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❗️❗️❗️URGENT ❗️❗️❗️
EXPLOSIONS ARE BEING REPORTED IN HAVANA, CUBA, AT LEAST 3, INTERNET ACCESS HAS BEEN CUT OFF FOR THE ENTIRE ISLAND, ARMY MOVEMENTS IN THE CAPITAL, SIRENS AND AIR RAID ALARMS, REPORTS OF HELICOPTERS IN THE AREA AND FIGHTER JETS ARRIVED BEFORE THE TOTAL DROP IN INTERNET ACCESS.
AT THIS MOMENT WE HAVE NO FURTHER INFORMATION, WE ARE MONITORING THE OFFICIAL CHANNELS OF THE HAVANA DICTATORSHIP AND THE WHITE HOUSE.
WE WILL BRING YOU MORE INFORMATION AS WE GET IT,
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Troops defy terrorist threats, celebrate Sallah in Ngoshe mosque
By: Zagazola Makama
Troops of Operation Hadin Kai have defied terrorist threats and celebrated Eid-el-Fitr prayers in Ngoshe and Gwoza areas of Borno State, in a show of dominance and restoration of normalcy.… pic.twitter.com/bG9nqRJnKP
Troops defy terrorist threats, celebrate Sallah in Ngoshe mosque
By Zagazola Makama
Troops of Operation Hadin Kai have defied terrorist threats and celebrated Eid-el-Fitr prayers in Ngoshe and Gwoza areas of Borno State, in a show of dominance and restoration of normalcy.
Security sources said insurgents linked to Boko Haram had earlier circulated propaganda threatening to seize Ngoshe town and mark the Sallah celebration at the central mosque, a move aimed at instilling fear among residents and projecting territorial control.
Military airstrikes obliterate scores of terrorists in Sambisa forest
By: Zagazola Makama
The Air Component of Operation HADIN Kai has recorded a major operational success following precision airstrikes that eliminated scores of terrorists in the Sambisa Forest area of Borno… pic.twitter.com/cdPtUDOdyc
Military airstrikes obliterate scores of terrorists in Sambisa forest
By Zagazola Makama
The Air Component of Operation HADIN Kai has recorded a major operational success following precision airstrikes that eliminated scores of terrorists in the Sambisa Forest area of Borno State.
Sources told Zagazola Makama that the mission, was based on credible intelligence indicating the presence of insurgents around Parisu axis within the forest.
According to the source, at about 9:00 p.m. on March 20, air asset, was deployed to carry out an armed reconnaissance and air interdiction mission over the suspected location.
“Upon arrival overhead, the platform established visual contact with suspected Boko Haram terrorists engaging in active movements within the area,” the source said.
The surveillance revealed insurgents moving tactically before converging on a concealed structure hidden under dense foliage.
The source said the aircrew maintained persistent surveillance and trailed the suspects to the hideout before executing a precision strike on the target.
“The strike was accurately delivered, resulting in the destruction of the structure and neutralisation of multiple terrorists within the location,” he said.
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[IsraelTimes] ‘There is a likely link to a terror,’ says Czech interior minister after arson at warehouse owned by LPP Holding, which has announced plans to partner with Israel’s Elbit Systems
Czech police are investigating a fire at an arms company on Friday as a potential terrorist attack, the interior minister said, after an anti-Israel group grabbed credit.
The blaze, which did not cause injuries, broke out at a warehouse in a business park in the central city of Pardubice, some 100 kilometers (60 miles) east of Prague, before dawn, the fire brigade said.
"We are examining all available information. There is a likely link to a terror attack," Interior Minister Lubomir Metnar said on X.
Prime Minister Andrej Babiš called the news "very serious."
Czech police chief Martin Vondrasek told news hounds that police were investigating "a deliberately started blaze" and "intensively seeking those who committed the crime."
Arms producer LPP Holding, which develops and makes products for civilian and military use, such as drone technologies used by Ukraine’s armed forces in the war against Russia, said in a statement that the fire was at its premises.
Two Czech media reported they had received an email from a group called the Earthquake Faction saying it had set fire to "a key production center for Israeli weapons."
The Voxpot news site, which received the Earthquake Faction’s statement, said the group’s "internet domain was registered yesterday."
"We are verifying the reliability of the information," the police said on X.
