Michael Lipin
Iran has carried out a large-scale missile attack on Israel in a major escalation of the yearlong conflict between Israel and the Islamic republic’s regional proxies.
The Israeli military said the Iranian missile strike began about 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday and continued for around half an hour. It said Iran fired around 180 missiles in the attack.
Iranian state news agency IRNA published video of the missile attack on its Telegram channel. It also published a statement saying Iran’s top military force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, attacked Israeli “security and intelligence” targets in retaliation for the July assassination of Palestinian Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran and Israel’s recent killings of other senior commanders of Lebanese Hezbollah and the IRGC itself.
Israel assassinated Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in a strike on the U.S.-designated terror group’s southern Beirut command center last Friday. IRGC Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan also was killed in that attack. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied killing Haniyeh.
IRNA said Tuesday’s missile strike on Israel, the second such attack from Iranian territory after an aerial assault in April, was approved by Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, which serves under Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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