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Memri
3 days ago
- Politics
- Memri
Justifying Iranian Missile Strike On Israel's Soroka Hospital, Telegram Channels Supporting Iran-Backed Iraqi Militias Claim Iran Targeted Civilians Following Israeli Strikes On Strategic Sites, Descr
On the morning of June 19, 2025, an Iranian missile struck the Soroka hospital in the Israeli city of Beersheba, the main medical center serving southern Israel, causing extensive damage and injuring dozens, six of them seriously. This came as part of the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran, in which both countries have launched multiple airstrikes against the other since June 13. Israel's strikes have mainly targeted nuclear and military sites, killing dozens of senior military officials, while Iran's have killed over 20 civilians and injured hundreds, as well as causing heavy damage to residential areas and some military sites. Following the strike, Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) portrayed the attack as directed at military targets, claiming that its main target was the headquarters of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) C4I (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence) and Cyber Defense Directorate, as well as the Gav-Yam Negev advanced technologies park, alleging that these sites house thousands of soldiers and the IDF's "digital command, cyber operations, and C4ISR [Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance] systems." It further claimed that the military infrastructure was directly hit, while the hospital did not suffer extensive damage.[1] It should be noted that the Gav-Yam Negev site is almost a kilometer from the hospital, while the IDF's Southern Command base is over two kilometers away. Other sources supporting Iran-backed Iraqi Shi'ite militias falsely quoted Israel's Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency service as reporting that the missile struck a "biological research center" adjacent to the hospital, describing it as a "sensitive security site."[2] Others described the medical center itself as a "military hospital," noting that it treats IDF soldiers injured in combat.[3] Echoing the Iranian claims, Telegram channels supporting Iran-backed Shi'ite militias in Iraq and Yemen justified the attack on the hospital. One channel explicitly defended the targeting of civilian sites in retaliation for strategic sites in Iran which have been targeted by Israel. Others alleged that it is Israel, not Iran, which targets civilians and hospitals, pointing to Israeli airstrikes on hospitals in Gaza which Israel claimed Hamas used for military purposes.[4] Telegram Channel Justifies Attacks On Israeli Civilian Targets As Response To Israeli Strikes On Iran's "Strategic Depth" The "Al-Hashd Al-Electroni" [Electronic Popular Mobilization Units] Telegram channel described Iran's missile strike on the hospital as a direct response to Israel's targeting of "vital facilities" in Iran, such as the Arak heavy water reactor and uranium enrichment facilities in Natanz and Fordow. Claiming that the target of the Iranian attacks was a "biological research center" linked to Israeli military intelligence, it declared: "The message is clear: If you come close to our strategic depth, we will violate the sanctity of your 'civilian' areas and deliver the response in your homeland."[5] Telegram Channel Asserts Iran Has Legal Right To Deliberately Target Israeli "Military Hospital," Insists Iran Does Not Target Israeli Civilians The "Mustaqim" Telegram channel, which supports Iran-backed Iraqi Shi'ite militias, responded to claims by Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and others that Iran targeted civilians by attacking the Soroka hospital. The channel asserted that Iran never intentionally targeted civilians, unlike Israel, insisting that Iran has an "exclusively military bank" of targets in Israel, and adding: "If it were not exclusively [military], they would have targeted all of Israel, because every settler [i.e. Israeli] is a soldier and undergoes training." It further accused Israel of targeting hospitals in Gaza based on mere suspicions of Hamas presence. The channel asserted that Iran reserved the right under international law to deliberately target the hospital in retaliation for Israel's attacks on Iran's state broadcaster in Tehran, falsely adding that Soroka is a "military hospital," as evidenced by videos documenting soldiers wounded and killed in Gaza being brought there.[6] Satirical Video Depicts Israeli Military Base Beneath Targeted Hospital Following the strike on the hospital, other Telegram channels supporting Iran-backed Iraqi Shi'ite militias shared a brief satirical video depicting a military base containing tanks underneath the hospital building, similar to images released by Israel showing Hamas military facilities beneath Gazan hospitals it has struck.[7] Over the course of the ongoing conflict between Iran and Israel, in which the U.S. has threatened to intervene on the latter's side, multiple Iran-backed Iraqi militias and Telegram channels supporting them have released statements and posts condemning Israeli attacks on Iran and threatening to attack Israeli and U.S. targets in the Middle East.[8]
