Netanyahu’s Worst Nightmare: Iran’s Missiles Hit Deeper Than Ever

Right, so Iran has once again responded as they were undoubtedly by now always going to to the latest strikes by Israel, unprovoked as they are, in the name of targeting Iranian nuclear sites and ending Iran’s domestic nuclear program, as they are fully within their rights to do, but which Israel cannot tolerate the thought of, Netanyahu’s decades long fearmongering about mythical Iranian nuclear weapons now leading us to where we are today.
In the past 24 hours at time of writing, Iran have conducted an even greater, even more devastating attack on Israel, targeting military sites, as well as oil refineries and electricity grid infrastructure, along with military targets hidden amongst residential areas of Tel Aviv, which might better be called Human Shield City given the intention behind this having been done. Iran have also built on top of their history making strikes the day before, by now having taken down a third F-35 jet, again showing this supposedly unstoppable jet is very much stoppable and igniting much fear in Israel that their madman of a Prime Minister has bitten off more than he can chew and are rapidly becoming used to the fact that for so long they thought they were untouchable, only for Iran to have exploded that thinking, possibly the biggest explosion that have yet triggered.
Right, so the overnight sky above Tel Aviv has torn open by flame and fury once again, as the latest chapter unfolded in the conflict Israel initiated with unprovoked aggression against Iran. The Iranian response has once again been swift, devastating, and precise. Operation True Promise III is no longer just a statement of strategic deterrence; it has evolved into a scorched-earth warning against Israeli atrocity. Iran, once again attacked without evidence, without provocation, and in violation of international law, having only retaliated against Israeli strikes, has made it abundantly clear that it will not tolerate continued assassinations, sabotage, and foreign bombardment of its territory. And this time, the response is making Israel wish it had never provoked such a formidable adversary.
Iran’s counterattacks followed Israeli operations targeting Iran’s nuclear infrastructure and assassinating Iranian scientists. The attacks have intensified public outrage across Iran. Iranian civilians fear an all-out war but support their government’s military response after seeing their own people killed and homes destroyed in cities like Tehran and Bushehr.
What followed last night, following yet more Israeli attacks, was an Iranian response that went beyond symbolic retaliation. Iranian missiles and suicide drones struck key infrastructure and military bases deep inside Israel. Notably, Iran used Emad, Qadr, and Kheibar Shekan missiles for the very first time in combat—ballistic missiles with extended range, pinpoint accuracy, and devastating payloads, the Emad being Iran’s first precision guided ballistic missile. Their targets were chosen to deliberately inflict as much damage as possible on the Israeli war machine; they included Israeli oil refineries in Haifa, which were engulfed in fire, causing mass power outages and economic paralysis.
Iranian military intelligence struck strategic depth targets that Israel never imagined would be hit. Tel Aviv's military command centre, the Kirya complex—often dubbed Israel’s Pentagon—was badly damaged. Israel’s premier airbases, including Nevatim and Tel Nof, were struck. These sites house Israel’s most advanced weaponry, including the US-supplied F-35 fighter jets. Dimona, Israel’s secretive nuclear facility, where it is suspected Israel’s nuclear arsenal is, was also targeted along with the Tel Aviv Nuclear Research Centre.
These were not indiscriminate strikes. According to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), these barrages of missiles and drones were targeted to disable Israeli fuel production facilities for, amongst other things its fighter jets and to sever key energy supply lines to those military sites.
One of the most striking developments was Iran shooting down a third Israeli F-35 jet in just two days. They made history on day one by shooting down an F-35 for the first time in history, and then did it again, this time capturing the pilot, and the next day they repeat it. You could make an argument about piloting standards in Israel once, maybe twice, but three times? These jets aren’t as good as western leaders clearly thought they were. Iranian defence officials confirmed that their systems, bolstered by recent upgrades, intercepted and destroyed the aircraft, and allegedly captured the pilot after they ejected on this occasion as well.
Perhaps most symbolic of the changing tides is Iran’s use of suicide drones to infiltrate deep into Israeli airspace. The Iranian Army confirmed successful operations involving dozens of drones that this time bypassed Israel’s Iron Dome and David’s Sling systems to strike occupied territories, including Tiberias, Lower Galilee, and the Golan Heights.