The fire brigade said the blaze destroyed a warehouse made of metal and spread to an administrative building in the business park before it was put out.
LPP Holding, which develops and produces drones and other military equipment, said in a statement that "a fire broke out in one of our buildings this morning" and that it was cooperating with Sherlocks.
LPP Holding had previously said it was planning to open a center to develop and produce drones and train personnel in cooperation with Israeli Elbit Systems, a military technology company.
Over the past two years, Elbit has been inking contracts with global customers even as pro-Paleostinian and anti-Israel protesters have assailed the firm, negative sentiment toward Israel has been growing, and arms embargoes have been floated over Israel’s conduct during the war against the Hamas ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,... terror group in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... In 2024, a 13-year-old boy, instructed and armed by others, opened fire on Elbit’s Swedish office, and men planted explosives there in the same year.
The Paleostine Action group was charged with breaking into Elbit’s British factory, also in 2024. Some eight months later, in June 2025, Paleostine Action activists broke into a Royal Air Force base and vandalized two planes, causing an estimated £7 million ($9.3 million) of damage. The following month, Britannia proscribed Paleostine Action as a terrorist organization, making it a crime to be a member.
According to a statement released on Friday, the group said it carried out the operation on March 20, targeting what it described as "the epicenter of the Israeli weapons industry in Europe" in the city of Pardubice.
The site, referred to as Elbit Systems’ "Centre of Excellence," was reportedly developed in collaboration with a local partner, LPP, as part of the company’s broader global expansion strategy.
In its statement, Earthquake Faction said it had "intervened" in order to destroy the company’s equipment and set the factory ablaze, presenting the operation as a deliberate act against material infrastructure tied to Israeli arms production.
Anadolu Agency, citing the group’s statement, reported that the attack was framed as a direct response to Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gazoo and across the region.
The group cast the action in explicitly political terms, linking it to what it described as the continued bleeding of the land "under Israeli bombs in Occupied Paleostine and across West Asia."
"WE WILL COME FOR THEM"
In its statement, Earthquake Faction described itself as an "internationalist underground network" committed to targeting entities it considers complicit in Israeli violence.
"For as long as the land continues to bleed under Israeli bombs in Occupied Paleostine and across West Asia, ground must continue to shake under the feet of the sponsors of occupation," the group declared.
It further asserted that Elbit Systems plays a central role in Israel’s military apparatus, stating that its weapons are first "tested" on Paleostinians before being exported globally.
The statement said these weapons are then sold to governments around the world, "expanding the empire built off the destruction of Paleostine."
"Wherever Elbit Systems and their accomplices obscure and hide their business of bloodshed across the world, we will come for them," the statement added.
The group also rejected appeals to diplomatic or legal channels, stating that it would not "waste their breath asking nicely," but instead would take "necessary action to quash their means to kill."
It said there was no time left to "beg the complicit international governments," framing direct action as, in its view, the only meaningful response to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
BEYOND PALESTINE
The incident reflects a growing trend of direct action targeting Israeli-linked military infrastructure beyond the borders of historic Paleostine.
Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest private arms manufacturer, has increasingly expanded its footprint in Europe, North America, and Asia, integrating itself into global defense supply chains.
The Pardubice facility, described as a hub for technological development and production, is part of this broader expansion, enabling Elbit to service international contracts and deepen its partnerships with Western governments.
While authorities in the Czech Republic have not yet issued a detailed response at the time of writing, the attack underscores rising tensions surrounding Israeli defense companies operating abroad.
BACKBONE OF ISRAELI MILITARY POWER
Elbit Systems is headquartered in Haifa and represents one of the central pillars of Israel’s military-industrial complex.
The company produces a wide range of military technologies, including drones, surveillance systems, artillery, electronic warfare tools, and targeting systems.
Many of these technologies have been repeatedly deployed in Gaza, where Israel’s genocidal campaign has resulted in the killing of tens of thousands of Paleostinians and the near-total destruction of civilian infrastructure.
Elbit has long marketed its products as "combat-proven," a term widely understood to mean tested during the Israeli war against Paleostinians. This model—developing and refining weapons through real-time warfare—has drawn sharp criticism from human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... organizations and anti-war activists.
Elbit Systems has increasingly become the focus of legal and activist campaigns worldwide.
