In panicked air defense drill, Iran fired on its own planes

It's a pity we didn't take care of this back then.

The New York Times reports that in the aftermath of Israel's successful strike on a Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007, a panicky Iran rehearsed strikes on Haifa and Dimona, nearly hitting its own civilian aircraft and one of its own military planes with its air defense system.

The civilian planes were fired on by surface-to-air missiles and