Israel strikes Iranian rail infrastructure

The Israeli army carried out airstrikes on railway infrastructure near the Iranian city of Karaj, damaging the tracks. Despite Israeli military warnings to the Iranian population to stay away from railway stations and trains, civilians were injured in the strike.

The IDF also struck eight sections of bridges and roads used by Iran to transport weapons and equipment to Tehran and several areas of the country. Among the bridges targeted were those connecting Tehran, Karaj, Tabriz, Kashan, and Qom. Israeli commanders claim that the Iranian army used these crossings to transport weapons and military equipment.

Earlier, the US launched a massive airstrike on Iran using B-2 Spirit strategic bombers and GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator heavy bunker buster bombs. One of the main targets of the attacks was the largest bridge connecting Karaj with Tehran. The bridge, under construction, was intended to ease congestion entering the Iranian capital. According to Iranian media, eight people were killed and nearly 100 were injured. The casualties were high because families with children had gathered by the river under the bridge for a picnic to celebrate Nature Day. Furthermore, the US Army command confirmed the destruction of key energy and transportation infrastructure nodes, calling it the beginning of an operation to coerce Tehran into negotiations.

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[rocket757]

The question is asked why Israel is not being hit hard enough...
What could be destroyed in Israel that would come back to haunt everyone involved???
So, directly or indirectly, many of those involved are already getting it in one form or another... and the consequences will most likely mount.
So, a personal opinion... if the territory where the "chosen ones" have settled is leveled on a large scale, thoroughly, it will greatly upset... and who?

[Micha1981]

The facility in Dimona. And also industrial facilities.

[rocket757]

Another incident at a nuclear facility... will that really bother so many people? Except, of course, those who are exposed to the "nuclear dirt"...
But industrial facilities... besides local ones, which depend on such production, will this upset anyone else in the world?
I'll add, I don't really care about the affairs there... I feel sorry for the minions/civilians, always and everywhere... but I don't worry about the higher-ups at all, they arranged it all themselves, provoked it... and by the way, they always suffer the least.

[K._2]

So it turns out that railways, like bridges, can be destroyed? What news!

[Yuri L]

This is true for the entire world. But for the leadership of one country in the world, it is a profound secret.

[rocket757]

It can be damaged and this can be temporary... with due skill and persistence, it won't take long to restore.

[Dmitry Rigov]

So, yes, they are attacking Israel, but they have a missile defense system that is generally working well so far. And the GPS system there is poorly functioning due to interference, which is probably why Iranian missiles are so inaccurate compared to the accuracy of the missiles that hit Arab countries.

[rocket757]

In a massive, well-planned, comprehensive attack, using serious strike systems, nothing will save anyone... but this will not be an event of global scale and will not particularly affect anyone...
Still, most countries have purely mercantile interests, and they care very little about the misfortunes of others.

[vitaliy20091959]

So explain why there is no massive, well-thought-out, comprehensive attack like you are writing about.

[rocket757]

From my side, these are just versions, assumptions... you can't expect anything else from those writing from the couch.
I repeat, "there are plenty of giraffes in the world, they are big and what's going on in their heads, try to figure it out"...

[Hole puncher]

Quote: rocket757

If the territory where the "chosen ones" have settled is leveled on a large scale, thoroughly, it will greatly upset... and who?

Who will level the playing field? The Houthis? The Hezbollah? Hamas? Iran? Haven't you realized in a month that there's no one there capable of fulfilling your wishes?

[rocket757]

The question is not who can/cannot do what, but rather the situation itself, what will happen if this happens...
I am generally for peace throughout the world and the affairs there... there are no rightists who rule/lead there, everyone is guilty, to one degree or another... I feel sorry for the civilians/peaceful people, who often suffer the most...

[Hole puncher]

Quote: rocket757

I am generally for peace in the whole world and local affairs.

Well, some will cry, some will rejoice. As usual. And the Jews are used to it; they've been in an eternal war since 1947.

[Nyrobsky]

Quote: Puncher

Quote: rocket757

If the territory where the "chosen ones" have settled is leveled on a large scale, thoroughly, it will greatly upset... and who?

Who will level the playing field? The Houthis? The Hezbollah? Hamas? Iran?

