“Iran's recent attack on Israel is just a preview of what cities around the world can expect if the Iranian regime is not stopped. The world must designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization and sanction the program Iranian ballistic missiles, before it's too late." The Israeli Foreign Ministry writes this on X, posting a photo of the Colosseum on which six missiles are about to hit.
The long wave of the low-intensity and, for now, low-risk conflict between Israel and Iran has also reached Iraq with a bombing of uncertain origin in Kalso, against a base of the pro-Iranian Shiite militia of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces which caused at least one death and eight injuries. No responsibility for the attack, rather a race to distance themselves from responsibility among the protagonists of the melina that seems to prevail in the area at the moment. Israel is not involved in the explosion in Iraq, some sources told CNN. "The United States did not conduct air raids in Iraq today" said on X Centcom, the United States Central Command, branding as "false" the information that spoke of an American attack. Also complicating the mystery is the Baghdad government, according to which "there were no drones or fighter planes in the airspace of the Babil governorate before or during the explosion". The Islamic Resistance, a group that brings together pro-Iranian forces in Iraq, is certain of the origin of the attack and announced the launch of drones against a "vital target" in Eilat, in southern Israel, as a "response to the violation of Iraqi sovereignty by the Zionist enemy." The rush to lower the tone, also with a view to discrediting the enemy, also comes from Iran.
"What happened in Isfahan on Friday morning was not an attack... The weapons were more like toys our children play with, not drones," Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic Hossein Amirabdollahian told NBC. without attributing responsibility for the attack. However, the reality could be very different if it is true, as the New York Times writes citing Western sources, that the Israeli attack against Iran included at least one missile launched from a fighter against the air defenses of the top-secret Natanz nuclear site , near Isfahan, and which had technology that allowed the weapon to evade defense systems. In fact, the satellite images show, the American newspaper reports, damage to the radar of an S-300 system at the eighth Shekari air base in Isfahan. No damage, Iran replies, entrusting informed sources cited by the Mehr agency with the denial that there were only "micro-drones hit before they reached the critical areas". The war of warnings, meanwhile, continues. "As long as there are no new adventurisms on the part of Israel against our interests, we will not have new reactions", said the Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic. Israel does not reply but does not lose sight of Hezbollah, Iran's long arm in Lebanon, against whose bases in the south of the country it has launched air strikes. In al-Jabin there were at least three deaths and an unknown number of injured. Two other militiamen died in Ayta ash-Shab and Kfar Kila. Rafah is also under fire: at least 10 people, including six children, were killed in night-time air strikes. In the Nur Shams refugee camp, in the West Bank, there are ten deaths and eight arrests during an Israeli operation underway since yesterday.
Another person, the driver of an ambulance who was evacuating injured people after a clash between Palestinians and settlers south of Nablus, was shot dead. It is not known whether by a settler or by the army. Reactions that have gone beyond the mark for the USA: the American secretary of state Antony Blinken is expected to announce for the first time, according to Axios, in the next few days sanctions against the "Netzah Yehuda" battalion of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) for violations of human rights in the occupied West Bank. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also intervened today in the quagmire of war and clearly showed his support for Hamas by meeting the political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Istanbul. And he launched a call for the "unity" of the Palestinians against Israel which "one day will pay the price of oppression". The reaction of Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz was immediate: 'Shame on you'.