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The Take

Will Iran retaliate to Israel’s latest attack?

The Take

Al Jazeera

News Commentary, Politics, Daily News, News

4.7748 Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Israeli forces launched strikes on military targets across Iran early Saturday, claiming they were in response to ongoing regional attacks by “Iran and its proxies.” Hours later, Israel announced it had “achieved its objectives” and warned Tehran against retaliation. Will Iran answer back, and what could that mean for the region?

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Episode Credits:

This episode was produced by Khaled Soltan, David Enders and Sonia Baghat with Hagir Saleh, and our host, Kevin Hirten in for Malika Bilal. It was edited by Ney Alvarez. 

David Enders mixed this episode. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our video editor is Hisham Abu Salah. Our engagement producers are Munera AlDosari, Adam Abou-Gad and Vienna Maglio. Aya Elmileik is lead of audience engagement.

Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera’s head of audio.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Al Jazeera Podcasts.

0:07.0

Today, the aftermath of Israel's long-anticipated strike on Iran.

0:17.0

Israel has launched multiple air strikes on Iran in response to what the Israeli military

0:22.8

called months of continuous attacks from Tehran and its proxies. We'll look at what was hit,

0:29.7

what was not, and if both Iran and Israel have already passed the point of no return.

0:38.0

I'm Kevin Horton, and this is the take.

0:47.0

My name's Alex Catopoulos.

0:49.1

I'm defense editor for Al Jazeera English TV,

0:52.2

and I live and work here in Doha and Qatar.

0:55.0

Okay, so Alex, on October 1st, Iran sent around 200 projectiles into Israel in response for the killing of Hamas leader Ismail Hania in Tehran and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon.

1:10.0

So at the time, Israel promised that Iran would pay.

1:14.7

For nearly a month now, the world has been holding its breath to see how Israel would respond.

1:20.0

Now we know.

1:21.3

So first, just tell us what happened.

1:26.7

So the whole operation looked like involved about 100 Israeli aircraft.

1:32.1

We conducted targeted and precise strikes on military targets in Iran, thwarting immediate threats

1:39.5

to the state of Israel. And they were launched in three waves. So the first wave went in and destroyed air

1:46.8

defense radar systems in Syria in Iraq, and then the consequent waves, the second lot, punched

1:53.4

through that gap, that corridor. And it looks like they released standoff weapons. So most,

2:00.4

if not all of these aircraft actually didn't fly overoff weapons. So most, if not all of these aircraft actually

2:02.3

didn't fly over the border. So most of them fired their weapons before they got to Iran

2:08.4

proper as well. Concerned in part with obviously Israeli pilots being shot down,

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