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A Yemeni military spokesman released a video of a missile fired toward Tel Aviv.
The shape of the missile is clearly very similar to the fattah-1,
The announcement of the two-stage solid fuel rocket and high maneuverability almost certainly indicates that an Iranian fattah-1 missile was used.
It is not the expected kheibar shekan.
Iran took a big gamble by using Yemen as a proxy.
But while it did threaten Israel's air defenses, the fact that it was at least partially intercepted and did not cause any damage seems to be no small blow to Iran's deterrent capabilities.
Even with hypersonic missiles, which no one expected, there was a limit to how far Israel's solid air defense network could be penetrated.
Of course, the fattah-1 was a powerful missile compared to the April attack, in which only about nine missiles landed in a saturation attack using dozens to a hundred rounds, but it was not enough.