Israel-Iran latest: Iran launches barrage of missiles at Israel - BBC News
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Were ballistic missiles used in Iran's attack?published at 20:42 British Summer Time20:42 BST
By Bianca Britton
BBC Verify has been speaking with military experts to understand which type of missiles were used in Iran's attack on Israel.
Patrick Senft, a research coordinator at the intelligence consultancy firm Armament Research Services (ARES), tells BBC Verify that fragments suggested that ballistic missiles had been used in the attack.
Ballistic missiles reach their targets faster than common cruise missiles, he adds, and "make up the majority of the Iranian long-range strike capabilities".
Dr Thomas Karako, the director of the Missile Defense Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), is also confident that ballistic missiles were used.
His colleague, Mark Cancian, a senior adviser at CSIS says that the difference between today's attack compared with Iran's attack in April is that "more missiles seem to be hitting Israel".
He adds that ballistic missiles are harder to intercept by missile defence systems "because of their higher speed".
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Seriously, what does anyone expect? The implication of the post is that Gazans are wrong to cheer for missiles falling on Israel, and that may be a fair point.
But a decimated people, including children , cheering for revenge on the country that has killed 40,000 + Palestinians in Gaza doesnt seem as inexplicable as the video poster might think.
The Iranian leaders are criminals and fanatics, and Israel should be entirely a sympathetic figure. But its not, not entirely. Why?
They were cheering, dancing in the streets and passing out candy on 7 and 8 Oct 24 before those 40,000 (including Hamas) were killed.
Right on, Drinker. One might think that the attitude of Americans about the response of the Gazans' celebrating Oct 7 2023 and Oct 24 2024 just MIGHT be a little similar to how Americans may have felt about the Palestinians dancing and sharing candies in the streets in their celebrations of 9/11.
My attitude goes back to raising oil prices starting in 1970s.
This time, Iran is going to pay, from the sound of it.
Israel to Conduct Widespread Airstrikes Across the Middle East in Response to Iran Missile Attack (townhall.com)
I wish they were a way for Israel to take out Iran's uranium enrichment facilities to prevent a bomb from being made. That would be a meaningful retaliation that would benefit the rest of the world.
After Israel aided Iran by destroying Saddam Hussein's nuclear reactor (Operation Opera) in 1981, the Iranians realized that all their nuclear facilities might be similarly vulnerable. So they built them deep underground.
That's a problem, but where else is there such a high level of ingenuity.
Actually both Israel and iran do not want a full scale war. In this recent attack on Israel, Iran really had to do it to prove they were still very anti-Israel, and to continue their leadership role in the anti-israel group. But IMO they really didn't want to do much damage to Israel or to provoke Israel too much.
If more missiles had been able to evade Israel's and the US Navy's defensive measures there could have been a lot more damage and probably casualties. Israel is promising a greater retaliation, but we'll see what happens.
Israel may or may not take their time doing anything in order to do so at times and places of Israel's choosing to get Iran off guard.
Yes, keeping them scared for a while, a sort of psychological punishment.
The implication of the post is that Gazans are wrong to cheer for missiles falling on Israel, and that may be a fair point.
I don't think the post implied that at all.
Rather, I think you inferred that from the post.
The Iranian leaders are criminals and fanatics, and Israel should be entirely a sympathetic figure.
To better put this into perspective, its useful to know some history:
After the establishment of the State of Israel in May 1948, Israel and Iran maintained close ties.
Iran was the second Muslim-majority country to recognize Israel [ as a sovereign state after Turkey . [ Israel viewed Iran as a natural ally as a non-Arab power on the edge of the Arab world , in accordance with David Ben Gurion's concept of an alliance of the periphery .
Israel had a permanent delegation in Tehran which served as a de facto embassy , before Ambassadors were exchanged in the late 1970s
But then the revolution happened, and things changed.
I am in no way denigrating the loss of innocents in Gaza, but the world has only Hamas' word that 40,000 have died and the validity of anything terrorists say is always highly suspect. Hard to verify a number like that.
As well, the media makes a huge thing about how many children and women victims there were in order to build anti-Israel and antisemitic attitudes, but how many times have you heard or read how many militants were killed? How many times do they make the point that the real reason for the deaths of the "innocents" is because they are used by Hamas as human shields and hide among them. Even the Nazis and the Japanese didn't do that, but Hezbollah does it as well - probably trained to do that by Iran.
In addition, Hamas and Hetzbollah casualties are deliberately mixed in with the civilian casulties by Hamas and Hetzbollah themselves.
