[🇮🇷] Iran launched ballistic missiles towards Israel

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The US will coordinate with Israel on response to Iran missile attack​

From CNN's Kylie Atwood

State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller would not say whether Iran’s nuclear program is a legitimate target for Israeli retaliation after the Iranian missile attack, saying, again, the US plans to “discuss those consequences with our Israeli counterparts before we talk about them publicly.

“This is not to say I’m ruling anything out and that I’m ruling anything in, but I would answer any question this way, which is, we want to have these conversations directly with our Israeli counterparts over the coming days,” he said in response to a question from CNN.

Miller echoed National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan in stating the US will coordinate with Israel on its response to the attack on Israel, calling it “a significant escalation.” He also pledged that there would be consequences.

“Of course there must be consequences for Iran for this attack. We’ve made clear that there must be consequences. I’m not going to get into what those consequences are today, but they are things on which we will be coordinating with our Israeli counterparts,” Miller said at a press briefing Tuesday.

He said the missile attack was defeated in part due to coordination between the US, Israel and partners. Miller did not specify which other countries.

Asked if Israel has done anything escalatory in the past weeks, Miller argued Israel “certainly” has “done things to expand the conflict, but if you look at the actions they have taken, they were bringing terrorists to justice.”

Israel last week assassinated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a major strike on Beirut.

By contrast, he said that today “Iran came to the defense of a terrorist organization.”

“If you look at what Iran did today — we have been warning for some time about the threat posed by Iran arming and funding terrorist groups across the Middle East, and the attack today just demonstrated the danger of those actions,” Miller said.

“What you saw was Iran launching a state on state attack to protect and defend the terrorist groups that it has built, nurtured and that it controls. So there is a difference,” Miller said Tuesday.

Miller also said “this wave of the attack is over,” adding that he does not mean other waves are coming. The US view is that it would be “incredibly escalatory” if Iran were to carry out further strikes in Israel.

 

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Netanyahu says Iran "made a big mistake" and "will pay"​

From CNN's Andrew Raine and Lauren Izso

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israelis that Iran “made a big mistake” and “will pay” for launching a missile attack on the country Tuesday.

“Tonight, Iran again attacked Israel with hundreds of missiles. This attack failed. It was thwarted thanks to Israel’s air defense system, which is the most advanced in the world,” Netanyahu said from a meeting with his political security cabinet, in a video released by the Israeli government’s press office. “I congratulate the IDF for its impressive achievement.”

“It was also thwarted thanks to the vigilance and responsibility shown by you – the citizens of Israel. I also thank the United States for its support in our defense effort,” Netanyahu added.

“Iran made a big mistake tonight – and it will pay for it. The regime in Iran does not understand our determination to defend ourselves and our determination to retaliate against our enemies,” he said.

“We will stand by the rule we established: whoever attacks us — we will attack him,” he continued.

Netanyahu also addressed the attack in Tel Aviv’s neighborhood of Jaffa, sending condolences to the families of those killed. “As with the missile attack, there is also a deliberate and murderous hand behind this attack – it comes from Tehran,” he said.

 

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7 killed in Tel Aviv attack, emergency services say​

From CNN’s Lauren Izso

Israeli police at the scene of an attack in Jaffa, south of Tel Aviv, on Tuesday.
Jack Guez/AFP/Getty Images

The death toll from the Tel Aviv shooting and stabbing attack has risen to seven, after one of the wounded died from the injuries he sustained, the Tel Aviv Ichilov Medical Center said.

It was initially reported that six people were killed and 12 wounded, according to Israel’s Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency services said.

MDA medics said they treated victims at several sites on Jerusalem Boulevard, including near train tracks, in the street, at a synagogue and in a butcher’s shop.

The injured were taken to hospitals while air-raid alarms sounded in the region and throughout Israel.

 

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Iran warns aircraft that a "near conflict zone" exists in its western and southern airspace ​

From CNN's Paul P. Murphy
Iranian officials have warned aircraft that a “near conflict zone” exists in its western and southern airspace, specifically near Iraq, Kuwait and Turkey.

The notice, sent to airmen by Iran’s aviation authority Tuesday evening, urges all operators to “take military activity risk” into consideration.

The warning could hit air travel across Europe and Asia, given that a number of airlines — many of them headquartered in Persian Gulf countries — travel through that airspace to fly to the Middle East and Europe.

Iraq and Jordan both temporarily closed their airspace around the time the Iranian attack began on Tuesday evening.

 

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Here's how Israel's Iron Dome system works​

From CNN Joshua Berlinger, Lou Robinson, Rachel Wilson and Way Mullery

As Israel came under missile attacks on Tuesday, the country has been relying once again on the Iron Dome system to protect its citizens.

The missile defense system is one of the most important tools in Israel’s arsenal and has saved countless civilian lives over various conflicts in the last decade, analysts say. It is highly effective. The Israel Defense Forces said the system boasted a 95.6% success rate during a rocket salvo fired by Islamic Jihad in May 2023.

Development on the Iron Dome first began in 2007. After tests in 2008 and 2009, the first Iron Dome batteries were deployed in 2011. The system has been upgraded several times since.


Learn more from this explainer on how Israel’s Iron Dome system works.

 

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Iranian president says Tuesday missile strike was “only a portion of our power”​

From CNN’s Leila Gharagozlou, Tara John and Lauren Izso

Missiles launched from Iran towards Israel streak across the night sky as seen from Deir al-Balah, Gaza.
Abdel Kareem Hana/AP

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said its missile strike on Israel was in defense of Iran’s interests and citizens, warning on X that the operation on Tuesday was “only a portion of our power.”

“This action was in defense of the interests and citizens of Iran. To let (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu know that Iran is not belligerent, but it stands firmly against any threat,” he wrote. “Do not enter into a conflict with Iran.”

In a message posted on X, Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned in Hebrew that the “blows” against Israel would become “stronger and more painful.”

“With God’s help, the blows of the uprising front will become stronger and more painful on the worn and rotting body of the Zionist regime,” he said.

The barrage comes after Israel launched a ground operation across its northern border into Lebanon targeting the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah. Israel killed Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike last Friday and decimated the leadership of the most powerful paramilitary force in the Middle East — ratcheting up fears of a new regional war.

 

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Iran’s IRGC says it targeted 3 Israeli military bases in missile attack​

From Leila Gharagozlou

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it targeted three Israeli military bases around Tel Aviv during a wave of missile launches Tuesday, according to the semi-official Iranian media outlet Mehr News.

The Israeli military has initially estimated that Iran fired about 180 missiles.

 

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Iran's attack "totally unacceptable," US secretary of state says​

From CNN's Kylie Atwood

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called the Iranian missile attack against Israel “totally unacceptable” and added that the “entire world should condemn it.”

Blinken said this attack included “some 200 ballistic missiles.” Israel initially estimated that 180 missiles were launched at the country.

Israel “effectively defeated this attack,” Blinken added.

Blinken was speaking at the State Department ahead of a meeting with the Indian external affairs minister.