A lot of Jews are apparently migrating to Ukraine. People say that they want to reestablish ancient Khazaria.
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Iranian Defense Forum A lot of Jews are apparently migrating to Ukraine. People say that they want to reestablish ancient Khazaria.
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also, separate topic but whatever..
Gaza is not really even a "conflict" anymore, its just a slaughter.. they fight exactly like is coded in their mostly Slav/Polish genes.. these Ashkenaz Israelis
They making Grozny look like a silly cartoon.. Kadyrov ka intezaar hai, bhai.
Mosab Hassan ? 🤣
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Gaza is not really even a "conflict" anymore, its just a slaughter.. they fight exactly like is coded in their mostly Slav/Polish genes.. these Ashkenaz Israelis
They making Grozny look like a silly cartoon.. Kadyrov ka intezaar hai, bhai.
Mosab Hassan ? 🤣
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Ukie Jewery da band bajana
te Yahudi Jewry de tattay chattan
sab kuch balance ho jata in the end
sabka malik ek
rupaiya
the jew prints it
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te Yahudi Jewry de tattay chattan
sab kuch balance ho jata in the end
sabka malik ek
rupaiya
the jew prints it
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They will eventually migrate to the US midlands and start afresh, kibbutz life redux.
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Iran to ‘use all available tools’ to respond to attack
Tehran will “use all available tools” to respond to Israel’s weekend attack on military targets in Iran, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said yesterday.
Iran to ‘use all available tools’ to respond to attack
Tehran warns Israel
Tehran will "use all available tools" to respond to Israel's weekend attack on military targets in Iran, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said yesterday.
Iran previously played down Israel's air attack on Saturday, saying it caused only limited damage, while US President Joe Biden called for a halt to escalation that has raised fears of an all-out conflagration in the Middle East.
Speaking at a weekly televised news conference, Baghaei said: "(Iran) will use all available tools to deliver a definite and effective response to the Zionist regime (Israel)".
The nature of Iran's response depends on the nature of the Israeli attack, Baghaei added, without elaborating. Earlier in the day, top commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards has warned Israel it would face "bitter consequences" after its attack on Iranian military sites.
Guards chief Hossein Salami, quoted by Tasnim news agency, said Israel had "failed to achieve its ominous goals" with its air raids on Saturday.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday that Iranian officials should determine how best to demonstrate Iran's power to Israel, adding that the Isreli attack should "neither be downplayed nor exaggerated".
Tehran warns Israel
Tehran will "use all available tools" to respond to Israel's weekend attack on military targets in Iran, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said yesterday.
Iran previously played down Israel's air attack on Saturday, saying it caused only limited damage, while US President Joe Biden called for a halt to escalation that has raised fears of an all-out conflagration in the Middle East.
Speaking at a weekly televised news conference, Baghaei said: "(Iran) will use all available tools to deliver a definite and effective response to the Zionist regime (Israel)".
The nature of Iran's response depends on the nature of the Israeli attack, Baghaei added, without elaborating. Earlier in the day, top commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards has warned Israel it would face "bitter consequences" after its attack on Iranian military sites.
Guards chief Hossein Salami, quoted by Tasnim news agency, said Israel had "failed to achieve its ominous goals" with its air raids on Saturday.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday that Iranian officials should determine how best to demonstrate Iran's power to Israel, adding that the Isreli attack should "neither be downplayed nor exaggerated".
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Iran vows to ‘respond firmly’ to Israeli strikes
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday that Tehran would ‘respond firmly and effectively’ to deadly Israeli strikes on military sites over the weekend...
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Iran vows to ‘respond firmly’ to Israeli strikes
Agence France-Presse . Tehran 29 October, 2024, 00:28
A woman walks above the rubble of a building following an Israeli strike in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on October 28, 2024. | AFP photo
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday that Tehran would ‘respond firmly and effectively’ to deadly Israeli strikes on military sites over the weekend.
‘We are using all available means to respond firmly and effectively to the aggression of the Zionist regime,’ Baghaei told a regular news conference.
‘The nature of our response will depend on the nature of the attack.’
