Top militaries kill after Israel’s attack against Iran
Around two o’clock the night until Friday, the wing alarm sounded all over Israel. At the same time, explosions began to be heard in and near the Iranian capital Tehran. A dozen military goals, including a uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, were subjected to aerial bombings.
At the same time, Defense Minister Israel Katz issued a special state of emergency throughout Israel.
« We expect Iran to respond with missile and drone attacks in the near future, » he said in an official statement.
And the answer came early on Friday morning. According to IDF, Iran has sent over 100 drones against Israel.
Early on Friday morning Also confirmed the Iranian state media that the Revolutionary Guard’s commander Hossein Salami and Defense Manager Mohammad Bagheri were killed in the attacks. According to Iranian state television, at least two core researchers-Fereydoon Abbasi, former head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Agency, and Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi, head of Islamic Azad University in Tehran, also have killed, writes, writes, writes, writes BBC.
From Tehran, reports that five civilians should also have been killed and about 20 are injured, which has not yet been officially confirmed.
– Given the goals that have been met, it is clear to me that the region is unfortunately closer than ever to slip into the abyss of a regional war, says Mona Yacoubian, senior adviser and head of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies to the BBC.
Donald Trump Tells Fox News that they knew the attacks in advance, but denies all the rehearsal in what Israel chose to call Operation Rising Lion. On Thursday, the United States decided that evacuate staff from the embassy in Baghdad.
President Benjamin Netanyahu has now promised to continue « as many days as it is required ».
– It is a fairly extensive ambition and intention, says Mona Yacoubian, who warns that the longer this is going on, the greater the risk of accidental escalation and misjudgments that can lead to a feared major war in the region.
UN Secretary -General Antonio Guterres calls for « greatest possible restraint » in the Middle East and condemned Israel’s attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
– We must at all costs avoid getting into a deeper conflict, a situation that the region can hardly afford, says Guterres.
He is particularly concerned Over Israel’s attacks on nuclear facilities in Iran, while negotiations between Iran and the United States on the status of Iran’s core program are ongoing. Donald Trump, for his part, says that it is now hoped to be able to return to the negotiating table and that Iran must be clear that they cannot have nuclear weapons.
Israel calls the operation a « preventive and precise » attack « based on high quality intelligence to strike Iran’s nuclear program.
According to Netanyahu, Iran has produced enough high -enriched uranium for nine atomic bombs.
– If Iran is not stopped, they will be able to produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time, in a few months, less than a year, says Netanyahu.