Israel has launched an attack on Iran, targeting “dozens” of targets including nuclear facilities, military commanders, and scientists,
claiming it took unilateral action because Tehran had begun to build nuclear warheads.
As Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, threatened “severe punishment” against Israel,
the Israeli military announced on Friday morning that Iran had launched 100 drones aimed at Israel,
which the country’s defenses were focusing on intercepting.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, stated that the Israeli attack,
which it is referring to as Rising Lion, would take “many days” to “roll back the Iranian threat to Israel’s very survival.”
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We struck at the heart of Iran’s nuclear enrichment programme,” Netanyahu said in a recorded televised address.
“We struck at the heart of Iran’s nuclear weaponisation programme.
We targeted Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz. We targeted Iran’s leading nuclear scientists working on the Iranian bomb.
We also struck at the heart of Iran’s ballistic missile programme.”
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Later, in comments that suggest the operation could be long and difficult, Netanyahu said:
“Israeli citizens may have to remain in sheltered areas for lengthy periods of time.”
Meanwhile, according to Iranian state media, six nuclear scientists,
including Fereydoun Abbasi, who oversaw Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization from 2011 to 2013,
as well as the commander of the Khatam al-Anbia joint forces headquarters, Maj Gen Gholamali Rashid,
army chief of staff Maj Gen Mohammad Bagheri, and head of the Revolutionary Guards, Gen Hossein Salami, were killed in the strikes.
Furthermore, US president, Donald Trump insisted that he had not been taken by surprise by the strike
though he had previously warned Israel not to attack while the US was negotiating with Iran.
“Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb and we are hoping to get back to the negotiating table,” the US president told Fox News.
“We will see. There are several people in leadership that will not be coming back.
He further added that the US would defend both the US and Israel in the event of Iranian retaliation.
Haaretz also reported that the US Air Force deployed an F-15 fighter squadron to Jordan two weeks ago
to help intercept Iranian drones and cruise missiles if necessary,
and Fox News quoted administration officials as saying Israel Iron Dome missile defence shield had been replenished recently with US interceptors.