What are the implications of Iran's missile attack on Israel? | Inside Story

For the first time ever, a direct Iranian attack on Israel - a barrage of drones and missiles fired in retaliation for a strike on the Iranian consulate in Syria.
Most were shot down - but the world watches with deepening concern.
Who'll be saying what to whom - to try to bring calm?

Presenter:

James Bays

Guests:

Mohammad Marandi, Professor at the University of Tehran

Yossi Mekelberg, Associate Fellow at the British think tank, Chatham House.

Akbar Shahid Ahmed is Senior Diplomatic Correspondent at Huffpost in Washington DC.

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[Chris-ofxm]

One thing's for sure, whatever we're being told isn't the whole truth

[ayoballi]

They can stop 99% of missiles but couldn't stop hamas attack. Something sounds fishy

[UsmanKhan-tybg]

You know. This is pretty much the only news channel that has its comments still on. Everyone else has disabled them for this story because they know what people think of “Israel’s defense”

[safiya]

If the Iranians think Israel was humiliated and the Israelis think their fantastic defense humiliated the Iranians then everyone should be happy!!

[Asimmehra]

I miss the olden days when journalists worked hard to report unbiased true stories

[TomboKaiOfficial]

The only thing that was predictable was that Iran’s response wasn’t going to be a war crime.

[spamfilter]

Iran did not attack Israel. It defended itself. It proved it can defend itself. That is not an attack. What Israel did to Irans embassy was an attack.

[cleansebob]

Thank you for referring to this as Iran's retaliation rather than Iran's attack...

[nooriali]

Iran just tested their old drones and missiles with Israel and are waiting patiently

[waikukujk]

Prof Mirandi is well worth a listen. About time we hear an Iranian view

[mcljack]

Satellite images have been released now showing massive damage to the runaway as well as a number of warehouses

[sarfarazjamaliraqi]

After Iran attack, satanyahu started begging military aid from US. 😂

[Anonymouseab]

Thanks Aljazeera for standing for justice really i strongly appreciate your kindness

[MohammedMohammed-uosk]

Pliz allow international reporters to the said bases and show to the world coz we respect free media

[Antoward]

Israeli military officials talking to each other has gone viral and it was all about how lots of military sites were hit and destroyed and not intercepted in the sky

[syedehh-]

The Iranian professor is so wise👏❤Hats off to him

[joud]

Why aren't they reporting on the missiles that hit Ramon airport? Israeli citizens have put videos out showing the missiles hitting and severe damage.

[sonderman]

Iran used three waves by plan. Their only intention was to do a show of force and to hit a military base (F-35 houses) and a military airport. Both hit successfully and destroyed. Iran had no intention of hitting any civilian or commercial targets. They send a large number of drones first to engage enemy defence system knowing well that these slow drones (180 km/h) will be downed. Shortly after the cruise missiles were sent simply to open the way for the hypersonic missiles which were the real weapons to hit the bases, which they did. Iran flew a large number of drones across the skies of various cities including Jerusalem just to show no place is safe. Otherwise Iran's operation code named "True Promise" was 100% success. US was made aware that it was going to be a light operation. It also cost the enemy $1.3B to down some low cost drones.

[janetmurphy]

So this is interesting. Marandi is essentially a defacto spox for Tehran, but at the same time he reveals something interesting. He suggests that Iran did what the west had hoped it would do in sending out a very "low-level" attack against Israel, but at the same time it did hit a couple of sensitive Israeli military targets with a high degree of precision. So in other words... along with their "low-level" response this time, they sent a serious warning.

[mandeofafrica..]

Iran fully knows that the attacked wont be as successful, in fact thats how they wanted it to be, it was just a clear message that Iran has the capability and the precision.