The strike damaged a defensive battery near Natanz, a city in central Iran that is crucial to the country’s nuclear weapons program.
damaged an air defence system, according to Western and Iranian officials, in an attack calculated to deliver a message that Israel could bypass Iran’s defensive systems undetected and paralyse them.
People gather around a component from an intercepted ballistic missile that fell near the Dead Sea in Israel during Iran’s attack a week ago.The attack – and the revelation on Saturday of its target – was in retaliation for Iran’s strike in Israel last week after Israel bombed its embassy compound in Damascus, Syria, earlier this month.
That attack was Iran’s first direct assault on Israeli soil, thrusting the countries’ clandestine warfare – long fought by land, air, sea and cyberspace – into open view. The Israeli government vowed to respond, even as world leaders and Western allies, including the United States, rushed to de-escalate the situation, urging Israel not to respond in a way that could lead to a regional war.
The two Iranian officials who discussed the Israeli attack said Israel had struck an S-300 anti-aircraft system at a military base in the province of Isfahan. The officials’ account was supported by satellite imagery analysed by, which showed damage to the radar of an S-300 system at the Eighth Shekari Air Base in Isfahan.
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