#iranian missile strike

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by David Collier

BBC Verify is promoted as BBC’s flagship ‘fact checking’ news service. But as you will see below – BBC Verify is a cheap, amateurish, propaganda device- that is driven by unacceptable bias, and publishes blatant lies worthy of a Russian Soviet era misinformation service.

BBC Verify ‘verifies’ the Iranian missile strike

On Tuesday evening, 1 October 2024, Iran fired approximately 180 ballistic missiles at Israel. Many were intercepted, but several sites were hit. On Wednesday evening BBC Verify published a 1 minute 20 second video – titled ‘where Iran’s missiles struck in Israel’.

The BBC Verify team tells us they have been looking at ‘where Iran’s missiles have landed’ and the video is to counter ‘a lot of false imagery’ being circulated online. They say they managed to verify strikes in the vicinity of three key locations – all of them military sites:

This creates an immediate problem. Why only these three? For example, a verified strike by Ramat Gan shopping mall has not been included. The BBC had reported on this – and so were well aware of it – but for some reason, BBC Verify left the shopping mall strike out of their analysis.

It is difficult to escape the conclusion that BBC Verify were deliberately pushing a pro-Iranian propaganda line that the missiles were fired only at military targets.

But it gets a lot, lot worse.

[captain-price-unofficially]

Newly released footage of Iran's missile attack on Israel earlier this month.

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Range of Iran’s Ballistic Missiles

[workersolidarity]

[📹 Scenes of Iranian missiles flying into Israeli cities tonight after Iran launches a major combined drone and missile strike and several targets in occupied Palestine, coinciding with rockets launched from southern Lebanon.]

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IRAN LAUNCHES MASSIVE COMBINED MISSILE AND DRONE STRIKES ON ISRAEL, US INTERCEPTS OVER 100 DRONES

Israeli media is reporting the arrival of dozens of missiles and drones fired from Iran, most of which they claim were intercepted.

According to the Zionist media, while no one was killed in the Iranian strikes, at least one young girl was wounded by shrapnel from an intercepted drone and was taken to a nearby hospital.

Already, Israeli officials are calling for counterstrikes, while the American media refuses to acknowledge the attack on the consulate building of the Iranian embassy that led to the current round of attacks.

The strikes represented the first time Iran has launched direct strikes on "Israel".

Occupation authorities claim that none of drones launched by the Iranians made it through the occupation's air defenses, some missiles succeeded in hitting their targets, while at least 20 missiles never made it to the borders of occupied Palestine.

According to one Israeli official, more than 200 drones and missiles were fired into the occupied Palestinian territories in all.

For now, while the Biden administration continues to reaffirm public support for the Israeli occupation, privately, the President has told Netanyahu he won't back an Israeli counter to the counterstrikes.

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[jasminewilson143]

"Breaking: Iran's Shocking Retaliation Unleashes Missile Fury on Syria and Kurdistan! Find out the Explosive Targets, the Spiraling Tensions, and the Unseen Fallout. Brace for a Geopolitical Rollercoaster!"

[sayruq]

An Iranian military security official has revealed exclusively to The Cradle that the US contacted the Islamic Republic, asking the nation to allow Israel "a symbolic strike to save face” following Iran's retaliatory drone and missile barrage this weekend. “Iran has received messages from mediators to let the regime do a symbolic strike to save face and asked Iran not to retaliate,” the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, revealed to The Cradle. He added that Tehran “outright rejected” the proposal, delivered by mediators, and reiterated warnings that any Israeli attack on Iranian soil would be met with a decisive and immediate response.

The revelations come as US defense officials have told western media that they expect a “limited response” from Israel against Iran, which will reportedly focus on targets outside of Iranian territory. Nevertheless, US officials stressed that Tel Aviv had not briefed the Pentagon on a “final decision” as discussions within Israel's fractured war cabinet continued. “The US does not intend to take part in the military response,” they confirmed. However, they expect Israel to inform Washington about response plans in advance.

