Israel responds to missile attack on nuclear facility

 Breitbart:

A missile launched from Syria struck southern Israel early Thursday, setting off air raid sirens near the country’s top-secret nuclear reactor, the Israeli military said. In response, it said it attacked the missile launcher and air-defense systems in neighboring Syria.

The incident, marking the most serious violence between Israel and Syria in years, pointed to likely Iranian involvement. Iran, which maintains troops and proxies in Syria, has accused Israel of a series of attacks on its nuclear facilities, including sabotage at its Natanz nuclear facility on April 11, and vowed revenge.

The Israeli army said the missile landed in the Negev region and the air raid sirens were sounded in a village near Dimona, where Israel’s nuclear reactor is located. There was no word on whether anything had been struck, but explosions were reported across Israel.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility. But on Saturday, Iran’s hard-line Kayhan newspaper published an opinion piece by Iranian analyst Sadollah Zarei suggesting Israel’s Dimona facility be targeted after the attack on Natanz. Zarei cited the idea of “an eye for an eye” in his remarks.

Action should be taken “against the nuclear facility in Dimona,” he wrote. “This is because no other action is at the same level as the Natanz incident,”

While Kayhan is a small circulation newspaper, its editor-in-chief, Hossein Shariatmadari, was appointed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and has been described as an adviser to him in the past.
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I suspect this was a response from Iran about the destruction of one of its nuclear facilities. There seems to be no indication that the explosive hit the Israeli facility.  Apparently, it landed in the desert.  It is not clear whether Israel used its missile defense system in dealing with the attack.  In fact, it may be programed to not fire if the trajectory of the missile is unlikely to hit anything other than sand in the desert.

I do think it is interesting that Iran might have fired the missile from Syria as a distraction.  I suspect they may have done this so the Biden administration would not abandon its attempt to get Obama's bad deal reinstated.