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The Iranian military has shared videos showing its air defense operators fighting to death during the 12-day war with Israel last June.
The never-before-seen videos were shown during an interview with Brig. Gen. Reza Khajeh, Deputy for Operations of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Defense Force, that was aired by the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) on November 28.
Air defenses were targeted in western and central Iran in the very first moments of Israel’s attack on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program on June 13. The air defenses were not only targeted from the air, but also from ground by commando units deployed by the Israeli Mossad intelligence agency.
One of the videos shared by IRIB shows an Iranian-made Najm-804 active electronically scanned array radar getting hit. Only one of the operators appeared to have survived the Israeli strike. The Najm-804, which is reported to have a range of 150-250 kilometers, is affiliated with different Iranian-made medium and long-range air defense systems.
Another video shows air defense operators struggling to fix their equipment, which were apparently hit by a malfunction or a cyber attack, at a base near the city of Tabriz in western Iran amid intense Israeli strikes. Eventually, the room they were in was hit. Both this attack and the strike on the Najm-804 radar took place on the first day of the war.
Brig. Gen. Khajeh claimed in the interview that despite these losses and many others Iranian air defenses shot down 196 aircraft of different types during the war.
A video showing a Majid short-range air defense system, which can engage targets within a range of six kilometers, taking down an Israeli IAI Eitan reconnaissance drone was shown during the interview.
The Israeli military claims to have destroyed over 80 air defense systems during the war with Iran. It is unclear how many of them were targeted by Mossad commandos.
Since the end of the war on June 24, multiple reports suggested that the Islamic Republic was working to rebuild its air defenses with help from both China and Russia. Still, there is no evidence confirming that any new air defense systems were shipped to the country.
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total failure of the iranian intelligence to prevent it
they infiltrate at the highest and lowest levels as above so below.
america is theirs magic wand.
the first tanker, the gambian-flagged kairos, came under attack approximately 28 nautical miles off the coast of turkey on november 29……………………… https://bitly.cx/ujgxb
a sad day for the families of syria. self determination stolen by the zionist project
the syrians chose not to fight. who can they blame?
i will not leave my favorite goats kunnt to the zionists ! i will fight for the kunnt that i love to eat in the desert sands. and the smelly kunnt in the hot sun is tasting very well to lickit ans stickit !
globalist aren’t zionists if they where it wouldn’t be allowed to be known .
i like to eat my wifes goats kunnt while i make her sick my duck from behind!
indeed, but assad will be back there.
after he is done eating ghay goats arshooles he will be back for the goats-nutts in arshole sauce !
iranians are such amateurs. i wonder why iranians allows such a defenseless small country as azerbaijan to stab them in the back, again and again and soon again.
because the azerbaijanis are bought zio whores.
neo nazis are
yes they are. turkey isn’t but erdokunt is.
think about it .” and remember paul, nothing is what it seems ” qe 2 as she waved goodbye to paul barrel when she sent him , her butler , over to work for diana .
russia will nuke israel soon. pre emptive kinda deal for future ism’s.
they copied russian systems .. unfortunately russian systems are useless against stealth planes as putin spent trillion dollars building potemkin village for 25 years instead of capable military
they don’t really want republics. that’s why rome fell . it’s very fundamental . the shah’s heir is waiting .
i like eating goatsnuts from the arsholes in the back of my goat !