The successful infiltration signals a significant tactical achievement because despite Israel’s billion-dollar investments in missile defence, and air defence, Iran’s multi-layered tactical strikes are overloading those systems and getting through in numbers.
That isn’t to say everything Iran threw at Israel got through though, because Israel had help. Iranian missiles were intercepted by supposedly neutral Jordan’s military while en route to Israel, falling on Jordanian residential areas, leading to civilian injuries and public outrage. Whilst King Abdullah jumps to Israel’s tune, the population are singing from a different songsheet, because whilst the Jordanian government prioritised Israel’s security over its own people, Jordanians particularly those of Palestinian descent, many of whom are descendants of those who fled to Jordan during the Nakba, who already resent their government's perceived allegiance to Zionist interests. Footage online of a Jordanian wedding were filmed cheering as Iranian missiles flew overhead towards Israel as one example.
As the Iranian barrages landed, Israeli officials and media decried Iran for targeting residential areas. However, its been widely exposed now that Israel embeds its military operations and headquarters within civilian populations, intentionally using neighbourhoods as cover to shield military assets from attack.
Where Israel jump to accuse Iran of targeting residential areas, and the western media dutifully presents this one sided picture as news, Iran has not targeted random civilian centres; it has struck dual-use sites embedded in urban areas and done so with far more precision that Israel does in their strikes, resulting in far fewer civilian casualties, those each and every one of them could have been avoided if Netanyahu had been taken to task long before now.
Iran was not alone in its military efforts either. While Iranian missiles hit Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Gush Dan, the Houthis of Yemen launched their own coordinated strike on Tel Aviv, showing a growing axis of regional resistance aligning against Israeli and Western imperialism.
Support for Iran is mounting elsewhere too. Pakistan has voiced full support for Iran and called for Muslim unity against Israeli aggression. Azerbaijan and Armenia, who cannot stand each other, have both condemned Israeli strikes on Iran, Azerbaijan having closed its airspace to any strikes on Iran as well. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, a Eurasion political bloc, consisting of an assortment of the Stan nations, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan that kind of thing, but which includes China and Russia, have denounced Israel’s actions and have all affirmed Iran’s right to defend its sovereignty,
Despite the facts, Western media continues to vilify Iran of course. Their coverage frequently reduces Iranian strikes to being unprovoked while ignoring the very real provocations and illegal assassinations that sparked this conflagration. Professor Mohammad Marandi, in a televised interview, took this issue brilliantly to task:
That’s a burn she won’t forget in a while and Marandi’s smile gives away every time how much he enjoys tearing apart these nonsense narratives.
Israel initiated this war under false pretences. Decades of fearmongering about Iranian nuclear weapons—championed most of all by Benjamin Netanyahu himself, have never been substantiated by anybody. Israel's aggression has not been about defence, but domination and Netanyahu seeing it as his own way to stay in power. And now, for the first time in decades, Israel is experiencing the consequences of its belligerence.
Iran's retaliation has been smart, surgical, and symbolic. It has not only exposed the limits of Israeli military might, but it has galvanized a region and a world increasingly tired of double standards and unaccountable violence. Israel has got away with acting with impunity for too long and its people now suddenly realise just how vulnerable they truly are with such irresponsible and deranged governance.
This war must obviously stop, but it is very difficult to see how that can be possible with Israel led by the like of Netanyahu and those he is surrounded by. The global community must rise above the bias, the lobbies, and the propaganda to confront the truth: Israel attacked a sovereign nation without cause, and Iran’s response was both lawful and proportional. The longer this war continues, the more civilians will suffer. The more the myth of Israeli invincibility is shattered, the more desperate its leaders will become and the more extreme their actions could lead to.
It is time to demand an end to this madness. Not in defence of one state or another, but in defence of international law, human dignity, and peace. Because in this war, as in all wars, it is the innocent who always pay the highest price.
For more on how Iran made military history yesterday and how Israel wasn’t ready for it, do check out this video recommendation here as your suggested next watch.
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