On Saturday, Israel conducted air strikes on military sites in Iran in response to Tehran’s October 1 attack on Israel, itself retaliation for the killing of Iran-backed militant leaders and a Revolutionary Guards commander.
At least four soldiers were killed in the strikes, according to the military, and Iranian media reported Monday that a civilian was also killed in the attack.
‘The martyr Allahverdi Rahimpour, a civilian who was killed near Tehran during the recent attack by the Zionist regime, has been buried,’ the local Fars news agency reported.
Tasnim news agency also reported the death, saying Rahimpour worked as ‘a (security) guard in a company’ and lived in the city of Nassimshahr southwest of Tehran.
Authorities had not previously reported civilian deaths in the strikes.
Saturday’s strikes took place against the backdrop of Israel’s on-going war with Hamas, which expanded in recent weeks to also focus on Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Both groups are part of the ‘axis of resistance’ aligned with Iran against Israel.
Baghaei said a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon has remained the ‘goal’ for Iran.
He further urged the United Nations Security Council, which is set to hold a meeting Monday on the Israeli strikes, to take a ‘decisive and firm’ stance with regards to the attack.
Iran had called for the meeting on Sunday.
During the conference, Baghaei decried Israel’s ‘abuse’ of Iraq’s airspace to launch the attack on Iran.
‘The Zionist regime does not respect any limits in its law-breaking approach it has repeatedly violated the airspace of many countries,’ he said.
On Monday, Israeli forces launched deadly strikes on Lebanon and Gaza, pressing their offensive against militants after Egypt’s president proposed a two-day truce in the Israel-Hamas war.
There was no comment from either Israel or Hamas on the plan unveiled Sunday by Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, but Israeli media said spy chief David Barnea was in Qatar for renewed talks on a hostage release deal.
More than a year into the war unleashed when Palestinian armed group Hamas launched the deadliest attack on Israel in its history on October 7, 2023, there was no let-up in the violence.
Iran, which supports Hamas but has largely avoided a direct confrontation with arch-foe Israel, warned it would ‘respond firmly and effectively’ to Israeli strikes on military sites over the weekend.
The war has drawn in Tehran-backed allies of Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, including Hezbollah in Lebanon, where strikes hit the southern port of Tyre on Monday.
The Lebanese health ministry said at least seven people were killed when Israel struck the city centre. An AFP journalist saw an entire apartment block collapsed into smouldering rubble.
The ministry said at least 17 more people were wounded as rescue workers were racing to pull more survivors from the pancaked building.
Hours later, the Israeli army issued a new warning to residents, telling them to leave ahead of another attack on Hezbollah targets there. Lebanon’s National News Agency subsequently reported ‘a series of strikes’ of the city.
Hezbollah said its fighters had attacked Israeli forces along the border with rockets and artillery.
Last month, Israel escalated its air strikes on Hezbollah bastions across Lebanon and launched ground operations, following a year of low-intensity exchanges and cross-border Hezbollah attacks that the Lebanese group says were in support of Hamas.
At least 1,634 people have been killed in Lebanon since September 23, according to an AFP tally based on official figures, though the real number is likely to be higher due to gaps in the data.
In Gaza, where Israel’s year-long military campaign has killed Hamas’s senior leadership while killing tens of thousands of people and triggering a humanitarian crisis, rescuers reported fresh strikes on Monday.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said three people were killed in a drone attack on Gaza City, while the civil defence agency and an AFP correspondent reported more air strikes and shelling in other areas of the territory’s north and centre.
The Israeli military said it had hit north Gaza’s Jabalia — the focus of an on-going sweeping assault since early October — and ‘eliminated dozens of terrorists in ground and aerial activity’.
An Israeli military official, briefing reporters on condition of anonymity, said that the goal of the operation was to clear the Jabalia refugee camp of militants, which ‘will take us at least (several) weeks’ to achieve.
He said there was ‘heavy fighting’ in areas where Hamas militants were present.
The official said Israel was not forcing residents to leave, claiming that ‘the safer zone in the Gaza Strip is in the south, but it’s up to them’ to decide whether to go.
