#外媒: The US side confirmed that an Israeli missile hit Iran ##直击伊朗以色列多地实况#
Global Network quoted foreign media as saying that in the early morning of April 19, Iran and Iran's neighboring countries were attacked by missiles. The targets were Isfahan, Syria and parts of Iraq in Iran. Local sources also confirmed that in the early hours of April 19, violent explosions were heard in these areas.
It is worth noting that Iran's Isfahan, Iran's defense industrial base, home to a large number of Iranian R&D and manufacturing bases for advanced equipment, as well as important uranium conversion nuclear facilities, was attacked.
U.S. media quoted U.S. officials as saying that the attack was launched by Israel as a "retaliatory" measure against Iran, but so far Israel has not acknowledged it. And Iran's official news agency said that the Isfahan nuclear facility was intact, but did not say that the nuclear facility had not been hit, so there may be two possibilities for this matter: one is that the nuclear facility was hit, but Iran successfully intercepted it to ensure that the nuclear facility was not damaged. It is also possible that Israel did not strike Iran's nuclear facilities, but this is not very likely.
In the wake of Iran's retaliatory attacks against Israel, both Netanyahu's government and the Israeli military said they would respond to Iran's attacks on Israel proper. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) even said that the Israeli army is preparing to launch air strikes on Iran's "sensitive sites" and has begun special training for Israeli pilots, because the Israeli military's planned locations are likely to include attacks on Iran's nuclear facilities. The British media newspaper The Sun even directly published a list of possible targets for Israel, including heavy water reactors in Iran, as well as uranium enrichment facilities.
Even before Iran launched a retaliatory attack on Israel, the Israeli military said it was prepared for the possibility of "anything happening" with Iran.
Because before Israel launched the "retaliation", the Iranian military had issued a strong warning that if Israel retaliated against Iran, especially against nuclear facilities, then Iran would take more retaliatory measures, such as retaliating against Israeli nuclear bases and facilities.
At present, Israel has already taken action against Iran, and it will be up to Iran to fight back. But it seems to me that Iran is likely to strike at Israeli targets again, but more likely to direct the militias of other countries it supports to retaliate, and this is the demarcation point between whether Israel strikes Iran's nuclear facilities and whether Iran's nuclear facilities are damaged. Because Iran's bottom line is that important targets such as nuclear facilities cannot be damaged by a strike.
At present, Israel's strike has not caused Iran to suffer serious losses, but there are explosions at some military bases, which shows that Israel's "retaliation" is mainly aimed at military bases, which is basically the same as Iran's attack on Israel.
This also shows that neither Israel nor Iran wants things to get out of hand, and the two sides end up in direct conflict. In fact, Iran has exercised sufficient restraint in retaliatory actions against Israel. Iran's retaliatory strike did not cause a large loss of Israeli personnel and property, and the main reason was not how efficient Israel, the United States, Britain and other countries were intercepting, but that Iran had notified the strike plan in advance, and at the same time, according to Iran, most of the missiles used at that time were old missiles, and they belonged to the weapons that were about to be eliminated in Iran's missile arsenal.
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After all, for both Iran and Israel, the result of Iran's mutual attacks is to constantly raise tensions in the Middle East, and Israel cannot bear it, and Iran does not want to fight a war.
Finally, we will focus on the next development of the Iran-Israel conflict, mainly depending on the specific losses of Iran, especially whether its nuclear facilities are attacked. If Israel dares to ignore the warnings, the second round of Iranian retaliation will not be as large-scale as the first, but the effect will be insignificant. After all, Iran has hypersonic missile technology in its hands.