Israel Charges Iran Of Using Cluster Bombs, As Tehran Destroys Key American Radar In Jordan
Iran is accused by Israel of using cluster munitions during the escalating West Asia conflict, even as reports emerge that Iranian strikes destroyed a key American THAAD-linked radar system in Jordan. Image courtesy: X.com/@Lockheed Martin
Israel, on Friday (March 6, 2026), claimed Iran had used cluster bombs “multiple times” since the start of the West Asian war on February 28, as joint US-Israel military air strikes on Tehran had killed its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Meanwhile, new information has emerged that Iran destroyed a key $300-million American radar system in Jordan that was crucial for directing missile defence batteries in West Asia, during the opening days of the conflict.
Israeli military spokesman Nadav Shoshani told a news briefing on Friday (March 6) that the Iranians “are using cluster munitions,” without providing details on when or where those munitions were allegedly launched.
“They’ve used it multiple times, which is a war crime when it’s directed towards civilians, and we’re tracking that situation,” Lieutenant-Colonel Shoshani said.
Iran and Israel are not among more than a hundred countries that are party to the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, which prohibits the use, transfer, production, and storage of cluster bombs.
News media footage from the evening of Thursday (March 5) showed a swarm of flaming projectiles falling in the darkened sky over central Israel. Tel Aviv’s military said the video showed cluster bombs.
Israeli police on Wednesday (March 4) said bomb disposal experts found evidence of cluster munitions after incoming missiles from Iran were detected.
Impact sites are generally closed to the public, including journalists, until they are cleared of missile debris and unexploded ordnance.
Meanwhile, Iran’s reported destruction of an American radar site in Jordan came out through satellite photos that showed an RTX AN/TPY-2 radar and support equipment, used by the American THAAD missile defence system, destroyed at the Muwaffaq Salti air base in Jordan in the opening days of the West Asian military conflict.
An American official later confirmed the satellite images of the radar system’s destruction, as data from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank showed Iran had struck Jordan twice, first on February 28 and again on March 3. The US military had then claimed that both the Iranian strikes on Jordan sites had been intercepted.
On Friday (March 6), media reports had said Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claimed to have targeted American radar systems in the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, and Qatar.
“US THAAD radars deployed in the United Arab Emirates and Jordan, as well as the US FPS-132 over-the-horizon radar (Desert Eye) stationed in Qatar, have been destroyed by the missile and drone units of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps,” IRGC was quoted as saying by the media reports.
US Terminal High Altitude Area Defence (THAAD) units intercept and destroy ballistic missiles in the air, enabling engagement of challenging threats more effectively than the shorter-range Patriot batteries.
