Israel startedBladder attacksIn the heart of the nuclear and military structure of the Iranian structure on Friday, which were previously smuggled into the country to grab important facilities and kill top generations and to kill -a barrage was necessary before his opponent came closer to the construction of a nuclear weapon.
Iran was recipient late Friday by keeping numerous ballistic rockets on Israel, where explosions in heaven flammed over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and shook the buildings underneath.
“We will not allow you to escape this great crime you committed,” said the highest leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a recorded message in which he swore revenge. The Iranian UN Ambassador said that 78 people were killed and more than 320 injured in Israeli attacks.
According to Israel’s paramedic, 34 people were injured in the Tel Aviv area, including a woman who was critically injured after the captured. In Ramat Gan, east of Tel Aviv, a journalist from Associated Press saw, in which cars and at least three damaged houses were burned out, including one in which the front was almost completely torn down.
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.
Israel ongoing air strikes and intelligence operations and the retaliation of Iran expressed concerns about the entire war between the countries and drove the region.Already on the sideIn even larger upheavals.
Israel had threatened such a strike for a long time, and consecutive American administrations tried to prevent him because he feared that he would ignite a broader conflict in the Middle East and possibly be ineffective in order to destroy the Iranian nuclear nuclear program.
ButA confluence of developmentsTriggered by Hamas’ 7. October 2023, the attack – plus the re -election of the US President Donald Trump – created the conditions that made Israel possible to finally enforce its threats. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the United States was informed before the attack.
Iran was on Thursdaythrough the atomic watchdog of the UNFor non -compliance with the obligations to prevent you from developing a nuclear weapon.
The countries of the region condemned the attack of Israel, while leader all over the world demanded an immediate deescalation from both sides.
At the request of Iran, the UN Security Council planned an emergency assembly for Friday afternoon. In a letter to the Council, the Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi described the murder of his civil servants and scientists “state terrorism” and confirmed the right of his country on self -defense.
Israel’s military said that around 200 planes were involved in the first attack on around 100 destinations. The Mossad Spy Agency positioned explosive drones and precision weapons in Iran in advance and used it to aim at Iranian air defense and rocket launchers near Tehran, according to two security officers who spoke on the condition of anonymity.
It was not possible to confirm the claims of the officials independently.
Iran was among the most important locations that have attacked IsraelMain enrichment of the nuclear powerIn Natanz, where black smoke got into the air. It also seemed to meet a second, smaller nuclear enrichment system in Fordo, about 100 kilometers southeast of Tehran, according to an Iranian news agency near the government, which reported to hear explosions nearby.
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.
Israel military spokesman Brig. General Effie Defrin said that the Natanz facility was “significantly damaged” and the operation was “at the beginning”.
UN nuclear chief Rafael Grossi told the Security Council that the above-ground section of the Natanz facility was destroyed. He said all electrical infrastructure and emergency generators were destroyed, as well as part of the facility in which uranium was enriched up to 60%.
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.
The first wave of strikes had awarded Israel in the Iranian sky “significant freedom of movement” and eliminated the way for further attacks, according to an Israeli military officer who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss details of the attack with the media.
The official said Israel was prepared for an operation that could take up to two weeks, but there was no fixed timeline.
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 guard’s ballistic rocket program, General Amir Ali Hajizadeh.
Iran confirmed all three deaths and blows out his leading theocracy, which will make the efforts to retaliate difficult. Khamenei said other top military officers and scientists were also killed.
Netanyahu said the attack was in the formation for months. In a video declaration that was sent to journalists on Friday, he said that he ordered plans for the attack in November last November, shortly after the murder of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Hisbollah in Lebanon, one of the strongest representatives of Iran. Netanyahu said the attack was planned for April, but was postponed.
In his first answer on Friday, Iran fired more than 100 drones in Israel. Israel said that the drones were intercepted outside of his airspace, and it was not immediately clear whether anything came through.
The military of Israel said that reservists called and began to station troops across the country when it was prepared for further retaliation measures by Iranian or Iranian deputy groups.
Trump asked Iran on Friday to achieve a contract with the United States through his nuclear program and warned on his social platform that Israel’s attacks “only get worse”.
“Iran has to complete a deal before nothing left, and once as well known as the Iranian Empire,” he wrote.
The USA on Wednesdaypulled some American diplomatsfrom the Iraq capital and offered the families of the US troops in a broader Middle East voluntary evacuations. On Friday, the United States began to change military resources in the region, including ships, as Israel prepared for more retaliation, two US officials said on the condition of anonymity.
The officials in Washington had warned Israel at the beginning of the week before an attack so as not to disturb the negotiations with Iran about his nuclear recovery program. On Friday, they emphasized that the United States was not involved in the attack and warned of retaliation measures that aim at the interests or staff of the United States.
Israel calls attacks preventive strikes to the Iranian nuclear program
The Israeli guides spent the attack necessary to delete an immediate threat that the Iran would build atomic bombs, although it remains unclear how close the country was at the reach of the country or whether Iran had actually planned a strike. Iran claims that his nuclear program only serves for civilian purposes.
“This is a clear and current danger to Israel’s survival”, “Netanyahuclaimed when he swore to the attack as long as necessary to “eliminate this threat”.
It is generally assumed that Israel is the only nuclear armed state in the Middle East, but has never recognized that they have such weapons.
In the past year, Israel aimed at the air defense of Iran,meet a radar systemFor an air defense battery produced in Russia in April 2024 andSurface-to-air rocket pointsand rocket manufacturing facilities in October.
On Friday, Israelis hurried in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and elsewhere in supermarkets to buy water in bottles and other supplies. But otherwise streets and parks were largely abandoned.
Iran says Israel aimed at residential areas
For Netanyahu, the operation distracts Israel’s attentionDuration and always devastating war in the GazaWhat is now over 20 months old.
In the Israeli public, there is a broad consensus that Iran is a great threat, and the opposition leader of Israel, Yair Lapid, a convinced critic of Netanyahu, offered his “full support” for the mission against Iran. But if Iranian reprisals cause severe Israeli victims or serious daily disorders, public opinion could quickly shift.
The Lebanese militant militant group Hisbollah supported by the Iran gave an explanation that conducted condolences and condemned the attack, but did not threaten to join Iran in his retaliation.Hezbollah’s recent war with Israel-The killed a large part of the leadership of the group ended with an American ceasefire in November.
Khamenei, the Iranian top guide, said in a statement that Israel “opened his evil and blood -stained hand for a crime in our beloved country and that his malicious nature revealed more than ever through impact center centers”.
Netanyahu expressed hope that the attacks would trigger the fall of Iranian theocracy, and said that his message to the Iranian people was that the struggle was not with them, but with the “brutal dictatorship that has been suppressing it for 46 years”.
This story was originally on Fortune.com
