Israel Rejects Iran’s Escape And Strikes Iranian Militia Bases In Iraq
The remains of an Israeli missile, believed to have fallen on Iraqi territory, revealed some of the secrets of the strike carried out by Israel against Iran, which data confirms was carried out from outside Iranian territory. The Israeli attack on Iran came in response to a similar attack carried out by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard last Saturday, which directly targeted Israel with hundreds of missiles and drones.
Iraqis circulated on social media pictures from the Al-Aziziya area in the central Iraqi governorate showing what they said were the remains of an Israeli missile. A Sky News Arabia correspondent quoted the Iraqi authorities as announcing the detection of “strange objects” in the country’s airspace at dawn on Friday.
On the other hand, a Sky News Arabia correspondent in Jerusalem, citing Israeli sources, reported that the remnants of the missile found in Iraq may be a new type of missile launched from an aircraft, and at a certain stage, marches emerge from the missile to continue its path towards the targets while the missile falls to the ground. . A senior American official told ABC News that “three missiles were launched from Israeli fighter jets outside Iran in a very limited strike on Friday morning.”
The official said that the Israelis were targeting an air defense radar site near Isfahan, which is part of the protection of the Natanz nuclear facility. The official added that the initial assessment is that the strike hit the site, but the assessment has not yet been completed. According to the official, “The aim of the strike was to send a signal to Iran that Israel possesses these capabilities, but it was not seeking to escalate the situation.”
Michael Clarke, a security and defense analyst at Britain’s Sky News, says the planes were “largely invisible.” This indicates that Israel has used stealth fighters capable of flying a long distance. “It is rumored that Israeli F-35s were already in Iranian airspace on surveillance missions,” Clark said earlier this week.
Although the Israeli attack on Iran involved stealth planes, and perhaps drones, it did not receive a strong reaction from Tehran and it did not even threaten to respond, which was considered an announcement of the end of the round of escalation between the two countries. Israeli reports said that the strike targeted one or two Iranian military bases. Sounds of explosions were heard at the Iranian army’s “Hashtam Shikari” base, northwest of Isfahan, on the morning of Friday, April 19, according to the “Iran International” channel website.
On the other hand, the Iraqi Security Media Cell announced today, Saturday, the killing of a member of the Popular Mobilization Forces (affiliated with Iran) and the wounding of 8 others, including a member of the army, in an explosion and fire inside the “Kalsu” camp in northern Babylon, in a strike that bore “Israeli fingerprints” after Washington denied it. Its responsibility for the attack. The Security Media Cell added, in a statement, that a specialized technical committee had been formed from the Civil Defense and other relevant parties to find out the causes of the explosion and fire in the camp.
The statement referred to a report issued by the Air Defense Command, which confirmed that there were no drones or fighters in the airspace of Babylon before and during the explosion. A security source in Babil Governorate told the Arab World News Agency that the “Kalsu” camp is joint, “as it includes the headquarters of the Popular Mobilization Forces’ fighting brigades, units of the Iraqi army, and others from the federal police.” Earlier, the Security Committee in Babil Governorate confirmed in a statement that the base was targeted by missile strikes and not by drones.
A military official in the international coalition told Al-Arabiya and Al-Hadath that the coalition forces do not have any air activity in Babylon, Iraq, while an Iraqi security source told Al-Arabiya and Al-Hadath that he could not confirm the existence of a missile attack on Kalsu until the end of the attack. Investigation. For his part, an American official told Al Arabiya English that Washington has nothing to do with the recent attack in Babylon, Iraq. The US military command in the Middle East, Centcom, for its part, announced that the United States “did not carry out strikes” in Iraq on Friday. “Centcom” wrote on the “X” platform, “We are aware of information claiming that the United States carried out air strikes in Iraq today.”
