After a string of utterly humiliating Israeli assaults that began with the elimination of senior IRGC forces in Damascus, continued to apace with the assassination of Hamas warlord Ismail Haniyeh, and then continued with the systematic disposal of the entire Hezbollah org chart, it’s no surprise that Ayatollah Khamenei felt a need to respond. (The Islamic Republic reserves to itself the right to kill Muslims.) Accordingly, 180-plus ballistic missiles were launched from Iran at Israel on October 1. Both U.S. and Israeli forces handily took out most of the shots, though one man, a Palestinian, was killed by falling debris. (Recall that last time the Iranians attacked Israel directly, they injured a little Bedouin girl.)
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