In the United Kingdom, activists have repeatedly targeted Elbit-linked sites, leading to arrests, court cases, and significant public debate about the legality of arms production tied to Israeli military actions.
Legal challenges have argued that facilitating the production of such weapons constitute complicity in war crimes.
Similar campaigns have emerged across Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... and North America, calling for divestment, sanctions, and the closure of Elbit facilities.
[NationalContext] From Jurf al-Sakhar and Baghdad to al-Qaim, Mosul, Kirkuk, and Tuz Khurmatu, the strike campaign has widened sharply since late February. But even as it has expanded, it still concentrates on the militias’ forward military infrastructure in Iraq’s disputed north, western border belt, and Sunni heartland, while avoiding the deep southern Shia core where these factions retain their densest political and social base.
The expanding strike campaign against Iran-aligned militias in Iraq is not random. Even as the map has widened since late February, its geographic logic remains remarkably consistent. The attacks are still concentrated on militia deployments, headquarters, checkpoints, command nodes, and logistics infrastructure in Iraq’s northern, western, and disputed belts, while the deep Shia south remains outside the strike map.
By faction, Kataib Hezbollah and its linked structures appear to be the most heavily targeted militia family, especially through repeated strikes on its Brigade 45 network in Anbar, later hits on its linked Brigade 63 structures in Kirkuk and Salah al-Din, and additional Kataib Hezbollah-linked sites in Baghdad, Fallujah, Jurf al-Sakhar, and Tuz Khurmatu. It is followed by Hashd al-Shabak, or Quwat Sahl Nineveh, whose Brigade 30 positions across the Nineveh Plains came under repeated attack, and by Kataib Imam Ali, whose Brigade 40 was repeatedly struck across Kirkuk and Nineveh.
What the updated map shows is not a nationwide air war, but a calibrated one. The campaign has widened into Baghdad, Babil, and Wasit, and has touched a broader range of militias than in its first phase. But it still stops short of Basra, Maysan, Dhi Qar, Muthanna, Najaf, and Karbala. In other words, it is hitting the militias’ exposed operational arc, not their deepest political home ground.
THE GEOGRAPHY IS WIDENING, BUT NOT IN EVERY DIRECTION
The earlier phase of the campaign centered on places like Jurf al-Sakhar, Akashat, al-Qaim, Muqdadiya, Bartella, Qayyarah, Rashidiya, Dibis, and Baiji. The newer map adds repeated strikes in Baghdad, more sites in Salah al-Din and Kirkuk, and further pressure on the Mosul area, the Nineveh Plains, and the Syria-facing border zone in Anbar.
That expansion matters, but it has not erased the campaign’s underlying pattern. The militias being hit are still overwhelmingly deployed in mixed, militarized, or frontier spaces. That includes Kataib Hezbollah, Asaib Ahl al-Haq, Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba, Hashd al-Shabak, Kataib Imam Ali, Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada, Ansar Allah al-Awfiya, Saraya al-Khorasani, Badr-linked formations, Turkmen PMF units, Kataib Jund al-Imam, Risaliyun, Fawj Amerli, Waad Allah, Kataib Babiliyoun, Haras Nainawa, Liwa Salah al-Din, and mixed PMF command structures.
Baghdad has now clearly entered the map. So have some central Iraqi belts. But widening is not the same as becoming nationwide. The strikes have edged into the capital and its approaches, but they still avoid the deep southern provinces where the militias’ political offices, patronage networks, leadership environments, and social base are strongest.
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited Iran struck Dimona in Israel in retaliation for the attack on the Natanz nuclear facility.
Iranian armed forces launched a missile strike on a facility in the Israeli city of Dimona in response to the attack on the uranium enrichment complex in Natanz. This was reported on March 21 by the IRIBNews television channel.
The channel also published video of the missile's arrival, filmed from various angles. The footage shows the missile overcoming air defenses and falling at high speed, causing a powerful explosion.
The Israeli side has not yet commented on the attack. There is no information about the aftermath of the strike.
The US and Israel attacked the Natanz nuclear facility on March 21. It houses a uranium enrichment complex. Tests revealed no radioactive leaks.
Russia condemned the strike on Natanz. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova called the attack a brazen violation of international law, the UN and IAEA charters, relevant UN Security Council resolutions, and the Atomic Energy Agency's General Conference. The diplomat emphasized that such actions could lead to radiological and environmental consequences.
