The situation in the Middle East is like a boiling cauldron. One day after the attack launched by Israel on Iran (26/10), in response to the Iranian attack on October 1, which caused the death of 4 soldiers, the situation remains unsettled and Iran threatens new attacks.
Iranian President Massoud Pezheskian, through his post on X late Saturday night, expressed his condolences to the families of the four soldiers who were killed.
“These children of Iran sacrificed their lives defending the motherland,” he said and warned enemies of the Islamic Republic of new attacks. “Iran’s enemies should know that the brave (soldiers) remain fearless guardians of their homeland and will respond to any folly with tact and intelligence,” Pezeskian wrote.
The children of Iran sacrificed their lives in defense of the homeland, I offer my condolences to the brave soldiers of the army, the lives of Barkfan Faraja, the noble families and the heroic people.
Enemies of Iran should know that these brave people stand fearlessly in defense of their land and will respond to any stupidity with tact and intelligence.— Masoud Pezeshkian (@drpezeshkian) October 26, 2024
Israel hit rocket fuel production facilities
Satellite images showed that the airstrikes launched by Israel against Iran were hit industrial facilities where solid fuel mixtures for ballistic missiles were preparedaccording to two American researchers.
This was the conclusion reached by David Albright, a former UN weapons inspector who now heads the Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), and Decker Eveleth, a researcher who works with CNA, a think tank in Washington. .
As they told Reuters, Israel hit Parchin, a huge complex of military installations near the Iranian capital.
A blow to the mass production of rockets
Eveleth reported that the Israeli armed forces also hit the Hojir site on the outskirts of Tehran. A Planet Labs satellite image shows an Israeli strike destroying two buildings in Hojir where solid fuel mixtures for ballistic missiles were made. The attack is likely to significantly limit Iran’s ability to mass-produce missiles.
Other Planet Labs images of the Parchin complex show three buildings that served the same purpose destroyed, as well as a storage facility.
Iran reported that Israeli warplanes hit radar systems in Ilam and Khuzestan provinces, as well as the outskirts of Tehran.
The Parchin Military complex in Iran before and after the Israeli strike… which didn’t happen according to Iranian media. #Tehran #DroneFootage #Iran #Israel #DaysOfRepentance #IDFHeroes #IAF #ParchinMilitary #IRGC #Airstrike pic.twitter.com/B5EvfEnns2
— Love Majewski (@MajewskiLove1) October 26, 2024
According to Eveleth, it took Iran several years to acquire advanced industrial equipment for making rocket fuel mixtures, investing huge capital, and estimated that it would be very difficult to replace it.
Thanks to these precision strikes, he added, Israel is likely to have significantly limited Iran’s ability to mass-produce missiles, making a potential missile attack like the one on Oct. 1 more difficult. “The blows seem to have been extremely accurate,” he noted.
Iran has the largest stockpile of missiles in the Middle East, and US officials believe Tehran has supplied missiles to Russia, Yemen’s Houthis and Lebanon’s Hezbollah. Tehran and Moscow have denied that Russia has received Iranian missiles.
An attack on the #Parchin Military complex, located 30 km southeast of #Tehranhas been reported.
This site is known for the research, development, and production of Missiles and Rockets; it has even been rumored that chemical and Nuclear Weapons were being developed there ☢️ pic.twitter.com/QhT0wLNNmM
— Mahalaxmi Ramanathan (@MahalaxmiRaman) October 26, 2024
New bombings in Beirut
The Israeli Armed Forces (IDF) bombarded neighborhoods in the southern suburbs of Beirut for another night, as reported by the Lebanese National News Agency (NNA).
It had previously been ordered to evacuate residents of the area, which the Israeli military claims were sites linked to Hezbollah.
After a year of war in the Gaza Strip, Israel has escalated its military operations in Lebanon, where since September 23 it has been launching airstrikes against Hezbollah strongholds in the south and east of the country, as well as in the southern suburbs of the capital.
Since then, at least 1,615 people have been killed in Lebanon, according to an AFP count based on official data. Due to the war, approximately 1.3 million Lebanese were forced to leave their homes, of which 800,000 sought refuge inside the country and the rest crossed into Syrian territory.
Attack on a Hamas command center
The IDF announced overnight that it had bombed a Hamas command center located in a compound that formerly served as a school in the northern Gaza Strip. Hamas used the compound to “plan and carry out terrorist attacks against the armed forces and the state of Israel,” the IDF’s X-Platform post said.
The Israeli army points out that it took the necessary measures to minimize the risk to civilians before launching the strike, while it has not released information about dead or injured.
The IDF emphasizes that this is “another proof of the systematic abuse of civilian infrastructure by the terrorist organization Hamas, in violation of international law.”
The IDF has expanded the Humanitarian Area in Al-Mawasi. The expanded Humanitarian Area includes field hospitals that have been established since the start of the war, tent compounds, and shelter equipment, as well as food, water, medicine, and medical equipment that has entered… pic.twitter.com/9tFECIz5eF
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 26, 2024
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