Many Palestinians have been displaced several times during the war, as the Israeli military’s focus shifts from one area to another.
‘I fled at the start of the war with my family of nine,’ said 40-year-old Waleed Abu Shawish, who was forced to flee Gaza City to Khan Yunis in the south.
‘I spent everything I had just to provide food and clean drinking water.’
Ahmad Abu Aita, a 25-year-old man displaced from the north of Gaza to a camp in the centre of the territory, said the approaching winter was making already dire conditions even worse.
‘Two weeks ago, it rained at night, and we were soaked in rainwater,’ he said.
As Israel pushed ahead with its military operations in Gaza and Lebanon, a top Iranian general said it would face ‘bitter consequences’ after Saturday’s attack on military sites.
Revolutionary Guards chief Hossein Salami, quoted by Tasnim news agency, said the Israeli air raid had failed, calling it a sign of ‘miscalculation and helplessness’.
The UN Security Council will meet later on Monday at Iran’s request, with Tehran urging the world to condemn Saturday’s strikes which authorities said killed four soldiers and caused some damage.
Iranian media said a civilian guard was also killed in the first direct action on Iranian soil that Israel has publicly confirmed.
In a bid to stop the war, Egypt’s Sisi proposed a two-day pause in Gaza and a limited hostage and prisoner exchange, aimed at eventually securing an elusive ‘complete ceasefire’ between Hamas and Israel.
The proposal includes exchanging four Israeli hostages held in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and would be followed by more negotiations within 10 days, Sisi said.
Out of 251 hostages seized by Palestinian militants during the October 7 attack, 97 are still held in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead. More than 100 were released during a one-week truce last November.
Families of hostages have called on the Israeli government to broker an agreement in the wake of the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar earlier this month.
Israel launched the offensive in Gaza after Hamas’s October 7 attack that resulted in the deaths of 1,206 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of official Israeli figures which includes hostages killed in captivity.
At least 43,020 Palestinians, a majority of them civilians, have been killed in the Israeli offensive on Gaza, according to figures from the Hamas-ruled territory’s health ministry, which the UN considers reliable.
Agence France-Presse . Tehran 29 October, 2024, 00:28
A woman walks above the rubble of a building following an Israeli strike in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip on October 28, 2024. | AFP photo
Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said on Monday that Tehran would ‘respond firmly and effectively’ to deadly Israeli strikes on military sites over the weekend.
‘We are using all available means to respond firmly and effectively to the aggression of the Zionist regime,’ Baghaei told a regular news conference.
‘The nature of our response will depend on the nature of the attack.’
On Saturday, Israel conducted air strikes on military sites in Iran in response to Tehran’s October 1 attack on Israel, itself retaliation for the killing of Iran-backed militant leaders and a Revolutionary Guards commander.
At least four soldiers were killed in the strikes, according to the military, and Iranian media reported Monday that a civilian was also killed in the attack.
‘The martyr Allahverdi Rahimpour, a civilian who was killed near Tehran during the recent attack by the Zionist regime, has been buried,’ the local Fars news agency reported.
Tasnim news agency also reported the death, saying Rahimpour worked as ‘a (security) guard in a company’ and lived in the city of Nassimshahr southwest of Tehran.
Authorities had not previously reported civilian deaths in the strikes.
Saturday’s strikes took place against the backdrop of Israel’s on-going war with Hamas, which expanded in recent weeks to also focus on Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Both groups are part of the ‘axis of resistance’ aligned with Iran against Israel.
Baghaei said a ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon has remained the ‘goal’ for Iran.
He further urged the United Nations Security Council, which is set to hold a meeting Monday on the Israeli strikes, to take a ‘decisive and firm’ stance with regards to the attack.
Iran had called for the meeting on Sunday.
During the conference, Baghaei decried Israel’s ‘abuse’ of Iraq’s airspace to launch the attack on Iran.
‘The Zionist regime does not respect any limits in its law-breaking approach it has repeatedly violated the airspace of many countries,’ he said.
