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| Report: Drone attack behind mysterious blast at sensitive Iranian ballistic missile site |
| 2022-06-20 |
| [IsraelHayom] A mysterious blast occurred in western Tehran overnight Friday following a drone attack on a ballistic missile development facility, Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabas reported Sunday morning. Iranian sources were quoted by an Iranian opposition journalist living in exile as saying that the target of the alleged attack was a strategic base belonging to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in the capital. The sources said the short-range rockets along with ballistic missiles were being developed at the military complex. According to Al-Qabas, which has not been confirmed by other sources, it appears the alleged attack was carried out by drones that took off from an area a mere 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) from the targeted base. The reports also added that the base was considered one of the Iranian military industry's most important facilities. Al-Qabas also reported that the drones used to carry out the alleged attack were smuggled into Iran piece by piece and then reassembled. Meanwhile, Iranian Defense Minister Brig. Gen. Amir Hatami reportedly visited the site on Saturday morning, likely to assess the damage. It was also reported that Iranian air bases were put on high alert in the wake of the alleged attack. As a reminder, the New York Times recently reported that a May 26 explosion at the Parchin military research complex south of Tehran was also the result of a drone strike. That blast reportedly killed an Iranian engineer and wounded another, and according to "three knowledgeable sources," it was caused by quadcopter suicide drones that crashed into a building housing a research facility associated with Iran's drone development program. The strike came only days after a senior member of the IRGC's clandestine Quds Force, Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodaei, was assassinated in Tehran. Khodaei was linked to a series of botched Iranian attempts to target Israelis overseas and the NYT alleged in a separate report that Israel has told US officials that it was behind the hit. |
| Posted by:Abu Uluque |
| #15 chained together and forced to push a giant wheel that serves no purpose. Ummm...I think that's how we got Conan. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2022-06-20 17:14 |
| #14 I participate in any number of far left woke forums Well expected. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-06-20 16:06 |
| #13 Censoring threat, violence and some swearing is fine. Censoring opinion is not. Censoring to influence a conversation to make a mod look good is not acceptable. I didn’t Pholings post today but there is a mod..... |
| Posted by: Xyz 2022-06-20 13:28 |
| #12 Doesn't censorship feel dirty? Don't you feel icky and gooky inside when you censor, or support censorship? You should. Unless a remark is out of bounds, we do. Accept the hit and move on. Your remarks are not so golden they exceed any comity we try to maintain here. |
| Posted by: badanov 2022-06-20 12:06 |
| #11 Doesn't censorship feel dirty? Don't you feel icky and gooky inside when you censor, or support censorship? You should. I participate in any number of far left woke forums, and this is exactly what they do. Whenever they see something they don't like, that makes them feel funny, facts that are too inconvenient to deal with, they censor. They have to have complete control over every conversation to stay afloat. They always have to push for a situation that makes it harder for any voice but theirs be heard. This is because their positions are so weak that if anyone was allowed to point out the facts, they would collapse. People who support censorship deserve to be chained together and forced to push a giant wheel that serves no purpose. |
| Posted by: Pholing Crererong6639 2022-06-20 11:57 |
| #10 Keep it friendly and you'll draw no fire. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-06-20 10:38 |
| #9 Censor Mod emotional early today. |
| Posted by: Ebbuger Whuque4103 2022-06-20 10:30 |
| #8 RE# 4, You must be forgetting the Iranians arming every POS muslim group around them also. |
| Posted by: Chris 2022-06-20 09:08 |
| #7 Actually, I |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-06-20 09:00 |
| #6 You forgot their 45 year long war against the US, Frank. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2022-06-20 08:49 |
| #5 If we had threatened them with apocalyptic destruction, conducted terror attacks, and attempted assassinations against their citizens abroad? Your point must be on your head, cuz it ain't in your argument. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2022-06-20 08:34 |
| #4 If a country did this to us, would we be justified in launching a response? |
| Posted by: Pholing Crererong6639 2022-06-20 08:16 |
| #3 Are they sure it wasn't just a flock of armed Juice Pigeons? |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2022-06-20 07:53 |
| #2 Helo in, landing just short of radar fan, preferably in a waddie or defilade. Unload drones. Launch, vector, and return. Load up drones, RTB (return to base). |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2022-06-20 07:52 |
| #1 ...drones that took off from an area a mere 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) from the targeted base. How do you get that kind of material into the country and pull that off? We can be certain for one thing, it wasn't anything done along or with any American alphabet agency. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-06-20 05:56 |