Iran launches drone attack against Israel as Biden rushes to White House
Iran launches drone attack against Israel as Biden rushes to White House
US president convenes top advisers as US and Jordanian forces help Israel intercept barrage
Iran said it launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles towards Israel on Saturday in a major attack following days of acute tension building up in the region and warnings from the US and elsewhere about a wider conflict erupting.
Air attack warning sirens began wailing over Jerusalem just before 2am local time on Sunday after the weapons were fired a few hours earlier from Iran with US and Jordanian military assisting Israel’s air defenses in intercepting the first incoming barrage.
With weapons believed to be still in the air en route to Israel, Iran’s mission to the United Nations posted on X: “Iran’s military action was in response to the Zionist regime’s aggression against our diplomatic premises in Damascus. The matter can be deemed concluded.”
However, it threatened more severe action in the face of further Israeli aggression and warned the US and Jordan specifically not to assist Israel.
Edit: here are links to the NYT and BBC live feeds.
Edit 2: updated summary and archive to reflect article changes.
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Iran has officially declared the start of the attack on Israel. “The evil regime will be punished,” its leader said.
LOL! Iran calling someone else evil is really something. I'm eager to see where this round of fuck around and find out ends, since Israel is not known for forgivness. Only good thing I see at the moment is that Iran maybe has to stop supporting the russians to save equipment for their own stupid war.
I didn’t realize that whenever you punched someone else and they punched back that’s fucking around and finding out.
Israel started this, remember that.
The stupid fucking British are involved.
Everybody wants to kick off fucking World War III because Israel wanted to fucking destroy shit and then hide because they’re too tiny to do anything about it
By that logic Iran started this by funding Hamas and meeting with them. Israel responded, now they respond, then Israel will respond.
I too can go back further in history, when do you draw a line?
Pick any place.
Israel was also funding Hamas.
Oh no the FAFO israel lovers have arrived
Yep, I've already placed my bets on Putin popping a vein over his entire reserve war material strategy going kaput over this