Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AP) – Israel struck the targets of the Iranian government in Tehran on Monday in a series of strikes that followed the missiles and drones launched by Iran in Israel in the wake ofThe tremendous strikes of the Trump administration on Iranian nuclear sitesThe previous day.
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 Sunday’s attack by the United States on three nuclear facilities. The Israeli army did not explain.
In Tehran’s attacks, the Israeli Ministry of Defense said it struck targets that included the famous Evin Prison in the Iranian capital and security headquarters for the semi -military Revolutionary Guards.
The ministry said: “The Iranian dictator will be punished with full force to attack the Israeli home front.”
She said that the strikes struck Palestine Square in Tehran and other “military leadership centers belonging to the Iranian regime.”
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 move came a few hours after President Donald Trump wrote on its social position in fact: “If the current Iranian regime is unable to make Iran a great again, then why will there be a change in the regime ???”
Nuclear concerns are heading after strikes
In Vienna, the head of the United Nations Nuclear Energy Agency said he expected to be severe damage to the Fordo facility, which is already following the US air strike on Sunday there with advanced bombs.
“Given the explosive load used … it is expected to cause significant damage …” said Raphael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
With strikes on SundayIranian nuclear sitesThe United States introduced itselfIsrael’s warWhich prompts fears of the wider regional conflict. Iran said that the United States crossed a “very large red line” with itRisky maneuverTo strike the three sites with missiles and 30,000 poundsBombs.
Many Iranian officials, including the Atomic Energy Organization in Iran, Besoz Kamlafandi, claimed that Iran removed nuclear materials from the targeted sites early.
Jerusi told the Council of the International Atomic Energy Governors on Monday that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi told him on June 13 that Iran would “adopt special measures to protect equipment and nuclear materials.”
“I have made it clear that any transfer of nuclear materials must be announced from a protection facility to another location in Iran,” said Grossi.
Israel and Iran are pressing their attacks
Iran described its attack on Monday on Israel as a new wave of its work “True Promise 3”, saying it was targeting Israeli cities in Haifa and Tel Aviv, according to Iranian government television.
I heard the explosions also in Jerusalem. There were no immediate reports on damage.
In Iran, witnesses reported that the Israeli air strikes hit areas around the capital of Iran, Tehran, in the middle of the day. Iranian government television confirmed that one of the Israeli strikes hit the Evin prison gate.
The report shared what appears to be black and white shots of the strike. Prison is known to carry double citizens and Iran is often used by Iran as a bargaining way of negotiations with the West.
Evin also has specialized units for political prisoners and those who have Western relations, managed by the semi -military revolutionary guards, who only answers the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khounai. The attachment is the goal of the US and European Union sanctions.
Earlier, the Iranian general, Abdul Rahma Moussafi, the chief of the joint staff of the armed forces from Washington, warned that their strikes had given Iranian forces “his free hand” to act against American interests and their army.
There are tens of thousands of American forces in the Middle East, many of them are located within the range of short -range Iranian missiles.
It calls for the cancellation of the escalation
The United States described on Sunday’s attack onFordo and Natanz enrichment facilities, as well as nuclear sitting Al -IsfahanAs one time to direct the Iranian nuclear program, but Trump warned of additional strikes if Tehran was picked.
The state -managed IRNA news agency described Mossafi describing the American attacks as violating Iran and being an invasion of the country.
“How can we get out of the situation today,” said President Vladimir Putin in Moscow with Russia, one of Iran’s closest allies, and on Monday, President Vladimir Putin said after his meeting in Moscow with Aragshi, the Iranian Foreign Minister, “How can we get out of the situation today,” said President Vladimir Putin, with Russia, and on Monday.
Putin called on Israeli and American attacks on Iran as “absolutely unjustified aggression.”
Elsewhere, calls continued to remove escalation and return to diplomacy to try to resolve the conflict.
Iran, which insists that its nuclear program is for civil purposes only,Previously agreed to reduce uranium enrichmentAnd allow international inspectors to reach its nuclear sites under the 2015 deal with the United States, France, China, Russia, Britain and Germany in exchange for sanctions.
But after Trump withdrew the United StatesUnilaterallyDuring its first term, Iran began to enrich uranium by up to 60 %-a short technical step away from the 90 % weapons degree levels-and restricted access to its nuclear facilities.
In Brussels, the best European Union diplomat said that the bloc has “focused a lot on the diplomatic solution.”
“The fears of revenge and this war are huge,” Kaja Callas said at the beginning of the Brussels Foreign Ministers meeting, where Iran jumped to the top of the agenda.
“Especially the closure of the hormonal strait by Iran is very dangerous and not good for anyone,” Callas said, referring to a basic marine road for oil transport.
After Sunday’s attacks, Iranian officials repeated their long threats to close the main shipping lane.