Israel and Iran’s Shadow War after the April 1 Attack in Damascus Revealed by a Large-Scale Nuclear Collision

Jeffrey Lewis, a member of the International Security Advisory Board at the US State Department, said in a post that Iran was making missiles that could carry a ton of explosives.

It’s no secret that Israel and Iran have fought a shadow war for decades. The weekend attack was noticeable for its directness and ineffectuality. Most of the Iranian military’s slow- moving drones were likely to be shot down before they got to their targets. They were a diversion. They were probably more surprised that the 30 cruise missiles and 120 ballistic missiles did little damage.

After several days during which Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei repeatedly vowed that “the evil Zionist regime” would be punished for its April 1 attack on Iran’s embassy complex in Damascus that killed seven Iranian military advisers, including three top commanders, the Islamic Republic struck. There were more than 300 drones and missiles that were launched from Iran on Saturday. The majority of them were intercepted by Israeli or American defenses with one casualty being a girl from a Bedouin community.

His post states that different versions of that missile have also been given to the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces.

Israeli Security Forces in the Afterglow of the September 11 Israeli Attack on the Damascus Consulate and the Interaction Between the United States and the Middle East

But tensions continue to run high in the Middle East. Now, the focus is on how Israel and other countries will respond to Iran’s escalation. An Israeli military spokesperson said on Sunday that leaders had “approved operational plans for both offensive and defensive action,” without going into further detail.

The governments in the Middle East, including China and Saudi Arabia, have called for restraint so as not to make the region more tense.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations condemned Iran’s attack and said he was alarmed by the danger of a region-wide conflict.

In a statement Sunday, G7 leaders said that Iran had further destabilized the region and that they stood in solidarity with Israel. The G7 is made up of the United States, Canada, Italy, Britain, France, Germany, Japan and the European Union.

Republicans also aim to include language that “holds Iran and its terrorist proxies accountable,” House Majority Leader Steve Scalise announced in a statement released Saturday night.

In Congress, House Republicans are making changes to their legislative schedule for this week to consider a yet-to-be-revealed proposal that would further support Israel.

A defense official said that Biden told Netanyahu that the U.S. will not participate in offensive operations against Iran. Since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in Gaza last October, Biden has made clear he does not want the conflict to expand into a broader regional war.

99% of Iran’s attacks on Israeli targets were outside Israeli airspace, according to the Israeli military. The U.S., France, Jordan and U.K. forces helped take down the Iranian weapons.

Iranian officials said the attack was in response to an airstrike from earlier this month that hit Iran’s consulate in Damascus, Syria. Seven Iranian military officials, including two generals, were killed.

On Sunday, a senior Iranian military official said Iran’s “operation” against Israel had ended and there would be no more attacks coming, according to Iranian state media.

In the days leading up to the attack, the U.S. and Israel closely coordinated their air defense preparations. The Iranian bombardment was at the “High end” of what the U.S. and Israel expected, said a U.S. official.

According to Hagari, the Arrow 3 hadproved itself against a number of missiles.

The Israeli Air Force’s Response to an Oct. 7 Attack on a U.S. Embassy in Damascus Revisited

A 7-year-old Bedouin girl underwent surgery for a head wound she sustained in the attack, according to the Times of Israel and Haaretz. Hagari confirmed the reports.

Iran’s foreign minister told the U.S. that the strike wouldn’t affect American personnel in the region. U.S. officials, however, said there was no notification from Iran prior to the attack on where weapons would be targeting.

On Sunday, Israel said its fighter jets struck an alleged munitions production site in southern Lebanon belonging to the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah.

Israel and Hezbollah have been exchanging fire across the border with Lebanon regularly since the surprise Oct. 7 attack by Hamas and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza. Iran has long supplied Hamas with funds and weapons but the White House has not directly linked Iran to the Oct. 7 attack.

