What Defense Systems Does Israel Have? From Iron Dome to David's Sling
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Israel 'should expect severe punishment' for its strikes against its nuclear program and military leadership. Here's a rundown of Israel's defense capabilities.
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-- Iran's military officials stated that strikes against Israel will continue and may expand to include U.S. bases in the region in the coming days, according to a Saturday report from Iran's Fars news agency, which is one of Iran's main semi-official news agencies and seen as closely affiliated with Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). "This confrontation will not end with last night's limited actions and Iran's strikes will continue, and this action will be very painful and regrettable for the aggressors," Fars reported, citing senior military officials. The officials were quoted saying that the war would "spread in the coming days to all areas occupied by this (Israeli) regime and American bases in the region." These statements come as tensions between Iran and Israel escalated on Saturday after Israel conducted what was described as its biggest-ever air offensive against Iran. Israel's strikes were reportedly aimed at preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. "Investors should hold gold, build up some cash, tactically overweight US equities relative to global, and prepare for at least minor oil supply shocks – possibly major shocks – as the Israel-Iran war escalates," BCA Geopolitical Strategist Matt Gertken wrote in a note to clients. Both countries continued targeting each other on Saturday, raising concerns about a potential wider conflict in the Middle East. According to local reports in Israel, at least three people were killed by Iranian strikes and dozens injured. 'We suspect that safe-haven assets will be well supported in the coming days, as markets brace for additional retaliatory attacks and the possibility of a wider conflict," Matthew Ryan, Head of Market Strategy at global financial services firm Ebury, said. Related articles Iran's strikes may expand to U.S. bases- Fars News Agency Canadian support for U.S. counter-tariffs fades as trade war drags - Bloomberg US Treasury sells $22B 30-Year Treasuries in solid auction as demand improves
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Israel warns ‘Tehran will burn' if Iran continues firing missiles
Israel's defence minister has warned that 'Tehran will burn' if Iran continues firing missiles at Israel after at least three people died and dozens were wounded following a series of Israeli attacks on Tehran's nuclear program and its armed forces. Speaking after a meeting with the army's chief of staff, Israel Katz said Iran will pay a heavy price for harming Israeli citizens. 'If (Iranian Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali) Khamenei continues to fire missiles at the Israeli home front, Tehran will burn,' he said. Iranian state television reported that air defence systems were firing in the cities of Khorramabad, Kermanshah and Tabriz, signalling the start of what could be a new Israeli attack. Footage from Tabriz showed black smoke rising from the city, according to a video posted by an affiliate of Iranian state TV. Israel's assault planes and drones smuggled into the country in advance, according to officials, to hit key facilities and kill senior generals and scientists. Iran's UN ambassador said 78 people were killed and more than 320 wounded in the attacks. Tehran retaliated by launching waves of drones and ballistic missiles at Israel, where explosions lit the night skies over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and shook the buildings below. The Israeli military urged civilians, already rattled by 20 months of war in Gaza sparked by Hamas's October 2023 attack, to head to shelter for hours. Israel and Iran said their attacks would continue, raising the prospect of another protracted Middle East conflict. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that his objective was to eliminate any Iranian threat to Israel, but he also urged Iranians to rise up against their leaders. Israel's strikes put further talks between the US and Iran over a nuclear accord into doubt before they were set to meet on Sunday in Oman. 'The US did a job that made the talks become meaningless,' Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei was quoted as saying. He added that Israel had passed all Tehran's red lines by committing a 'criminal act'. However, he stopped short of saying the talks were cancelled. The Mizan news agency, run by Iran's judiciary, quoted him as saying: 'It is still not clear what we decide about Sunday's talks.' Mr Khamenei said in a recorded message on Friday: 'We will not allow them to escape safely from this great crime they committed.' Iran launched waves of missiles at Israel from late on Friday. Iranians awoke on Saturday to state television airing repeated clips of strikes on Israel. Israel's military said more drones were intercepted near the Dead Sea early on Saturday. A hospital in Tel Aviv treated seven people wounded in the second Iranian barrage, all but one for light injuries. Israel's Fire and Rescue Services said they were wounded when a projectile hit a building in the city. A spokesperson for Beilinson Hospital said one woman was killed. Hours later, an Iranian missile struck near homes in the central Israeli city of Rishon Lezion, killing two more people and wounding 19, according to Israel's paramedic service Magen David Adom. Israel's Fire and Rescue service said four homes were severely damaged. Meanwhile, the sound of explosions and Iranian air defence systems firing at targets echoed across central Tehran shortly after midnight on Saturday. Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported a fire at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport. A video posted on X showed a column of smoke and flames rising from what the outlet said was the airport. The Israeli military said it carried out overnight strikes on dozens of targets including air defences 'in the area of Tehran'. Israel's paramedic services said 34 people were wounded in the barrage on the Tel Aviv area, including a woman who was critically injured after being trapped under rubble. US ground-based air defence systems in the region were helping to shoot down Iranian missiles, said a US official. The latest strikes raised concerns about all-out war between the countries and propelled the region into even greater upheaval. Countries in the region condemned Israel's attack, while leaders around the globe called for immediate de-escalation from both sides. Israel had long threatened such a strike, and successive American administrations sought to prevent it, fearing it would ignite a wider conflict across the Middle East and possibly be ineffective at destroying Iran's dispersed and hardened nuclear programme. But developments triggered by Hamas's October 7 2023 attack — plus the re-election of US President Donald Trump — created conditions that allowed Israel to follow through on its threats. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the US was informed in advance of the attack. On Thursday, Iran was censured by the UN's atomic watchdog for not complying with obligations meant to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon. The crossfire between Israel and Iran disrupted East-West travel through the Middle East, a key global aviation route, but Jordan's state-run Petra news agent said the country was reopening its air space to civilian aircraft on Saturday morning, signalling it believes there is no immediate danger. Among the key sites Israel attacked was Iran's main nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, where black smoke could be seen rising into the air. It also appeared to strike a second, smaller nuclear enrichment facility in Fordo, about 60 miles south east of Tehran, according to an Iranian news outlet close to the government that reported hearing explosions nearby. Israel said it also struck a nuclear research facility in Isfahan and destroyed dozens of radar installations and surface-to-air missile launchers in western Iran. Iran confirmed the strike at Isfahan. UN nuclear chief Rafael Grossi told the Security Council that the above-ground section of the Natanz facility had been destroyed. The main centrifuge facility underground did not appear to have been hit, but the loss of power could have damaged the infrastructure there, he said. Mr Netanyahu said the attack was months in the making and had been planned for April before being postponed. Israel's Mossad spy agency positioned explosive drones and precision weapons inside Iran ahead of time, and used them to target Iranian air defences and missile launchers near Tehran, according to two security officials. Among those killed were five of Iran's military leaders: General Mohammad Bagheri, who oversaw the entire armed forces; General Hossein Salami, who led the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard; General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the Guard's ballistic missile programme; General Gholamreza Mehrabi, deputy of intelligence for the armed forces' general staff; and General Mehdi Rabbani, the deputy of operations.
