In the last hours of Saturday, April 13, the first news came out about a strike with dozens of missiles and drones directed by Iran at Israel. The world spent the night waiting for these missiles to reach their targets, and what they would result in.
The operation, which Tehran called “The True Promise,” came in response to Tel Aviv’s bombing of its consulate in Damascus, which led to the killing of senior leaders and military personnel in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Iranian officials said that half of the missiles successfully hit their targets, while the Israelis said they shot down 99% of them.
However, the military effects were not the only target of the strike. Rather, it was perhaps the least important target of it, as analysts believed that Tehran wanted a complex strike, not just a military one, that would be equivalent to crossing the red lines that Tel Aviv did when it attacked its consulate, and take the strategic conflict between the two parties out of The range of indirect war to the scope of direct, explicit war.
Opinions were divided regarding the effects that this strike would have, between those who believed that it would change the rules of the conflict between the two parties, and those who saw that it was not compatible with the repeated Israeli strikes on Iran and its killing of senior military leaders.
The new episode of “Tel Aviv Tribune Net Panorama” shed light on the Iranian strike on Israel, and reviewed the most important analyzes that dealt with it, and the division of opinions regarding it.