Israel launches “dozens” of strikes against Iran

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Israel launched multiple strikes in Iran after months of increasing tensions on the nuclear program, which is rapidly advancing in Tehran, which rises greatly from the crisis that swept the Middle East for more than a year.

Huge explosions were heard across Tehran at about 3:30 am local time, videos and primary photos that Iranians share social media, showing smoke from different parts of Tehran. For fear of the potential shelling of residential areas, some people left their homes.

“Uninterrupted reports indicate that many residential houses were targeted by Israel,” the Fars News Agency, affiliated with the Iranian guards, said, including a complex in which the elite power leaders reside.

Government television showed pictures of smoke that rises from the headquarters of the Revolutionary Guards in East Tehran.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel was “struck at the heart of the Iranian nuclear enrichment program,” saying it targeted its facility in Natanz, the “leading nuclear world” of the republic.

Netanyahu said in the video statement: “It is clear that Iran is just a time buying; it refuses to agree to this basic requirement for peaceful countries. For this reason we have no choice but to act and act now,” Netanyahu said in the video statement.

An Israeli military official said that Israel launched “dozens” of strikes targeting sites related to the Iranian nuclear program and other military targets. “We have a gun on our head … We are behaving to remove it; we are working to make sure that Iran does not have a nuclear bomb.”

The United States said it had not participated in the strikes, which came days before the Trump administration carried out a sixth tour of negotiations with Iran in an attempt to resolve the nuclear crisis diplomatic.

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that Israel was expecting Iran to be divided into “missile attack and drones against Israel and its civilian residents … in the near future.”

Soon after, Israel closed the airspace and banned most unnecessary gatherings. Iran suspended all flights until further notice.

“We are not involved in strikes against Iran and our maximum priority is to protect the American forces in the region. Israel advised us that they believe that this measure is necessary for its self -defense,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement issued by the White House.

“Let me be clear: Iran should not target our interests or employees.”

The White House did not respond to requests for suspension about the attack. The US Central Command, which oversees the American forces in the Middle East, did not respond either.

Oil prices have risen on strike reports, as the international reference increased by more than 5 percent to $ 72.22 a barrel and MARKER West Texas with a similar possession to $ 71.24. The Wall Street Futures Index from the S&P 500 index decreased by 1.3 percent.

The extent of the damage caused by Israel’s strikes did not clarify immediately, and analysts said that the broader dream in the Middle East-a decisive resource for global energy markets-may raise prices much higher.

The strike follows a confrontation for months on the Iranian nuclear program. The United Nations Monitoring Board of Directors announced on Thursday that Iran was in violation of its obligations other than spreading, and it was the first in that two decades.

US President Donald Trump was trying to mediate in a diplomatic decision to determine the Iranian nuclear program, but he warned on Thursday that the Israeli strike was a possibility.

However, he said he does not want Israel “to enter because I think it will blow it up.”

The main question is whether Iran will target regional energy supplies.

She said: “The fact that this strike occurred before Sunday nuclear talks between the United States and Iran, and after President Trump publicly indicated that he wanted to give diplomacy an opportunity to manage its course is great.”

The strikes are nearly two years of conflict across the Middle East, which began with the war between Israel and the enthusiasm of the armed group’s attack on October 7, 2023 on Israel.

Additional reports by Jimmy Smith and Steve Chavez in New York