[probablyasocialecologist]

THE REGIONAL WAR in the Middle East now involves at least 16 different countries and includes the first strikes from Iranian territory on Israel, but the United States continues to insist that there is no broader war, hiding the extent of American military involvement. And yet in response to Iran’s drone and missile attacks Saturday, the U.S. flew aircraft and launched air defense missiles from at least eight countries, while Iran and its proxies fired weapons from Iraq, Syria, and Yemen.

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While the world has been focused on — and the Pentagon has been stressing — the comings and goings of aircraft carriers and fighter jets to serve as a “deterrent” against Iran, the U.S. has quietly built a network of air defenses to fight its regional war. “At my direction, to support the defense of Israel, the U.S. military moved aircraft and ballistic missile defense destroyers to the region over the course of the past week,” President Joe Biden said in a statement Saturday. “Thanks to these deployments and the extraordinary skill of our servicemembers, we helped Israel take down nearly all of the incoming drones and missiles.” As part of that network, Army long-range Patriot and Terminal High Altitude Area Defense surface-to-air missile batteries have been deployed in Iraq, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and at the secretive Site 512 base in Israel. These assets — plus American aircraft based in Kuwait, Jordan, the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia — are knitted together in order to communicate and cooperate with each other to provide a dome over Israel (and its own regional bases). The United Kingdom is also intimately tied into the regional war network, while additional countries such as Bahrain have purchased Patriot missiles to be part of the network. Despite this unambiguous regional network, and even after Israel’s attack on Iran’s embassy in Syria earlier this month, the Biden administration has consistently denied that the Hamas war has spread beyond Gaza. It is a policy stance — and a deception — that has held since Hamas’s October 7 attack. “The Middle East region is quieter than it has been in two decades,” Biden’s national security adviser Jake Sullivan said in an ill-timed remark eight days before October 7. “We don’t see this conflict widening as it still remains contained to Gaza,” deputy Pentagon press secretary Sabrina Singh said the day after three U.S. troops were killed by a kamikaze drone launched by an Iran-backed militia at a U.S. base in Jordan. Since then (and even before this weekend), the fighting has spread to Iraq, Syria, Jordan, and Yemen.

[deaddee-anime-brownfanlady]

I will never understand the constant hesitation and back and forth bullshit from other countries when it comes to helping Ukraine not be completely fucked over by Russia.

Like Russia is out here getting help and weaponry from other dictatorship nations, be it getting missiles from the Iranian regime or drones from China to literally having help from North Korea in terms of actual having North Korean soldiers fighting alongside Russia against Ukraine on fucking Ukrainian soil.

But you still got either the U.S and the rest of Western Europe that are still hesitant when comes to giving advanced weaponry to Ukraine and letting them strike back and win this war.

I don’t get it, like do ya'll other countries want Ukraine to win this war or not. Or have Russia/Putin and the rest of these dictatorship nations have a field day fucking up everything in terms of global security in the next couple of decades because they see weakness in Europe and the rest of the West due to the refusal to stand up against tyrannical dictators and stand up for democratic values.

Ukraine is out here seriously trying there all to not have their country be fucked by a authoritarian regime and fighting for their survival and freedom and fighting for Europe security as well.

Yet you got European countries and certain people that are still 'whatever' when it comes to Russia imperialist invasion bullshit and still act like what's Russia is trying to do is still "No Big Deal".

[communist-ojou-sama]

I know that most of us are rightly reacting to the news of the Hezbollah drone strike on the Golani Brigade with a simple "good riddance", but actually just think for a second about how crazy this is. They pulled this strike off with a suicide drone, not a missile, and if it's a copy of the Iranian Shahed drone as I think it is, then it's a slow-moving, noisy drone, which nimbly avoided all Zionist early detection systems, made it south of 7aifa (really, consult a map to get a sense of how far into enemy territory that is) and strike with pinpoint accuracy the Golani terrorist brigade as they're all gathered eating.