Together. Well, maybe they won't completely level the land, but they can change the existing landscape, and not for the better for Israel.

Quote: Puncher

After a month, you still haven't realized that there are no people there who can fulfill your wishes?

You'd think it would depend on our wishes. The main thing is what Iran wants.
It must be acknowledged that Iran, for humanitarian reasons, did not launch targeted strikes against Israeli civilian targets and tried to target targets in some way connected to military installations. However, today it was announced that Iran will be forced to abandon this strategy and move to reciprocal strikes, including against targets involved in the life support sector.

[Dilettante grandfather]

What could be destroyed in Israel that would come back to haunt everyone involved???

Everything. Absolutely everything. I believe that for what the Israelis have done and are doing, their country should be reduced to scorched earth. And returned to the Palestinians. The remaining Israelis should be resettled in the Jewish Autonomous Region. Or rather, better yet, sent to the United States. Let the notorious Israeli lobby feed them there.

If the territory where the "chosen ones" have settled is leveled on a large scale, thoroughly, it will greatly upset... and who?

Well, these very "chosen ones" will be upset.

[rocket757]

On a global scale... rising prices, limited access to oil and gas resources, THIS IS A PROBLEM, but the catastrophe in Israel... for many it means nothing, if not something completely different.

[nik-mazur]

Quote: Grandfather is an amateur

Their country should be left scorched earth and returned to the Palestinians.

It seems to me that the Palestinians will not be happy with such a gift.

[Dilettante grandfather]

It seems to me that the Palestinians will not be happy with such a gift.

Actually, it's their land. On which Israel was artificially created, taking land from the Arabs.

[nik-mazur]

Quote: Grandfather is an amateur

Actually, this is their land.

Well, what are they called... Basically, Jews lived in Palestine long before the Arabs, taking the land from the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. Whether these peoples were Arabs is a very interesting question.
In the mid-first century BCE, Judea was conquered by the Romans, and in the first century CE, the Jews were deported following the Jewish Revolt. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, Palestine came under the rule of the Eastern Roman Empire, or Byzantium, and Jerusalem became the center of the Christian world.
It wasn't until the seventh century that Arabs proper arrived. They were expelled by the Seljuk Turks in the eleventh century. They themselves were expelled by Christians during the first Crusades. But then the Arabs expelled the Christians, and in the sixteenth century, the Turks expelled the Arabs again, and the Middle East became part of the Ottoman Empire. Until World War I, when it was ceded to the British. After World War II, the British Mandate of Palestine was divided between Jews and Arabs.
In short, the thesis that Israel's territory was originally Arab isn't so straightforward. Just as the question of who took what from whom isn't.

And yes, in fact, it is precisely because the Palestinians consider the land theirs that they are unlikely to be happy if it is burned to the ground.

[Metallurg_2]

Destroy their desalination plants. So it would be like in the song:
If there is no water in the tap, it means you drank it (censored).

[rocket757]

An ultimatum situation for that region...
There will be cries of genocide and the like... and not everyone will take into account that Iran is the defending side...

[Vladislav_2]

The Jews also have a lot of bridges... Iran must demolish them.

[vitaliy20091959]

Why hasn't Israel been overturned into the sea when Iran has formidable missiles? Why is it still happening? Maybe tomorrow they will cut off Iran's power supply, and what next?

[Dmitry Rigov]

If heavy bombers can reach all the way to Tehran, I don't envy the Iranians. If they had a viable air force, they might still be able to fight back, even with the loss of ground-based air defenses.

[commbatant]

Quote: Dmitry Rigov

If they had a living aviation, then maybe they could still fight back.

Iraq's partially operational fighter aircraft and air defense did not save it in 1990-1991, and the IRI had practically none of them even before the war.

[Amigo.]

Bibi's "kindness" is akin to the tears of a crocodile

[alexputnik17]

Quote: rocket757

What could be destroyed in Israel that would come back to haunt everyone involved???

Desalination plants...

calling it the beginning of an operation to force Tehran to negotiate.

The Iranians... they pulled the phone out of the socket.

[rocket757]

Desalination plants could be destroyed... if they're on Israeli territory, then it would be a concern for someone other than the residents of Israel itself...

[opuonmed]

From a war perspective, the US and Israel are doing the right thing by disrupting the difficult logistics. The first thing the US and Israel did was seize the skies.

