Israel hit back at Iran in a long-expected riposte to the airstrikes earlier this month. CGTN’s Jonathan Regev reports from Tel Aviv. #Iran #israel
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00:00According to Israeli sources, the attack was successful.
00:04Israel claims it hit more than 20 sites within Iran,
00:09mostly relating to places where surface-to-surface missiles are manufactured.
00:15These are the kind of missiles which were fired towards Israel
00:18in that latest Iranian attack earlier this month,
00:22and this was the main site that was attacked.
00:26Not only that, Israel says that it was able to basically, practically,
00:30shut down the Iranian aerial defense system,
00:34and that is perhaps why the IDF spokesperson, Rear Admiral Daniel Aghari,
00:40said that in the future, if Israeli jets have to operate again in Iran,
00:46they will enjoy a greater freedom in Iranian skies.
00:50This perhaps could hint to the fact that Israel is warning Iran
00:54that if Iran retaliates and Israel will operate again,
00:57only this time Iran will have far less defensive means within its airspace.
01:04This according to what has been said in Israel so far.
01:08At this time, we are roughly 15 hours after the attack,
01:11and for the moment, there's no change whatsoever in the instructions,
01:16the directives given to Israeli citizens by the home front command.
01:20This could indicate that at least on the short term,
01:23Israel does not see any Iranian retaliation about to come.
01:28Of course, it may happen, and the IDF spokesperson also said
01:32that if there's any change, then the home front command will immediately
01:36announce that to the citizens.
01:39At least as of now, there's no such change, meaning that for the short term,
01:43Israel does not expect a major reaction from Iran on the long term.
01:48That, of course, is a different story, and that is now the main issue.
01:52How will Iran react?
01:54Well, the fact that the Iranians are very much satisfied,
01:57at least publicly, by the results of this attack,
02:00at least publicly saying that they were able to thwart most of the attack,
02:04that could perhaps show that they're not interested in escalating this even further.
02:10That is, of course, one thought in Israel, but no one really knows what Iran may do,
02:14and Israel is, of course, ready for anything that might come.