Iron Dome ‘disgraced’ Israeli regime

A senior Iranian military figure has scoffed at the Israeli regime’s claims about its Iron Dome missile system, saying that Israelis see no safe place for themselves in the occupied Palestinian lands.

“Defense systems and defense missile systems should demonstrate their effectiveness in practice. Zionists have preliminary tests of their defense systems; but, it is the real encounters that prove the efficacy of a defense or missile system,” Brigadier General Yadollah Javani, who is a senior military adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), said on Thursday.

He further noted that the Iron Dome, which the Tel Aviv regime had long been boasting about and had placed high on its military doctrine, collapsed during the eight-day Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip in November 2012 and totally disgraced Israel with respect to its defense capabilities.

“Prior to the 8-Day War, the Zionists in fact counted heavily on the Iron Dome and thought that the land in their control, which is an occupied land, has high security and immunity and no weapon could pass through the defense system and the Iron Dome would ensure the safety of the Zionists like a big shield,” Javani said.

Nevertheless, “a major incident took place during the course of the 8-Day War, which was that the Palestinians discredited this defense system of the Zionist regime (Israel) and dispelled all the propaganda that the Zionists had waged with respect to the defense system,” he added.

Israeli media reported that during the 8-day onslaught against the Gaza Strip, less than a third of the projectiles fired by Palestinian fighters, nearly 310, were intercepted by the Iron Dome missile system.

On April 1, reports said Israel’s Iron Dome had intercepted two Grad rockets fired at the Red Sea resort city of Eilat in southern Negev.

However, the army later admitted that the attacks were really a false alarm caused by an error at the Iron Dome site near the city.

The Israeli army initially presumed that a rocket attack had occurred in the area.