Iran-Israel tensions: What happened between the two countries when?

Iranian army chief Mohammad Baqeri said on Sunday that Iran’s operation ‘True Promise’ against Israel has been successfully completed and has achieved its ‘all objectives’, while the Israeli army Iran More than 300 drones fired by Missiles Claimed to have killed almost all of them.

As a result of Iran’s action Middle East The ongoing conflict has intensified rapidly.

Iran’s first direct attack on its arch-enemy since a suspected airstrike on Tehran’s embassy compound in Damascus on April 1 is part of a broader escalation of tensions since Israel’s strikes on Gaza last year, but the two countries’ enmity has continued. Spanning decades.

Iran and Israel The two arch-enemies in the Middle East share a long history of veiled land, sea, air and cyberspace attacks and shadow wars.

• 1979 Iran’s pro-Western leader Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who considered Israel an ally, is ousted from power in the Islamic Revolution. Israel’s opposition to the revolution established a new religious government.
• 1982 When Israel invaded Lebanon, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard worked with Shia Muslims there to form Hezbollah. Israel eventually came to view this armed group as the most dangerous enemy on its borders.
• 1983 Iran-backed Hezbollah launches suicide bombings to drive Western and Israeli forces out of Lebanon. In November, a car packed with explosives drove into Israeli army headquarters. Israel later withdrew from most of Lebanon.
• 1992-94 Argentina and Israel accuse Iran and Hezbollah of being behind the 1992 bombings of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires and the 1994 bombings of the city’s Jewish center. Dozens of people were killed in the blasts.
• Iran and Hezbollah deny responsibility for the attacks.
• 2002 The revelation that Iran has a secret uranium enrichment program raises concerns that it is trying to build nuclear weapons, which Iran denies. Israel demanded strict action against Tehran.
• 2006 Israel waged a month-long war against Hezbollah in Lebanon but failed to crush the heavily armed group.
• 2009 Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Israel a ‘dangerous and deadly cancer’ in a speech.
• 2010 A computer virus called Stuxnet, believed to have been developed by the United States and Israel, was used to attack a uranium enrichment facility at Iran’s Natanz nuclear site. It was the first general cyber attack on industrial machinery.

Aid workers search through the rubble of a building attached to the Iranian embassy in Damascus on April 2, 2024, a day after an air strike. Iran warned Israel on April 2 that it would punish the airstrike that killed seven Revolutionary Guards officers. (Photo by Louie Beshara/AFP)​​​​​​

• 2012 Iranian nuclear scientist Mustafa Ahmadi Roshan was killed in a motorcycle bomb attack in Tehran. A city official blamed Israel for the attack.
• 2018 Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu hailed former US President Donald Trump’s withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal with world powers, calling Trump’s decision a ‘historic move’.
• In May 2018, Israel said it had struck Iranian military facilities in Syria, where Tehran was supporting President Bashar al-Assad in the civil war. Iranian forces fired rockets at the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

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• 2020 Israel welcomes the death of General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the foreign branch of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, in a US drone strike in Baghdad. Iran launched missile attacks on Iraqi military bases in which about one hundred American soldiers were injured.
• 2021 Iran accuses Israel of killing nuclear scientist Mohsin Fakhrizada. Seen by Western intelligence agencies as the mastermind of a secret Iranian program for nuclear weapons capability. Tehran has long denied nuclear ambitions.
• 2022 US President Joe Biden and former Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid sign a joint pledge to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. The move was a show of unity on the part of allies long divided over diplomacy. The document was part of the ‘Jerusalem Declaration’ for Biden’s first visit to Israel as president, a day before he said in a local television interview that he would use force against Iran as a ‘last resort’. ready to use as The proposed use of force was apparently a clear step towards world powers accepting the Israeli demand of a ‘credible military threat’.
• 2024 The Iranian embassy in Damascus is attacked, suspected of being carried out by Israel. Israel has not confirmed or denied involvement in the attack. Seven officers including two senior commanders of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards were killed in this attack.

Iran responded to the attack in Damascus on April 13 by launching a barrage of drones and missiles in an unprecedented direct attack on Israeli territory.