Middle East Eye
3 days ago
- Politics
- Middle East Eye
Netanyahu vows Iran will ‘pay a heavy price' after latest attacks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged that Iran will face serious consequences following a missile strike that damaged Soroka Medical Centre in Be'er Sheva. In a post on X, Netanyahu said, 'This morning, Iran's terrorist dictators fired missiles at Soroka Hospital in Be'er Sheva and at civilians in the centre of the country. We will make the tyrants in Tehran pay a heavy price.' Iran has denied that Soroka Medical Centre was the intended target of Thursday's missile barrage, despite the hospital sustaining damage from nearby explosions. The facility, which has treated Israeli soldiers wounded in Gaza, sits between two key military sites within the Gav-Yam Technology Park in Be'er Sheva. These include the Israeli army's main intelligence headquarters and a central command centre, both reportedly vital to cyber operations and digital warfare systems, including IDF C4I and C4ISR infrastructure. According to Iranian accounts, the hospital was affected by shockwaves from strikes on nearby military targets, but was not directly hit.
India.com
01-06-2025
- Politics
- India.com
How India broke the web of Turkey's most-famous Bayraktar drones, Erdogan is now worried because...
Bayraktar TB2 (File) How India destroyed Turkey's Bayraktar TB2 drones: Due to the massive success of Akash air defence system and Akashteer intelligent warfare, a sense of panic has spread across the US. However, there is another country which actively helped India's enemy during the recent India-Pakistan tensions and as a result, it's defence industry has taken a massive hit. Reports have it that Pakistan used Turkey's Bayraktar TB2 drone during its recent conflict with India. In order to counter the drone threat, the Indian Armed Forces shot down all the drones received from Turkey by Pakistan using the indigenous 'Akashteer' air defense system. About Akashteer air defense system Akashteer is a vehicle-based air defence system designed to automate detection, tracking and engagement of enemy aircraft, drones and missiles. It integrates various radar systems, sensors and communication technologies into a single operational framework. With its intelligent warfare capabilities, Akashteer showcased India's dominance in real-time, automated air defence warfare. As per a report by PIB, Akashteer is part of the broader C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) framework, working in coordination with other systems. How India destroyed Turkey's Bayraktar TB2 drones Media reports have said that the Akashteer air defense system was extensively used to counter Turkish drone threat during the recent India-Pakistan tensions. A senior army official was quoted as saying by a Navbharat Times report that 'not even a single drone was able to achieve its target'. Pakistan, Turkey and Azerbaijan set to strengthen anti-India nexus The growing nexus between Islamabad-Ankara-Baku is expected to deepen and broaden further during the visit of Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to Azerbaijan after concluding his ongoing visit to Iran. According to reports, a trilateral summit of Pakistan, Turkey and Azerbaijan is expected to be held in Lachin, a strategic city that connects Azerbaijan to Armenia, in the next 48 hours to take 'important decisions on joint strategies' in several fields, including defence. (With inputs from agencies)
CNBC
29-05-2025
- Business
- CNBC
Op-ed: Don't buy Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's China 'failure' story
When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang appeared at Computex in Taipei last week, his presence dominated headlines. But it wasn't his keynote that drew political attention — it was what he said after the speech. In interviews on the sidelines of the event, Huang sharply criticized U.S. export controls on AI chips, calling them a "failure." He blamed both the Trump and Biden administrations for triggering a collapse in Nvidia's China business, claiming that the company's market share in the country dropped from 95% to 50% over four years, and disclosed a multi-billion dollar write-down on unsold H20 chips blocked from sale. Huang further argued that these restrictions have only pushed Chinese firms to innovate faster, intensifying competition. The Nvidia CEO's complaints about U.S. policy continued after Wednesday's earnings report, with Huang saying China is "effectively closed." "Export restrictions spurred China's innovation," Huang said during the earnings call. "The U.S. has based its policy on the assumption that China cannot make AI chips. Assumption was always questionable. Now it's clearly wrong." "The