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A salvo of Iranian ballistic missiles targeted southern Israel on March 21, with at least one of them hitting the city of Dimona, located next to a key nuclear reactor known by the same name.
Israel’s Magen David Adom ambulance service said that a total of 47 people were taken to a hospital following the impact in Dimona. One of the casualties, a young boy, was reported to be in serious condition after he was hit by shrapnel. A woman in her 30s was also moderately hurt by glass shards. 31 others were lightly injured, and 14 were treated for acute anxiety.
The Dimona reactor, officially known as the Shimon Peres Negev Nuclear Research Center, is the cornerstone of Israel’s undeclared nuclear weapons program.
In a statement, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said that it is investigating the failure to intercept the Iranian ballistic missile that struck the city. It claimed that its air defenses engaged the incoming missile, but the interceptors failed to knock it down.
Meanwhile, Iran state television reported that the strike on Dimona was carried out as a “response” to an earlier strike on the Natanz nuclear enrichment site. The IDF said it was not responsible for striking Natanz, indirectly pinning the responsibility on the U.S.
A total of six salvos of ballistic missiles were launched at Israel — including one that targeted the southern city of Eilat after the strike on Dimona — since the start of the day, which marked the end of the third week of the American-Israeli war on Iran.
In an apparent response to the latest strikes, the IDF announced that it hit an Iranian nuclear research and development site in Tehran.
According to the IDF, the “strategic” site at the Malek Ashtar University was used by the Islamic Republic’s military industries to develop components for nuclear weapons. The university, subordinate to the Iranian Ministry of Defense, is under Western sanctions over its activities relating to Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.
Click to see full-size image. (Israeli Defense Forces)
Since the start of the war, the U.S. and Israel have repeatedly claimed that they have neutralized Iran’s offensive capabilities, but the Islamic Republic continue to launch missiles at a steady pace, and they are even hitting Israel more than before, possibly because the country’s multi-layered air defense network has been depleted to some extent.
The latest strike on Dimona marks a serious escalation as it shows that Iran is willing to respond in kind to American and Israeli strikes.
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the emp is coming to iran power grid soon. they will have no electricity and all their electronics both for defense and offense will be fried. hehehe.
op. gaypac whining is coming to an end. store yur adult diapers, inbred freaks.
anna ukolovo who works for s-f is threatening me with death for what i just wrote! don’t really understand how publishing this read on your website would deny statements of fact that give credit where credit is due to the victim?
or u could stop sniffing glue and go get treatment for ur clown ass.
oh look, another epic fail troll clown is wasting his time and energies on the orange apes lost cause…. lololol
unit 8200 is beginning to admit it some truth. aipac is angry, their investment in regime change in iran has just gone kaboom like epstein
weĺl done from iran. on the right side of history…
now blame amalek
time to burn iran with nuclear fire!!!
heheheh
47 wounded and 500 required an urgent change of diapers. hit their shekels and drive the jooz insane.
do that and iran will respond in kind. “heheheh”
“acute anxiety”? in “sparta”? hahahaha where was your iron dildo? nato without missiles in 1 month. time to harden your hearts russia, china and north korea!
acute anxiety = requirement for rapid diaper change.
impact near dimona reactor go kaboom. its a warning. it could have wiped out israeli nuclear scientists in a bunker, many theories at the moment. it was a target close to dimona.where was the plastic dome?
jooz glow in the dark.
it’s good to see the ridiculous little postage stamp portapotty quisling gulf dictatorships are being hit really hard. these fake sheikhs have been in bed with the jooz and the amerikunts for years. when this is over they will not survive. they deserve everything they get for their endless backstabbing and grovelling. they showered chumpo with gold and diamonds and luxury planes without ever giving so much as a loaf of bread to gaza.
israel is blaming the thaad… lmao!. i bet united vassal states of amurika will take the blame! regardless, western weapons are shitty! time to destroy nato once and for all! wake up call for russia and china! nato has never been so weak!
two missiles fired zero results, the invincible us tech.
play with fire, the jew gets burnt to a crisp. haifa nice day schlomo
us/ israel learning to not play with fire, if you can’t handle the heat.
too bad they did not hit the powerplant. a little chernobyl every 40 years is quite nice to have.
i have seen the united states will win this year in iran. i’m so sorry for iranian citizens. the western empires of the exceptionals and mr. trumpstein with the jews will win this iranian war in 2026. i don’t like the westerners gain over the east, the westerners are so corrupt, corrupt religion, corrupt beliefs, lies in every corner, so i hope in 2027 the east could wake up and start pushing back to the westerners exceptionals and the supreme hegemon of the usa empire.
i just have seen this, i’m not a prophet i’m not a magician. i hate trumpstein the exceptional and their kind, but they will win in 2026 and iran is going to suffer a lot. 1. might is right is the first law of power and usa empire has the upper hand so iran will suffer from this on the year 2026.