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Israeli Air Force F-15 fighters
The US and Israeli air forces bombed several targets in Iran this Saturday morning. President Donald Trump announced that his country has begun “major combat operations in Iran” and that the objective is to “eliminate imminent threats”. Iranian authorities were the main target of the attack.
The United States and Israel launched attacks against Iran in the early hours of Saturday, after negotiations over the Iranian nuclear program “failed to produce the desired result” by President Donald Trump.
Iranian media is reporting the occurrence of attacks across Iran and Iranian state television confirmed what it described as an “airstrike by the Zionist regime” following a series of explosions heard in Tehran.
According to the Fars news agency, “were recorded 7 impacts of missiles in the neighborhoods of Keshvardoust and Pasteur” in the Iranian capital, an area where residence of supreme leader Ali Khamenei. Internet connections and the telephone network were cut in Iran, according to the EFE agency.
As Iranian authorities were the main target of the first wave of US-Israeli attacks against Iran, according to official sources cited by . The president of Iran, Masud Pezeshkian“is in perfect health conditions”, Iranian media reported today. The country’s supreme leader was not in Tehran at the time of the attacks, the agency says.
The Israeli Defense Minister, Israel Katzconfirmed that Israel launched an attack “preventive” against Iran in the early hours of Saturday, in an operation that the Israelis called “Lion’s Roar“.
The Israeli government declared the alert status across the country due to the expectation of Iranian retaliation. “This is a proactive warning to prepare the public for the possibility of missile launches against the State of Israel,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in an Internet post.
In a statement, the President of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahustated that “a Murderous terrorist regime must not possess nuclear weaponss that allow him to threaten all of humanity”, and thanked “our great friend, President Donald Trump, for his historic leadership”.
Donald Trump published one on Social Truth in which it confirms U.S. involvement in the attack, which it calls a “massive, ongoing operation,” which the U.S. Department of War called “Operation Epic Fury“.
According to Donald Trump, Iran “tried to rebuild its nuclear program and continue to develop long-range missiles that can now threaten our good friends and allies in Europe, our troops stationed abroad and that could soon reach American territory.”
“They will never have a nuclear weapon“, he stated.
Trump called on the Iranian people to rise up and take control of the country, asking it to protect itself and not let what it considered an opportunity pass by. “The hour of your freedom is at your fingertips. Now is the time to control your destiny“, he appealed.
Trump added that the Iranian military may have “immunity” if they put down their weapons and that the other option is “certain death”. In the message, Trump admitted that there could be American victims, which “often happens in war”.
This attack takes place two days after the last round of negotiations between the United States and Iran over Iran’s nuclear program.
Washington demands that Iran cease uranium enrichment and limit the range of its missiles, which Tehran refusesaccepting only cuts to its nuclear program in exchange for the suspension of current sanctions.
