Israel attacked Iran at night: strikes targeted nuclear facilities and missile bases
On the night of June 13, Israel launched an attack on Iran. Israeli planes struck uranium enrichment plants in Natang and Fordo, missile bases in Kermanshah and Khorremabad. Tehran, Isfahan, Tabriz and other major cities of Iran were also hit. About this informs The Times of Israel.
The targets of the strikes were also the leadership of the Iranian Armed Forces and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as well as scientists involved in the nuclear program. The city of Qom, where many representatives of the spiritual elite of the Islamic Republic live, was also struck.
A representative of the Israel Defense Forces, Efi Defrin, said that the attack was a warning and related to the fact that Iran is “close to obtaining nuclear weapons.” “The State of Israel will not allow a regime whose goal is the destruction of the State of Israel to have weapons of mass destruction,” he emphasized.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that the operation against Iran was called “A Nation Like a Lion”. According to Netanyahu, Iran had stockpiled uranium for nine atomic bombs and intended to produce 10,000 ballistic missiles within three years. In his address, Netanyahu emphasized that in the rhetoric of the Iranian authorities, Israel is only “little Satan”, while the USA is considered the “big Satan”.
A state of emergency has been introduced in Israel. Schools, kindergartens, universities and all enterprises, except for critical infrastructure facilities, are closed. The country’s airspace is closed. Iran has also closed its airspace.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Israel attacked Iran “unilaterally”. A day earlier, the State Department urged American citizens in the Middle East to exercise maximum caution. Support personnel have been ordered to leave US embassies and military bases in the region.
Iran’s state news agency reported that the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Hossein Salami, Chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Mohammad Bagheri and physicist Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi were killed as a result of Israeli strikes.
