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This page is subject to the extended confirmed restriction related to the Arab-Israeli conflict. Iran–Israel proxy conflict Part of the Arab–Israeli conflict, the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict, and the Iran–Turkey proxy conflict Israel (orange) and Iran (green) shown within the Middle East Date 16 February 1985 – ongoing (40 years and 1 day) Location Worldwide Status Ongoing: Iran ...
The attack killed 16 people, including multiple Iranian officers and proxy fighters. Most notably, Mohammad Reza Zahedi , a commander for the Quds Force was killed in the airstrike. [ 15 ] Iranian officials in the building were allegedly meeting with Palestinian militant leaders at the time of the attack.
It was the second direct attack by Iran against Israel, the first being the April 2024 strikes. Iran claimed that the attack was an act of "self-defense" [19] [20] in retaliation for Israel's assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and IRGC general Abbas Nilforoushan.
The US targeted a member of an Iranian proxy group with “US blood on his hands” in a strike in Iraq, a US official told CNN. The target was a member of Harakat al-Nujaba, the official said, an ...
The Iranian proxy group that has avoided major damage since the Oct. 7 attack is the Houthi forces in Yemen. ... serve as a deterrent to a direct Israeli attack on Iran itself, said Matthew Savill ...
On 19 July 2019 unidentified drones bombed a base belonging to the Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces base in Iraq, close to the town of Amirli.An airstrike wounded two Iranians after it struck a base that housed advisers from Iran and Lebanon, while a second strike hit a weapons depot, causing a large fire and the destruction of several ballistic missiles.
The attacks on Red Sea shipping are just some of the dozens that have been made by Iranian proxy groups in Yemen, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq since the war in Gaza erupted last October.
Some Western and Iranian officials stated the cause of explosions to be Israeli cyber attacks and covert US and Israeli strikes, [9] [10] as part of the broader Iran–Israel proxy conflict. The government vowed to retaliate if sabotage was confirmed in its Natanz nuclear facility.