Israel launches retaliatory attack on Iran

[Megaro]

Israel launched its long-awaited retaliatory strikes on Iran early Saturday local time, the Israeli military said. Israel had vowed payback for Iran's Oct. 1 attack, during which the Islamic republic launched about 180 ballistic missiles at Israel. 

In a statement, Israel Defense Forces said that "in response to months of continuous attacks" from Iran, it conducted "precise strikes on military targets in Iran."

Sean Savett, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, told CBS News in a statement that "we understand that Israel is conducting targeted strikes against military targets in Iran as an exercise of self-defense and in response to Iran's ballistic missile attack against Israel on October 1st."

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-launches-long-awaited-counterstrike-on-iran/

Edited October 26 by Megaro
Clarification

[+and-then]

I saw a YT video of a Res. IDF Brigadier who predicted that when this fight began - Israel's response to the missile attacks - it would last a few months.  The strikes so far have been very restrained and day is nearly breaking there now.

[DarkHunter]

Not a lot of information on the attack yet.

What is known is the attack occured in three stages.  The first stage largely targeted radar and air defense sites with the second and third stages targeting missile and drone production facilities.  There may have been limited attacks on military installations, at least one unconfirmed report of a strike on a building that supposedly have officers in it.  

Overall the attack seems rather restrained from what was expected.

[Unusual Tournament]

1 hour ago, and-then said:

I saw a YT video of a Res. IDF Brigadier who predicted that when this fight began - Israel's response to the missile attacks - it would last a few months.  The strikes so far have been very restrained and day is nearly breaking there now.

Israel would need a huge number of aircraft to effectively attack Iran - fighters, tankers and AWAC’s which could not be done without American and friendly Arab forces. Iran’s airforce is pathetic, so Israel will own the sky’s and only fear SAM systems. So restraint will be replaced with complete air dominance with a limited time frame due to American elections 

Edited October 26 by Unusual Tournament

[+susieice]

Israel says it's response is completed. I found this and it's a constant update from ABC News.

Israel-Gaza-Lebanon live updates: IDF says strikes on targets in Iran completed - ABC News

The Israel Defense Forces said it has completed "precise and targeted strikes" against military targets in Iran -- a few hours after the military action began.

"The retaliatory strike has been completed and the mission was fulfilled," the Israeli military said in a statement.

The IDF said Israeli aircraft targeted the manufacturing facilities used to produce the missiles that Iran has fired toward Israel twice this year.

"Simultaneously, the IDF struck surface-to-air missile arrays and additional Iranian aerial capabilities, that were intended to restrict Israel's aerial freedom of operation in Iran," the IDF said in a statement.

[+and-then]

1 hour ago, DarkHunter said:

Overall the attack seems rather restrained from what was expected.

It certainly did not live up to the descriptions their leaders placed on it.  Disappointing that they felt constrained by DC again...

[Occupational Hubris]

"precise strikes on military targets in Iran." probably means primary schools and hospitals. 

[Unusual Tournament]

1 hour ago, Occupational Hubris said:

"precise strikes on military targets in Iran." probably means primary schools and hospitals. 

Contrary to what @and-then was suggesting in previous posts and threads, it certainly wasn’t any nuclear weapons facility. 
 

Which basically means Israel can do nothing about it and Israel will need to come to an agreement with Iran

[docyabut2]

Israel strikes at the heart of Iran's military with devastating 140-plane barrage

[+and-then]

8 hours ago, Unusual Tournament said:

Which basically means Israel can do nothing about it and Israel will need to come to an agreement with Iran

Yeah?  Care to explain how that would work?  Iran isn't upset because Israel owes them money or land, or anything else.  They are driven by a religious "duty" to see the Jews removed, totally, from Palestine.  How, exactly, do you find some basis for agreement?  

[Unusual Tournament]

1 hour ago, and-then said:

Yeah?  Care to explain how that would work?  Iran isn't upset because Israel owes them money or land, or anything else.  They are driven by a religious "duty" to see the Jews removed, totally, from Palestine.  How, exactly, do you find some basis for agreement?  

Iran is driven by the Shia cause and its will to dominate the Middle East. Israel is just a convenient excuse to rally behind. You said it yourself, they have no real beef with Israel. 
 

Iran is now the new nuclear power. Bomb its nuclear facilities and it will set off a nuclear fallout that is a kin to using nuclear bombs on Iran. Which is worthy of nuclear missile retaliation because they have the ability to do so.  Israel knows this. That’s why it didn’t bomb them. 

[+and-then]

11 hours ago, Occupational Hubris said:

"precise strikes on military targets in Iran." probably means primary schools and hospitals. 

Only an idiot actually believes that Israel would intentionally target civilians when they are held to the highest standards and media coverage of any military in the world.  An idiot or a Jew hater.  They'll stop needing to hit those structures THAT WERE ONCE schools or hospitals, as soon as the Hamas murderers move out of them.  I guess you missed that report coming from Palestinian civilians claiming Hamas ATTACKED THEM when they tried to leave Jabaliya as they were instructed to do?  

[+and-then]

47 minutes ago, Unusual Tournament said:

Bomb its nuclear facilities and it will set off a nuclear fallout that is a kin to using nuclear bombs on Iran

Where do you get your info?  Most of these sites are not "hot".  They are enrichment facilities and storage, as well as research and assembly infrastructure.  Israel has no need, nor are they stupid enough, to crack open a functioning containment vessel.  I don't think you understand this situation nearly as much as you think.  The one certainty is that if allowed, Iran will assemble nukes and DC in its current incarnation is not going to try to stop them regardless of the propaganda and lies out of Biden/Harris' mouths.  