And that's the other earth-shaking implication here: Hezbollah had precise and accurate information on Exactly when and where the Golani brigade would be dining. This is to my knowledge wholly unlike any other attack of it's kind in Hezbollah's history in terms of it's sophistication

[soon-palestine]

Israel, the world’s most innocent country, fell victim to a horrific attack from Iran with zero reported casualties on the same day Israel killed dozens of civilians in Gaza.

Israel had been minding its own business, quietly bombing hospitals, schools, universities, mosques, and an embassy, when the Iranian regime launched their outrageous attack for no apparent reason. Thankfully, the US and UK scrambled jets to defend Israeli airspace because it’s wrong to bomb countries in the Middle East, unless your name is Israel, in which case you can do all the bombing you want.

Every British and American ship in the region is now in grave danger and the risk of terror attacks on our soil has surely increased, but you will be relieved to know our countries have not benefitted in any way from our intervention. Personally, I can’t think of a better way for Israel to spend our tax money.

Our leaders have condemned Iran in the strongest possible terms, which is confusing because I thought we were supposed to remain ambiguous and say we’re investigating the matter when such an attack occurs. Perhaps this is one of those rules that only applies to Israel though.

When informed of the attack, a calm and rational Suella Braverman screamed: “WAR! I WANT WAR!” and when she’d stopped hyperventilating, she added: “This must be the end of western backsliding on Israel,” because she thinks we have not been sufficiently supportive of their genocide. Anyone who is not on the same side of the argument as Suella Braverman must ask serious questions about themselves.

Iran’s unprovoked attack involved giving Israel adequate warning and launching 30-year-old missiles, 99% of which were intercepted, and then saying the matter is closed unless Israel escalates further. The fact Iran would consider retaliating to further escalation from Israel shows just extreme these lunatics are.

Among Iran’s targets was the Israeli air base from which the missiles that struck its embassy were launched, killing 13 on April 1. As of yet, we have no indication as to why Iran carried out the attack, but we’re going to tell you it’s because they want to start World War III. Psychos.

Conspiracy theorists have suggested it’s actually Benjamin Netanyahu who wants escalation, but it’s unclear why the man who faces political oblivion, and possibly jail, would be incentivised to draw his allies into the fight and cause everyone to forget his many war crimes.

Israel, the country that definitely does not want war, has vowed an “unprecedented” response against Iran which will probably kill many more than zero people. If Iran expresses disapproval at Israel’s next mass murder, it’s because they’re trying to destabilise the region. At this point, we’ll have no choice but to help Israel do to Iran what we’ve spent six months helping them do to Gaza - launch precision strikes that destroy 70% of the buildings in the country and leave survivors living in tents.

Worryingly, we’ve just discovered at the most convenient moment that Iran has enough uranium to build 12 nuclear bombs. If it were true that Iran had so much weapon-grade uranium, it would be incredibly stupid to attack them, but we’re going to insist we must attack them because we’re weapon-grade idiots - and we think you are too.

Please just switch your brain off and accept what you’re being told, you simpletons! What matters is rich people can afford nuclear bunkers if this all goes horribly wrong. In the meantime, you can look forward to lots of exciting stories in the media about bringing back conscription and describing how you are likely to die in humanity's final war. Are you looking forward to radiation sickness and nuclear winter? Because they sound like brilliant fun! x

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[matan4il]

I've written before that the Iranian attack on Israel is pretty unprecedented, and I was thinking in terms of the history of this specific conflict, but it's actually true on a bigger scale as well.

They launched at least 331 airborne weapons that Israel has intercepted as well, more if you take into account what was intercepted by other countries. Most of the weapons were launched out of Iran itself, but some were launched by Iran's proxies from the territories of Yemen and Syria.

