- Iran says that the commander of the revolutionary guards killed.
- “We are at the decisive moment in the history of Israel,” says Netanyahu.
- Rubio says that we are not involved in the Israeli operation.
Jerusalem/Dubai/Washington: Israel launched blank attacks against Iran on Friday, saying that he went to nuclear facilities, ballistic missile factories and military commanders and that this was the beginning of a prolonged operation to prevent Tehran from building an atomic weapon.
Iranian media and witnesses reported explosions, even at the country’s main uranium enrichment center in Natanz, while Israel declared an emergency state in anticipation of retaliation missiles and drone strikes.
Iran’s elite revolutionary guards said his main commander, Hossein Salami, was killed and state media reported that the headquarters of the unit in Tehran had been beaten. Several children had been killed in a strike in a residential area in the capital, he said.
“We are at a decisive moment in the history of Israel,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a recorded video message.
“Moments ago, Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, a specific military operation to reverse the Iranian threat to Israel’s survival. This operation will continue for as many days as necessary to eliminate this threat.”
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatolá Ali Khamenei, said in a statement that Israel had “unleashed his evil and bloody hand” in a crime against Iran and that he would receive “a bitter destiny for himself.”
An Israeli military official said that Israel was hitting “dozen” of nuclear and military objectives, including facilities in Natanz in the center of Iran. The official said Iran had enough material to make 15 nuclear bombs in a matter of days.
The United States said it had no part in the operation, which increases the risk of a new climbing in tensions in the Middle East, an important oil producing region.
Together with extensive air attacks, the Israel Mossad spy agency directed a series of undercover sabotage operations within Iran, Axios reported, citing a senior Israeli official. These operations were aimed at damaging Iran’s strategic missile sites and their air defense capabilities.
Iranian state media reported that at least two nuclear scientists, Fereydoun Abbasi and Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi were killed in Israeli strikes in Tehran.
Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport closed until new notice, and Israel’s air defense units stopped on a maximum alert for possible retaliation strikes in Iran.
“After the preventive strike of the state of Israel against Iran, an attack of missile and UAV (drones) is expected against the state of Israel and its civilian population in the immediate period of time,” said Defense Minister Israel Katz in a statement.
The Chief of Israeli military personnel Eyal Zamir said that tens of thousands of soldiers had been called and “prepared at all borders.”
“We are in the midst of a historical campaign like any other. This is a critical operation to avoid an existential threat, by an enemy that intends to destroy us,” he said.
Israeli Minister Gideon Saar was celebrating “call marathon” with counterparts worldwide regarding Israel’s attack against Iran, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.
We ‘not involved’
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, said that Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb and that the United States expected to return to the negotiating table, in an interview with Fox News After the start of Israeli air attacks in Iran.
“We will see,” Fox News, Jennifer Griffin, quoted Trump as he said in an X publication.
Trump would call a National Security Council meeting on Friday morning, said the White House. He had said Thursday that an Israeli strike against Iran “could happen very well,” but reiterated his hopes of a peaceful resolution.
The US army is planning the full range of contingencies in the Middle East, including the possibility of having to help evacuate US civilians, said a United States official to Reuters.
Iran’s Armed Forces spokesman said that Israel and his main ally, the United States, would pay a “heavy price” for the attack, accusing Washington to provide support for the operation.
While the United States tried to distance himself from Israel’s military operation, an Israeli official told the public broadcaster Kan that Israel had coordinated with Washington in Iran.
The Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, said that the United States was not involved in the strikes and that Tel Aviv had acted unilaterally for self -defense.
“We are not involved in strikes against Iran and our top priority is to protect US forces in the region,” Rubio said in a statement.
“Let me be clear: Iran should not point to the interests or personnel of the United States,” he added.
The State Department issued a notice that says that all employees of the United States government in Israel and their relatives should “take refuge in place until new notice.”
The attacks caused acute failures in the prices of shares in Asian trade on Friday, led by a sale of US futures.
The UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, condemned any military escalation in the Middle East, said the UN spokesman Farhan Haq.
“The Secretary General asks both parties to show the maximum restriction, avoiding all costs a decrease in a deeper conflict, a situation that the region can barely pay,” said Haq.
Nuclear conversations
American and Iranian officials had a sixth round of conversations about the growing enrichment program of Tehran Uranium in Oman on Sunday, according to officials from both countries and their Omarian mediators.
An American official said that these conversations were still scheduled to proceed despite the Israeli attack.
The Israeli army said Friday that he was forced to act based on the new intelligence information that shows that Iran was “addressing the point of no return” in the development of a nuclear weapon.
“In recent months, this program has accelerated significantly, significantly approaching the regime to obtain a nuclear weapon,” he said in a statement, without revealing the alleged evidence.
A source familiar with the US intelligence reports. Uu. He said that there was no recent change in the intelligence evaluation of the United States that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon and that Khamenei had not authorized the restart of the nuclear weapons program that was closed in 2003.
