Israel has an ally 'inside' Iran. 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-says-no-retaliation-planned-as-both-sides-see...




Ben Gvir tweets alleged reprisal was ‘lame,’ drawing complaints of endangering security
by revealing origin of strike, even as Iran indicates it will look the other way


By ToI Staff and Agencies Today, 12:24 pm


Iran has no plan for immediate retaliation against Israel, a senior Iranian official said Friday, as officials in Jerusalem indicated that an alleged drone attack on a city south of Tehran was meant to send a signal rather than cause damage.

The official also cast doubt on whether Israel was behind the attack in Isfahan, despite comments from some Israeli politicians practically accepting responsibility.

Together with a subdued response from official Iranian media organs, the senior official’s comments indicated that Tehran may be uninterested in risking war to make good on threats that it would attack Israel should it retaliate for a weekend missile and drone attack, and was seeking a way to avoid being held to the bellicose promises.

“The foreign source of the incident has not been confirmed,” the Iranian official said on condition of anonymity. “We have not received any external attack, and the discussion leans more toward infiltration than attack.”

They added that Iran has no plan to strike back immediately over the attack.

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/19/politics/washington-wrestles-with-new-equatio...





By Alex Marquardt and Katie Bo Lillis, CNN
6 minute read

Updated 7:22 PM EDT, Fri April 19, 2024


Assessing the true impact of Iran’s attack

In the days following the attack on Israel, some analysts suggested that Iran may have deliberately sought to avoid casualties in an effort to keep the situation from escalating; Pentagon officials stridently rejected that hypothesis.

On Saturday, Israel and its allies were able to destroy 99 percent of the Iranian projectiles before they impacted. There was little damage in Israel, and no deaths. That, combined with public and diplomatic signaling by Iran in the days leading up to the attack, has caused similar theories about Iran’s intent to circulate Washington this week.

But administration officials — as well as McKenzie and other former officials — have denied the suggestion that Iran was pulling its punches this time, either. The sheer scale of the assault itself suggests that Iran intended to kill Israelis, officials and analysts said. In many ways, Saturday was a triumph of years of military planning done in preparation for precisely this kind of hypothetical assault.

But air defense against such a vast array of threats is a complex and difficult operation, and although Israel and its allies were successful, that success was in no way a foregone conclusion, current and former officials say.

“The Iranians used the crown jewels,” McKenzie said. “Their ballistic missiles, drones, and land attack cruise missiles. And what they launched was a maximum effort, about as much as they could do. This was not signaling.”

Now, Washington and the region await Iran’s response to the Israeli counterstrike.

The risk, officials say, is profound.

“Israel and Iran are going to be starting higher on the escalatory ladder for every future moment of conflict and that is incredibly dangerous,” said Panikoff. “If Israel and Iran have a greater threat perception of each other, they’re more likely to think they have to act in a more robust and aggressive way.”

Baronvonrort wrote on Apr 20^th, 2024 at 11:54am:



Have you got a link for those pics?

I saw some but they were so low res that you couldn't tell anything.

The military of the USA and Israel never release full res images from satellites.

Jasin wrote on Apr 20^th, 2024 at 5:40pm:

"Flagged" for satellite imagery.

Was Iran's Strike Actually A Success?

JC Denton wrote on Apr 25^th, 2024 at 1:58am:


Can you explain why?

Thank all of the gods that thus far, Iran has shown far more restraint and diplomacy than Israel have.

Israel are CLEARLY agitating for sector wide war (so as to keep Bibi out of jail) that they're getting well brazen.

I personally think the rest of the world has much to thank Iran for, right about now. And yes, i'm aware what that means.