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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

Iranian missiles

Screenshot from Iranian state TV video showing a newly built underground naval base, which Iran says is built 500 meters under the Persian Gulf, January 18, 2025. (Screenshot from X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 19, 2025, 2:24 am
Iran unveils new underground naval base in Persian Gulf amid tension with US, Israel
State TV says facility ‘built at depth of 500 meters,’ contains vessels with long-range missiles capable of ‘destroying US warships’; reveal comes 2 days before Trump takes office
By Agencies and ToI Staff
A handout picture made available by the Iranian IRGC office on January 11, 2025, shows Hossein Salami, left, head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards and Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the Guard's air force, touring an underground missile base in an undisclosed location in Iran. (IRAN'S REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS WEBSITE / AFP)
January 12, 2025, 5:56 am
Iran drills air defenses, touts fortified ‘missile city’ in challenge to Israel, Trump
Revolutionary Guards general claims arms production up in speech from underground weapons plant, days after Israel reveals it destroyed underground Iranian missile plant in Syria
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Members of the IAF's Shaldag unit carry out a raid against an Iranian missile factory near Masyaf, Syria, September 8, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
January 2, 2025, 6:27 pm
120 commandos deep inside Syria: IDF reveals daring raid on Iranian missile factory
Elite Air Force unit breached underground facility 124 miles from Israel, laid explosives and escaped unscathed after 2.5 hours, in one of most complex ever operations in enemy territory
By Emanuel Fabian
US Air Force Gen. James Hecker, US Air Forces in Europe - Air Forces Africa commander, prepares to present the Distinguished Flying Cross to members of the 494th Fighter Squadron, during a ceremony at RAF Lakenheath, England, November 12, 2024. (US Air Force photo by Senior Airman Olivia Gibson)
November 17, 2024, 6:48 pm
US Air Force honors crews that thwarted Iran’s April missile, drone attack on Israel
History made as first woman is decorated with force’s third-highest award for valor; American jets downed some 80 drones in ‘largest air-to-air enemy engagement in over 50 years’
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Israeli Air Force fighter jets prepare to head out for strikes in Iran, early October 26, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
October 27, 2024, 6:53 am
IDF strike cripples Iran’s missile production, disables air defenses; regime ‘alarmed’
Strikes reportedly render crucial energy sites vulnerable to future attacks, destroy fuel mixers used to make missiles that were fired at Israel; damage may take years to fix
By Michael Bachner, Reuters and ToI Staff
An IAF Boeing 707 refueling plane and several F-35 and F-15 fighter jets carry out a drill just off the coast of Israel, August 15, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
October 27, 2024, 2:10 am
Though limited, Israel’s highly successful attack leaves Iran more vulnerable than ever
With key air defenses disabled and Hezbollah weakened, Tehran knows the IAF could come back for more. That might prompt it to push for the bomb, and Israel to try to stop it
By Lazar Berman
US President Joe Biden walks to board Air Force One after speaking with reporters at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Oct. 26, 2024. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
October 26, 2024, 11:36 pm
Biden says Israel apparently only hit Iran military sites: ‘My hope is this is the end’
US seeks to maintain balance of backing Israel’s right to respond to Iranian attacks while avoiding regional escalation; Herzog hails US support while PM seems to downplay it
By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman and Sam Sokol
Israeli Air Force fighter jets prepare to head out for strikes in Iran, early October 26, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
October 26, 2024, 7:42 pm
Israel’s strike on Iran was ‘historic,’ but it’s not ‘the end’ of anything
The calibrated attacks aimed to expose the vulnerability of Iran’s air-defense systems, while building legitimacy, crucially with the US, for the inevitable rounds to come
By David Horovitz
Commuters drive past a billboard in Tehran depicting missiles strikes on Jerusalem and declaring 'Israel must be wiped off the face of the Earth,' covering the facade of a building in Tehran on October 26, 2024. (Atta Kenare/AFP)
October 26, 2024, 3:02 pm
Iran says it has ‘duty to defend itself’ after Israeli strikes, but doesn’t vow response
NYT: Israel hit secretive Parchin base, S-300 air defenses near Tehran airport; reports say Israel aimed to minimize casualties; Iran says 4 soldiers killed
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
US President Joe Biden (R) and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer (L) speak to reporters before participating in a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on July 10, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images via AFP)
October 26, 2024, 11:10 am
After Israeli strikes, West urges Iran to stand down as Muslim nations slam Jerusalem
Washington says Islamic Republic must end ‘cycle of fighting,’ as official signals approval of Jerusalem’s ‘targeted and proportional’ response to Iran’s Oct. 1 missile attack
By ToI Staff, Agencies, Jacob Magid and Emanuel Fabian
An unconfirmed image circulating on social media purports to show a site of an explosion in the Tehran area in the early hours of October 26, 2024, as Israel announces it is carrying out 'precise strikes' on Iranian military targets. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 26, 2024, 5:09 am
IDF hits military sites across Iran in hours-long attack, weeks after Iran’s missile barrage
Warplanes operate freely over skies of Islamic Republic in unprecedented op, with Israel saying it hit air defenses, key missile and drone sites, in response to ‘months of attacks’
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
This handout photo shows Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (C) and IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi meeting at the 'Bahad 1' military base in southern Israel, March 7, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
October 16, 2024, 6:22 am
Israel said to decide on targets it could strike in Iran: ‘Now a matter of time’
But source tells public broadcaster ‘the targets could also change at the 11th hour’; Gallant vows response to Iranian missile attack is coming soon, will be ‘precise and deadly’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: The US military returns a THAAD missile defense system from Israel to its home base, March 2019. (US Army Europe/File)
October 13, 2024, 8:09 pm
US confirms it’s sending missile defense battery, 100 troops to operate it, to Israel
Pentagon says deployment of THAAD system, associated crew of US military personnel, will help bolster Israel’s air defenses following Iran’s unprecedented ballistic missile attacks
By Lazar Berman, ToI Staff and AP
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (R) pictured with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Aerospace Force Commander Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh (L) in Tehran on October 6, 2024, awarding him a medal for the Iranian attack on Israel. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)
October 9, 2024, 1:18 am
Iranian official: Gulf states’ airspace must not be used in Israeli response to Iran
Senior official warns countries that any facilitation of attack is ‘unacceptable’ and urges ‘regional unity against Israel’
By Reuters and ToI Staff
US President Joe Biden speaks to the media in the White House press room, Oct. 4, 2024, in Washington. (AP/Susan Walsh)
October 5, 2024, 12:58 am
Biden says Israel should consider alternatives to hitting Iran’s oil fields
US president also claims ‘no administration has helped Israel more than I have’ and says ‘Bibi should remember that’; Trump says Israel should ‘hit the nuclear [sites] first’
By Jacob Magid and AFP
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