Iran - Israel/US War: Israel-US declare war on Iran, Iran responds

[ghazi52]

Video of strikes in Tehran, verified
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By Daniele Palumbo

Following the Israeli air attacks against targets in Iran, several videos from Iranian cities have started to emerge.

BBC Verify is analysing social media activity and it is verifying and investigating the many videos that are being published online.

Much of the content shared online out of Iran showing the effect of the Israeli strikes is hard to verify as it’s filmed at night and it’s hard to make out landmarks.

However, we were able to geolocate this video filmed from a neighbourhood north of the capital, Tehran.

Projectiles seen in sky over Tehran as Israel hits Iranian targets

Flashes can be seen in the night sky, along with audible explosions. We’ve been able to locate the video by identifying the towers of the ASP Shopping Centre just in front of the camera position. There’s also a taller building to the right of the image with a strip of lights at the top, which we’ve confirmed to be the Tehran International Tower.

The person filming is located on an upper floor of a residential tower behind the shopping centre, on the slope of a hill giving a clear sight of Iranian air defences in action over Tehran.

BBC Verify will continue to gather further content from Iran through the day.

 

[MS Sandhu]

Iran on October 1st was actively not trying to harm the Zios.

Radar sites need to be manned and even in weapon producing factories at night there will always be some people there.

Rather than strike vast airbases, it can go for smaller targets and have a good chance of taking out some Zios at the same time. It proved 10-30m accuracy on October 1st and so it can reliably hit much smaller sites and facilities.

Radars can actually be rotated at multiple locations
Israel has the ability to stand at iranian doorstep so it gets real-time coverage of what's going on inside Iranian territory and adjusts its projectiles accordingly
While Iran has no such luxury due to non existent air force.so it can only hit the fixed military targets like air base hangars & air strips.

 

[ghazi52]

Iran has a right to defend itself, foreign ministry says
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Iran has said it is "entitled and obliged to defend itself" after Israel launched retaliatory air strikes against the country overnight.

In a statement, the Iranian foreign ministry condemns Israel's attack and describes it as a "clear violation" of international law.

"The Islamic Republic of Iran considers itself entitled and obliged to defend itself against foreign acts of aggression," it says, citing Article 51 of the United Nations Charter.

 

[jauk]

2 KIA already, possibly AD battery destroyed, drone factory damage, not that bad for Israel

Copium.

Awful for Zionia. Their multi front conflict is closing in.

Not bad for The Resistance.

 

[Lulldapull]

NEW: Iran informed Israel through a foreign mediator that it will not respond to the strike, Sky News Arabia reports

I said earlier iran won't 'retaliate " and israel and hezbollah will end their fake war going on in south Lebanon. This beg the questions did hezb lat iran israel conspire against hamas and gazans? I guess that what happened when you ally with people who fight alongside and support the enemy of muslims and Allah bashar al assad

What? Jahil Pashto refugee……run away from your shit-hole in Kabul and yous got the nerve to talk about Iran?

Achha…….

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

 

[jauk]

Completely agree. Iran has a lot to do to refurbish the Air Force and keep strengthening the IADS. The weak answer of Israel it is a symbol of step down in the conflict, and there are also others signs that Israel wants to stop their losses at least in Lebanon. So all in all, are good news. Congrats persians!!!!

That’s incorrect analysis. Red lines have been crossed and response is mandatory to reduce future attacks.

 

[MS Sandhu]

Those were too fast to be drones and more likely cruise missiles we saw being shot down.

Cruise Missiles do not light up like that.

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

 

[Awwad]

SAMs are supposed to defend Iranian assets but we are seeing they are highly ineffective.(Either Israelis are too smart or Iranian Air Defence crew is poorly trained)

These SAMs are not supposed to stop incoming ballistic missiles anyways. These SAMs are only effective to some degree against fighter jets. Ballistic missiles are many many times faster. Its like hitting a bullet with another bullet. Israel has spent massive billions of dollars in its missile defense layers with full US assistance. Those anti-ballistic missile systems are worth billions of dollars and requires most advance technology. On top Israel has a very limited airspace and has deployed a very dense air defense layer. Even then it failed to intercept hypersonic missiles in last attack. So it was quite obvious that you can't stop incoming missiles. Your deterrence is only offensive capability. That if you attack us, we will attack back. That's the only way to stop the attack from happening.

That is also true for India / Pakistan scenario. Indians think they will be able to stop Pakistani missiles and Pakistanis think they will be able to stop indian missiles. Both are absolutely WRONG. 99% of times the missiles will go non-intercepted. There is no possibility of stopping each other's missiles.

 

[MS Sandhu]

No drones were used paa G. Hair force launched aero ballistic mayziles fraam 1000 km away. Hair force can’t come cloaj to Iran.

I have seen the drone interceptions in videos

 

[Hassan Al-Somal]

Iran fully rebelled the attack. Zionist mouthpieces can spread their propaganda, but it is obvious the child killers failed in their aggression against Iran.

It also looks like "Israelis" themselves are learning the true facts about their failed attack.

 

[Ali_Baba]

KingQamaR made a good plausible theory on what happened. That is, Israel planned a stronger multi-wave attack, but the first wave failed to take out enough of the Irans IADS to punch through a hole, to allow waves 2,3 to get through to all the places they wanted to attack and they were subsequently called off.

We need to see the extent of damage in Iran from what Iran managed to achieve, but it does look like either Israel was either forced to do a smaller response by the Americans, or their attack itself failed to achieve their mission objectives.

It is possible that the IADS was robust and active enough to not give Israel the freedom of movement they wanted and needed to be able to do their mission.

If you consider how many USA assets have been moved into the area, the USA and Israel were/are expecting a big response, which suggests that Israels attack was meant to be far larger than what they managed to achieve, logically.

Question is what was destroyed in Irans IADS and how quickly can those holes be plugged quickly.

Israel's attack while causing some damage and death, failed relative to what their plans and missions were for the attack. However, in practical terms, they may have achieved more actual damage of "things" than Iran did with its strikes.

 

[Lulldapull]

I have seen the drone interceptions in videos

That’s the April Irani attack. I’m talking bout now paa G. Ijh-raheel used only 4 missiles launched from over Al-Jordan no? Ijh-raheel don’t got the capability to respond to Iran no?

 

[Awwad]

Looks like a lot of Zio-US missiles were actually intercepted. These look like cruise missiles and they seem to be taken out by anti-aircraft artillery.

There is not a single interception in this video. This is anti-aircraft ammo that explodes at certain altitude. If there is a successful interception then you see a massive explosion and debris of missile. What you see is a quick burst of anti-aircraft ammunition, its designed to explode at certain altitude. Its a WWII technology. You see when dive bombers used to dive on targets or ships / carriers. The anti-aircraft fire used to be exploding all around.

All AA shells are set to explode in air.