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Israel has been attacking targets in Iran with Harop loitering munitions, photos shared by Iranian media on June 15 revealed.
At least two of the loitering munitions were reportedly shot down by Iranian air defenses over the western province of Zanjan, which is located more than 1,600 kilometers away from Israel.
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The Harop is a loitering munition developed by Israel Aerospace Industries. Loitering munitions are designed to hover or loiter above the battlefield, waiting for targets to be exposed, and attack upon the operator’s command.
The loitering munition is equipped with an electro-optical system that allows the operator to track and engage moving targets via a two-way data-link. In addition, it can be equipped with a passive radar seeker to locate and attack radar sites. The munition can be also equipped with both guidance types, allowing a radar site to be targeted even if it stops emitting after being detected.
The Harop is armed with a 16 kg high-explosive warhead. However, if the loitering munition doesn’t find a target, it is designed to return to the launch point, meaning it can be recovered and reused.
While the Harop has an impressive endurance of six hours, its range, said to be 1,000 kilometers tops, is not enough to reach Zanjan from Israeli territories.
Iranian media speculated that the loitering munitions were being launched from neighboring Azerbaijan, a close ally of Israel. It is also possible that they were launched from Iraq’s northern autonomous region of Kurdistan, where the Mossad spy agency is known to be very active.
Another possibility is that the Harops are being launched from Syria. The country saw intensive Israeli military activists in recent days, with refueling, transportation and command aircraft spotted in its airspace. Still, there is no evidence supporting any of these theories.
Mossad played a key role in the opening strikes of Operation Rising Lion, the Israeli attack aimed at crippling Iran’s nuclear program that began on June 13.
According to The Times of Israel, the spy agency set up a covert drone base near the Iranian capital, Tehran, and smuggled precision weapons systems into the Islamic Republic in preparation for the large-scale operation.
In the first hours of the attack, Mossad commandos deployed drones to take out ballistic missile launchers and used guided missiles to hit air defenses in central Iran, degrading the country’s offensive capabilities and ganting Israeli warplanes air supremacy.
It is very possible that Mossad was able to smuggle Harop loitering munitions into Iran, although this requires very complex and lengthy procedures.
In any case, there is no doubt that Mossad is involved in the operations of Harop loitering munitions, as the data-link of the system is reported to have a range of just 200 kilometers. This means that even if the loitering munitions were being launched from Azerbaijan, Iraq or Syria, they are very likely being controlled from within Iran.
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this is just antisemitism, accusing god’s chosen victims of networking across various state borders. never again!
you forgot to turn your sarc off, clyde.
it’s broken! a hate-crime commited by antisemites, no doubt!
“shitfront” idiots really think that iran is about to pull of a miracle and defeat the israelis. it’s like listening to joseph goebbels speech in april of 1945 where he really believed. that the broken german military could actually counterattack and push the russian juggernaut back, that was steamrolling through germany. just like for germany there is no miracle or anyone one that will come and save iran, it’s the end for iran!
can iran defeat the nation of isreal? maybe. can iran defeat the powers that are backing it. no. no one can. there is a reason no one kills zelinsky or netanyahu. the owner of the planet do not allow it. and every one obeys.
the idf is going to steamroll through iran? i guess that’ll be after they finish murdering all the civilians in gaza.
today not a good day for iran. israel target many places, sewage running down the street and traffic jams seen for miles for iranians trying to escape from cities to other countries. justice ministry building got hit. drone factory and electronic radio factories take out. addistional nuclear sites got taken out. power plants taken out. gas faccilities taken out. soon iran will capitulation to the west and israel will lord over all that region andbinstall their leader.
as an illiterate ukie faggot deported to burgerland piecelickcock know zero
it’s worked out so far for them in yemen, hasn’t it?
yemeni are tough, iranians not so much. they will end up like iraq.