On Monday, Israeli forces launched deadly strikes on Lebanon and Gaza, pressing their offensive against militants after Egypt’s president proposed a two-day truce in the Israel-Hamas war.
There was no comment from either Israel or Hamas on the plan unveiled Sunday by Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, but Israeli media said spy chief David Barnea was in Qatar for renewed talks on a hostage release deal.
More than a year into the war unleashed when Palestinian armed group Hamas launched the deadliest attack on Israel in its history on October 7, 2023, there was no let-up in the violence.
Iran, which supports Hamas but has largely avoided a direct confrontation with arch-foe Israel, warned it would ‘respond firmly and effectively’ to Israeli strikes on military sites over the weekend.
The war has drawn in Tehran-backed allies of Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, including Hezbollah in Lebanon, where strikes hit the southern port of Tyre on Monday.
The Lebanese health ministry said at least seven people were killed when Israel struck the city centre. An AFP journalist saw an entire apartment block collapsed into smouldering rubble.
The ministry said at least 17 more people were wounded as rescue workers were racing to pull more survivors from the pancaked building.
Hours later, the Israeli army issued a new warning to residents, telling them to leave ahead of another attack on Hezbollah targets there. Lebanon’s National News Agency subsequently reported ‘a series of strikes’ of the city.
Hezbollah said its fighters had attacked Israeli forces along the border with rockets and artillery.
Last month, Israel escalated its air strikes on Hezbollah bastions across Lebanon and launched ground operations, following a year of low-intensity exchanges and cross-border Hezbollah attacks that the Lebanese group says were in support of Hamas.
At least 1,634 people have been killed in Lebanon since September 23, according to an AFP tally based on official figures, though the real number is likely to be higher due to gaps in the data.
In Gaza, where Israel’s year-long military campaign has killed Hamas’s senior leadership while killing tens of thousands of people and triggering a humanitarian crisis, rescuers reported fresh strikes on Monday.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said three people were killed in a drone attack on Gaza City, while the civil defence agency and an AFP correspondent reported more air strikes and shelling in other areas of the territory’s north and centre.
The Israeli military said it had hit north Gaza’s Jabalia — the focus of an on-going sweeping assault since early October — and ‘eliminated dozens of terrorists in ground and aerial activity’.
An Israeli military official, briefing reporters on condition of anonymity, said that the goal of the operation was to clear the Jabalia refugee camp of militants, which ‘will take us at least (several) weeks’ to achieve.
He said there was ‘heavy fighting’ in areas where Hamas militants were present.
The official said Israel was not forcing residents to leave, claiming that ‘the safer zone in the Gaza Strip is in the south, but it’s up to them’ to decide whether to go.
Many Palestinians have been displaced several times during the war, as the Israeli military’s focus shifts from one area to another.
‘I fled at the start of the war with my family of nine,’ said 40-year-old Waleed Abu Shawish, who was forced to flee Gaza City to Khan Yunis in the south.
‘I spent everything I had just to provide food and clean drinking water.’
Ahmad Abu Aita, a 25-year-old man displaced from the north of Gaza to a camp in the centre of the territory, said the approaching winter was making already dire conditions even worse.
‘Two weeks ago, it rained at night, and we were soaked in rainwater,’ he said.
As Israel pushed ahead with its military operations in Gaza and Lebanon, a top Iranian general said it would face ‘bitter consequences’ after Saturday’s attack on military sites.
Revolutionary Guards chief Hossein Salami, quoted by Tasnim news agency, said the Israeli air raid had failed, calling it a sign of ‘miscalculation and helplessness’.
The UN Security Council will meet later on Monday at Iran’s request, with Tehran urging the world to condemn Saturday’s strikes which authorities said killed four soldiers and caused some damage.
Iranian media said a civilian guard was also killed in the first direct action on Iranian soil that Israel has publicly confirmed.
In a bid to stop the war, Egypt’s Sisi proposed a two-day pause in Gaza and a limited hostage and prisoner exchange, aimed at eventually securing an elusive ‘complete ceasefire’ between Hamas and Israel.
The proposal includes exchanging four Israeli hostages held in Gaza for Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and would be followed by more negotiations within 10 days, Sisi said.
