Israel And Iran Trade Strikes For A Third Day As Hundreds Reported Dead
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Israel Unleashed Air attacks throughout Iran Sunday for a third day and threatened with even more power Some Iranian missiles escape from Israeli air defenses Strike buildings in the heart of the country. Planned talks about Iran’s nuclear program were canceled.
A US official, in an indication of how long Israel is ready to progress, President Donald Trump to Associated Press recently Vetoed to kill an Israel Ayatullah Ali Khanei, Iran’s high leader.
According to a long -term human rights group that has long followed the country with Washington -based human rights activists, Israel’s strikes killed at least 406 people in Iran and wounded 654. The Iranian government did not offer general wounded figures.
The region was prepared for a long conflict after Israel’s surprise bombardment on Iran’s surprise bombardment Nuclear and military fields He killed a few best generals and nuclear scientists. Both sides did not show signs of withdrawal.
Iran said that Israel had hit two oil refinery and that Iran has increased the likelihood of a wider attack on the intense energy industry. It can affect global markets. In a social media mission, the Israeli army warned the Iranians to evacuate arms factories and pointed out the expansion of the campaign. The Iranian army warned the Israelis to stay away from “occupied” areas on state television.
Israel, Even though it is an unexpected nuclear armed situation In the Middle East, he said he started the attack to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. Two countries opponents for decades.
The explosions shook the Iranian capital of Tehran at noon, and 15:30 sirens stole in Israel at 16:00, and at around 20:30, the Israeli army said the “several hits site”, including the North Haifa.
Israel said that 14 people have been killed in the country since Friday and 390 were injured. Iran fired more than 270 missiles, 22 of them passed over the country. advanced multi -layered air defensesAccording to Israel figures. Israel’s main international airport and airspace remained closed for a third day.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that if Israel stops in Iran, our answers will stop ”. Iranian President Masoud Pesshkian criticized the US for supporting Israel and said whether Israel continued “hostile actions ,, and“ the answers will be more decisive and violent ”.
Trump said the USA “It had nothing to do with the attack” And that Iran can only avoid further destruction by accepting a new nuclear agreement.
Mosques as bomb shelters
Photos shared by Iran’s Isna News Agency showed that bloody people received help from Israeli strikes in Tehran city center.
Iran’s IRNA News Agency, operated by the state, said that Saeed Khatibzadeh, Deputy Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs, hit a Foreign Ministry in the north of Tehran, and several civilians were injured.
After hitting the Israeli strikes on air defenses, military bases and areas associated with the nuclear program, he targeted the Iranian Ministry of Defense. On Sunday night, Israel said that in Western Iran, dozens of surface-surface-surface missiles began to hit the target.
Israel claimed that the Iranian fuel supply plane in Mashhad in the northeast, and that the army has just performed. Iran did not accept any attack. The video obtained and confirmed by the AP showed that smoke rises from the city.
Iranian Foreign Minister said that Israel has targeted an oil refinery near Tehran and one of the other in a state in the Gulf of Basra.
The Group of Human Rights Activists showed that the collapse of the wage so far has been killed throughout Iran of 90 members of 197 civilians and army. At least 119 more deaths could not be detected. The group attracts local reports against a resource network within the country, where access to international media is more limited than Israel.
In a sign that Iran expects Israeli strikes to continue, state television will be presented as bomb shelters that started on Sunday night of state television metro stations and mosques.
Death money is rising in Israel
In Israel, at least six people, including a 10 -year -old and 9 -year -old child, were killed when a missile hit an apartment in Bat Yam near Tel Aviv. Daniel Hadad, a local police commander, said that 180 people were injured and seven people were missing.
Four more people were killed and 24 injured, including a 13 -year -old child. A strike in the city of Rehovot 42.
The Weizmann Institute of Science, an important center for military and other research at Rehovot, reported ayr a series of hit the buildings on the campus ”. He said no one was hurt.
According to the company operating CT, a oil refinery was damaged in Haifa, the northern Israeli city.
Netanyahu says that the change of regime in Iran may be a result.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu brushed to prevent the emergency calls of world leaders.
In an interview with FOX News on Sunday, he said that the change in the regime in Iran may be “definitely the result of the conflict, and that Israel has killed Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps intelligence. He also claimed that Israeli intelligence without giving evidence that Iran aims to give nuclear weapons to Iran -backed Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Iran evaluated that the nuclear program is always peaceful and that the US and others have not followed a weapon since 2003. However, in recent years, Iran has enriched the Uranium stocks to graded levels in recent years and has been believed to have the capacity to develop more than one weapon within months if it has chosen if it has done it.
UN’s atomic keeper is a rare Iran’s Censorship last week.
A senior US official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss precise nuclear talks, said Washington was connected to them and hoped that the Iranians would return to the table.
Israel is already trying to destroy Hamas, an Iranian ally, in the Gaza Strip. The war is still angry Hamas’s attack after October 7, 2023.
In social media post, Trump warned Iran that any retaliation directed to him would bring a response to “never seen before”.
To repair nuclear facilities ‘more than a few weeks’
In Iran, Satellite Photos It was analyzed with AP show great damage in Iran Main Nuclear Enrichment Facility Natanz. The images taken by Planet Labs PBC on Saturday show more than one building damaged or destroyed. The structures that have been shot include buildings that provide power to the facility by experts.
UN Nuclear Chief Rafael Grossi said that the above -ground section of the Natanz facility was destroyed to the Security Council. The main centrifugal facility was not hit underground, but he said the loss of power could damage the infrastructure.
Israel also made a nuclear research facility in Isfahan. International Atomic Energy Agency UN nuclear guard dog, Isfahan’ın Uranium Transformation Plant, including four “critical buildings” said damage. IAEA said there was no increase in radiation in Natanz or Isfahan.
A Israeli military official, in line with official procedures on Sunday on the condition of anonymity, the two sites restore the two sites, maybe more, “he said.
Melzer reported Goldenberg from Israel, Naharia and Israel Tel Aviv. Tehran, Associated Press writers in Iran Nasser Karimi and Amir Vahdat; Aamer Madhani in Washington; Tel Aviv, Sam Mednick in Israel and Melanie Lidman and Julia Frankel in Jerusalem contributed to this report.
