🇮🇷 Iran VS Israel

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US to send anti-missile system to Israel, says Pentagon

The United States said on Sunday it will send to Israel an advanced anti-missile system - and U.S. troops to operate it - in a bid to bolster the country's air defenses following missile attacks by Iran. U.S. President Joe Biden said he was sending the system "to defend Israel." P

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US to send anti-missile system to Israel, says Pentagon
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Published :
Oct 14, 2024 00:04
Updated :
Oct 14, 2024 00:04

The United States said on Sunday it will send to Israel an advanced anti-missile system - and U.S. troops to operate it - in a bid to bolster the country's air defenses following missile attacks by Iran.

U.S. President Joe Biden said he was sending the system "to defend Israel."

Pentagon spokesperson Pat Ryder said the deployment of a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery would augment Israel's integrated air defense system.

"It is part of the broader adjustments the U.S. military has made in recent months, to support the defense of Israel and protect Americans from attacks by Iran and Iranian-aligned militias," Ryder said in a statement.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi warned earlier on Sunday that the United States was putting the lives of its troops "at risk by deploying them to operate U.S. missile systems in Israel."

"While we have made tremendous efforts in recent days to contain an all-out war in our region, I say it clearly that we have no red lines in defending our people and interests," Araqchi posted on X.

Iran launched missiles and drones at Israel in April. Then on Oct. 1, Iran fired more than 180 ballistic missiles at Israel amid an escalation in fighting between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. Many were intercepted in flight but some penetrated missile defenses.​

 

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Israel’s plan to respond to Iran attack is ready: source

Israel’s plan to respond to Iran’s October 1 attack is ready, a source familiar with the matter told CNN, without providing further information.

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Israel’s plan to respond to Iran attack is ready: source

Israel's plan to respond to Iran's October 1 attack is ready, a source familiar with the matter told CNN, without providing further information.

CNN has reached out to the Israeli ministry of defense for comment.

Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, have assured the US that a counterstrike on Iran would be limited to military targets rather than oil or nuclear facilities, according to a source.

Iran launched dozens of missiles toward Israel in retaliation for the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh and others. Netanyahu had vowed Iran would "pay" for the attack.

Meanwhile, Iran's atomic energy agency spokesperson Behrouz Kamalvandi said yesterday the probability of an attack on Iran's nuclear sites remains low but any potential damage would be "quickly compensated".​

 

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Iran warns Israel to hit ‘painfully’ if attacks targets

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards chief Hossein Salami warned Thursday of further retaliation against Israel if it attacks Iranian targets, which Israel has vowed to do after Iran’s missile attack...

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Iran warns Israel to hit ‘painfully’ if attacks targets
Agence France-Presse . Tehran 17 October, 2024, 22:12

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards chief Hossein Salami. | AFP file photo

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards chief Hossein Salami warned Thursday of further retaliation against Israel if it attacks Iranian targets, which Israel has vowed to do after Iran’s missile attack on October 1.

‘If you make a mistake and attack our targets, whether in the region or in Iran, we will strike you again painfully,’ Salami said at the funeral of a Guards general killed in an Israeli strike last month.

Abbas Nilforoushan, a top commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force foreign operations arm, was killed on September 27 alongside Hassan Nasrallah, the chief of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, in an Israeli strike on south Beirut.

Funeral services for Nilforoushan, whose body the Guards said was recovered last week, began on Monday in Iraq. His body was then moved to Iran for burial in his hometown of Isfahan later Thursday.

During his speech Salami criticised as ‘not reliable’ the THAAD missile defence battery which the Pentagon on Tuesday said arrived in Israel, along with about 100 American troops to operate it.

‘Do not trust these systems. You cannot massacre Muslim nations and remain safe,’ he said.

‘We know your weaknesses. You know them well,’ he added addressing Israel.

The Terminal High Altitude Area Defence system is ‘designed to intercept targets outside and inside the atmosphere,’ according to its manufacturer Lockheed Martin.

Salami’s remarks came as Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi intensified diplomatic efforts on ways to contain the conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon from spreading across the region.

Araghchi has over the past nearly two weeks visited Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Iraq, Oman and Jordan.

He is currently in Egypt and is scheduled to head to Turkey afterwards.

Iran has said its October 1 missile barrage, most of which was intercepted by Israeli air defences, according to Israel, was in retaliation for the killing of Nilforoushan, Nasrallah, and the political chief of the Palestinian movement Hamas.​