Out of 251 hostages seized by Palestinian militants during the October 7 attack, 97 are still held in Gaza, including 34 the Israeli military says are dead. More than 100 were released during a one-week truce last November.
Families of hostages have called on the Israeli government to broker an agreement in the wake of the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar earlier this month.
Israel launched the offensive in Gaza after Hamas’s October 7 attack that resulted in the deaths of 1,206 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of official Israeli figures which includes hostages killed in captivity.
At least 43,020 Palestinians, a majority of them civilians, have been killed in the Israeli offensive on Gaza, according to figures from the Hamas-ruled territory’s health ministry, which the UN considers reliable.
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Iran’s position is so strong that they have absolutely no worries whatsoever regarding Israel. Iran has 2,500 years of its continuous and often glorious history to justify its existence bhai. Iran is like a bonafide and straight up civilizational part of this earth no matter what.
The problem is that ijh raheel is on very shaky ground.
I have told you before that these irani’s are basically pagal. These are imperialists and pig-headed people.
They just refuse to take no for an answer. Failure is not an option.
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Irans already won doc……it’s just that it’s trying to save Israel from the surrounding savages……you know it.
The moment Netanyahu signals defeat, Iran will just take them over and most likely save them again for the 4th time in history from a certain annihilation.
3,000 saal say yahudi Iran main reh ray hain. There is no way Iran will do something ridiculous or stupid.
Iran just wants hegemony.
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They can’t go to Ukraine half the Israelis are colored people. The Ukrainian are known nazi collaborators.
The Germans never killed these Jews. They always used the Baltic and Ukrainian Nazi converts to carry out the holocaust.
The ones who went there blend in facially as its where the Askhenazis Jews originated form. They could be told apart because of their religious gears.
Isn't Zelensky a Jew?
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Yes. He looks Syrian refugee.
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CNN Bans Commentator Ryan Girdusky From Network After His Verbal Attack On Mehdi Hasan – Update
The former MSNBC anchor was in an argument with Ryan Girdusky.
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Iran moves to triple military budget amid Israel tensions
Iran’s government has proposed tripling its military spending, an official said Tuesday, as tensions with arch-rival Israel rise following recent tit-for-tat missile strikes.
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Iran moves to triple military budget amid Israel tensions
Agence France-Presse . Tehran 29 October, 2024, 22:46
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Iran’s government has proposed tripling its military spending, an official said Tuesday, as tensions with arch-rival Israel rise following recent tit-for-tat missile strikes.
Government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani outlined the move that would see ‘a significant increase of more than 200 per cent in the country’s military budget’ at a news conference in Tehran, without elaborating.
Tehran has not disclosed any exact figures, but according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute think tank, Iran’s military spending in 2023 was about $10.3 billion.
The proposed budget will be debated, with lawmakers expected to finalise it in March.
‘All efforts have been made to meet the country’s defence needs and special attention has been paid to this issue,’ said Mohajerani.
The plan came days after Israel carried out air strikes on military sites in Iran in response to Tehran’s October 1 attack, itself retaliation for the killing of Iran-backed militant leaders and a Revolutionary Guards commander.
At least four soldiers were killed in the Israeli strikes, according to Iran’s military, and Iranian media reported Monday that a civilian was also killed in the attack.
Afterwards, Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said his country’s strikes had shifted the balance of power between the sworn enemies.
‘The enemy has been weakened — both in its ability to produce missiles and in its ability to defend itself. This changes the balance of power,’ Gallant said in a statement.
Iran’s attack on October 1, when it said it fired 200 projectiles at Israel, was its second-ever direct attack on its arch-enemy.
Israel said most of the missiles were intercepted but one person was killed.
The Islamic republic conducted its first direct attack on Israel in mid-April, in response to a suspected Israeli strike on Iran’s consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus that killed seven Revolutionary Guards, including two generals.
The tit-for-tat moves unfold amid Israel’s on-going war with Hamas, which has expanded in recent weeks to include Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
The Gaza war broke out in October 2023 following the Palestinian Hamas militant group’s unprecedented attack on Israel.