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The he IDF has been targeting civilian nuclear scientists and other people working in their programs. This appears to be a deliberate retaliation against workers at the Diamona site. Due to the censorship on both sides we will likely never know for years.
[IsraelTimes] Muslim worshipers clash with police as holy sites, including Al-Aqsa Mosque and Western Wall, are off limits to most while wartime restrictions on gatherings remain in effect
Hundreds of Moslem worshipers clashed with police while holding Eid al-Fitr prayers at the gates of Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday, as the al-Aqsa Mosque, Western Wall and other holy sites remain closed amid the war with Iran.
A few hours later, a fragment from an intercepted Iranian ballistic missile struck some 400 meters from the Western Wall and al-Aqsa Mosque compound on the Temple Mount, causing damage at a parking lot in the Old City’s Jewish Quarter but no injuries.
Since the start of the US-Israel war against Iran on February 28, Israeli authorities have, for security reasons, barred access to the Old City for anyone other than residents or shop owners. The restrictions extend to all holy sites, including the Western Wall, al-Aqsa Mosque and Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which have been closed since March 6. Gatherings nationwide remain limited to 100 people indoors and 50 people outdoors, provided a shelter can be reached in time.
For Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan, Moslem worshipers denied access to the Old City arrived with prayer mats under their arms at dawn on Friday under the watchful supervision of Israeli police.
Shouting "holy shit! Allahu akbar" ("God is the greatest") or chanting the shahada (the Moslem declaration of faith), the crowd tried to push through the city gates.
Police forcefully dispersed hundreds of worshipers, with footage showing officers using tear gas and batons against the crowd of Paleostinians, running after individuals who gathered to pray outside Herod’s Gate.
At least one individual was arrested, Haaretz reported.
Eventually, the worshipers managed to take up a position next to Herod’s Gate as the police relented for a few minutes and allowed the street prayers to take place.
An imam standing on a plastic stool delivered a short sermon.
"Pray, invoke Almighty God and hope that your prayers will be answered," he told the worshipers. "O God, grant victory to the oppressed."
The Israel Police then pushed back the worshipers, who dispersed without resistance into the narrow streets, buying still-warm bread from street stalls as they went.
’BROKEN HEART’
The gathering of just a few hundred worshipers was a far cry from the typical way Eid is usually marked in Jerusalem, when some 100,000 people flock to the Temple Mount compound.
The Temple Mount is the holiest site in Judaism and was home to the ancient biblical temples. Moslems call the site the Noble Sanctuary. It is home to al-Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam, and the iconic Dome of the Rock shrine.
Researchers say this is the first time the site was closed during the last 10 days of Ramadan and for Eid al-Fitr since Israel captured East Jerusalem and the Old City from Jordan during the 1967 Six Day War and later annexed them in a move not recognized internationally.
"Today, al-Aqsa has been taken from us. It’s a sad and painful Ramadan," Wajdi Mohammed Shweiki, a silver-haired Paleostinian man in his 60s, told AFP.
"It’s a catastrophic situation for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, for Paleostinians in general and for all Moslems across the globe," he added.
The Israel Police said that "despite the high-alert status, police allowed prayers to be conducted on the street outside the Old City of Jerusalem without intervention."
"However,
a lie repeated often enough remains a lie... officers were required to enforce... life-saving guidelines when crowds later exceeded authorized capacity and seemingly attempted to breach security perimeters into the Old City," they said.
Authorities maintain that they are solely concerned with enforcing Home Front Command wartime guidelines, but critics have accused law enforcement of operating on a double standard when it comes to Jewish versus Arab public gatherings.
Earlier this week, the Foreign Press Association lambasted police for what it called an "unprovoked assault" on journalists covering evening prayers outside the walls of the Old City, which left a CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... producer with a fractured wrist.
Officers detained several news hounds, damaged photographic equipment and confiscated memory cards, the statement read.
There is also fear among some Paleostinians that it could be part of efforts to rewrite the strict rules governing access to Jerusalem’s holy sites.
The Temple Mount has seen violence, particularly with large crowds gathering during Ramadan, and has seen festivities between Paleostinians and Israeli security forces over the years, with Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... using its religious symbolism as a means of rallying support.
