In a change in war driving, Israel’s Armed Forces announced on Saturday, 14, that Iran became their main combat front. Gaza, hitherto center of the Israeli offensive, is now a ‘secondary position’, according to the Israeli Armed Forces.
Israel’s new focus in Iran increases the risk of a large regional conflict, with potential direct involvement of Western powers. The tension continues to rise, with offensive and counterattacks being recorded on multiple fronts since Friday dawn.
Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said he has completed a security meeting with military authorities warning that new attacks from Iran could lead to “total destruction of the Iranian capital.”
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The Israeli has stated that the Iranian government is “turning the citizens of Iran hostage and creating a reality in which they will pay a high price.” “If (the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah there) Khamenei continues to fire missiles at the Israeli rear, Tehran will burn,” he said.
Under the justification that Iran was approaching a “no return” point to the atomic bomb, in the last 24 hours Israel’s armed forces launched an unprecedented attack on Iranian soil, reaching more than 200 nuclear and military facilities and killing the country’s military summit, and nine scientists involved in the Iranian nuclear program.
Still on Saturday, Israel bombarded aerial defenses and Iran’s missile launchers, intensifying its operations against the country. Iran’s state press stated that another 60 people, including 20 children, died in an attack by Israel against a residential ensemble in Tehran, Iranian capital.
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Also on Saturday, Iran fired missiles and left two more people dead and 19 wounds in Israeli territory, according to The Times of Israel.
It was the first time the Israeli forces admitted to aiming for the nuclear installation of Fordow, an important center of the Iranian Iran’s nuclear program that is at the base of Iran’s revolutionary guard, buried almost half kilometer below a mountain, although the structure has not suffered serious damage.
Iranian authorities, in turn, said they removed Fordow equipment before attacks on the fortified nuclear installation. Quoted by state agency Irna, Behrus Kamalvandi, spokesman for Iran’s atomic energy organization, said the damage around the installation is “managed”.
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The site – built in a deep underground area and protected by anti -aircraft batteries – houses centrifuges used in uranium enrichment, essential for the development of nuclear weapons.
The Israeli army also released images of the bombing. The offensive, according to Israeli authorities, will continue to focus on nuclear facilities, military bases, ballistic missile launchers and human targets considered strategic, such as nuclear scientists and high -ranking officers. This Saturday, Tel Aviv announced that he killed nine Iranian nuclear experts in attacks conducted since Friday (Thursday night in Brasilia).
Iranian resested
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The Iranian government accuses Israel of starting a war by performing attacks that left at least 78 people killed in Iran on Friday. The Israeli government, in turn, says that the conflict will extend skin necessary.
Despite international appeals for a decrease in tension, Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned that “more attacks will come.”
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said Israel’s attacks are a “declaration of war.”
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Faced with the Israeli offensive, the Iranian government made a direct warning to the United States, the United Kingdom and France, stating that if there is any interference to prevent Tehran’s attacks against Israel, military bases and western ships in the region may be retaliated.
US President Donald Trump said the US will help defend Israel, and US officers were cited in news reports saying that US forces have already helped slaughter Iranian drones and missiles as they approached Israel. France President Emmanuel Macron also said on Friday that his country would help defend Israel against Iranian reprisals.
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The United Kingdom government said its forces did not provide any military assistance to Israel, as Prime Minister Keir Stmerer emphasized the need to reduce tensions.
Tehran is seeking to determine Western support to Israel’s defense at a time when most missiles and drones that launch against the country are being intercepted before reaching their targets.
However, following the threat, released on Saturday through state media, would be a huge risk to Iran, attracting western forces to the conflict while already suffering from the strength of Israeli bombardment.
Speaking of a UN Security Council session on Friday, US diplomat McCoy Pitt warned: “No country or independent ally or militia should give you US citizens, American bases or other American infrastructure in the region. The consequences for Iran would be terrible.”