On Monday, Iran and Israel accused each other of endangering Middle East peace in a heated exchange at a UN meeting.
SIPRI says Israel’s military spending grew by 24 per cent, reaching $27.5 billion in 2023 alone, coming second in the region after Saudi Arabia.
Current figures on Israel’s 2024 military spending are unavailable, though the country has benefited from substantial military aid provided by the United States since the outbreak of the war.
Israel has for the decades been the largest recipient of US assistance.
According to Iran’s official IRNA news agency, the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps receive the highest portion of the country’s military budget.
The regular army and other branches of the armed forces receive a smaller allocation, the agency said based on figures of the current fiscal year which ends in March 2025.
Iran does not recognise Israel, and the two countries have fought a shadow war for years.
The Islamic republic accuses Israel of having carried out a wave of sabotage attacks and assassinations targeting its nuclear programme.
Agence France-Presse . Tehran 29 October, 2024, 22:46
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Iran’s government has proposed tripling its military spending, an official said Tuesday, as tensions with arch-rival Israel rise following recent tit-for-tat missile strikes.
Government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani outlined the move that would see ‘a significant increase of more than 200 per cent in the country’s military budget’ at a news conference in Tehran, without elaborating.
Tehran has not disclosed any exact figures, but according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute think tank, Iran’s military spending in 2023 was about $10.3 billion.
The proposed budget will be debated, with lawmakers expected to finalise it in March.
‘All efforts have been made to meet the country’s defence needs and special attention has been paid to this issue,’ said Mohajerani.
The plan came days after Israel carried out air strikes on military sites in Iran in response to Tehran’s October 1 attack, itself retaliation for the killing of Iran-backed militant leaders and a Revolutionary Guards commander.
At least four soldiers were killed in the Israeli strikes, according to Iran’s military, and Iranian media reported Monday that a civilian was also killed in the attack.
Afterwards, Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said his country’s strikes had shifted the balance of power between the sworn enemies.
‘The enemy has been weakened — both in its ability to produce missiles and in its ability to defend itself. This changes the balance of power,’ Gallant said in a statement.
Iran’s attack on October 1, when it said it fired 200 projectiles at Israel, was its second-ever direct attack on its arch-enemy.
Israel said most of the missiles were intercepted but one person was killed.
The Islamic republic conducted its first direct attack on Israel in mid-April, in response to a suspected Israeli strike on Iran’s consulate in the Syrian capital Damascus that killed seven Revolutionary Guards, including two generals.
The tit-for-tat moves unfold amid Israel’s on-going war with Hamas, which has expanded in recent weeks to include Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
The Gaza war broke out in October 2023 following the Palestinian Hamas militant group’s unprecedented attack on Israel.
On Monday, Iran and Israel accused each other of endangering Middle East peace in a heated exchange at a UN meeting.
SIPRI says Israel’s military spending grew by 24 per cent, reaching $27.5 billion in 2023 alone, coming second in the region after Saudi Arabia.
Current figures on Israel’s 2024 military spending are unavailable, though the country has benefited from substantial military aid provided by the United States since the outbreak of the war.
Israel has for the decades been the largest recipient of US assistance.
According to Iran’s official IRNA news agency, the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps receive the highest portion of the country’s military budget.
The regular army and other branches of the armed forces receive a smaller allocation, the agency said based on figures of the current fiscal year which ends in March 2025.
Iran does not recognise Israel, and the two countries have fought a shadow war for years.
The Islamic republic accuses Israel of having carried out a wave of sabotage attacks and assassinations targeting its nuclear programme.
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Israeli strikes hurt Iran, further escalation possible: analysts
While heeding US calls to steer clear of nuclear or oil infrastructure, Israel in its strikes on Iran inflicted severe damage on Iranian air defences and missile capacities and could yet launch...
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Israeli strikes hurt Iran, further escalation possible: analysts
Agence France-Presse . Paris 02 November, 2024, 01:06
While heeding US calls to steer clear of nuclear or oil infrastructure, Israel in its strikes on Iran inflicted severe damage on Iranian air defences and missile capacities and could yet launch more wide-scale action against the Islamic republic, analysts say.
