Israel says it killed veteran Iran commander as both sides attack

By Alexander Cornwell and James Oliphant

Jerusalem/Washington (Reuters) -Israel said that on Saturday, Tehran would not negotiate on the nuclear program when he was threatened, and a day after trying to keep peace talks alive, he killed a senior Iranian commander while trading.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that Saeed Izadi, the branches of Iranian revolutionary guards abroad, the arms of Iranian revolutionary guards abroad, led the Palestinian Union, the Iranian branch of Iran was killed in an apartment in Qom.

Katz said in a statement that Izadi attacked and armed the Palestinian militant group Hamas Hamas before October 7, 2023, and Katz said in a statement that Katz said.

According to Iranian media reports, the revolutionary guards said that their members were killed in attacks against Khorramabad, according to Iranian media reports that do not mention Izadi on the US and British sanctions lists.

The Iranian media said that on Saturday, Israel had previously attacked a building in QOM and a 16 -year -old child was killed and two people were injured.

Iran’s Persian news agency, Israel’s largest in the country, Isfahan nuclear facility targeted, but dangerous substances are not leakage, he said.

The Israeli army said it had started an attack wave against missile storage and infrastructure areas in Iran.

Ali Shamkhani, the close ally of Iran’s high leader, said that he had survived the Israeli attack. “It was my destiny to stay with a wounded body, so I continue to be the cause of the hostility of the enemy.” He said.

On Saturday, the Israeli army warned about a missile dam from Iran and triggered the air strikes in the occupied West Bank in the regions of Central Israel, including Tel Aviv.

Israel’s air defense systems responded to the metropolitan area with explosions and explosions and Tele Aviv intervention in the sky. They had no harmful reports.

Iran’s nuclear program

Israel began to attack Iran on June 13, and for a long time the enemy was on the verge of nuclear weapons development. Saying that the nuclear program is only for peaceful purposes, Iran retaliate to Israel with missiles and drone strikes.

Israel is assumed to have nuclear weapons. It does not approve or refuse it.

According to the Human Rights Activists News Agency, a US -based human rights organization, air strikes killed 639 people in Iran. The dead include the best gradual and nuclear scientists of the army.

Iranian Health Minister Muhammadreza Zafarqandi said on Saturday that Israel attacked three hospitals during the conflict, killed two health workers and one child and targeted six ambulances according to Fars.

The Israeli army did not respond immediately to the request for comment. A Iranian missile hit a hospital in Beersheba, a southern Israeli city of Southern Israel.

He called Iran’s 15 air defense officers and soldiers, whom Iran had been killed in a clash with Israel.

According to Israeli officials, 24 civilians were killed in Iranian missile attacks in Israel.

US President Donald Trump said Iran could buy a nuclear weapon in a few weeks or in a few months “on Friday. “We can’t let this happen.”

He said that the National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard was wrong to claim that there was no evidence that Iran has built a nuclear weapon.

Inadequate progress in Geneva

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said that there was no room for negotiation with the United States “until the Israeli aggression stops”. However, he arrived in Geneva on Friday to meet with the European Foreign Ministers, which Europe hoped to return to diplomacy.

Trump said, “It is enough time to see if people come to their senses,” Trump said.

Trump said it was not likely to put pressure on Israel in order to scale air strikes to allow negotiations to continue.

“I think it is very difficult to make this request right now. If someone wins, someone is a little more difficult to lose, but ready, willing and talent and we talk to Iran and we will see what will happen,” he said.

Geneva talks produced very little signs of progress, and Trump said he doubted that negotiators could provide a ceasefire.

“Iran does not want to talk to Europe. They want to talk to us. Europe will not be able to help.” He said.

According to a US State Department cable by Reuters, hundreds of US citizens have fled Iran since the beginning of the air war.

Israel’s United Nations ambassador Danny Danon said to the Security Council on Friday that his country could not stop his country “Iran until the nuclear threat breaks down”. Iran’s ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani called for the Security Council action and said that Tehran was concerned about reports that the United States could participate in the war.

Russia and China immediately requested to rise.

He told Reuters, a senior Iranian authority, is ready to discuss the limitations of Iran on the enrichment of uranium, but would reject any offer that prevents uranium completely enrichment, “under Israel’s strikes under the strikes of Israel”.

(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by James Oliphant in Washington; Editing by William Mallard)