Israel warns of the “long campaign” against Iran while the Europeans are pressuring for the truce

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The head of the Israeli military warned of a “long campaign” against Iran, even with the meeting of the European foreign ministers of their Iranian counterpart in an attempt to end the war and persuade the Trump administration to stay out of the conflict.

Lieutenant -General Eyal Zamir told the Israeli soldiers on Friday that “the campaign was not over” despite the strikes targeting Iranian nuclear sites, hitting the capabilities of Iranian missiles and killing many of its military leaders.

Zamir said: “We have started the most complex campaign in our history to remove a threat of this size, against such an enemy, we must be ready for a long campaign,” Zamir said.

During his speech, foreign ministers in the United Kingdom, France and Germany were in talks in Geneva with the Iranian Foreign Minister to pressure an agreement to resolve the decades -long confrontation between Tehran and the West on the wide nuclear program in Tehran.

Israel is justified Its attack on Iran When necessary to prevent the Islamic Republic from developing a nuclear weapon. Tehran emphasized that enriching uranium is part of the peaceful energy program.

French President Emmanuel Macron said that the European countries have prepared a “comprehensive negotiation” in the first direct participation between Western officials and the Islamic Republic since Israel launched an air attack on a large scale on its arc enemy a week ago.

The negotiations came a day after the White House said President Donald Trump He decided “during the next two weeks” Whether Washington will enter the war.

In a sign of the challenges facing the diplomatic batch, Macron said the negotiations should move towards the enrichment of uranium zero, which Iranian officials have repeatedly insisted as an unacceptable red line.

The French president said the discussion would also include limiting Iranian missile activity and financing terrorist groups.

The situation means that the European position is now closer than before to Trump, which called for the complete dismantling of the Iranian nuclear program.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragichi said before the talks stating that Tehran would not negotiate with Washington under fire. He said: “Our legitimate defense will continue unabated, and we have nothing to discuss with the United States, which is complicit in these crimes.”

However, he said that Iran was “open to hearing” the opinions of Europeans and participating in discussions.

France, Germany and the United Kingdom are the signers of Iran’s nuclear agreement for the year 2015, signed with the global powers, which Trump abandoned his first presidential term.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has always opposed such diplomatic efforts to continue the attack on Iran as long as this was necessary to destroy the Tehran nuclear program and the ability of the missiles.

Tehran had previously held indirect talks with the United States, but the beginning of the war last week raised these diplomatic efforts, 48 ​​hours before the sixth round of negotiations.

Israel and Iran continued to exchange fire on Friday, with Israeli strikes hitting west of Tehran. Iran launched 20 missiles in Israel targeting the northern city of Heva and the central parts of the country, according to the Israeli authorities, but there were no reports on deaths.

On Friday, the head of the UN Atomic Supervision Authority warned that Israel’s attack on Iranian nuclear sites caused “a sharp deterioration in nuclear and security safety in Iran.”

Rafael GrossiThe Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency said, although the strikes “have not yet led to a radiological release that affects the public, but there is a danger that may happen.”

“Armed attacks should not occur on nuclear establishments, and may lead to radioactive publications with severe consequences within the borders of the state that was attacked,” he told the United Nations Security Council.

Israel targeted Natanz, one of the Iranian signers in the midst of the nuclear conflict, causing its underground facilities to be damaged.

But Grouosi said that the level of radioactive activity outside Natanz, which is located in central Iran, “has not changed” has not changed and at the natural levels, indicating any external radioactive effect on the population or the environment.

He said that the International Atomic Energy Agency was not aware of any harm on the Iranian Fordo site, which was buried in the depths of the mountain and since the country is enriching uranium near the degree of weapons.

Analysts say it is unlikely that Israel has the military ability to destroy Ford without the interference of the United States.