Now, the suicide drones? Take about 8 hours to make it from Iran to Israel. The cruise missiles? Around 4 hours. And the ballistic missiles? Those are the ones that would cause the most damage and would be the hardest to intercept, they actually leave the Earth's atmosphere, travel in outer space and re-enter right before they strike, and they move at such a speed that they make it from Iran to Israel within just 10 minutes. So imagine what it means, that Iran launched all of these weapons at different times, from different locations, but coordinated everything to make sure they'd all hit Israel at roughly the same time. That was done in order to tax our defence systems, to maximize how much would get through and succeed in hurting Israelis. Despite that, 100% of the drones were intercepted, as were 100% of the cruise missiles, and 99% of the ballistic missiles. Only one person (a 7 year old Muslim Bedouine girl, Amin al-Houssani, was injured, please keep her in your thoughts) was directly hurt (though over 60 more people were indirectly harmed).

Defence systems usually aim for a success rate of between 80 to 90% interceptions, so the fact that this MASSIVE and UNPRECEDENTED attack was launched, designed to penetrate all of the defence systems that could be employed against it for maximal damage, yet Israel and the coalition that came together (including Arab countries) to stop Iran's attack managed to make sure that less than 1% got in? Unbelievable. The attack was unprecedented, and so was the defence. I can tell you, even some of the Israelis who worked on developing our defence systems for years felt the success rate had actually exceeded their expectations. That said, the attack was bigger than anyone in Israel thought it would be, too.

Just to really drive home what a ballistic missile is like, this is just the engine carrying part of this ballistic missile, which was intercepted over the Dead Sea (Iran launched at least 110 at Israel, 99% of which were successfully intercepted):

But even intercepted airborne weapons cause damage. Little Amina was hit by debris from an interception. I'm sharing a vid, cut from the news (it's just for visuals, so I didn't translate it), which shows one of the few hits inside Israel (filmed by Israeli Muslim Arab Bedouins, you can hear one of them calling in panic to his friend, Ramadan), and then the debris that the IDF collected and removed by trucks, to give you an idea of the size of these pieces of weapons, falling from the sky, after they had flown across 1,600 kilometers (~1000 miles):

Bottom line, it's no surprise that the Israeli Chief of Staff made it clear that there will be an Israeli response. We don't know yet what kind of a response it would be, or when it will take place, but there will be one. This kind of attack from Iran just can't be met with silence. If it were, that would imply acceptance of the massive and unprecedented nature of the attack, which in themselves constitute evidence that Iran very much did intend to cause Israel real damage.

That means if Israel accepts the attack with a shrug of, "hey, we inetrcepted it, and it only cost us 5 billion shekels, so we can just look the other way," then next time? Iran will launch an even bigger attack, to try and get past this remarkable defence. And there will be a next Iranian attack, no matter what excuse they use in order to launch it.

In related news, the Iranian-funded terrorist organization Hezbollah has launched two attack drones at Israel today, which did not set off the warning alarms, crashed in Israeli territory, caused a fire, and wounded at least 3 people.

Meanwhile, this is a reminder that while the Islamist regime of Iran has had a lot of victims since its inception in 1979, no one has suffered at its hands more than the Iranian People. It's no wonder that there are signs of Israel support in Iran, even under that oppressive dictatorship. Here's a graffiti seen in Tehran:

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The Israeli incursion in Syria (8/9 December 2024)

On the nights of December 8 and 9, 2024, Israel conducted a series of airstrikes targeting military sites in western-central Syria, specifically in the Masyaf region. According to local sources, the strikes hit a scientific research center, facilities used for producing advanced weapons (including precision missiles and drones), and other installations associated with the Iranian presence in the area. Syrian authorities and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported between 14 and 18 fatalities, including Syrian soldiers and allied fighters. While some Israeli missiles were intercepted by Syrian air defenses, others successfully struck their intended targets.

These raids align with Israel's broader strategy to limit Iranian influence in Syria, a campaign that has escalated amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas. Although Israel has not officially confirmed these attacks, it has consistently emphasized its commitment to preventing Iran from strengthening its military foothold in the region.

