Iranian state media on Thursday claimed Wednesday evening’s missile attack on Israel was a success and the weapon struck its intended target, contrary to reports …
Iranian state media on Thursday claimed Wednesday evening’s missile attack on Israel was a success and the weapon struck its intended target, contrary to reports from the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). “Essentially, no matter how Israel will try to spin the narrative, at the end of the day you have a missile fired from Syria that almost took out Israel’s Dimona nuclear weapons facility. As of yesterday, that was unheard of,” Iran’s state-run PressTV insisted. According to the IDF, it remains unheard of, as the missile Iran is celebrating was said to have landed in the Negev Desert about 20 miles from Dimona. However, the SA-5 missile strike does appear to have been the longest-range attack launched on Israel from Syria to date, and Israel’s air defense systems – including U.S.-made Patriot missile batteries – were curiously unable to intercept the inbound weapon. PressTV stubbornly dismissed Israel’s account of the incident as “spin” and a “very elaborate story” they concocted (in about “forty minutes after the strike”) to conceal a “purposeful attack” that lit up the skies and shook the ground around Dimona.