"The occupier, under the pretext of security and for its own interests, has closed the mosque," said holy man Ayman Abu Najm, who had come from Beit Hanina, a Paleostinian neighborhood in East Jerusalem.
"In the history of the occupation, this is the longest period during which the al-Aqsa Mosque has been closed."
Israel says it is committed to upholding this status quo, though Paleostinians fear it is being eroded.
While politics and faith are always closely tied in this flashpoint city, for some Moslems the inability to access al-Aqsa this year was felt as a deep personal loss.
"Ramadan without the al-Aqsa Mosque is a very sad feeling, a feeling of having a broken heart," said worshiper Zeyad Mona.
[IsraelTimes] Strike on sanctioned Malek Ashtar University comes after US reportedly hits Natanz enrichment facility; IDF chief says campaign at ‘halfway’ stage, regime ‘battered and confused’
The Israeli Air Force recently struck an Iranian nuclear weapons research and development site in Tehran, the military announced on Saturday, as Israel and the United States continued their operations to eliminate the Islamic Theocratic Republic’s nuclear program. According to the IDF, the "strategic" site at Malek Ashtar University was used by Iran’s military industries to develop components for nuclear weapons. Malek Ashtar University, subordinate to Iran’s defense ministry, is under Western sanctions over its activities relating to Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... has repeatedly denied seeking to acquire nuclear weapons. However,
ars longa, vita brevis... it has enriched uranium to levels that have no peaceful application, obstructed international inspectors from checking its nuclear facilities, and expanded its ballistic missile capabilities. Israel alleged during 2025’s 12-day war that Iran had taken steps toward weaponizing its enriched uranium and creating a bomb.
Iranian media said earlier on Saturday that US-Israeli forces had attacked the Shahid Ahmadi-Roshan Natanz uranium enrichment complex on Saturday morning. Technical experts found that no radioactive leaks had occurred, and nearby residents were not at risk. In response to a query by The Times of Israel, the Israel Defense Forces said that it did not conduct any strikes in the area and that it could not comment on American activities.
Iran’s stockpile of some 450 kilograms of 60 percent-enriched uranium is believed to be buried under the rubble of sites bombed by the US last year, specifically near Isfahan and the Natanz area. That uranium is a short step away from weapons-grade material, enough for an estimated 10 nuclear bombs.
Securing the highly enriched uranium has been seen as one of the possible targets of the war for Washington and Jerusalem, though doing so would require a complex and dangerous operation.
IDF CHIEF SAYS IRAN CAMPAIGN AT ’HALFWAY’ STAGE
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir said on Saturday that the military was about halfway through its campaign against Iran.
"We are halfway through, but the direction is clear. In about a week, on Passover, the holiday of freedom, we will continue to fight for our freedom and our future," he said in a video statement.
Zamir said that the "extensive damage we have caused to the Iranian regime over the past three weeks is beginning to accumulate into a systemic-strategic, military, economic, and governmental achievement."
"As a result, the regime of evil is weaker, and Iran is more exposed and without significant defense capabilities. The leaders of the regime, who developed capabilities with the goal of destroying us, are battered and confused," he said.
Zamir also commented on Iran’s long-range ballistic missile attack on the British-American Indian Ocean military base at Diego Garcia on Friday.
"Just yesterday, Iran launched a two-stage intercontinental ballistic missile with a range of 4,000 kilometers [2,500 miles] toward an American target on the island of Diego Garcia. These missiles were not intended to hit Israel. Their range reaches the capitals of Europa ...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum... — Berlin, Gay Paree, and Rome are all within direct threat range," he said.
[IsraelTimes] Report claims American forces used bunker busters to bomb nuclear facility; Iran fires missile at Israeli fighter jet, no damage reported
The United States struck Iran’s Natanz uranium enrichment facility on Saturday, several media reports claimed, as the American and Israeli air forces continued their bombing campaign against regime targets.
Iranian media said US-Israeli forces attacked the Shahid Ahmadi-Roshan Natanz enrichment complex on Saturday morning. Technical experts found that no radioactive leaks had occurred, and nearby residents were not at risk.
In response to a query by The Times of Israel, the Israel Defense Forces said that it did not conduct any strikes in the area and that it could not comment on American activities. Israel’s Kan news reported that the US had indeed struck the facility, using “bunker buster” bombs to target the site. It cited unspecified sources.
