Iran vs. Israel: What does an Israeli attack mean?
13. June 2025 at 8:55 I Updated 13th June 2025 at 14:56
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This is the biggest attack on Iran in decades.
Tehran, BRATISLAVA. Israeli officials have been saying for years that they had to prevent the Iranian regime to obtain nuclear weapons. The United States has claimed in recent weeks that they want to negotiate the Iranian nuclear program and that the agreement is close.
Although to mutual escalation – including bombing – between Tel Aviv and Tehran in recent years, Friday has occurred several times, Friday Israeli The attack on Iranian goals is greater. Israeli interventions could fundamentally cripple the Iranian nuclear program and get into chaos the theocratic regime in Tehran.
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An attack of Israel that is under international pressure for the disputed invasion in Gaza band. Against 75 times larger IranHowever, it can also get the Middle East region into a new, open war. It will also depend on the retaliation of the Iranian regime, which is weakened or on the willingness of the United States to participate in the conflict in any way.
1. What happened in Iran?
Israel on Friday around half past four in the morning of Iranian time (02.00 h Central European time) launched a massive attack on Iran and several waves hit more than a hundred goals – Iranian nuclear facilities, military bases, as well as residential buildings in Tehran and its surroundings. The explosions were heard in addition to the capital also in Tabris, Araka or Isfahane.
Israel has hit several of the most important devices for enriching uranium in Nananz in Isfahan province in the central part of Iran.
The aim was also industrial and military complexes in the main Iranian cities and specific persons.
About two hundred combat aircraft, which dropped hundreds of bombs on Iran, participated in the attack, reports the New York Times. Security sources from Israel for AP claim that the Iranian regime also intervened from the inside and that the Mossad secret service smuggled weapons or suicidal drones that targeted Iranian air defense after the beginning of the attack. This suggests that Israel can attack Iran in the next days, notes the BBC.
This is the biggest attack on Iran from the Iraqo-Iranian War between 1980 and 1988.
A few hours later, Israel made a new wave of attacks in Iranian territory.
The explosions reported, among other things, in the cities of Tabris in the northwest and Shiraz in the central part of the country, as well as in the Natanz nuclear complex.
2. Why Israel attacked Iran?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu He claims that a military operation is to « alleviate the Iranian threat to Israel’s survival ». According to Netanyahu, the Rising Lion operation is to last « many days ».
Israel has long considered the Iranian regime a threat to its existence. The highest Iranian spiritual leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei defends the attack of the terrorist group Hamas In Israel, he described the country as a « cancerous tumor that will be rooted », and last year he stressed that it was the duty of Iran to confront Israel. The state has also attacked Misrael several times with ballistic missiles and supports militant groups in the region, including Hamas himself.
A source from the Israeli army environment For the New York Times He claims that Iran has advanced in its nuclear program and « has enough material to produce 15 nuclear bombs within a few days ».
« We are at a critical point – if we miss it, we will have no opportunity to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons that threaten our existence, » he said According to BBC Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz.
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