Missiles and 185 Suicide Drones from Iran. Netanyahu Escapes
by Gospa News Editorial Staff
When the going gets tough the tough get going. An old adage goes.
This is not the case of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who as soon as the news spread of the departure of 50, perhaps 100 drones from Iran in retaliation for Israel’s attack on April 1 against the Tehran Embassy in Damascus, the capital of Syria , took off his “Kenaf Zion (Wing of Zion)” plane from the Nevatim base in the south of the country.
The news on the starting of military action was also confirmed by Tehran (statements below) which named it “Operation True Promise”.
Iran launched two waves of missiles against Israel, the first of 80 and the second of 70, for a total of 150. This was reported by a US administration source to ABC News.
Iran has launched 185 drones, 36 cruise missiles and 110 surface-to-surface missiles against Israel, including from Iraq and Yemen: this is what the New York Times reports, citing government sources from the Jewish state.
The Pentagon for its part announced that the US Navy intercepted over 70 drones and three cruise missiles, while other drones were shot down by the air force.
Israel & allies intercept Iranian drones. IRGC: “Missiles Hit Targets”
The US and other Western allies are reportedly helping Israel to defend against retaliatory Iranian airstrikes, deploying fighter jets and other defenses to intercept incoming drones and cruise missiles before they reach Israeli territory.
American forces have started shooting down unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the skies over Iraq and Syria, according to unconfirmed Israeli broadcast reports. More than 100 of the Iranian kamikaze drones were taken out by US and UK forces before they reached West Jerusalem’s airspace, the Israeli military’s Army Radio outlet reported.
Iran has launched more than 300 “threats of various types” towards Israel, including ballistic missiles, drones and cruise missiles, IDF spokesman Avichay Adraee said. “We intercepted 99% of threats towards Israeli territory. This is a very important strategic achievement,” Adraee said.
According to Tasnim News Agency, very close to Pasdaran, the IRGC Public Relations Office in a statement in the early hours of Sunday affirmed the «missiles successfully hit targets inside occupied territories».
Iranian media published several short clips on social networks, purportedly showing the moments the Islamic Republic’s missiles hit their targets in Israel. One of them was supposedly taken in a settlement in the Negev desert located in the southern part of the country.
A large-scale missile and drone attack against Israel has been a success, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps has said in a statement published by IRNA news agency. The Islamic Republic’s military managed to “hit and destroy” some “important military targets,” it added, without providing any further details.
According to CNN, which cites Israeli sources, Iran’s attack on Israel caused around thirty minor injuries during the night. A 7-year-old girl was hospitalized due to head trauma.
Speaker of Iranian Parliament: “Slap in the face of the Zionist enemy”
The speaker of the Iranian Parliament warned the Zionist regime and its allies that Iran has designed a response severer than the Sunday morning’s retaliatory strike on the occupied territories.
Addressing a parliamentary meeting on Sunday morning, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf described the massive drone and missile strike that the IRGC launched against Israeli military targets in the early hours of Sunday as “the Iranian people’s slap in the face of the Zionist enemy” in response to the Israeli attack on Iran’s diplomatic mission in Damascus.
The strike was strong and gave Israeli a lesson, he said, adding that Iran’s military action was in compliance with the United Nations Charter.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran will not hesitate to exercise its inherent right to self-defense when required,” Iranian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations Amir Saeid Iravani said in a statement. “If the Israeli regime commits military aggression again, Iran’s response will certainly and decisively be stronger and more resolute,” Ambassador Iravani added.
Any nation that helps Israel mount an attack against Iran would face serious consequences, the Islamic Republic’s defense minister, Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani, warned early Sunday. His statement came as Tehran launched a massive air strike against the Jewish State in what it called retaliation for Israeli attack on an Iranian consulate in Syria.
“Whatever country that [would] open its soil or airspace to Israel for a [potential] attack on Iran, will [face] our decisive response,” Ashtiani said.
Iran’s mission to the UN also explicitly demanded the US “stay away” from the conflict between Tehran and West Jerusalem. This is a bilateral issue, the mission said in a statement on X (formerly, Twitter) on Monday night. The Islamic Republic had a right to respond under the Article 51 of the UN Charter granting every nation a right to self-defense, the statement said, pointing to Israeli “aggression against our diplomatic premises in Damascus.”
The Departure of Netanyahu with his plane
The Ynet website reports the departure of Israeli PM, adding that “the reason for the take-off is not yet known” of the Boeing 767-338 ER to unknown destination, may be a secret bunker.
Originally constructed for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the aircraft remained inactive for several years following its transfer to the Israeli Occupation Air Force, without being utilized for official purposes.
As long as there is a need to fire missiles and bombs at defenseless Palestinian children, the Zionist leader of Tel Aviv
has always shown himself to be ruthless and arrogant with the excuse of destroying Hamas to depopulate the Gaza Strip.
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Now that he finds himself having to face the wrath of the Pasdaran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) which in the afternoon with a blitz seized the cargo ship of an Israeli billionaire in the Strait of Hormutz, his courage is lacking…
“Citizens of Israel, in recent years, and even more so in recent weeks, Israel has been preparing for the possibility of a direct attack by Iran,” Netanyahu explained before fleeing.“Our defense systems are deployed and we are prepared for any scenario, both in defense and attack. The State of Israel is strong, the IDF is strong, public opinion is strong,” he adds.
Iran has launched dozens of drones towards Israel, the Jerusalem Post reported, citing Israeli and US intelligence sources.
The IRGC announced the launch of attacks in a statement on Saturday evening.
The IRGC announced the launch of attacks in a statement on Saturday evening.