question is not whether China will have AI. It already does," he added. On Wednesday, Chinese generative AI company DeepSeek, whose debut was the watershed moment in China's arrival as a competitor to the best the U.S. has to offer in the AI race, released a new model. While Huang's frustrations may resonate with some in the business world, they badly miss the strategic mark. The semiconductor policies Huang criticizes were never designed to protect Nvidia's commercial interests in China. They were, and remain, about U.S. national security. The Biden administration's controls, building on Trump-era efforts, reflect a sober reality: the U.S. cannot afford to fuel the military rise of its chief strategic rival. Advanced chips power the modernization of the People's Liberation Army, including command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems. These restrictions are not about quarterly earnings — they are about avoiding scenarios where American troops face U.S.-designed technology on the battlefield. Critics like Huang claim these controls have backfired, accelerating China's tech independence. But that effort didn't begin with the 2022 restrictions. It was formalized years earlier through the "Made in China 2025" strategy, approved by the State Council in 2015. With over $150 billion in state support, China's chip sector has long aimed to reduce dependence on foreign suppliers. The controls didn't start this race; they were a response to it. In an interview with CNBC's Jim Cramer on "Mad Money" on Wednesday, Huang said 50% of the world's AI developers are in China and "we want the world to build on America's IT stack. ... that's the most important strategic reason to be in China." But as China continues to race against the U.S. in AI, it should not be done by exploiting the U.S. or with U.S. companies willingly helping it. Furthermore, China is making its own decisions regardless of U.S. export controls to favor its own companies, a goal it had well before the Trump or Biden export controls. This may be inconvenient history, but it is history, nonetheless. China's innovation model is evolving. While foreign technology transfer and joint ventures played early roles, Chinese firms now combine global know-how with massive capital, targeted industrial policy, and relentless domestic competition. China ranks second in global R&D spending and leads in green tech, EVs, and high-speed rail. It extracts what it can from foreign firms, and then moves on. The U.S. must safeguard leading-edge technologies and delay diffusion for as long as possible. This is not a permanent advantage, but it is a necessary one. Look at sectors where the U.S. failed to act — solar panels, EV batteries, telecom. In each case, China leapfrogged the West and locked in global dominance. But contrast that with aviation, where the U.S. has maintained strict export controls and upheld a high regulatory bar. China's COMAC, although making noteworthy gains, remains far behind Boeing and Airbus in capability, global market access, safety certifications, and production reliability. Where the U.S. held the line, it held its lead. Nvidia's arc in China follows a familiar pattern. Foreign firms are welcomed, dominate temporarily, and are ultimately displaced. We all know the story by now — Apple, Tesla, Starbucks — all have faced this trajectory. Huang's claim that U.S. policy ended Nvidia's privileged market position ignores this well-established history. The displacement for Nvidia (like for so many others) was coming either way. And despite his warnings, Nvidia has not suffered a collapse. In 2022, Huang warned that export controls could devastate his company. Since then, Nvidia's stock has increased more than tenfold. In fiscal year 2024, its data center revenue jumped 217% year-over-year, driven by soaring demand across the U.S., Europe, and Gulf States. The company's success has continued — despite, or perhaps partially because of, the strategic shift in its market exposure. Its latest results showed overall revenue grew by 69% during the quarter, and in its key data center division — which includes AI chips and related parts — growth was 73% on an annual basis to $39.1 billion. Huang said in an earnings statement that "global demand" continues to be "incredibly strong" for its AI equipment. The real risk is not that these policies have failed — they haven't, when judged against their national security goals. The risk is that their momentum could be disrupted by policy discontinuity, political lobbying, or shifting priorities in Washington. We've already seen the Trump administration roll back one key element: the Biden-era AI diffusion rule. That rule, with a tiered structure aimed at controlling the spread of high-performance chips and AI model weights based on risk level, would have required global licensing and compliance from chipmakers like Nvidia. Its rescission — prompted by commercial and legal concerns — has raised alarms among national security officials. Other export