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Iran and Israel have been engaged in a covert conflict for years. [21] Iran has utilized the "Axis of Resistance", a network of Iranian-backed militant groups, to target Israeli interests, [21] [22] [23] while Israel has reportedly carried out assassinations of high-ranking Iranian officials and nuclear scientists and launched cyberattacks against Iran.
The cabinet considered military and diplomatic options, with international pressure to de-escalate the situation influencing decisions. [71] On 18 April, it was reported that the United States would greenlight a Rafah offensive in exchange for no Israeli strike on Iran. [72] The U.S. and EU tightened sanctions on Iran. [73]
2024 Iranian strikes against Israel Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title 2024 Israeli strikes on Iran .
In a statement issued at the outset of Saturday’s actions, the Israeli military accused Iran and its regional proxies of relentlessly attacking Israel beginning with last year’s 7 October ...
Israel has launched a series of “precise strikes” against Iran, according to the Israeli military. “[L]ike every other sovereign country in the world, the State of Israel has the right and ...
The official said the timeline on when exactly to strike was complicated by Rosh HaShana, the Jewish New Year, which begins Wednesday evening and is followed soon after by other Jewish holidays.
Iran's vice president for Strategic Affairs Javad Zarif contended that Iran had the right to self-defense against Israeli attacks on Iranian soil and criticized Western countries for aiding "the Israeli genocide in Gaza" and acquiesing "in Israeli aggressions against Iran, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and other countries in the region". [113]
The BBC likewise noted that a calculated strike on military targets associated with Iran's previous attack on Israel demonstrated the IDF's capabilities, including the capability of not using them in full. [55] The attack was so calibrated that the Iranian regime "downplayed, dismissed and even mocked that anything of consequence happened at ...