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Suicide drones launched from inside Iran said to have hit Parchin military site
2022-05-28
More on this story from yesterday.
[IsraelTimes] New York Times

... which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...

reports that Tehran views deadly incident as an attack, noting it fits pattern of alleged past Israeli strikes in Iran
...The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both...
and Lebanon Hezbollahstan
...the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity™, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade...

A deadly explosion at Iran’s Parchin military complex on Wednesday was caused by quadcopter suicide drones, in an attack that fits a pattern of previous strikes that have been attributed to Israel, The New York Times reported Friday.

The report cited three Iranian sources along with a US official, who confirmed drones hit the site, but declined to say who was behind the attack. It said the drones went kaboom! into a building being used for research on Iran’s drone development.

The blast killed a young engineer at the site and injured one other person.

The report noted that the strike fits a pattern of previous attacks that have been attributed to Israel, including previous strikes against Iran’s drone program.

Iranian sources told the Times that the drone attack was launched from inside Iran, not far from the Parchin military base — which the Islamic Theocratic Republic uses to develop missile, nuclear and drone technology — noting that quadcopter drones have a short flight range, and Parchin is a long way from Iran’s borders.

While Iranian officials initially used the word "accident" to describe the earth-shattering kaboom, the Defense Ministry in a later statement called it an "incident" and labeled the casualty a "martyr," suggesting that Tehran is convinced it was an attack by a foreign entity.

On Thursday, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps commander Hossein Salami said that the killing "will be responded to... Our enemies should wait," without naming who they were.

This would not be the first time that a drone attack was launched from within Iran’s borders by operatives said to have been recruited by Israel.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  As I remember there is quite a bit of Iran where nobody lives. Desert 1 was planned for that area of the country. There was an issue with deep sand at the LZ and Special Forces didn't have helicopter assets at the time - Nightstalkers were the result. Israel is probably at home in that environment.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-05-28 21:10  

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