Iran is launching drones after Israel’s 3 senior national strikes

Israel attacked Iran early Friday in strikes This led to the removal of the major military officers and the hitting of nuclear sites and missiles, which raised the possibility of a comprehensive war between the bitter Middle East. It appears to be the most important attack that Iran has faced since its war in the eighties with Iraq.

Tensions faded on the rapidly advanced nuclear program in Iran, and Iran soon retreated, and a group of drones in Israel sent, while the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khounai warned of a “severe punishment”.

Countries in the region condemned Israel The attack, while leaders all over the world called for immediate disposal of both sides.

The Israeli army said about 200 aircraft involved in the initial attack on about 100 targets. Two security officials said that the country’s spy agency in the country was also able to put explosive drones inside Iran early, and then activate them to target missile launchers at an Iranian base near Tehran.

They said that Israel had also escaped microscopic weapons to central Iran as well as vehicle strike systems, which were activated when the attack began to hit Iranian air defenses.

Officials spoke on the condition that his identity was not disclosed to discuss very secret tasks and their claims could not be confirmed independently. There was no official comment.

The Israeli attack struck several sites, including the main nuclear enrichment facility in Iran in Natanz, where black smoke can be seen rising in the air. Later this morning, Israel said it had destroyed dozens of radar facilities and surface missile launchers in western Iran.

Among the dead were three of the senior Iranian military commanders, who supervised the entire armed forces, General Muhammad Baghri, who led the semi -military revolutionary goalkeeper, General Haosin Salami, and another running the ballistic missile program for the guard, General Amir Ali needs.

Iran has confirmed all the three deaths, which were a major blow to Tehran’s ruling struggles and will hold efforts to take revenge on Israel.

Khamna said that senior military officials and scholars were also killed.

In its first response, Iran launched more than 100 drones in Israel, where both Iraq and Jordan have confirmed that they had traveled over the airspace. Israel said that drones were intercepted outside their air range, and it was not immediately clear whether anything had happened.

In his first public comment on the attacks, US President Donald Trump again urged Iran to reach an agreement with Washington on its nuclear program, with a warning of the social truth platform that Israel’s attacks “will get worse.”

Without saying whether it is familiar with specific Israeli plans, Trump said, “There is still time to make this massacre, even though the upcoming attacks that were already planned are more brutal, and ended.”

“Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing, and save what was known as the day of the Iranian Empire,” he wrote. “No more death, no more destruction, just do it, before it is too late.”

Washington had warned Israel against an attack during the ongoing negotiations on the Iranian nuclear enrichment program. He stressed that the United States did not participate and warn of any revenge targeting interests or US employees.

It seems likely that the United States will suspect that the attack could be in the near future, as Washington on Wednesday withdrew some American diplomats from the capital of Iraq and provides a voluntary evacuation to the families of American forces in the broader Middle East.

Israeli leaders have been attacked on an imminent threat that Iran would build nuclear bombs, although it is unclear how close the country is to achieve this or whether Iran is already planning a strike. Iran maintains its nuclear program for civil purposes only.

“It might be general. This may be within a few months,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed that he pledged to follow up the attack as long as this is necessary to “remove this threat.”

“This is a clear and present danger to the survival of Israel,” he said.

Over the past year, Israel targeted Iranian air defenses, and hit a Russian air defense radar system in April 2024, surface missile sites and missile manufacturing facilities in October.

The Israelis rushed to the supermarkets in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other places to buy bottles in bottles and other supplies, and distribute messages to WhatsApp groups to advise each other to prepare their shelters for a long -term use.

Meanwhile, museums were closed and began to transport valuable materials to secure a basement to protect them, according to the state news agency Burma.

Khawnai said in a statement that Israel “opened its evil and blood -stained hand for a crime in our beloved country, and revealed its malicious nature more than ever through residential centers to look.”

For Netanyahu, the operation is paid attention to the continuous and increasingly destroyed war in Gaza, which is more than 20 months old.

There is a wide consensus in the Israeli public that Iran is a major threat, and the leader of the Israeli opposition leader, Yair Lapid, a strong critic of Netanyahu, “his full support” of the mission against Iran. But if Iranian revenge causes heavy Israeli injuries or major disturbances in daily life, public opinion may change quickly.

The Iranian -backed Lebanese party group issued a statement of condolences and condemned the attack, but it did not threaten to join Iran in its revenge. The Hezbollah war with Israel-which killed many of the leadership of the Supreme Group-ended with a ceasefire in the United States in November.

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Netanyahu expressed his hope that the attacks would lead to the fall of Iran’s theocrats, saying that his message to the Iranian people was that the battle was not with them, but with the “brutal dictatorship that pressured you for 46 years.”

He said, “I think the day of your liberation is close.”

Multiple sites in the Iranian capital were subjected to the attack, which Netanyahu said was both nuclear and military sites. The target was also officials leading the Iranian nuclear program and ballistic missile arsenal. The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that an Israeli strike hit the Iranian -uranium facility in Natanz and said it was closely monitoring the levels of radiation.

The strike on Iran prompted the Israeli army to its borders, which requires the use of air frequency to the air because combat aircraft approach enough to attack. It was not immediately clear whether Israeli aircraft had entered the Iranian airspace or just launched the so -called “confrontation missiles” on another country. People in Iraq heard the combat aircraft at the time of the attack. Israel has previously attacked Iran on the border in Iraq.

The capabilities of the attack were clear for weeks, as anxiety was built on the Iranian nuclear program.

Once the attacks are underway, the American embassy in Jerusalem issued an alert informing American government workers and their families of the appendix until further notice.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Israel has taken “a action unilaterally against Iran” and that Israel advised the United States that it believes that the strikes are necessary for its self -defense.

“We are not involved in strikes against Iran, and our maximum priority is to protect American forces in the region,” Rubio said in a statement issued by the White House.

Trump is scheduled to attend a meeting of the National Security Council on Friday in the White House room, where the conflict with senior advisers is expected to discuss.

The Israeli designer of preventing Iran from developing nuclear weapons, which is a source of anxiety on Thursday, when the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency for the first time in 20 years control Iran because of its rejection with its inspectors. Iran immediately announced that it would establish a third site for fertilization and install advanced centrifugal devices.

However, there are multiple assessments about the number of nuclear weapons that Iran can build, if it chooses to do so. Iran will need months to assemble and test any weapon, which he has said so far has no desire to do. The US intelligence agencies evaluate Iran does not have a weapons program at this time.

In a sign of the extent of the emerging struggle, the main Israel airport was closed, and Brent crude decreased in the news of the attack, about 8 % rose slightly before declining.

–Inform Vedman and Frankel from Jerusalem. The Associated Press Nasser Karimi, Amir Fahdat and Mahdi Fathai in Tehran, Iran; Melanie Laidman, Medal Midnik in Tel Aviv, Israel; Eric Taker in Washington; Bassem MROUE and Abby Seweell in Beirut; David Racing in Bangkok contributed to this report.