The first reactions to Iran’s successful launch of the “Noor-3” research satellite were mainly brief and more of an explanatory nature. It took the Israeli propaganda machine a few hours to sort out the media strategy to address the new situation.

The event was broadcast only a few hours after the premiere of a controversial documentary in Iran, named “The Frontier” which described the evolution and development of the UAVs industry in Iran over time. 
One of the most important sequences of the mentioned documentary briefly depicted an apparently new model of the renowned Iranian Shahed-136 loitering drones which seems to be equipped with a micro-jet turbo engine as opposed to the previous model which used a piston engine. 

The unofficial unveiling embarked a wide range of discussions amongst the military experts and also the public, specifically in Occupied Palestine, as many commentators suggested that the new model will be far too harder to track and target for the convenient air defense systems. 

The news about the satellite, which given this summery, had a totally different meaning for Israelis, was first quoted from Iran’s Minister of Communications. “The satellite was successfully launched into the planned orbit and is now flying 450 km above the ground”, an Israeli media quoted. And as could be easily predicted, soon after the first reports, different Israeli outlets tried to contribute the launching to the delusional “nuclear threat” the Israel has long been marketing all over the world as a strategy to survive while lacking essential existential causes. 

“The American army has warned that the same ballistic technology which is used for putting satellites into orbit can give Tehran the ability to launch long-range missiles including the ones with a nuclear warhead”, an Israeli media wrote after only three lines into the piece! The writer continued to formulize how a scientific satellite can actually mean “a plan for a nuclear attack” and said, “Recently, Iran has unveiled a range of new weaponries including hypersonic domestic missiles and advanced UAVs. 

In the past week, for the first time, Iran introduced the upgraded version of the Iranian Shahed-136 kamikaze drones which enjoys higher speed and is expected to be much harder to track by the air defense systems”. 

It is likely that the new satellite launch, which later was identified by an Iranian army official as the first one in a plan which contains three separate launches, inflict more psychological damage to the establishment of the apartheid Regime of Israel, since every similar event is considered by them an existential threat.

Deep Penetration, Geographically Speaking

Earlier this morning, a shocking news was broken down to the Israeli settlers’ community by the Israeli intelligence agency (Shabak or Shin Bet) about a plot planned and backed by Iran to assassinate a number of high-ranking Israeli officials deep inside the territory of the Occupied Palestine. The Shabak claimed to have repelled the plot by discovering a team consisting of some Palestinians from Jenin and North Palestine who had planned to assassinate one of the most controversial political of Israel, Itamar Ben Gvir. 

According to the report, “the team had smuggled weapons into Israel through the borders of Jordan and was supposed to start setting Israeli cars on fire in the next stage of the plan”. 

Shabak called this “another proof for Iran’s increasing efforts to destabilize Israel in security, social, and political fields by employing Israeli and Palestinian citizens for criminal activities”. After the report was published, the official in question who has not hesitated to jump in whenever the conditions were right for a publicity campaign ever since his name was heard in Israel’s political atmosphere, posted a tweet to convey his gratitude for intelligence efforts to keep him alive. 

“I thank the service members of the public security and intelligence forces for disclosure and arrestment of the terrorist core which intended to assassinate a minster”, he tweeted. 

Meanwhile, an Israeli security journalist reacted to the report by saying, “Iran is deep inside Israel”. Israel’s security agency later published some more information, claiming that an ex-member of the Israeli Knesset has also been in the assassination list. 

Up to the time of writing of this report, no reactions have been seen from Iran officially or unofficially. But judging by the experience, it seems there is something terribly wrong with the claims of Shabak about the whole issue. There have been, in the past, many instances of similar claims by similar entities within the Regime with the aim of justifying a countermeasure or imposing of certain restrictions rationalized by a possible threat imposed by Iran.