Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Iran launched a limited missile attack on Monday on an American military base in Qatar, and retracted the American bombing of its nuclear sites, but indicates that it was ready to back down from the escalating tensions in the volatile region.
President Donald Trump, who refused the attack as “a very weak response, said.
“More importantly, they have taken everything out of their” system “, and we hope, we hope that there will be no more hatred,” Trump has published the social truth.
Qatar condemned the attack on the Al -Wadid Air Base as a “flagrant violation” of its sovereignty, the air field and international law. Qatar said it had intercepted all one missile except for one, although it was not clear whether this missile caused any damage.
Iran said the settlement match the number of bombs that the United States brought against Iranian nuclear sites during the weekend. Iran also said it had targeted al -Qaeda because it was outside the populated areas.
These comments, which were held immediately after the attack, suggested that Iran wanted to cancel the escalation with the United States, which Trump himself said after the strikes early Sunday on Iran.
The pioneer, General Shaaya Al -Hajri, said that 19 missiles were launched on the base that is home to the Joint Air Operations Center, which provides leadership and control of air energy throughout the region, in addition to the 379 air wing, which is the largest likeness of this in the world. Trump said that 14 missiles were shot, 13 were neglected and one of them was “free” because it had not pose any threat.
Trump said Iran may be able to “proceed with peace and harmony” and said he would encourage Israel to do the same.
However, the Israeli war against Iran continued, as the Israeli army expanded its campaign on Monday to target the symbolic sites of the country’s democracy.
Iran has announced the attack on government television with the operation of combat music. It was called a comment on the screen “strong and successful response” to “America’s aggression”.
Immediately before the explosions, Iranian President Masoud Bezishian wrote on the social platform X: “We did not start the war and do not search for it. But we will not leave an invasion of the great Iran without an answer.”
A senior US military official said that reports that the missile had been launched at a basic residential base in Iraq was a wrong stimulant. The official, who spoke, provided that his identity was not disclosed because he was not permitted to publicly comment, said that the wreckage of an Iranian non -functional missile targeting Israel has caused an imminent attack on the base of Ain al -Assad.
Israel expands the war to include symbolic goals
On the eleventh day of the conflict, Israel and Iran have made a reality that has become a reality for civilians in both countries since Israel began the war to target the nuclear program that is progressing quickly in Tehran.
Iran struck Israel with a barrage of missiles and drones, while Israel said it attacked “the goals of the regime and government bodies in the heart of Tehran.”
However, Israeli officials insisted that they did not seek to overthrow the government of Iran, their arc enemy since the Islamic revolution in the country in 1979.
The most recent strikes were revealed just hours after Trump mentioned himself the possibility of changing the system a day after America was in the war with its hidden bombs on three Iranian nuclear sites.
“If the current Iranian regime is unable to make Iran great again, then why will there be a change in the regime ???” In fact, he asked on his social site.
White House press secretary Caroline Levitt Trump described “simply asking a question.”
During the weekend, American strikes prompted fears of the broader regional conflict. Iran said that the United States had crossed a “very large red line” with a risky maneuver to strike the missiles and the Bountter bombs of 30,000 pounds.
Israel aims to overcome the war in the coming days, but that will depend on the Iranians. An Israeli official said, provided that his identity is not disclosed to discuss high -level internal deliberations.
The official said that the preferred result of Israel is that Iran agrees to stop negotiations and re -enter with the United States over its nuclear program. But Israel is ready for the possibility of a low -density war or a “quiet calm” period, which will closely monitor Iran’s activities and its strike if it defines new threats.
Tehran strikes opened a new chapter of the war
The Israeli army has warned that it would continue to attack the military sites around Tehran, as its focus has turned into symbolic targets. The army issued a warning on the social platform X, although the Iranians are struggling to reach the outside world due to the closure of the Internet.
In Tehran, Israel struck the headquarters of the military force that suppressed the recent protests and detonated a gate in Evin Prison, which is bad for political activists to be held. Iranian government television participated in black and white monitoring footage of the strike in the facility known for the double citizens of the Western and often by Iran as bargaining chips in negotiations with the West.
Evin also has specialized units for political prisoners run by the semi -military revolutionary guards, who only answers the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khawni. The attachment is the goal of the US and European Union sanctions.
There were no immediate reports on losses in Iran or major damage.
Iranian government television broadcast footage that he had been shot inside Evin, while controlling the prisoners. However, the Washington -based Abdul Rahman Burumand Center for Human Rights said that many of the families of the detainees “expressed deep concern about the safety of their loved ones” in prison.
According to an Israeli official familiar with the government’s strategy, Israel targets these sites for the pressure of the Iranian administration, but it does not actively seek to overthrow it. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the internal government deliberations.
The Israeli army also confirmed that it struck the ways of Iran’s enrichment facility to Iran to obstruct access to the site. The site under the ground was one of the people who were struck in the United States on Sunday. The Israeli army did not explain.
In Vienna, the head of the United Nations Nuclear Energy Agency said he expected to be severe damage to the Fordo facility after the US air strike on Sunday there with advanced bombs.
Many Iranian officials, including the Atomic Energy Organization in Iran, Besoz Kamlafandi, claimed that Iran removed nuclear materials from the targeted sites early.
Iran is pressing to attack Israel
Iran said its attacks on Monday targeted the Israeli cities in Haifa and Tel Aviv, according to Iranian state television.
The explosions were also heard in Jerusalem, perhaps from the air defense systems at work, and said Magn David Adum rescuing the Israeli emergency rescue service that there were no reports of injuries.
In Israel, at least 24 people were killed and more than 1,000 wounded in the war. Israeli strikes against Iran have killed at least 950 people and became 3450 others, according to the Washington -based Human Rights Group.
The group, which presented detailed victims of Iranian turmoil, such as the protests surrounding the death of Masha Amini in 2022, said about the dead, and it has identified 380 civilians and 253 members of the security force.
“How can we get out of the situation today,” said Russian President Vladimir Putin, who leads one of Iran’s closest allies, on Monday after his meeting in Moscow with the Iranian Foreign Minister that they had explored.
Putin called on Israeli and American attacks on Iran as “absolutely unjustified aggression.”
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Lidman mentioned from Tel Aviv, Israel. The Associated Press Joseph Vedramman in Jerusalem, Qasim Abdel Zahra in Baghdad, Abe Cyoel in Beirut, Elise Morton in London, Gere Moulson in Berlin, Ella Gwenner in Brussels and Stephanie Liechtenstein in Vienna.