Israel attacked Iranian proper?
The current news is rather confusing, especially since it is not clear which targets have been hit in Iran, and according to various reports, Israeli fighter jets, most likely F-35I stealth fighters, fired missiles into Iranian territory in Iraqi airspace. The ABC, citing anonymous officials, said that an Israeli missile hit a target in Iran, but not a nuclear facility, and it is not yet possible to determine whether facilities linked to Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps in Syria and Iraq were also attacked.
At present, pictures and videos suspected of being attacked in many places in Iran have appeared on the Internet, and US media have also reported that many places in Iran have been attacked. However, Iranian official denied the relevant information, and Iranian state media such as the Tasnim News Agency, which is affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, declared that "there are no reports of foreign attacks on Isfahan or other parts of Iran", and the Iranian Ministry of Defense also issued a statement saying that "no country has carried out air strikes against Iran, and the information circulating is a chaotic war of lies and misinformation, and the US media that create rumors is engaged in a disinformation war for Israel."
We cannot confirm the veracity of Iran's official claims, denial is not the same as refuting rumors, and the details are expected to be clarified soon with the appearance of satellite images, when we will know whether the information appearing in the US media and social networks is false, or whether Iran's official claims are true, Israel continues to remain silent, not admitting or denying it, as before.
Iran's state media claimed that "everything is normal, there were no ground explosions" in Isfahan, where the outside world is closely watching, nuclear facilities have not been damaged, and only "a few micro-drones" have been shot down, and some flights have begun to resume operations, as if the current round of airstrikes has ended, or at least ended.
It is already clear that, just like the massive missile and suicide drone attacks on Israel on the 14th, after Israel's attack on Iran itself, Iranian officials are trying to downplay the impact and try to get Israel to abandon possible follow-up retaliatory actions through intermediaries and other means.
Iranian officials told Reuters that Iran had no plans to retaliate against Israel's attack, but we have not seen a similar official statement from Iranian officials, but in the hours before the attack, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Abdullah said in an interview with CNN that Iran would "respond immediately and to the fullest extent possible" if Israel takes further military action.
At the moment, it has been a few hours since the attack, and we have not seen any response from Iran, if you wish, the intermediate-range ballistic missiles launched from Iranian soil will be able to reach Israel in about 10 minutes, of course, whether you can break through the interception and hit the target is another matter.
Some analysts believe that today is the 85th birthday of Iran's supreme revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ali Ali Khamenei, and Israel's choice to act on this day has some significance, although the damage of the attack has not yet been confirmed, but considering the reaction of the United States and Middle Eastern countries, Israel should not want to make a big deal out of it, but to show the Iranian top brass through the attack that Israel has the ability to strike at it, which is different from the massive Iranian missile and suicide drone attack on Israel on April 13: precise and deadly.
After Israel's attack on Iran, due to fears that Iran would take radical measures, especially the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, the "CCTV News" report showed that crude oil rose across the board, with Brent crude oil rising by more than 3% at one point, while Asia-Pacific stock markets fell almost across the board, with the Nikkei 225 index falling by 3.22%, while the Shanghai Composite Index rose 0.1% against the wind, which can be regarded as a little red among the greenery.
So far, we have not seen any actual response from Iran, including a possible new attack on Israel or the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, nor have we seen any official Iranian voice, but there are media reports that the Iranian National Security Council is holding an emergency meeting, but the news was immediately denied by the Iranian state media, and we cannot confirm the authenticity of the information.
It appears that Iran is in contact with the United States and other countries through intermediaries, and if the prediction is good, the current round of attacks ended in a series of reciprocal attacks that ended after Israeli airstrikes on the Iranian embassy in Syria that killed several Revolutionary Guard Corps officers and senior members of the Iranian surrogate.
Compared to the 2020 U.S. drone bombing of former commander of the Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, Qassem Soleimani, things are a little more complicated, after all, there are factors such as Israel's need to show a tough stance and deterrence. However, compared to 2020, fortunately, there were not many innocent casualties in this incident, as of now, we only know that a little girl was injured when Iranian missiles and suicide drones attacked Israel, and in 2020, after launching missiles to strike US military bases in Iraq, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps guarding Tehran's Khomeini International Airport used the Russian-made "Doyle" air defense system to shoot down 1 Ukrainian airliner, resulting in the death of all 167 passengers and 8 crew members.