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Israel conducts largest strike in Syria since Yom Kippur War
Russia said Israel used 28 warplanes to fire 60 air-to-surface missiles
and 10 surface-to-surface missiles; national security correspondent
Jennifer Griffin reports from the Pentagon.
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/05/10/israel-strikes-back-at-iranian-aggression-while-iran-lies-and-pretends-it-won-victory.html
Israel responded forcefully early Thursday to about 20 Iranian missiles launched from Syria just after midnight local time against the Jewish
state – and handed Iran a painful lesson in strategic deterrence.
Israeli warplanes and missiles hit about 70 Iranian military targets in
Syria and killed an undetermined number of Iranian Revolutionary Guards
Corps fighters and Syrian soldiers, according to early reports.
Iranian boasts about the invincibility and power of their forces were
exposed as one more lie in the long series of lies by the Islamic Republic.
Targets of the Israeli counterattack against the unprovoked Iranian
aggression included the main Iranian Revolutionary Guards base near
Damascus, military positions of Hezbollah terrorist fighters, Syrian air
bases used by Iran to launch drone and missile attacks against Israel, and
much more.
As far as we know so far, no Israeli aircraft were hit, nor did Syria
launch its Russian-supplied S-300 air defense missiles against Israeli
jets. That may have been the result of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s trip to Moscow on Wednesday, where he spent 10 hours with
Russian President Vladimir Putin, ostensibly to commemorate the allied
victory over the Nazis in World War II.
When the smoke clears, Israel’s coordinated strike will be compared to its June 1982 pre-emptive strike against Syria’s air force and air defense systems in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.
That earlier battle was the first time Israel used the F-4 “Wild Weasel” and was the first modern air battle using electronic warfare. The result: Israel destroyed Syria’s air defenses and shot down 85 Syrian aircraft,
while losing none.
For weeks, Iran has been threatening military strikes on Israel. In
mid-April, the commander of Iran’s regular army, Brig. Gen. Kioumars
Heydari, proclaimed that “the date has already been set” by the Iranian leadership for the destruction of Israel.
Many Iran “experts” typically dismiss such warmongering bombast, since Iran’s leaders have been making empty boasts about their military might
for years.
But given the enormous military buildup over the past two years by Iran in Syria, Lebanon, and in Gaza – resulting in Iranian-backed forces and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards now bracketing Israel on all three sides – Israel’s leaders have been taking such warnings seriously.
Over the past few days, Israel picked up indications of unusual Iranian
and Hezbollah military activity in Syria, and rushed additional missile interception systems to the Galilee and the Golan Heights.
The Iranians were warning that they intended to strike back against Israel
in retaliation for isolated Israeli strikes against Iranian positions in
Syria over the past two weeks.
On Tuesday Israel issued a partial call-up of reservists, a move it rarely takes unless it believes hostilities are imminent.
When the Iranian missiles struck Thursday morning, Israel was
well-prepared. According to the Israel Defense Force, Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepted several of the Iranian missiles, while
others fell harmlessly to the ground inside Syria.
So far, the reaction in Tehran to the new outbreak of fighting has been strangely muted.
There is always the possibility that Iran could strike out massively
against Israel – unleashing the 150,000 rockets it has supplied to
Hezbollah in Lebanon and ordering its proxies in Gaza to launch waves of children to assault Israel border posts in the hopes of provoking a
massacre. However, I suspect that fear of a massive Israeli attack on Iran itself will keep the Iranians in check.
Why? Because Israel has been laying the groundwork through strategic
deterrence well before this latest skirmish.
The astonishing intelligence coup of Israel’s Mossad foreign intelligence service in spiriting away Iran’s Atomic Archive from highly secure vaults
in downtown Tehran spooked Iran’s leaders. That Mossad could strike in
Tehran itself, at the most carefully guarded secrets of the regime, has
shaken Iran’s leaders to the core.
The intelligence triumph also made Iranian leaders appear weak in front of their own people. Israel’s new strikes inside Syria have accentuated that impression of weakness.
### - it's all being completely twisted isn't it??
meaning; israel has attacked iranian installations (and even places in
iran itself) now MORE than 100 times! this being the first time iran has
hit back but are rapidly becoming monsters for doing so? wtf??
israel has the right to 'defend' itself? but iran doesn't??
but iran's the one under attack!?
and now the whole planet is siding with israel, even encouraging them to continue???
in the above article it mentions israel possibly even hitting tehran
itself??
can see the US getting involved here folks! ding-dong didn't really hit
back but iran does!
so then, and when they do hit back; everyone's obviously gonna 'gang-up'
on iran innit!
potentially 150,000 rockets thrown at israel don't sound too good either
does it?!
israel will literally go ape! and the whole world go family-style upon
iran no doubt!
an attack on tehran would likely see iran go all-in with a vengeance!!!
the US would 'have' to then get involved!
iraq is/was nothing compared to iran just in size alone!?
so THIS is gonna be BIG!
fucking big!
huge!
and any moment now so hang onto to yer' hats!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPu9mLfLoOA
"stand by for action!
anything can happen in the next half hour!"
:)
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