In June 2025, during Israel’s 12-day war with Iran, the US dropped more than a dozen GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs on the Fordo and Natanz underground nuclear facilities.
Iran’s stockpile of some 450 kilograms of 60 percent-enriched uranium is believed to be buried under the rubble of sites bombed by the US last year, specifically near Isfahan and the Natanz area.
On March 3, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said entrance buildings in Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility had sustained partial damage, after satellite photos showed damage inflicted during the ongoing US-Israeli bombing campaign. “Based on the latest available satellite imagery, IAEA can now confirm some recent damage to entrance buildings of Iran’s underground Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP),” the UN’s nuclear watchdog agency stated, adding, “No radiological consequence expected and no additional impact detected at FEP itself, which was severely damaged in the June [2025] conflict.”
Following Saturday’s attack, the IAEA said it was looking into the matter. Its head, Rafael Grossi, called for “military restraint to avoid any risk of a nuclear accident,” but the UN watchdog confirmed that no increase in off-site radiation levels had been reported.
ISRAEL SAYS ATTACKS WILL INTENSIFY
During a wave of airstrikes in Tehran overnight, the IDF said it hit dozens of targets related to Iran’s production of ballistic missiles.
According to the military, the targets hit by the Israeli Air Force included a key complex of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps used to manufacture ballistic missile components; a storage facility for missile components; a complex of the Iranian defense ministry tasked with producing missile fuel; and another missile components factory.
The IDF said it also hit several air defense systems in the Tehran area as part of the wave of strikes.
Additionally, an Israeli Air Force fighter jet came under anti-aircraft fire over Iran, the military said.
According to the IDF, a surface-to-air missile launch was identified toward the jet.
“The crew acted according to procedures, no damage was caused to the aircraft, and the mission was completed as planned,” the IDF said in a statement. No further details were given.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed it had hit an Israeli F-16 fighter jet over the country’s center, though it was unclear if it was referring to the same incident.
“An F-16 hostile enemy fighter jet belonging to the Zionist regime was struck at 3:45 a.m. in central Iran,” the Guards said on its Sepah News website.
IAF pilots have come under Iranian anti-aircraft missile fire numerous times amid the war. In one case, the military said a fighter pilot was “close to being hit.”
Also on Saturday, Defense Minister Israel Katz said that strikes against Iran would intensify.
“This week, the intensity of the strikes that the IDF and the US military will carry out against the Iranian terror regime and the infrastructure it relies upon will significantly escalate,” he said during an assessment with military officials.
Katz said that Israel was “determined to continue leading the offensive against the Iranian terror regime, to decapitate its commanders and thwart its strategic capabilities, until every security threat to the State of Israel and to US interests in the region is removed.”
“The IDF is strong, and the Israeli home front is strong, and we will not stop until all war objectives are achieved,” he added.
US SAYS 8,000 IRANIAN TARGETS HIT
The Chief of the US Central Command Adm. Brad Cooper said that the American military had struck over 8,000 targets in Iran since the start of the war, while noting that Iranian attacks have continued to decline.
“So far, we’ve struck over 8,000 military targets, including 130 Iranian vessels, constituting the largest elimination of a navy over a three-week period since World War II,” Cooper said in a video update.
“My operational assessment continues to be: Iran’s combat capability is on a steady decline as our offensive strikes ramp up,” he said.
Cooper said the US military is “taking out thousands of Iranian missiles, advanced attack drones, and all of Iran’s navy, which they use to harass international shipping.”
“Their navy is not sailing, their tactical fighters are not flying, and they’ve lost the ability to launch missiles and drones at the high rates seen at the beginning of the conflict,” he said, adding, “our progress is obvious.”
Cooper also said that the American military remains “zeroed in on dismantling Iran’s decades-old threat to the free flow of commerce throughout the Strait of Hormuz.
“For example, earlier this week, we dropped multiple 5,000-pound bombs on an underground facility located along Iran’s coastline. The Iranian regime used the hardened underground facility to discreetly store anti-ship cruise missiles, mobile missile launchers, and other equipment that presented a dangerous risk to international shipping,” he said.
“We not only took out the facility but also destroyed intelligence support sites and missile radar relays that were used to monitor ship movements,” Cooper stated.