controls, however, remain firmly in place. Nvidia should be using its success around the world to work hard to compete against China in other markets and stop focusing on its diminishing market share in China, especially after Trump gave the company the gift of repelling the AI diffusion rule. Huang may have intended his remarks to influence the policy debate. Instead, they triggered political reaffirmation. In fact, his comments may go down as his "Jack Ma moment" — a high-profile critique swiftly followed by a government response that reasserts authority. Just as Ma's critique of Chinese regulators at the Bund Summit preceded the abrupt suspension of Ant Financial's IPO, Huang's criticism on the margins of Computex was quickly answered. Trump advisor Sriram Krishnan said in an interview with Bloomberg, "the guardrails are staying," emphasizing that AI chips "can be used in ways that fundamentally challenge U.S. national security." On Wednesday, before Nvidia had even reported, shares of chip design companies Cadence and Synopsys sank after the Financial Times reported that the White House told them to stop selling to clients in China. U.S. semiconductor policy isn't about one firm's earnings or market access — it's about protecting America's strategic edge in a high-stakes geopolitical contest. The challenge ahead is not to protect any one company's dominance in China. It's to defend the foundational technologies that define the future of power. Sometimes that means stepping back from markets that were never going to remain open anyway. This is the hard truth of policymaking. Not every decision, few in fact, is about corporate profits. Most are about the safety, security, and long-term stability and strength of the country, and the people who protect it. —
India Today
16-05-2025
- Politics
- India Today
Akashteer: India's invisible shield that beat Pak's imported missiles and drones
As Pakistan launched its deadliest attack on several Indian military installations and civilian areas on the nights of May 9 and 10, Akashteer, India's advanced air defence system, emerged as an invisible shield, intercepting and neutralising a barrage of missiles and is India's fully indigenous and automated air defence control and reporting system. It showcased India's dominance in real-time and automated air defence warfare during the four-day military confrontation with relied on imported HQ-9 and HQ-16 systems that could not avoid Akashteer, which did not roar like a fighter jet or flash like a missile. It just listened, calculated and provides a common and real-time air picture to all involved parties (control room, radars and defence gun), enabling coordinated air defence operations. It is a system designed to automate detection, tracking and engagement of enemy aircraft, drones and integrates various radar systems, sensors and communication technologies into a single operational gathers data from multiple sources, processes it and allows for automated and real-time engagement decisions. It is part of the broader C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) framework, working in coordination with other systems. The system is vehicle-based, which makes it mobile and easier to handle in a hostile traditional air defence models that rely on ground-based radars and manual decisions, Akashteer enables autonomous monitoring of low-level airspace in battle zones and efficient control of ground-based air defence weapon integration of multiple elements reduces the possibility of friendly fire, allowing rapid engagement of hostile targets while ensuring the protection of aircraft in contested airspace. The sensors integrated include the tactical control radar REPORTER, 3D tactical control radars, low-level lightweight radar and the Akash weapon system connects smoothly with IACCS (Indian Air Force) and TRIGUN (Indian Navy), creating a clear and real-time picture of the battlefield. This enables the quick and effective use of both offensive and defensive Akashteer, there is a much lower risk of accidentally hitting friendly targets. It improves situational awareness and allows for precise, powerful across the world are calling Akashteer a "seismic shift in warfare strategy". With this system, India has entered the elite club of nations with fully integrated, automated air defence command and control capability. It doesn't just see faster - it decides faster, and it strikes faster than anything fielded is India's answer to asymmetric warfare, hybrid threats and cross-border terrorism. Its successful use in neutralising Pakistan's offensive during Operation Sindoor stands as proof that India's future lies not in imported platforms, but in its own Sindoor was launched on May 7 when the Indian armed forces struck nine terror camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir (POK). The operation was launched in response to the deadly Pahalgam terror attack, which killed 26 people, mostly InMust Watch IN THIS STORY#India-Pakistan#Operation Sindoor#Pakistan#Jammu and Kashmir