Following Iran’s October 1 salvo of missiles against Israel last month — intended as a reprisal to Israeli strikes that killed senior figures in Iran-backed groups Hezbollah and Hamas — there were fears Israel would respond with attacks on Iran of a magnitude that could spark a global conflict.
The United States, mindful of the risk of the conflict spreading, swiftly pressured its ally to avoid the most escalatory options of strikes against Iranian nuclear infrastructure or oil and gas production facilities.
In the end, according to media reports and analysts, Israel opted for strikes on October 26 against Iranian air defence systems including several guarding oil refineries, as well as three key missile production facilities.
While Iranian officials have in public minimised the importance of the strikes, which killed four servicemen, it is now becoming clear the attacks inflicted significant damage as well as containing an implicit warning from Israel that more could be in store.
‘Israel’s target set clearly suggests it intended to erode Iran’s critical missile production capacity and facilitate further military action if the conflict escalates,’ said an analysis from the Washington-based Hudson Institute.
It said Israel used around 100 combat aircraft and possibly drones in its attack, targeting Iranian ‘missile manufacturing capabilities and strategic air defence architecture’.
‘Israel likely handicapped Iran’s ability to produce the high-end, solid-fuel, medium-range ballistic missiles that Tehran used in its October 1 salvos,’ it added.
The action against missile production is all the more pertinent at a time when Iran is accused by the West of supplying Russia with attack drones and missiles for its war against Ukraine.
Fabian Hinz, research fellow at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies said Israel had hit three Iranian facilities in Shahroud, Parchin and Khojir that make the solid propellant for missiles.
‘There are indications that they very deliberately targeted bottlenecks within the production process that would have pretty large implications for Iran’s missile production,’ he said.
‘These strikes might not have produced the most spectacular videos, they were designed very smartly to produce substantial effect even with a limited number of targets. They privileged the effect over the spectacle.’
Satellite pictures provided by Planet Labs of the Parchin facility showed the apparent effects of the strike in an October 27 image, contrasted with the undamaged facility on September 9.
The targeting of air defences was also hugely significant, Hinz added.
‘They are sending the message that if Israel wants to strike again, that would be easier and could be more comprehensive next time.’
The Israeli strikes appear to have damaged Russian S-300 air defence systems delivered to Iran by Moscow, according to the US-based Institute for the Study of War which said Russia’s need for such systems in the war against Ukraine would constrain its ability to supply Iran.
Indeed, information from Israel on the strikes even suggests that ‘Iran does not have any functional S-300 batteries right now’, the ISW said.
Iranian defence minister Aziz Nasirzadeh said Israel ‘tried to damage both our defensive and offensive systems’, but insisted ‘there has been no interruption in the process of producing offensive systems such as missiles’.
But the most dangerous standoff between the two foes is far from over, with both sides warning it could escalate further.
Mohammad Mohammadi Golpayegani, a senior aide to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and hugely influential official who speaks rarely in public, on Thursday warned of a ‘harsh and regretful’ response by Iran.
The New York Times on Friday cited three Iranian officials as saying Khamenei had instructed the Supreme National Security Council on Monday to prepare for a further strike on Israel as the ‘scope of Israel’s attack was too large to ignore’.
Israel could then retaliate again, with all eyes on whether it could decide to strike a nuclear site, although doubts remain over whether it could carry out such a bunker-busting attack without US assistance.
Israel’s military chief Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi warned Israel would hit back ‘very very hard’ if Iran retaliates against Israel.
Hinz said Israel’s strategy towards Iran had changed in the wake of the October 7, 2023 attacks against Israel by Iran-backed Hamas, and the Israeli leadership under prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in no mood to back down against the Islamic republic.
‘If the Iranians launch another strike, then Israel might basically respond to that with another strike of their own. If they don’t do that, they might see it as even a stronger invitation to follow-on strikes,’ he said.
