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The decision to directly involve the US. But Israeli officials and we have said that American stealth bombers and 30,000 pounds. Bunker Buster Bomb they can only carry offered the best opportunity to destroy very fortified sites related to the Iranian nuclear program buried in underground depths.
“We have completed our very successful attack against the three nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan,” Trump said in a publication on social networks. “All airplanes are now outside Iran’s airspace. A complete payload of pumps was removed on the main site, Fordow. All airplanes are safely on their way home.”
Strikes are a dangerous decision for the United States, since Iran has committed to retaliation if he joined the Israeli assault, and for Trump personally, having won the White House about the promise of keeping the United States out of expensive foreign conflicts and making fun of the value of US interventionism.
This is a last -minute news update. The previous AP story continues.
Israel’s army said Saturday that he was preparing for the possibility of a long war, while Iran’s Foreign Minister warned that US military participation “would be very, very dangerous for all.”
The perspective of a broader war also threatened. The Hutis rebels backed by Iranians in Yemen said they would resume attacks against US vessels in the Red Sea if the Trump administration joins Israel’s military campaign. The hutis stopped such attacks in May under an agreement with the United States
The United States ambassador to Israel announced that the United States began “assisted exit flights”, the first of Israel from the attack led by Hamas on October 7, 2023, which caused the war in Gaza.
Israel’s army said he hit an Iranian nuclear research center during the night and killed three high -ranking Iranian commanders in search of his goal of destroying Iran’s nuclear program. The smoke rose near a mountain in Isfahan, where the vice governor of security matters of the province, Akbar Salehi, confirmed that the Israeli attacks damaged the installation.
The objective was a centrifugal production site, said Israel’s army. The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed the attack and said that the installation, also directed on the first day of the war, was “widely damaged”, but that there was no risk of contamination outside the site.
Iran again launched drones and missiles in Israel, but there were no significant damage reports. An Israeli military official, who speaks under anonymity under the patterns of the Army, estimated that the army has taken more than 50% of Iran’s pitchers.
“We are making it difficult for Israel,” he said.
The main Israeli army spokesman Brig. General Effie Defrin later said the Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, told the Army to prepare for a “prolonged campaign.”
American air air resupply oil tankers in motion
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, is weighing the active military participation of the United States in the war, and was ready to meet with his national security team on Saturday night. He has said to postpone his decision for up to two weeks.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that US military participation “would be very dangerous for all.” He spoke outside a meeting of the Islamic Cooperation Organization in Türkiye. Araghchi was open to a greater dialogue, but emphasized that Iran had no interest in negotiating with the United States while Israel continues to attack.
Except for a command raid or even a nuclear strike, the Uranium underground enrichment center of Iran is considered out of the reach of all the “Bunker-Buster” bombs of the United States. The United States has only configured and scheduled its B-2 Spirit stealth bomber to deliver the pump, according to the Air Force.
On Saturday, multiple tank trucks of American air air refueling in commercial flight tracers of flight patterns consisting consistent with escorting airplanes from the center of the United States to the Pacific to the Pacific. The B-2 bombers are based in Missouri. It was not clear if the aircraft was a sample of strength or prepared for an operation. The White House and the Pentagon did not respond to the requests for comments.
The toll of war
The war broke out on June 13, with Israeli air attacks aimed at the nuclear and military sites of Iran, the main generals and nuclear scientists. At least 722 people, including 285 civilians, have been killed in Iran and more than 2,500 injured, according to an Iranian human rights group based in Washington.
A Tehran resident, Nasrin, twisted in his hospital’s bed while describing how an explosion threw it against the wall of his apartment. “I have had five surgeries. I think I have nothing here that is intact,” he said on Saturday. Another patient, Shahram Nourmohammadi, said he had been making births when “something exploded in front of me.”
Several Iranians have fled the country. “Everyone from Tehran right now,” said one who did not give his name after crossing Armenia.
For many Iranians, it is difficult to know what is happening. The Internet Accessory Defense Group Netblocks.org said on Saturday that limited Internet access had “collapsed.” A national internet closure has lasted several days.
Iran has retaliates firing more than 450 missiles and 1,000 drones in Israel, according to estimates by the Israeli army. Israel’s multitee aerial defenses have demolished most of them, but at least 24 people in Israel have been killed and more than 1,000 wounds.
A date for more conversations has not been established after negotiations in Geneva could not produce an advance on Friday.
Iran Nuclear Program
Iran has long maintained its nuclear program for peaceful purposes, but it is the only state of non -nuclear weapons in enriching uranium up to 60%, a short and technical step of 90%weapons degree. It is widely believed that Israel is the only country in the Middle East with a nuclear weapons program, but has never recognized it.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel’s military operation will continue “while necessary” to eliminate what he called the existential threat of Iran’s nuclear program and the Balistic missile arsenal.
Iranian president, Masoud fishshkian, said on Saturday that his country will never give up his right to nuclear energy, that “he cannot be removed through war and threats.” Fishshkian told the French president Emmanuel Macron on the phone that Iran is ready to provide guarantees and confidence construction measures to demonstrate the peaceful nature of its nuclear activities, according to Irna, the state news agency.
Iran previously agreed to limit their enrichment of uranium and allow international inspectors to access their nuclear sites under a 2015 agreement in exchange for relief relief. But after Trump took the United States from the agreement during his first term, Iran began to enrich uranium up to 60% and restrict access to its nuclear facilities.
Iran has insisted on its right to enrich uranium, at lower levels, in recent conversations about its nuclear program. But Trump, like Israel, has demanded that Iran end its enrichment program completely.
Attacks against Iranian military commanders
Israel’s Minister of Defense said the Army killed a commander of the Paramilitary Revolutionary Guard who financed and armed Hamas in preparation for the October 7 attack to Israel.
Iranian officials did not immediately confirm the death of Saeed Izadi, but Qom’s governor’s office said a four -story apartments building was beaten and that the local media reported that two people had been killed.
Israel also said that he killed the commander of the Quds Force Transfer Unit, who said he was responsible for providing weapons to Hezbollah and Hamas. Behnam Shahriyari was killed while traveling in western Iran, the army said.
Iran threatens the UN Nuclear Surveillance Chief
Iranian leaders say that the statements of the head of the OIEA Rafael Grossi about the state of Iran’s nuclear program caused Israel’s attack. On Saturday, a main advisor to Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamanei, Ali Larijani, said on social networks, without elaboration, that Iran would make Grossi “pay” once the war ends.
Grossi warned Friday against attacks against Iran’s nuclear reactors, particularly its only commercial nuclear energy plant in the southern city of Bushehr. A direct success “would result in a very high radioactivity release,” Grossi said, adding: “This is the nuclear site in Iran where the consequences could be more serious.”
Israel has not addressed the nuclear reactors of Iran, but focuses on the main uranium enrichment installation in Natanz, centrifugal workshops near Tehran, laboratories in Isfahan and the country’s heavy water reactor from the country to the southwest of the capital.
