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Iran launches drone attack against Israel as Biden rushes to White House

Iran said it launched dozens of drones and ballistic missiles towards Israel on Saturday in a major attack following days of acute tension building up in the region and warnings from the US and elsewhere about a wider conflict erupting.

Air attack warning sirens began wailing over Jerusalem just before 2am local time on Sunday after the weapons were fired a few hours earlier from Iran with US and Jordanian military assisting Israel’s air defenses in intercepting the first incoming barrage.

With weapons believed to be still in the air en route to Israel, Iran’s mission to the United Nations posted on X: “Iran’s military action was in response to the Zionist regime’s aggression against our diplomatic premises in Damascus. The matter can be deemed concluded.”

However, it threatened more severe action in the face of further Israeli aggression and warned the US and Jordan specifically not to assist Israel.

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Edit: here are links to the NYT and BBC live feeds.

Edit 2: updated summary and archive to reflect article changes.

TheEighthDoctor ,

The world is waking up to the fact that treaties are just papers and words mean nothing. Basically what Hitler did 80 years ago but now it’s every leader.

blazera ,
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Weird world we’re in. One country retaliating against another, and for some reason the reaction of a country on the other side of the world is the news. If only biden gave half as much of a shit about his own country.

aesthelete ,

Biden bad!

mlg ,
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I know this is not the time for this typa comment, but I’m really annoyed that what I said last week is proven true

Imma be completely honest and say that Iran probably won’t do anything except maybe throw some cruise missiles from afar that hit some random outpost or send a drone because they don’t want to risk anything.

I’d love to see a competent air force take on the IAF, but I don’t think anyone in the middle east actually has one besides Israel and the USA’s own bases.

This attack is over hyped and kinda lame. When India and Pakistan had beef in 2019, they had a whole ass air skirmish which ended with a captured pilot, fratricide’d helicopter, a crap ton of artillery barrages, and possibly a second aircraft shot down.

Regardless of the poor reasoning behind it, at least they had the guts to fight each other properly.

Iran is just sitting back and sending a swarm of drones that will probably fail to deal any damage proportional to their embassy attack, all the while escalating with Israel which gives both Israel and the USA a reason to send even more weapons and supplies and finish their job decimating Gaza.

aesthelete ,

This attack is over hyped and kinda lame

I feel so sorry for you, Internet poster, that this war isn’t living up to entertainment standards.

Sam_Bass ,

Unfortunately, that wont deter them

LadyAutumn ,
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It feels like watching the Cuban missile crisis. A sinking uncomfortable feeling. I think the news has legitimately traumatized me. Breaking news means the next horrible thing has happened.

bradorsomething ,

Actual breaking news in a 24-hours news cycle is never a good thing.

CanadaPlus ,

Yep. Haven’t felt this way since Ukraine started.

avater ,
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Iran has officially declared the start of the attack on Israel. “The evil regime will be punished,” its leader said.

LOL! Iran calling someone else evil is really something. I’m eager to see where this round of fuck around and find out ends, since Israel is not known for forgivness. Only good thing I see at the moment is that Iran maybe has to stop supporting the russians to save equipment for their own stupid war.

Linkerbaan ,
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Oh no the FAFO israel lovers have arrived

NoIWontPickAName ,

I didn’t realize that whenever you punched someone else and they punched back that’s fucking around and finding out.

Israel started this, remember that.

The stupid fucking British are involved.

Everybody wants to kick off fucking World War III because Israel wanted to fucking destroy shit and then hide because they’re too tiny to do anything about it

MeanEYE ,
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By that logic Iran started this by funding Hamas and meeting with them. Israel responded, now they respond, then Israel will respond.

Corkyskog ,

I too can go back further in history, when do you draw a line?

MeanEYE ,
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Pick any place.

livus ,

Israel was also funding Hamas.

PhlubbaDubba ,

Yep, I’ve already placed my bets on Putin popping a vein over his entire reserve war material strategy going kaput over this

paraphrand ,

“Firing drones at” is a new phrase for me.

Churbleyimyam ,

I heard about this on the radio while I was eating and thought “fuck yeah, big news, looking forward to reading about it online in a bit!”

Totally forgot immediately and instead been looking at dank memes and making incendiary comments in posts about american political issues.

assassin_aragorn ,

Fuuuuuuuuck.

Iran has all the right in the world to do this and is justified in doing so, but I really wish they hadn’t. Hopefully the attacks can be intercepted, and that’s that. Escalation benefits no one at all except Netanyahu and the Ayatollahs.

The best case scenario here is that everything is intercepted and Israel stands down from doing anything else. And, Jordan and the US and the UK use this moment to force Netanyahu to stop the genocide. This attack highlights just how reliant Israel is on its allies, and why it should listen to them when they say it’s time to stop.

We should be threatening to not act next time unless he completely capitulates and does a full withdrawal – and if he refuses, we keep our word and leave them to themselves.

Linkerbaan ,
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Would you look at the time. It’s april 13th the day history starts

HuddaBudda ,
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How are those deescalation bombing missions going?

Oh.....

You mean, it didn't bring about a lasting peace in the region?

It's like anyone with 2 brain cells understood this was going to happen.

Rapidcreek , (edited )

Inflight Emergency (IFE) declared via squawk 7700 for USAF tanker, now returning to al-Udeid from over Iraq (electrical).

QUICK UPDATE:

  • Iran names the operation “The Promise of Truth.”
  • Israeli aircraft are positioned over western Iraq.
  • Interceptions have commenced over Jordan and Syria. A number of middle east Arab states announcing that they’ll knock down anything in their skies
  • Incidents of drones crashing in western Iraq have been reported.
  • Iranian media suggests that ballistic missiles will be launched from Iran in the early hours of the morning.
  • Airspace across the Middle East is closed
  • Al-Arabiya reports that British fighter jets are now involved in operation to interceptal Iranian drones launched against Israel
  • 6 p.m. ET Isreal should start to see missles, rockets and drones
Wilshire , (edited )
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https://i.imgur.com/AmFfoIK.mp4

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Iran has officially declared the start of the attack on Israel. “The evil regime will be punished,” its leader said.

Iran, the Houthis from Yemen, Syria, Hezbollah are performing massive strikes on Israel with drones and missiles. Over 200 combat drones and missiles are in the air - media.

Iran’s defense minister: “We will also perform a strike on those who open their airspace or territory to Israel to attack Iran.”

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autotldr Bot ,

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Joe Biden was rushing back to the White House on Saturday afternoon from a weekend trip to Delaware as Iran fired dozens of drones against Israel.

The US president had been due to spend the weekend in Delaware at his residence in Rehoboth Beach but early on Saturday afternoon set off at short notice to return to the White House.

This followed Biden saying on Friday that he expects an Iranian attack on Israel “sooner rather than later” and issued a last-ditch message to Tehran, saying: “Don’t.”

Earlier on Saturday, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard Corps in the strait of Hormuz, 50 nautical miles off the coast of the United Arab Emirates, seized an Israeli-affiliated container ship.

National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson said the US strongly condemned the seizure and urged Iran to release the ship and crew immediately.

“We will work with our partners to hold Iran to account for its actions,” she said, warning that “seizing a civilian vessel without provocation is a blatant violation of international law and an act of piracy.”.

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