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Three-month-old baby pulled out of rubble alive after Iran strikes Israel
A three-month-old baby was among those rescued from the rubble after retaliatory Iranian missile strikes hit homes in central Israel. At least three people were killed and 20 injured when Rishon LeZion, a suburb of Tel-Aviv, was struck by an early morning missile barrage. A police officer was seen clutching the baby, who emergency services said was lightly wounded. 'I pulled her into my arms and then gave her to the first police officer I saw, and then started lifting out all the other family members,' Idan Chen, the fire and rescue service captain, said. 'As we were doing this there were people trapped in the home above and next door – and opposite there was a fire,' he told Walla, an Israeli news outlet. Dozens of houses were damaged and some completely destroyed. Streets were strewn with rubble and burnt-out cars from the impact of the rocket. Rishon LeZion was one of a number of sites where Iranian missiles penetrated Israeli air defences on Friday night. As well as the three killed, dozens were wounded by a missile that landed near their homes, Israel's ambulance service said. 'Among the casualties: a woman around 60 was rescued without signs of life, a man around 45 was evacuated in critical condition... and was later pronounced dead,' the Magen David Adom, Israel's national medical emergency service, said, adding that 19 others were wounded. The bombing came after Israel launched its biggest-ever air offensive against its long-time foe in a bid to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon. Air-raid sirens sounded across Israel, including in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, sending residents rushing into shelters as successive waves of Iranian missiles streaked across the skies and Israeli interceptors rose up to meet them. On Saturday, Israel Katz, Israel's defence minister, said the Iranian leadership had crossed a red line by firing at civilians and will 'pay a heavy price for it'. A missile fired from Yemen by the Iran-backed Houthi militia, killed five Palestinians including three children in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent. In Iran, several explosions were heard overnight in Tehran, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. Israel said its air force targeted the capital again on Saturday morning, hitting air-defence systems, which protect the city. 'For the first time since the beginning of the war, over 1,500 kms from Israeli territory, the IAF [Israeli military] struck defence arrays in the area of Tehran,' it said. The Fars news agency said two projectiles hit Tehran's Mehrabad airport, and Iranian media said flames were reported there. Close to key Iranian leadership sites, the airport hosts an air-force base with fighter jets and transport aircraft. Amir Saeid Iravani, Iran's UN envoy, said 78 people, including senior military officials, have been killed in Israel's strikes on Iran and more than 320 wounded, most of them civilians. Tehran launched waves of air strikes on Saturday after two salvos on Friday night, Fars reported. One of the waves targeted Tel Aviv, Israel's commercial hub, before dawn, with explosions heard as far as Jerusalem, witnesses said. Those were in response to Israel's attacks on Iran early on Friday against commanders, nuclear scientists, military targets and nuclear sites. Iran denies that its uranium enrichment activities are part of a secret weapons programme. The US military helped shoot down Iranian missiles headed to Israel on Friday, US officials said. Israel's military said Iran fired fewer than 100 missiles on Friday, and that most were intercepted or fell short. The Israeli strikes on Iran throughout the day and the Iranian retaliation raised fears of a broader regional conflagration, although Iran's allies – Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon – have been decimated by Israel. IRNA, Iran's state news agency, said Tehran launched hundreds of ballistic missiles at Israel after Israel blasted the country's huge Natanz underground nuclear site and killed its top military commanders. Israeli officials said Natanz was significantly hurt but that it may be some time before the extent of damage was clear. Western countries have long accused Iran of refining uranium there to levels suitable for a bomb rather than civilian use. The above-ground pilot enrichment plant at Natanz has been destroyed, Rafael Grossi, UN nuclear watchdog chief, told the Security Council on Friday. He said the UN was still gathering information about Israeli attacks on two other facilities, the Fordow fuel enrichment plant, 20 miles north east of the Iranian city of Qom, and another near Isfahan. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, accused Israel of starting a war. A senior Iranian official said nowhere in Israel would be safe and revenge would be painful. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
