Israel knows that with Old Joe and his henchmen in the White House, it has to act alone to ensure its survival. It will be interesting to see if Old Joe’s masters order him to condemn this strike, as interfering with the administration’s Iran appeasement policy.
“Sensitive Iranian Military Site Was Targeted in Attack,” by Farnaz Fassihi and Ronen Bergman, New York Times, May 27, 2022:
A drone strike this week targeted a highly sensitive military site outside Tehran where Iran develops missile, nuclear and drone technology, according to three Iranians with knowledge of the attack and to a U.S. official.
The strike on Wednesday evening hit the site of the Parchin military complex, about 37 miles southeast of the capital, with quadcopter suicide drones, according to the Iranian sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly. The drones exploded into a building used by the Ministry of Defense for research on drone development, killing a young engineer who worked at the ministry and injuring another person, they said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the attack fit a pattern of past Israeli strikes on Iran and Lebanon in a covert campaign of hostility that has been going on for years. A statement from Iran’s Ministry of Defense indicated that it viewed this as an attack, not an accident.
Israeli officials refused to comment. A U.S. official confirmed that suicide drones had attacked Parchin but did not say who was behind it or offer any further details.
On Sunday, just a few days before the strike on Parchin, a colonel in the Revolutionary Guards was gunned down in Tehran, and Israel told the United States that it was behind his killing, according to one intelligence official. The Israelis intended it as a warning to Iran to stop targeting Israeli citizens abroad, the official said.
Israel and Iran are increasingly pushing the boundaries in their long-running clandestine war, and the targeting of a drone research facility at Parchin follows a pattern of Israel trying to counter Iran’s growing drone capabilities.
Mark Spahn (West Seneca, NY) says
“…, according to the Iranian sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly.”
Then how did these Iranian sources make this information public? By speaking publicly. Are these blabbers never punished?
Walter Sieruk says
A small part of this above top, article gives the information that A drone strike this week targeted a highly sensitive military site outside Tehran where Iran develops missile, nuclear and drone technology,”
If and the officials of the military defense department of the State of Israel had really been the ones behind that drone strike in Iran destroying Iran’s weapon development and construction site then that Israeli air strike was not only logical sensible and likewise the responsible thing to.
This is because the job and duty of any good government is to protect the safety and lives of Its citizens. Therefore that drone strike was a necessary and important thing to do to ensures the securly of the Israeli people.
For that hostile and vicious agressive tyrannical Islamic regime hates the Jewish people and the Jewish State of Israel with a spiteful malice-filled deadly passion.
So much so that one of the main theme those in power in Iran brainwash the Iranian people into believing in and chanting ,over and over again , is “Death to Israel.”
So in ,essence, that drone strike on that technology weapon development site was the right thing to do , for it was a strike in self defence.
As the former United States President ,James Monroe, has rightly and wisely declared “The right of self-defense never ceases. It is among the most sacred, and alike necessary to nations and individuals,”