the iranian leadership is getting slaughtered like little piglets! even after the first initial israeli decapitation strike and when the entire nation of iran is now on guard. the incompetent iranians still can’t protect their nuclear scientist and chain of command. i got to give it to the israelis once iran is dealt with, there will literally be no one left standing, israel has sent a clear message to the entire world: don’t fuck with us!
the message is more like, “we will fuck with you as we please, whether you fucked with us or not.”
an iranian nuclear bomb will be in your future. there is no putting the genie back in the bottle. israel and the west are satanic vermin who need to learn their place
israel is a hit-man for the staggering us imperial giant. think of tony montana and his patron, frank in scarface. ended well for both. and somehow missiles keep slamming into the jewish supremacist gangster enclave in palestine. wat up wif dat?
all the people murdered by the zio filth have already been replaced. iran struck back hard within a few hours, one punishing missile barrage after another. chumpo was bragging how he fooled iran, now he is furiously back pedalling, trying to deny all knowledge and begging for a ceasefire. shlomo objective one – provoke regime change in iran – fail. destroy iran’s nuclear programme – failure no. 2.
it strongly reminds of the ukraine war while the russians did everything to spare civilians the ukranazis used all terrorist means to deliberately kill russian civilians so exactly the same tactics of the israeli terrorists . in the beginning of the ukraine war many wannabe expert thought that the ukranazis were winning but as you can see this was a misjudgement
the traffic jam video is a fake, because they are arriving teheran and not leaving and second it is usual traffic jam in teheran.
i bet the cowardly iranians wished that they would have just fought the israelis with hezbollah and hamas and even the syrians all at once. instead they were too cowardly and didn’t want to get involved and allowed the israelis to fight and destroy them one on one. and now there is no one left to stand and fight with the iranians. and russia will do the same, and when their time comes, noone will be left to fight with russia.
shlomo has bitten off more than he can chew. he is already panicking and begging / demanding that goy superwhore chumpo pull his chestnuts out of the fire. the longer this goes on the weaker the zio filth become. their only hope now is a false flag to bring in the us golem. they have gone from crowing to oy veying in 48 hours.
douglas mcgregor says the same as i have say for some time; do not trust a word from the “americans”. they are out for to kill you, a death cult lashing out.
and time’s a’wastin’. giselle is getting impatient; she wrote that report for wolfowitz at pnac over twenty-five years ago, back when her name was thomas…..
now proven most israeli missiles hit decoys—very few secondary explosions recorded
it will soon be over with mullah regime, many criminals already fled to ruzzia 😀
thanks for being a lazy shitcock and consistently regurgitating your basic hasbara talking points. it saves time for everyone.
nuttyyahoo has already fled to cyprus.
what happened to ukraine. guess russia likes this because the heat is taken off them and the russian pressure trying to convince and sucknip to his best buddy trump of the usa to broker peace. hehehe, russia trying everything to stay relevant.
do you think the ukrainians feel that the russians are relevant? what with losing 20% of their territory to them, and such.
european nazi regimes are anxious the genocide of the jews will get hindered by iran. i have never see such shit, not strange they have mass murder in the hospitals. can iran missiles reach the european cannibals ? i can give them the coordinates to the cannibals.
whether it is azerbaijan or barzanistan, it is always erdogan the snake who is behind.
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first hit, then think
happy birthday president trump
free free usa
free free la
free free cali.
you cnt kill people and cll gods help that why this hitler and british offspring were settle in israel to kill on behlve of france,britain and usa.give israel back to real black jews not settlers and white zionist.
agree. its a colony from the witch burners, much worse than the apartheid regime in south africa. this is the blood drinking, cannibalistic christians guilt, on open display. they get fouled already before wwii, by exported blood thirsty germans. you cant have the blood thirsty christians anywhere. they automatically try to extinct all native people. christians, “jews”, what the hell are the difference between those imposters ?
tehran will fall soon…eheheheh
azeris paying back for israels help to drive the armenians out of their homes in kharabakh.