There are members here that STILL blame Israel for the civilian deaths because of "indiscriminate bombing" when Israel has done more than any nation in history to warn and give a little time for civilians to vacate the targets and their bombings are specifically targeted to where the terrorists are KNOWN to be hiding.
Why hasnt Israel won the war yet? Certainly it is not because of military setbacks.
Netanyahu doesnt want to end the war in Gaza, thats why.
You are correct, there are some here that fall under the category of none so blind as those who will not see.
That's quite a conspiracy theory.
Is the HAMAS wing of the democrat party celebrating this on college campuses?
I'm sure plans for a celebration are ongoing as we speak. Probably will have a member of the squad or two be special spakers....maybe give a eulogy to the dead Hezbollah leader.
I expect Tlaib to shoot her bigoted mouth off followed by Omar.
Nasty things …. Both.
Both? Try all of the so called "Squad"!
Fair enough
I suppose the media was not available to do a video of the reaction in Rashida Tlaib's office.
She was probably purposely out of town.
Now is the time for Israel to do something serious about Ayatollah Khamenei. I'm sure the Iranian people would rejoice if he and his thugs are gone.
They have excellent intelligence and likely know where he's at, at any given moment
I know most sane Americans would not care if he was taken [out][✘]
I think the whole regime could fall if they do that. What a coup for the world that would be.
Might as well call him mole man now …
The problem is not just the Ayatollah, it's Iran's ultra-fundamentalist government, and the Revolutionary Guard is a concern. The best thing that could happen is another Iranian revolution, this time by the more modern-thinking population.
But what concerns me is this....
Until today I thought that the common Iranian people were more civilized, but on the news this morning I saw them cheering the strike on Israel.
I'm not surprised that some were cheering that. But there are also many Iranians who hate their rulers....and some are very "pro-Israel".
I have also seen Iranians (outside of Iran) waving the real iranian flag and also waving the Israeli flag.
Many Iranians love their country but hate their repressive government.
Iranian women before the Revolution:
Today those Iranian women would be thrown in jail. While most of the world is advancing, Iran is regressing.
In today's world many Iranian women are regularly thrown in jail wherethey are tortured and raped. For opposing the repressive government in many ways-- such as not wearing a headscarf-- or even for not wearing it properly.
Normally we'd be much more aware of that in the West-- and progressvive womens' rights groups would protest. But a lot of them don't because they are afraid that if they demonstrate against the repressive Iranian regime they will be labeled "Islamophobic".
Many young Iranians were motivated to protest by the d eath of Mahsa Amini.:
Amini's death resulted in a series of protests described by CNN as more widespread than the protests in 2009 , 2017 , and 2019 , [ 12 ] and by The New York Times as the largest Iranian protests since at least 2009
(Buzz I was going to post the Wikipedia article linked above but realized you can't view that so if your'e interested use your search engine. (Its a significant story for anyone interested in major current events in Iran)....for more on what's going on inside Iran, search for "Women, Life, Freedom".
Yes, that was a very good example of how primitive and fundamentalist the Iranian leadership is.
I'd guess that was a very small percentage of the Iranian populace participating and probably under some form of duress at that. The vast majority of Iran's populace do not like their government very much.
Yes, it could have been.
Obviously the Iranian leaders forgot both biden and Harris have said "DON'T " several times.
Obviously the Iranian leaders forgot both biden and Harris have said "DON'T " several times.
And let's not forget what they said about Israel's taking out Nasrallah:
Biden and Harris call the Israeli strike killing Hezbollah’s Nasrallah a 'measure of justice'
REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. -- The Israeli strike that killed Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah was a “measure of justice" for victims of a four-decade “reign of terror,” President Joe Biden said Saturday.
The comments came after Lebanon’s Hezbollah group confirmed earlier Saturday that Nasrallah, one of the group’s founders, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut the previous day.
Biden noted that the operation to take out Nasrallah took place in the broader context of the conflict that began with Hamas’ massacre of Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023.
“Nasrallah, the next day, made the fateful decision to join hands with Hamas and open what he called a ‘northern front’ against Israel,” Biden said in a statement.
He also noted that Hezbollah under Nasrallah’s watch has been responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans, Israelis and Lebanese.
Another thing Iran conveniently ignores is that Nasrallah was not taken out in Iran by Israel but in another country and are claiming they want revenge and justice when nothing landed on Iranian soil. Iran launches 100 ballistic missiles into Israel and whines when Israel says they will retaliate? Iran is freaking insane!
Yep, kind of like that stern finger Obama used to point. Not much attention was paid to that either.