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Israel’s Retaliation Strikes On Iran Have Begun (Updated)
Howard Altman
Fri, October 25, 2024 at 9:35 PM EDT·10 min read
The long-anticipated Israeli retaliation strike on Iran appears to be underway. U.S. and Iranian media is reporting that Tehran is under attack as videos emerging on social media show explosions in the Iranian capital. The attack is in retaliation for
Iran’s massive Oct. 1 missile barrage on Israel.
Israel has started their attack against Iran, Fox News can confirm.
The strikes are meant to send a message of deterrence, I’m told.
There was communication with the Americans ahead of the strikes over the past several days.
“A few minutes ago, several explosions were heard in Tehran,” the official
Fars news agency reported on Telegram.
Video shows explosions and strikes.
Both the Headquarters and a Barracks of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) have reportedly been Targeted by Israeli Strikes on the Iranian Capital of Tehran.
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BREAKING:
The IDF confirmed the attack.
“In response to months of continuous attacks from the regime in Iran against the State of Israel—right now the Israel Defense Forces is conducting precise strikes on military targets in Iran,” the IDF said on Twitter. “The regime in Iran and its proxies in the region have been relentlessly attacking Israel since October 7th—on seven fronts—including direct attacks from Iranian soil. Like every other sovereign country in the world, the State of Israel has the right and the duty to respond. Our defensive and offensive capabilities are fully mobilized. We will do whatever necessary to defend the State of Israel and the people of Israel.”
In response to months of continuous attacks from the regime in Iran against the State of Israel—right now the Israel Defense Forces is conducting precise strikes on military targets in Iran.
Before the strike, Iranian officials said they would consider holding off on a response if Isreal limited its attacks to military bases.
“Four Iranian officials said in telephone interviews this week that the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has ordered the military to devise multiple military plans for responding to an Israeli attack,”
The New York Times reported. “The scope of any Iranian retaliation, they said, will largely depend on the severity of Israel’s attacks. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss military preparations.”
If Israel sticks to its promise to U.S. President Joe Biden that it will launch a limited attack against military facilities and missile and drone warehouses, “Iran might do nothing,” the
Times posited. Iran, however, will step up the escalation ladder and retaliate if there is widespread damage and high casualties.
“Iran will retaliate,” a source told
The New York Times. “The officials said Ayatollah Khamenei had directed that a response would be certain if Israel strikes oil and energy infrastructure or nuclear facilities, or if it assassinates senior officials.
The officials, including two members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said that if Israel inflicted major harm, “the responses under consideration included a barrage of up to 1,000 ballistic missiles; escalated attacks by Iranian proxy militant groups in the region; and disrupting the flow of global energy supplies and shipping moving through the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.”
Iranian officials are trying to thread the needle between not wanting to appear weak and not trigging a wider war.
IRGC commander Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami recently claimed Iran’s vast quantity of missiles and drones would overwhelm Israeli air defenses. That includes one of the U.S. Army’s seven prized
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) batteries deployed to Israel.
Salami warned Israel not to rely on THAAD for protection,
according to Iran’s official Tasnim News agency.
Salami “reminded the Zionists that they have counted upon a finite power,” he said, adding that Israel, with “98% of whose economy is dependent on sea, could head towards collapse instantly if it makes unwise decisions.”
The expected Israeli strike has U.S. regional allies like Saudi Arabia concerned that the conflict could spill over to the rest of the region. To assure one of those allies, Washington recently told Riyhad it is prepared to help defend the kingdom against any attack from Iran or its regional proxies,
Bloomberg reported on Friday. Oil-producing Arab states fear being drawn into a war between Iran and Israel.
The Gulf states have expressed a measure of relief after receiving what the news organization described as a “tacit offer” presented by the Biden administration over the past few weeks.
Bloomberg did not specify whether the assurance was given during U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s trips to Saudi Arabia and Qatar earlier this week.
The US has signaled to Saudi Arabia that it’s ready to help defend the kingdom against an attack by Iran or its proxies
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An unconfirmed Israeli media report claims that there is a new tranche of leaked classified documents pertaining to Israel’s plans to strike Iran.
“Additional documents, allegedly from the Pentagon, were leaked to the networks in the last day, in which the Israeli attack plan in Iran is described in detail,”
Israel’s YNET media outlet reported on Friday.
While the documents purport to show deep insights into how Israel could carry out such a strike,
The War Zone cannot independently verify their veracity. We reached out to the Pentagon to see if they can say whether the documents are real and if the information contained in them is accurate. We will update this story with any pertinent information provided.
Last week, there was a
leak of a top-secret U.S. assessment about Israel’s war plans. Yesterday, a U.S. official pushed back on a
Times of London story that Israel is delaying its expected retaliation strike against Iran because of the original leak.
“We have no indication that Israel is delaying any action because of the document leak,” a U.S. official told
The War Zone Thursday morning. “Would steer you away from that.”