There are no explosions in Shiraz, there is no second wave, everything is clear.

— ❗️🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: Israel announces the closure of its entire airspace to civilian air traffic until 08:30 AM

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— ❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇱 BREAKING: Interceptions above Tehran, air defenses active

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Okay finally the Israelis grew some balls, let's go.

— ❗️🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: Continuous anti-aircraft fire above Tehran, the Zionist aggression is being thwarted

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They have been messing around for more than 2 hours now and I still haven't seen a single impact.

— 🇮🇷 NEW: No fire, explosion, or impact of any kind has been recorded in Tehran

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Second wave of the 'strikes' are over. Allegedly Israel will begin the real stuff now.

— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: According to preliminary info, Israeli-backed collaborators launched quadcopters from the suburbs of Tehran

This was done with the aim of provoking Iranian air defenses and revealing their locations, however, with full alertness and awareness, only short range anti-air autocannons were activated.

Medium to long range air defenses were not activated at all and did not reveal any of their locations.

The quadcopters had small explosive charges, and were aimed at air defense systems. All of them were shot down.

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— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: 'The results of the Israeli strikes in Iran are currently unclear' – Channel 14

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— 🇮🇷 Sunrise in Tehran, complete calm

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— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: 'After three waves, the Israeli attack against Iran is now over' – Israel's National Broadcaster 'Kann'

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— 🇮🇷 Tehran has woken up, and the enemy's aggression has been repelled

Calm has returned, and the situation has now definitely concluded.

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— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 IDF Spokesman: 'Our response to Iran has concluded, and it was successful'

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By the way, I must give some credit to myself, I predicted (in a private chat) that the Israelis would strike on Simchat Torah, which started last night and lasts till the end of today.

It was probably symbolic, because Hamas' October 7th attack is also known as the 'Simchat Torah Massacre' due to it taking place on that holiday last year. It signifies 'new beginnings' in the Jewish year.

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— In my opinion, it is clear that the vast majority of the attack was thwarted, and they probably managed to hit some empty parts of IRGC installations.

I would estimate anywhere between 5 to 10 hits total, in a 'best case scenario' for Israel, although we only have visual confirmation of 1 or 2 hits currently, one near Tehran and one in Eslamshahr.

The explosions were very small so I doubt there was any major damage, probably some of them were caused by quadcopters.

No critical targets were attacked, the military targets were very low value, like empty IRGC training grounds (firing ranges and parade grounds) and some warehouses as well as drone assembly points.

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