Israel may get "permission" to finish this job if Trump wins but if Harris is the next POTUS, God help all of us.

[+and-then]

52 minutes ago, Unusual Tournament said:

You said it yourself, they have no real beef with Israel. 

When have I said that?  Iran since 1979 has been an existential enemy of Israel.  It is a religious DUTY for them to annihilate Israel and the US.

[Unusual Tournament]

3 hours ago, and-then said:

Israel may get "permission" to finish this job if Trump wins but if Harris is the next POTUS, God help all of us.

Hate to break it to ya but Trump is more pro Russia than Israel. Iran is Russia’s ally and remembering Trump had 4 years to stop Iran’s nuclear journey. He did nothing then and if he wins he’ll do nothing again

[Unusual Tournament]

3 hours ago, and-then said:

When have I said that?  Iran since 1979 has been an existential enemy of Israel.  It is a religious DUTY for them to annihilate Israel and the US.

Everyone at some time or another in the Middle East has been an existential threat to Israel. Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and in the future it will be Turkey. Nothing new. I can see why the Iranian mullahs are concerned and why they’re cleverly attained their nuclear weapons with lies and deception. As we can see it’s a guarantee against regime change

[DarkHunter]

From the initial reports of the Israeli attack it seems that the main targets were ballistic missile fuel production facilities along with extensive targeting of Iran's anti-air ability.  From initial reports it is expected that it will take Iran at least 2 years to return to the same level of ballistic missile fabrication.  For the anti-air ability it seems Israel largely targeted radar positions, hearing stuff ranging from extensive damage in Iran's air defense ability especially in western Iran to Iran has few to no S300 and S400 radar systems anymore after the attack leaving most of Iran blind to further air attacks.

I been hearing some speculation that the recent attack was just the first stage of a multi stage military operation and that in the coming days and weeks there will be further attacks.

[Occupational Hubris]

On 10/26/2024 at 2:46 PM, and-then said:

Only an idiot actually believes that Israel would intentionally target civilians when they are held to the highest standards and media coverage of any military in the world.  An idiot or a Jew hater.  They'll stop needing to hit those structures THAT WERE ONCE schools or hospitals, as soon as the Hamas murderers move out of them.  I guess you missed that report coming from Palestinian civilians claiming Hamas ATTACKED THEM when they tried to leave Jabaliya as they were instructed to do?  

lol You are such a moron. anti-isreal =/= anti- jew

Grow up, bigot.  

[+and-then]

On 10/26/2024 at 5:29 PM, Unusual Tournament said:

He did nothing then and if he wins he’ll do nothing again

Ever hear of a thing called the uh, JCPOA?  He withdrew from it and sanctioned Iran into penury.  Where do you get these ideas?  He sanctioned Russia far worse than his predecessor, as well.  You need to do some basic research before making these silly statements.

[+and-then]

14 minutes ago, Occupational Hubris said:

lol You are such a moron. anti-isreal =/= anti- jew

Grow up, bigot.  

Do you believe Israel actually TARGETS civilians?

[Occupational Hubris]

7 minutes ago, and-then said:

Do you believe Israel actually TARGETS civilians?

You want so badly to be persecuted, but your just a dusty old white man whose influence on the world is fading faster every day. 

[+susieice]

Iran has called for the UN Security Council to meet. Updating information in link.

Israel-Gaza-Lebanon live updates: Israel made mistake with Iran attack, Khamenei says - ABC News

The UN Security Council will meet Monday at Iran's request after Israel’s retaliatory attack against the country, a spokesperson for the Israeli Ambassador to the UN confirmed to ABC News.

The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called Israel’s retaliatory attack a "serious violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran and a flagrant breach of international law," in a letter requesting the UN Security Council meeting.

An Israeli citizen was at the wheel of a truck that rammed a bus stop Sunday morning in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing one person and injuring about 40 others in what police said is being investigated "with an emphasis on the suspicion that this is a terror attack."

[+and-then]

If Israel's attack was a "serious violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Islamic Republic of Iran and a flagrant breach of international law,"   I wonder what the 181 ballistic missiles Iran launched at them is thought to be.

[Claira]

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi warns that if Iran again launches ballistic missiles at Israel, then the military will respond using “abilities we didn’t use” in the strikes last week.

“If Iran makes the mistake and launches another barrage of missiles at Israel, we will once again know how to reach Iran, reach even with capabilities that we did not use this time, and hit very, very hard both the capabilities and places that we left aside this time,” he says to aircrews at the Ramon Air Base in southern Israel. “We did this for a very simple reason — because we may be required to do it again. We didn’t finish this event, we are right in the middle of it,” Halevi adds.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-chief-if-iran-makes-mistake-of-firing-on-israel-again-we-will-hit-places-we-left-aside-this-time/

[CrimsonKing]

8 minutes ago, Claira said:

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi warns that if Iran again launches ballistic missiles at Israel, then the military will respond using “abilities we didn’t use” in the strikes last week.

“If Iran makes the mistake and launches another barrage of missiles at Israel, we will once again know how to reach Iran, reach even with capabilities that we did not use this time, and hit very, very hard both the capabilities and places that we left aside this time,” he says to aircrews at the Ramon Air Base in southern Israel. “We did this for a very simple reason — because we may be required to do it again. We didn’t finish this event, we are right in the middle of it,” Halevi adds.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-chief-if-iran-makes-mistake-of-firing-on-israel-again-we-will-hit-places-we-left-aside-this-time/

I read they hit Iran missile production pretty hard in the most recent attack, maybe it will make them think twice this time around.