“In response to the Zionist regime’s numerous crimes, including the attack on the consular section of Iran’s Embassy in Damascus and the martyrdom of a number of our country’s commanders and military advisors in Syria, the IRGC’s Aerospace Division launched tens of missiles and drones against certain targets inside the occupied territories,” the statement read, according Iranian Press TV.
Iran’s Defense Minister Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Ashtiani, meanwhile, warned that “Whatever country that could open its soil or airspace to Israel for a [potential] attack on Iran, will receive our decisive response.”
Israeli officials confirmed that dozens of drones were launched from Iran towards Israel. Ynet reports it. According to some unconfirmed reports, between 50 and 100 suicide drones were launched. The same reports estimate the arrival time in Israel at around 7.30 (6.30 in Italy) tomorrow morning.
It is probable that the Iranian militias immediately launched a barricade of drones to confuse the Israeli Irone Drome anti-missile system in order to facilitate the penetration of the intercontinental hypersonic missiles with which they deadly hit the American base Al Assad in Iraq to avenge the killing of General Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Forces, a special unit of the Pasdaran that defeated ISIS in Syria, treacherously killed with a drone on January 3, 2020 on orders from former president Donald Trump.
An escalation in the Middle East risks inflaming the Suez Canal, already dangerous due to the continuous Houthi attacks and the massive response bombings by the USA and the United Kingdom, also putting the warships sent by Italy, Greece, Germany, Belgium and Belgium in grave danger. France for the Aspides mission to protect commercial traffic.
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If Israel’s response to Iran were to be disproportionate, there are all the conditions for an intervention by other Arab countries in the Persian Gulf which in the meantime have closed their airspace and refused to provide the US with bases for a counter-offensive against Tehran,
Qatar, Kuwait ban any attack from their air bases, airspace on Iran
Qatar and Kuwait have banned any use of their airspace and air bases for attacks against Iran amid heightened tensions between Iran and the Israeli regime following an Israeli attack early this month on an Iranian diplomatic mission in Syria.
Reports on Saturday indicated that both Qatar and Kuwait had issued directives to the United States stressing that the US military will not be allowed to use air bases in the two countries for carrying out any potential airstrikes on Iran.
Qatar and Kuwait have also indicated that their airspace will not be available for any military action against Iran.
The US has military aircraft at the Ali Al Salem Air Base and Ahmed Al Jaber Air Base in Kuwait. The Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar is also the largest US air base in the West Asia region.
Israeli regime “must be punished and will be punished”
The Israeli attack had resulted in the martyrdom of Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force, his deputy, General Mohammad Hadi Haji Rahimi, and five of their accompanying officers.
The terrorist attack drew sharp condemnation from senior Iranian political and military leaders, who vowed “definitive revenge.”
During a speech in Tehran on Wednesday after leading the Eid al-Fitr prayers, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said the Israeli regime “must be punished and will be punished” for the deadly strike on the Iranian diplomatic premises.
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The Leader added, “The evil Zionist regime committed another mistake … and that was the attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria. The consulate and diplomatic missions in any country are considered to be the territory of that country. When they attack our consulate, it means they have attacked our soil.”
Iran before UN describes response to Israeli attack as ‘legitimate defense’
Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations defends the country’s retaliation against the Israeli regime’s recent terrorist attack on the Islamic Republic’s diplomatic premises in the Syrian capital.
“Iran’s military action was based on Article 51 of the United Nations Charter concerning legitimate defense in response to the Zionist regime’s aggression against our diplomatic premises in Damascus,” the mission said in a statement on Saturday.
“The matter can be considered as concluded,” it added. The mission, however, warned that if the Israeli regime perpetrated another mistake, Iran’s subsequent response could be “remarkably more intense.”
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps adds:
“Iran attacked important Israeli military installations after more than 10 days of silence and disregard by international organizations, especially the UN Security Council, which did not condemn the aggression and criminality of the Zionist regime in the attack on the consular section of the Iranian embassy in Damascus America is responsible for the evil actions of the Zionist regime, and if this child-killing regime is not curbed in the region, it must accept its consequences.”
Israel Will Try to Intercept Iranian Drones Before They Reach Country’s Borders
Israel will try to intercept Iranian drones fired in its direction before they reach the country’s airspace, CNN reported on Sunday, citing an Israeli military official.
Although Israel has a robust air defense system, it would likely struggle against repeated Iranian drone and missile attacks, retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski told Sputnik.
“The drones and missiles being fired into Israel are what the Iron Dome is made for, and that system has a 90% success rate, meaning ten percent get through. But the handicap is the cost and availability of the missiles that it fires to intercept these airborne weapons. Each Iron Dome missile costs nearly $50 thousand each, and the quantity of these missiles is not unlimited. Therefore Israel must decide at some point how to make the attacks stop.”
“This could lead to a hotter war, or it could lead to some negotiations and diplomacy, relating to Gaza, and also other neighbors,” she added.
Israel Defense Forces recommends residents in north, south to stay near shelters
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) recommended residents from several areas in the north and south of the country to remain near shelters due to a security threat, the IDF press service said.
“In accordance with the situational assessment, residents of the northern Golan Heights [on the border with Syria], the area of Nevatim, Dimona [in the Negev desert], and Eilat [on the Red Sea shore] are required to stay near protective spaces until further notice,” the IDF said.
Iranian Press Claims Israeli Air Defense Under Cyber Attack
According to state-owned Iranian PressTV, the Israeli air defense system is currently under a cyber attack. That has not been independently confirmed and Israeli officials have repeatedly said that their defenses are ready for the Iranian drone attack.
Earlier in the day, it was confirmed by Israeli and Iranian officials that Iran has launched a drone attack on Israel in response to Israel’s attack on Iran’s embassy in Syria earlier this month.
