You Saw What Israel Just Did With The Iranian Targets They Chose To Hit, Right?

From Business Insider, October 28:

Israel's hit on Iran, though limited, widened a vulnerability

Israel over the weekend launched strikes on Iran.

Observers feared that Israel would hit Iranian energy infrastructure. 

Instead, it hit those sites' defenses — making it easier to launch more strikes later. 

Israel's recent attack on Iran's air defense network was limited in its scope, but all the same left a significant opening.

Though Israel fell short of a major strike some feared, its attack over the weekend means Iran is more vulnerable to follow-up attacks should they come, according to experts on the region.

The long-anticipated attack was retaliation, almost a month later, for Iran launching ballistic missiles at Israel.

It is an unprecedented back-and-forth between two nations that used to do their fighting arm's length.

Unnamed officials told The New York Times that the strikes specifically targeted air-defense systems around key energy sites, though not the sites themselves.

They are said to include the Bandar Imam Khomeini petrochemical complex and the Abadan oil refinery.

In a Sunday update, the Institute for the Study of War said the Israel Defense Forces struck and disabled parts of three or four sites guarded by the Russian-made S-300 air-defense systems.

The loss, it said, undermined Iran's ability to counter future strikes.

The IDF strike also appeared to hit drone and missile production facilities across Iran, with satellite imagery published by The Guardian showing damage near the Parchin military base, a site previously linked by the International Atomic Energy Agency suspects to Iran's nuclear explosive development....

....Ori Wertman, a research fellow at the University of South Wales specializing in Israeli national security, told Business Insider that Israel "absolutely" made Iran more vulnerable with its attack.

"This is something really substantial because now it made Iran vulnerable to any Israeli attack from the air," he said, suggesting that Israel now has an opportunity, should it choose, to directly target Iran's nuclear facilities....

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