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If this is just round one of an unknown number of rounds to come, you wouldn’t fire a significant fraction of what you have just in the first round,
The number of munitions it took to repel the attack was enormous, costly and could be difficult to replicate,
said Tom Karako, the director of the CSIS Missile Defense Project It could be a testing attack, ... and the Iranians got what they want. Making it past the air defenses is not only a symbolic victory, but real victory.”
We saw that accuracy and precision are a work in progress,
said Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies who has written extensively about Iran’s missile program If it was supposed to be a large-scale action, nothing would have been left of the Zionist regime,
The Sejjil is a bit of a mysterious missile,
We are prepared to use weapons we have never used before. We have plans for every scenario,
said Abolfazl Amoui, a parliamentary national security spokesman, in an interview with Lebanese broadcaster Mayadeen The operation showed that our armed forces are ready,
Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi told crowds gathered in Tehran Wednesday to mark Army Day Iran will not wait for another 12 days to respond,
Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani said Monday Iran basically threw everything it had that could reach Israel’s territory,
said John Krzyzaniak, a researcher who studies Iran’s missile programs at the Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control This shows that Iran has really faced no limitation in domestically producing missiles and launchers,
There were no Israelis on the ship,
Israel needs to understand that Iran and Russia are joined at the hip, and there is another Jewish president that needs help,
Wallace added, in reference to Zelenskiy I’m not trying to exaggerate when I say that, in the Middle East, we are at the edge of a very deep precipice,
Josep Borrell Fontelles, the EU foreign policy chief, said after a hastily called meeting of European diplomats to discuss the crisis The drone and missile threat from Tehran ought not to be downplayed,
said Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think-tank, who pointed out Our public line is all about Israel’s right to defend itself,
said one senior European official Israel defended itself under ideal conditions last weekend when it faced a one-time punitive strike,
said Franz-Stefan Gady, an associate fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies think-tank in London Words do not stop drones and intercept missiles,
Zelenskiy fumed in the video The real danger for Israel is that its air defences become saturated during a sustained war ... that is, if it faces a large number of aerial attacks, over very short intervals, which eventually overwhelm every kind of air defence system,
Volleys of rockets interspersed with precision-guided missiles from Hizbullah could still saturate Israeli defences, especially if part of a surprise attack ... [and if] another direct launch came from Tehran,