[spirit]

They're so mean because they don't have expensive parquet floors in the General Staff building and don't have the same fashionable perfume as the "women." If only they were kind, they'd be shooting at the transformer boxes.

[Hole puncher]

This is an example for everyone of how to fight. Seize the skies, thin out the leadership, destroy logistics and energy, not in four years, but in a month.

[Dmitry Rigov]

The Russian Aerospace Forces don't have the same resources as the US. We only have a few AWACS and electronic warfare aircraft, but they're outdated. If we had the same capabilities to eliminate "sleeper" radars in the first month of the Second World War, everything would have been over quickly.

[your vsr 66-67]

Quote: Dmitry Rigov

The Russian Aerospace Forces don't have such resources.

The USSR ended, and so did the resources!

[nik-mazur]

Quote: Dmitry Rigov

If only we had the same capabilities to eliminate "sleeping" radars in the first month of the SVO

The Ukrainian air defense forces were actually knocked out in the first month. Only a few systems remained, firing from ambushes thanks to Western aid. And then they brought in all sorts of Patriots and Iris missiles.
And no one is bringing air defense systems to Iran, so it’s easier for the Americans.

[Dmitry Rigov]

It was precisely the Ukrainian Air Defense Forces that were knocked out in the first month.

You're contradicting yourself: knocking this out means, among other things, eliminating these very individual systems. If you couldn't do that, then you didn't knock out the air defenses.

And then they brought in all sorts of patriots and Irises.

Deliveries began six months later. And those were just Iris missiles, while Patriots didn't arrive until the following year. For the first few months, Ukraine relied solely on its air defense, which the Russian Aerospace Forces were unable to overcome.

[nik-mazur]

Quote: Dmitry Rigov

knock this out and that means, among other things, eliminating these very individual systems

That is, you only consider a 100% destruction to be a knockout, but you consider, say, a 90% destruction to be fully combat-ready?
From that perspective, the air defenses in Yugoslavia and Iraq weren't knocked out either. Just like now in Iran, because something definitely remains there.

[yuriy55]

Why on earth did Israel start behaving like a bastard of a certain nationality?
Has anyone fired at his airfields lately? Directly at F-35i aircraft...

[vitaliy20091959]

Well, try hitting me, nothing ventured.

[commbatant]

Transport logistics and communications are being disrupted. Iran is a mountainous country, and moving troops from one sector of the front is difficult in itself, and with the destruction of bridges, tunnels, and railways, it will become completely impossible. Therefore, the emphasis will be on attempts to create self-sufficient (with decentralized command) groups of the Iranian Army ("conscripts") in the north, northwest, and southeast of Iran. To ensure their stability, these groups will be reinforced by the IRGC Army (which lacks or has limited heavy equipment).

[next322]

And the funniest thing is, bridges are destroyed in Iran in no time... But in Ukraine, this is simply impossible, the smart "experts" on federal channels tell us :laughing....:

[alexputnik17]

Quote: rocket757

This will worry no one else besides the residents of Israel itself...

The Zionist lobby among the Americans...

[Revolver]

Instead of being outraged, they should learn how to conduct a strategic air defense. There have already been master classes on "Strikes at Decision-Making Centers" and "We Don't Abandon Our Own." Next up are "Destroying Logistics" and "Power Shutdowns."

[flicker]

Israel strikes Iranian rail infrastructure

before his death.

[guest]

Israel strikes Iranian rail infrastructure

Eh, not all kinds of foreign guests will be able to come to Tehran, like some people go to Kyiv.

[nik-mazur]

Quote: guest

All foreign guests will not be able to come to Tehran

Are there any people interested, like in Kyiv?

[Victor Leningradets]

Given that all power in Iran has been concentrated in the hands of the IRGC's leadership since the onset of the American-Israeli aggression, one can expect an unusual development. Iran's current leadership is not made up of bearded theologians in medieval garb, but rather modernized descendants of Himmler—tough pragmatists. For them, the loss of power is a death sentence, and therefore they are willing to enter into any alliance, even a vassal one, with any power that guarantees their continued power. And the Iranians are truly insensitive to human casualties, so a major war in the region is entirely possible, even if it's a rehearsal for World War III.