Agence France-Presse . Paris 02 November, 2024, 01:06
While heeding US calls to steer clear of nuclear or oil infrastructure, Israel in its strikes on Iran inflicted severe damage on Iranian air defences and missile capacities and could yet launch more wide-scale action against the Islamic republic, analysts say.
Following Iran’s October 1 salvo of missiles against Israel last month — intended as a reprisal to Israeli strikes that killed senior figures in Iran-backed groups Hezbollah and Hamas — there were fears Israel would respond with attacks on Iran of a magnitude that could spark a global conflict.
The United States, mindful of the risk of the conflict spreading, swiftly pressured its ally to avoid the most escalatory options of strikes against Iranian nuclear infrastructure or oil and gas production facilities.
In the end, according to media reports and analysts, Israel opted for strikes on October 26 against Iranian air defence systems including several guarding oil refineries, as well as three key missile production facilities.
While Iranian officials have in public minimised the importance of the strikes, which killed four servicemen, it is now becoming clear the attacks inflicted significant damage as well as containing an implicit warning from Israel that more could be in store.
‘Israel’s target set clearly suggests it intended to erode Iran’s critical missile production capacity and facilitate further military action if the conflict escalates,’ said an analysis from the Washington-based Hudson Institute.
It said Israel used around 100 combat aircraft and possibly drones in its attack, targeting Iranian ‘missile manufacturing capabilities and strategic air defence architecture’.
‘Israel likely handicapped Iran’s ability to produce the high-end, solid-fuel, medium-range ballistic missiles that Tehran used in its October 1 salvos,’ it added.
The action against missile production is all the more pertinent at a time when Iran is accused by the West of supplying Russia with attack drones and missiles for its war against Ukraine.
Fabian Hinz, research fellow at the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies said Israel had hit three Iranian facilities in Shahroud, Parchin and Khojir that make the solid propellant for missiles.
‘There are indications that they very deliberately targeted bottlenecks within the production process that would have pretty large implications for Iran’s missile production,’ he said.
‘These strikes might not have produced the most spectacular videos, they were designed very smartly to produce substantial effect even with a limited number of targets. They privileged the effect over the spectacle.’
Satellite pictures provided by Planet Labs of the Parchin facility showed the apparent effects of the strike in an October 27 image, contrasted with the undamaged facility on September 9.
The targeting of air defences was also hugely significant, Hinz added.
‘They are sending the message that if Israel wants to strike again, that would be easier and could be more comprehensive next time.’
The Israeli strikes appear to have damaged Russian S-300 air defence systems delivered to Iran by Moscow, according to the US-based Institute for the Study of War which said Russia’s need for such systems in the war against Ukraine would constrain its ability to supply Iran.
Indeed, information from Israel on the strikes even suggests that ‘Iran does not have any functional S-300 batteries right now’, the ISW said.
Iranian defence minister Aziz Nasirzadeh said Israel ‘tried to damage both our defensive and offensive systems’, but insisted ‘there has been no interruption in the process of producing offensive systems such as missiles’.
But the most dangerous standoff between the two foes is far from over, with both sides warning it could escalate further.
Mohammad Mohammadi Golpayegani, a senior aide to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and hugely influential official who speaks rarely in public, on Thursday warned of a ‘harsh and regretful’ response by Iran.
The New York Times on Friday cited three Iranian officials as saying Khamenei had instructed the Supreme National Security Council on Monday to prepare for a further strike on Israel as the ‘scope of Israel’s attack was too large to ignore’.
Israel could then retaliate again, with all eyes on whether it could decide to strike a nuclear site, although doubts remain over whether it could carry out such a bunker-busting attack without US assistance.
Israel’s military chief Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi warned Israel would hit back ‘very very hard’ if Iran retaliates against Israel.
Hinz said Israel’s strategy towards Iran had changed in the wake of the October 7, 2023 attacks against Israel by Iran-backed Hamas, and the Israeli leadership under prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in no mood to back down against the Islamic republic.
‘If the Iranians launch another strike, then Israel might basically respond to that with another strike of their own. If they don’t do that, they might see it as even a stronger invitation to follow-on strikes,’ he said.
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