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Israel-Iran live updates: Israeli missile has struck Iran, US officials say - BBC News | Israel-Iran live updates: Israeli missile has struck Iran, US officials say - BBC News |
(32 minutes later) | |
Nafiseh Kohnavard | |
BBC Persian correspondent | |
Iranians woke up to reports of a "micro drones" attack on a military | |
site in Isfahan, central Iran. | |
Some western officials with knowledge of | |
Israel’s possible retaliation against Iran’s unprecedented drone and | |
missile attack on Israel believe that this is only “the first stage”. | |
“The strategy is: Minor attack to make Iran react for a major | |
response on the nuclear sites”, according to a western diplomat in Lebanon. | |
Meanwhile, a western military official says that based on reports from | |
Syria and Iran - indicating that some essential radars were the target of | |
drone strikes in both countries, “Israelis are kind of mirroring Iran and its | |
allies like Hezbollah by first trying to destroy radars, creating false or | |
delusive targets as well as trying to damage the radars to disable interception | |
systems," they said. | |
There is still a lot of contradictory information coming out | |
from Iran regarding the incident, with IRGC-linked media Tasnim denying “any attack on Iran” quoting | |
“informed sources". | |
While some Iranian officials told media that “there won’t be any | |
reaction from Iran to the incident”. | |
But the question is, was this really Israel’s expected retaliation? | |
Western officials I talked to believe it was not. They tell me it is only a | |
“trap” to “test the waters.” | |
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