Defense Minister Israel warned on Saturday that “Tehran will burn” if Iran continues to be sparked rocketsA blistered surprise attackOn Iranian nuclear and military sites that kill several top generations.
The military of Israel said that the strikes also killed nine high -ranking scientists and experts who were involved in the Iranian nuclear program. The Iranian UN Ambassador said that 78 people were killed and more than 320 were injured.
Iran returned by starting drones and ballistic rockets in Israel, where the explosions shook the night sky over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and the buildings. The Israeli military asked the civilian population, which are already rattling20 months of war monthsIn Gaza, Hamas loosened from October 7 to go into protection for hours. Health officials said that three people were killed and dozens were wounded.
Defense Minister Israel Katz said that Iran would pay a high price for the damage to the Israeli citizens. “If (Iranian top guide Ayatollah Ali) Khamenei continues to fire on the Israeli home front, Tehran will burn,” said Katz.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that his goal was to eliminate an Iranian threat to Israel, but he also asked the Iranians to rose against their leaders. Israel would welcome the government’s fall, even if it is not looking for it.
Strikes could derail nuclear discussions
The United States and Iran should be on Sunday for its sixth round of indirect conversations about the Iranian nuclear program in Oman, but the attack of Israel showed doubts as to whether the negotiations would act.
Iran’s first diplomat said on Saturday that the talks were “not to justify” after the Israeli strikes and probably no negotiations with Washington this weekend. But he stopped saying that the talks were canceled.
Abbas Araghchi’s comments, the Iranian Foreign Minister, came when he spoke to Kaja Kallas, the top diplomat of the European Union.
The Israeli air strikes were the “result of direct support from Washington,” said Araghchi in a statement by the IRNA state news agency. The United States said that it is not part of the strikes.
According to Araghchi’s comments, there was no immediate word from the White House. On Friday, US President Donald Trump asked Iran to achieve a contract with the United States through his nuclear program. He warned on his social platform of truth that Israel’s attacks “only get worse” and added that “Iran has to complete a deal before nothing is left”.
Iranian rockets beat Israel
On Friday, Khamenei signaled in a recorded news that Iran was willing to keep his retaliation measures on Israel: “We will not allow them to escape from this great crime they committed.”
Iran started late Friday and early Saturday in Israel waves from rockets, and the Iranians awakened to repeatedly television to state, repeated strike clips against Israel as well as videos of people who cheer and help out sweets.
The Iranian attacks killed at least three people and, according to two local hospitals, wounded around 70, mainly in and around Tel Aviv. According to first aiders, a rocket severely damaged at least four houses in the nearby city of Rishon Lezion.
The Israeli military said that seven soldiers were slightly wounded when a rocket hit central Israel without determining where the effects occurred. It was the first report on Israeli military victims since the first Israeli strokes.
U.S. soil air defense systems in the region helped shoot Iranian rockets, said an American official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the measures.
In Ramat Gan, east of Tel Aviv, a journalist saw burned -out cars and at least three damaged houses for Associated Press, including one in which the front was almost completely torn down.
The inhabitants of a central -Israeli city that was hit on Friday evening informed the AP that the explosion was so powerful that it shaken her animal hut door openly. “We thought it was, the house was gone and half of the house was actually gone, it fell apart,” said Moshe Shani.
According to the Israeli police, debris fell from the intercept of drones and rockets at dozens of places in Northern Israel, which caused damage and fires, but no injuries.
Israel’s international airport said on Saturday that it would continue to be closed.
Signs of a new Israeli attack
Iranian state television reported online that air defenses in the cities of Khorramabad, Kermanshah and Tabriz were fired and signal the beginning of a new Israeli attack. The film material from Tabriz showed a black smoke from the city.
An Israeli military officer said on Saturday that the military was willing to carry out more strike in Iran and said: “This is not over yet.” He spoke on the condition of anonymity in accordance with the official procedures.
Israel’s army spokesman Brig. Gen. Effie Deffrin said that Israel had attacked more than 150 destinations throughout Iran, including 40 in Tehran, where dozens of fighter aircraft operated “free” for more than two hours. He said this was the deepest point that Israel’s Air Force had, and the military said it was aimed at Iran’s air defense.
Overnight, the sound of explosions and Iranian air defense systems that were shot to goals interacted into the central -Teheran. The semi -official news agency of the Iranian Tasnim reported on a fire at the international airport in Mehrabad in Tehran.
The persistent air raids of Israel and the retribution by Iran adopted concerns about the entire war between the countries and the region.Already on the sideIn even larger upheavals. Israel’s war with Gaza Strip shows no signs of the end. According to local hospitals, at least 27 people were killed by Israeli fire in Gaza overnight.
The countries of the region condemned the attack of Israel, while leader all over the world demanded an immediate deescalation from both sides.
“More than a few weeks” to repair nuclear facilities
Iran was among the most important locations that have attacked Israel Main enrichment of the nuclear power In Natanz, where black smoke got into the air.
Satellite photos analyzed by AP show extensive damage in the Natanz Angrenganlag. The images that were filmed by Planet Labs PBC on Saturday show several buildings that were either damaged or destroyed. The structures include buildings that have been identified by experts as a supply service for the facility.
Israel said that a nuclear research facility in Isfahan also met and destroyed dozens of radar installations and surface-air rocket launchers in Westiran. Iran confirmed the strike in Isfahan.
The Israeli military officer said that, according to the initial assessment of the army, “will take much more than a few weeks” until Iran repairs the damage to the nuclear sites of Natanz and Isfahan. The official said the army had “concrete secret services that are the production in Isfahan for military purposes.
Israel denied that the nuclear area in Fordo, about 100 kilometers southeast of Tehran, met after an Iranian news agency near the government reported the noise of explosions near the site.
UN nuclear chief Rafael Grossi told the Security Council that the above-ground section of the Natanz facility was destroyed. The main century facility in the underground did not seem to have been hit, but the loss of power could have damaged the infrastructure there, he said.
Netanyahu said the attack was in production for months and was planned for April before it was moved.
Among the killed killings were three of the best military leaders of Iran: one who monitored the entire armed forces, General Mohammad Bagheri; one wholed the paramilitary revolutionary guardGeneral Hossein Salami; and the head of the wake, which monitors his arsenal of the ballistic rocket program, General Amir Ali Hajizadeh.
Two of Bagheri’s MPs were also killed, Iran confirmed on Saturday. On Saturday, Khamenei appointed a new leader for the air and space department of the revolutionary guard: General Majid Mousavi.
This story was originally on Fortune.com
