MYTH&REALITY OF ISRAEL ATTACK ON IRAN:WAS IT FOG OF WAR?PAKISTAN,INDIA &INTERNATIONAL MEDIA CONFUSED?
Col (R) Hassan Yousuf
Trainer Futurology, Smart Management & IT / Digi Tech at Pakistan Institute of Management
1.???????Worthy audience stay cool & keep? celebrating Birthday of Imam Khomeini. .The reality is three to four drown were flown by anti-Iran miscreants or proxy of Israel in the vicinity of Isphahan & surrounding which were immediately hit by Iran Defense System therefore few Blasts were heard in the central province of Isfahan, although it is not clear whether US / UK /Israel have officially? confirm this decoy or not.Folks as you are aware? Iran is on high alert after Israel said it would respond to an Iranian attack against it on last Saturday night. Iranian media have not reported any direct impacts from Friday's Israeli strike and the global nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), has said no nuclear sites were damaged. There has been no official Israeli comment. Isfahan province is home to a large airbase, a major missile production complex and several nuclear facilities. Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency, which is close to the Islamic Revolution Guard Corps (IRGC), said explosions were heard near Isfahan International Airport and an army base in Isfahan city, activating local air defense systems.
2.????????Worthy audience video from Isfahan posted on BBC Persian's Instagram account shows orange flashes in the night sky and the sound of what appears to be bursts of anti-aircraft fire.The US was?given advance notification?Thursday of an intended Israeli strike in the coming days, but did not endorse the response, a US official said.Iran’s air defenses?brought down three small drones?over the central city of Isfahan, state media reported, hours after US broadcasters, quoting senior United States officials, said Israeli missiles had hit an Iranian site.Iranian state television reported explosions in Isfahan as air defenses were activated and flights Airspace was reopened about four and a half hours after the incident and there were no reports of casualties. Iran Military Second Brigadier General Siavash Mihandoust, the top military official in Isfahan, told state media that air defense batteries hit “a suspicious object” and there was no damage. “The location in Isfahan province is an Iranian military airbase that belongs to the country’s army, and not the Revolutionary Guards [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC]. I think it’s important to highlight that,” she said.?“This base houses multiple squadrons of F-14 Tomcat fighter aircraft.” Bottom of Form
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3.???????? Worthy audience if we recall, a military factory belonging to the Iranian army in Isfahan was?attacked by multiple quadcopters?in January 2023, failing to damage the facility that was protected by air defense batteries and mesh wiring on its roof to counter small unmanned aerial vehicles. Iran blamed Israel for that attack and arrested four people, executing one of them in January 2024, for operating on behalf of Mossad, the Israeli spy agency. Isfahan is considered a strategically important city and one that is host to several important sites, including military research and development facilities, as well as bases. The nearby city of Natanz is the location of one of Iran’s nuclear enrichment sites.The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that “there is no damage” to Iranian nuclear sites as the United Nations nuclear watchdog’s chief Rafael Grossi called for restraint and said nuclear facilities should never be targeted in military conflicts.The reported attack “was far more limited than many expected”, Iranian arms control expert Ali Ahmadi told Al Jazeera, adding that Israel “has much more limitations in its operational range” than many think. “Certainly, after Iran’s retaliatory capacity was criticized, it benefits from advertising how ineffective what Israel did was as well. Iran also needs to prepare the public for a much softer reaction than it has talked about in the last couple of days,” he pointed out.Ahmadi said that prior to today’s incident, Iran was preparing all sorts of?options for massive retaliation, including getting allies involved.But considering the limited scope and impact of the alleged attack, which he described as a “security sabotage” rather than a “military assault”, it would be a mistake to carry out a massive response, he stressed.
4.? Worthy readers there were also reports of explosions in Iraq and Syria, with Iranian state media saying there were explosions at multiple military-linked sites in Syria.Syria’s official news agency SANA quoted a military source as saying that missile strikes in the early hours of the morning caused material damage to air defence sites in the country’s southern region.?The report did not specify the exact location and the extent of the damage but blamed Israel.The US and a number of European countries had been calling on Israel not to respond to Iran’s attack. There was no immediate comment from the White House or Pentagon.On Thursday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres painted a dark picture of the situation in the Middle East, warning that spiralling tensions over Israel’s war on Gaza and Iran’s attack on Israel could descend into a “full-scale regional conflict”.“The Middle East is on a precipice. Recent days have seen a perilous escalation – in words and deeds,” Guterres told the UN Security Council. “One miscalculation, one miscommunication, one mistake, could lead to the unthinkable – a full-scale regional conflict that would be devastating for all involved,” he said, calling on all parties to exercise “maximum restraint”.