At an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Sunday, Iran’s ambassador to the U.N., Amir Saeid Iravani, said Iran had no other choice but to “exercise its inherent right to self-defense under international law.” Iravani said his county “does not seek escalation or war in the region,” and did not want to begin a conflict with the U.S.

The leaders of Israel had a number of options to choose from when deciding on a response to the Iranian aerial attack over the weekend.

At home, he is an unpopular leader whom many hold responsible for his government’s policy and intelligence failures that led to the deadly Hamas-led attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7, which prompted Israel to go to war in Gaza. Abroad, he is the focus of international censure over Israel’s prosecution of that war, which has resulted in the deaths of tens of thousands of Gazans.

Iran fired a volley of missiles at Israeli targets on Sunday as a result of an attack on an Iranian Embassy in Damascus that killed several commanders in Iran’s armed forces.

The Israeli Ambassador to Israel during the 1996-2015 Era of Nuclear Security: The Story of the Netanyahu Biographer and the Ambassador to the Middle East

The story in Israel is split into two different narratives according to a commentator and author of a biography of the leader.

Ms. Mualem, the Netanyahu biographer, said that Netanyahu is still in the game regardless of what happens. “He’s a central player, and it isn’t over, diplomatically or politically. He plays a long game.

It was under the watch of Mr. Netanyahu that Israel gained more diplomatic relations with more Arab states that are considered part of the moderate, anti-Iranian axis.

In 1996, Mr. Netanyahu warned that time was running out and that a nuclear Iran would be catastrophic. For the nearly three decades since, he has been sounding the same alarm.

The Israeli ambassador to Germany was talking about the Iranian threat while he was there, and so was the Ministry of Foreign Affairs point man.

He challenged Mr. Obama in 2015, when he spoke at a joint meeting of Congress about the “bad deal” being negotiated with Iran.

Israeli experts have described Mr. Netanyahu’s recommendation to withdraw from the Iran agreement as a failure and a dire mistake.

The Iron Dome: Defense against Drones, Missiles, and the Landfall of Airborne UAVs in the Middle East

Some of that work has fallen to the US military, which has confirmed that it has shot down an unspecified number of Iranian drones and will continue to do so. The UK has said it will provide backup for US planes that have been diverted from their existing missions, and that it will intercept UAVs as well.

Tom Karako says there will be a lot of fixed-wing, manned aircraft looking at these things and trying to engage these things.

Since the flight path is slow and fixed, the UAS must travel for several hours before they reach their intended destination, leaving ample opportunities to intercept them.

“At one level they’re not difficult to take down. They’re not stealthy, they don’t fly very fast, and they don’t maneuver,” says David Ochmanek, senior defense analyst at the nonprofit RAND Corporation. They’re like airborne targets.

While the Iron Dome is Israel’s last and arguably best line of defense, it’s not the only factor here. The UAVs in question are likely Iran-made Shahed-136 drones, which have played a prominent role in Russia’s war against Ukraine. These so-called suicide drones—it has a built-in warhead and is designed to crash into targets—are relatively cheap to produce.

“All of that process was designed for defense against low-flying, fast-moving missiles,” says Iain Boyd, director of the Center for National Security Initiatives at the University of Colorado. It is well-prepared for a lot of drones. It’s an easier threat to address because a drones flying slower than the rockets.

The Iron Dome, operational for well over a decade, comprises at least 10 missile-defense batteries strategically distributed around the country. When radar detects incoming objects, it sends that information back to a command-and-control center, which will track the threat to assess whether it’s a false alarm, and where it might hit if it’s not. The system then fires interceptor missiles at the incoming rockets that seem most likely to hit an inhabited area.

The Times, a source of peace in the Gaza war, and whose actions Israel has defended against Hezbollah and Hamas

There are some Israelis who are urging restraint, wary of taking the nation’s focus away from its war with Hamas in Gaza and the efforts to release its scores of hostages there, as well as its skirmishes with Hezbollah along its northern border.

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