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It is believed that Iran spent $10.3bn in 2023, while Israel spent $27.5bn in the last year. This marks a 24 per cent increase for Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, with Israel coming under ...
Iranian Armed Forces are the largest in the Middle East in terms of active troops. [5] Iran's military forces are made up of approximately 610,000 active-duty personnel plus 350,000 reserve and trained personnel that can be mobilized when needed, bringing the country's military manpower to about 960,000 total personnel. [1]
2024 Iran–Israel conflict; Part of the Iran–Israel proxy conflict and the Middle Eastern crisis (2023–present) Above: Missile interceptions in Lower Galilee, Israel, during the October 2024 Iranian strikes against Israel. Below: An IDF fighter jet departs from a military base in Israel to attack Iran during the October 2024 Israeli ...
The Israeli strike reportedly destroyed an air defense radar site guarding the Natanz nuclear facility, aiming to communicate Israel's capabilities to strike Iran without escalating tensions further. [58] On 31 July 2024, Ismail Haniyeh, the political leader of Hamas, was assassinated in the Iranian capital Tehran by an apparent Israeli attack ...
At around 2:30am the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) confirmed that it was carrying out “precise” strikes on military targets in Iran. They said that the strikes concluded at just after 6am. The ...
A view of the Tehran capital of Iran is seen on Saturday, Oct. 26, 2024. Credit - Vahid Salemi—AP. TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel attacked military targets in Iran with a series of pre-dawn ...
[115] [116] The Israeli government is convinced that Iran is interested in creating territorial contiguity from Iran to the Mediterranean and in transferring military forces – including naval vessels, fighter planes and thousands of troops – to permanent bases in Syria and is trying to "Lebanonize" Syria and take over using Shi'ite militias ...
The Middle East is edging ever closer toward a full-blown regional war as Israel vowed to respond to Iran’s huge barrage of ballistic missiles fired at the country on Tuesday night, capping a ...