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[athena5898]

(PrR)(RNN) — The US is deploying ballistic missile defense systems, warplanes, tanker aircraft, and B-52 long-range bombers to the Middle East, according to the Pentagon today. This is being done for the explicit defense of "israel," as stated, as the US is funding 70% of the genocide and effectively leading it. (https://t.me/PalestineResist/65448)

The equipment and associated forces will arrive in the coming months as the USS Abraham Lincoln (https://t.me/PalestineResist/52206) aircraft carrier strike group prepares to leave.

This comes after the US deployed (https://t.me/PalestineResist/62475) the THAAD (https://t.me/PalestineResist/64205) missile defense system to the zionist entity and increased troop deployments, a sign of "israel's " desperation in the face of the Axis of Resistance's strikes. Zionist sources reported yesterday that "israel" requested a second THAAD system, but this request was denied by the US because it already sent them one out of seven systems it has.

This apparent escalation also comes as Iran prepares to respond to the failed attacks on various parts of the country a few days ago, which were successfully repelled by Iranian air defenses.

The US seeks to send a message to the Axis of the Resistance not to be involved in this long war of attrition, which is a losing bet as the last year has proven. Zionist (and American) resources continue to be depleted and the resistance continues to inflict damage on the enemy. At the same time, "israel" faces issues of shortages in recruitment, ammunition, (https://t.me/PalestineResist/33043) vehicles, (https://t.me/PalestineResist/30781) and equipment. (https://t.me/PalestineResist/63947) Overall, this exemplifies that the US will not waver in its support of the genocidal zionist enemy, and at the same time, highlights the zionist entity's vulnerabilities as it is incredibly dependent on US military and financial support in light of resource strains.

[ashwantsafreepalestine]

Overwhelming joy sweeps the streets of Jabalia camp, as residents celebrate as they watch Iranian missiles cross the skies and strike Israel.

Tears of happiness at their celebration!

Source: Anas Al-Sharif

[unsolicited-opinions]

Just saw an anglophonic news program talking head in Beruit, during a report about the Iranian ballistic missile attack on Israel, point out that Israelis have air raid sirens and bomb shelters, but the Lebanese do not.

This is factually true, but just...cast out there as an emotional appeal, completely unexamined.

Let's examine it just a little:

Why does Israel have emergency sirens and bomb shelters? Why doesn't Lebanon have them?

Israel has them because they have made repeated, conscious decisions to invest in their top priority: the safety of Israeli civilians.

Which, coincidentally, is the very same reason they are compelled to degrade Hezbollah's ability to threaten Israeli civilians and the same reason they'll now strike Iran.

What does Hezbollah prioritize in their spending? Not the safety of the Lebanese people. They spend their money trying to destroy Israel. How does Iran prioritize its spending? On weapons and proxies for attacking Israel.

Iran reportedly launched about 180 ballistic missiles at Israel today. Israel will almost certainly respond with air strikes on Iran in hopes of degrading Iran's ability (either military or economic) to attack Israel or to cultivate/arm proxies to attack Israel for them.

And when Iranian civilians die in these attacks, the anglophonic media will ignore the 180 ballistic missiles Iran just launched at Israel, it will ignore how the regime in Iran prioritizes the destruction of Israel over the wellbeing of its own citizens...and will fault Israel for those civilian deaths.

If Israel lay down its weapons today and refused to fight, it would take maybe a couple of days for Israel to be wiped out.

If Iran and its proxies lay down their weapons and declined to continue their attacks on Israel, there would be peace and stability in the region.

Netanyahu is a momzer, but he's not wrong that Iran's regime is the primary cause of instability in the region. The only questions now are:

- How long until Israel strikes Iran?

- What will the targets be?

- How effective will Israel be in degrading Iran's ability to continue to attack Israel?

- How long will it take the Western media to blame Israel for defending itself?