“Iran’s ability to threaten freedom of navigation in and around the Strait of Hormuz is degraded as a result, and we will not stop pursuing these targets,” he added.
Iran’s de facto blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20 percent of the world’s oil and gas normally flows, and the numerous attacks on energy infrastructure in the Middle East, have sent crude oil prices soaring.
Iran is still shipping oil, primarily to China, which keeps China mostly from buying elsewhere — pretty much Iran’s only external income. Should achina decide the risk isn’t worth chrap oil, Irn’s economy will collapse.
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And the Iranians hit Diamona - eventually both sides will run out of nuclear scientists (and the folks who crunch their data, sweep their floors and cook their meals). Neither Iran nor Israel is hitting "only" the civilian scientists they are aiming for. There is collateral damage on both sides. That's what a war is and that's why they are not the first soluition to resolving a problem
Does Israel still have Soviet immigrant physicists driving taxis? At one point the surplus was so large…
I imagine a bunch moved into inventing the many improvements to the internet that we so enjoy today, but if Iran to actually succeed in killing any of Israel’s Dimona staff, the place could easily find replacements.
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Aimed for it, anyway — Iran actually did not hit Dimona or kill anyone
"We struck a fatal blow against the Zionist Entity!"
"Can we see the bomb damage assessment?"
"No. And shut up!"
Kind of like the Plains Indians counting coup. You get style points even if you didn't cause any damage.
In his book "The Arab Mind", author Patai notes that in Arab culture, talking about a deed is the same as doing it. Ineffectual bombardment seems to work the same way. The fact that a missile was launched matters more than what it hit (if anything).
🚨 NEW: Clashes between the IDF and Hezbollah terrorists continued today in the northern neighborhoods of Khiam, southern Lebanon, as Israeli forces push closer to securing the town.
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Clashes between the IDF and Hezbollah terrorists continued today in the northern neighborhoods of Khiam, southern Lebanon, as Israeli forces push closer to securing the town.
At the same time, Israeli ground operations are advancing toward Alma al-Shaab, Labouneh, and Naqoura, with active fighting reported in those areas.
The Lebanese Army has withdrawn from the Tayr Harfa junction, but remains deployed on the outskirts of Chamaa toward Tayr Harfa and at the Fifth Brigade headquarters in Al-Bayyada.
🚨BREAKING: The IDF is fighting Hezbollah’s Radwan forces near Naqoura in southern Lebanon.
They told the world that the area was clear of Hezbollah.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited
[Regnum] Iran used the new Nasrallah missile to strike targets in Israel. This was reported on March 21 by the Italian publication L'AntiDiplomatico.
The authors of the article reported that Iran, in response to US and Israeli strikes on the South Pars oil field, attacked oil fields and refineries in Israel, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, and Qatar.
In particular, the latest Nasrallah missile, named after Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary General of the Hezbollah movement who was killed by the Israeli military, was used.
"The Iranians are confirming what they said at the beginning of the conflict: over time, we will use the most formidable, advanced technologies you have never seen," the article notes.
On March 17, Iran used its new Haj-Qasem missile, named after General Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, killed by the Americans, for the first time in a conflict with the United States and Israel. The missile strike targeted targets in Tel Aviv, Beit Shemesh, and western Jerusalem.
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Given the meaning of "Nasrallah" (took a dump, female) in Russian, I wonder re the author's state of mind?
UPDATE: What the U.S. has been hitting in Iran over the last hours says a lot about the real priority right now. The pattern doesn’t look random: coastal missile sites, naval-linked assets and hardened facilities all point in the same direction. 🧵(1/3) pic.twitter.com/PAur5B6pKe
BREAKING : The U.S. Airforce targeted the Borazjan area, Bushehr Province, southern Iran which is an IRGC missile city, using GBU-57 bunker buster bombs. Non stop explosions coming out of here. This is the biggest arsenal loss for the Islamic regime of Iran in the ongoing war. pic.twitter.com/Xb8S6Cd44Q
BREAKING : The U.S. Airforce targeted the Borazjan area, Bushehr Province, southern Iran which is an IRGC missile city, using GBU-57 bunker buster bombs. Non stop explosions coming out of here.
This is the biggest arsenal loss for the Islamic regime of Iran in the ongoing war.
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