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Asharq Al-Awsat
a day ago
- Politics
- Asharq Al-Awsat
Iran Retaliates after Israeli Strikes Targeting its Nuclear Program and Military
Iran launched retaliatory missile strikes on Israel into Saturday morning, killing at least three people and wounding dozens, after a series of blistering Israeli attacks on the heart of Iran's nuclear program and its armed forces. Israel's assault used warplanes, as well as drones smuggled into the country in advance, to assault key facilities and kill top generals and scientists. Iran retaliated by launching drones and later firing waves of ballistic missiles at Israel, where explosions lit the night skies over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and shook the buildings below. The Israeli military urged civilians, already rattled by the raging Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, to head to shelter for hours. Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said in a recorded message Friday: 'We will not allow them to escape safely from this great crime they committed.' Iran's UN ambassador said 78 people were killed and more than 320 wounded in Israeli attacks. Iran launched waves of missiles at Israel late Friday and early Saturday. A hospital in Tel Aviv treated seven people wounded in the second Iranian barrage; all but one of them had light injuries. Israel's Fire and Rescue Services said they were injured when a projectile hit a building in the city. A spokesperson for Beilinson Hospital said one woman was killed. Hours later, an Iranian missile struck near homes in the central Israeli city of Rishon Lezion, killing two people and injuring 19, according to Israel's paramedic service Magen David Adom. Israel's Fire and Rescue service said four homes were severely damaged. Meanwhile, the sound of explosions and Iranian air defense systems firing at targets echoed across central Tehran shortly after midnight on Saturday. An Associated Press journalist could hear air raid sirens near their home. Iran's semiofficial Tasnim news agency reported a fire at Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport, with a video posted on X of a column of smoke and orange flames rising from what the outlet said was the airport. Israel's paramedic services said 34 people were wounded in the barrage on the Tel Aviv area, including a woman who was critically injured after being trapped under rubble. In Ramat Gan, east of Tel Aviv, an AP journalist saw burned-out cars and at least three damaged houses, including one where the front was nearly entirely torn away.
Al Manar
a day ago
- Politics
- Al Manar
Iran's Missiles Pound ‘Israel' in Operation True Promise III
Iran carried out on Friday massive missile attacks on the Zionist entity in retaliation to the Israeli aggression on the Islamic Republic. Hundreds of missiles including ballistic missiles were fired by Iran on Friday evening in an operation dubbed Operation True Promise III. Photos coming out of Tel Aviv show the missiles have successfully hit targets in the Zionist regime's capital. Israeli bases and the regime's defense ministry as well as ministry of so-called national security have been hit in the attack, Iranian media reported. In a statement, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) announced the operation. 'Relying on the divine power and the guidance of Imam Khamenei, we launch Operation True Promise-3 with the call 'O Ali',' the statement read. Israeli Magen David emergency service announced that 21 settlers were injured, including one seriously. Meanwhile, the Israeli Channel 13 reported unprecedented damage due to the assault. The Times of Israel reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was holding a consultation with security chiefs and ministers in an underground bunker to discuss how to respond to Iran's ballistic missile attacks. The Israeli regime launched an aggression a number of targets across Iran, including residential neighborhoods, in the early hours of Friday. Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri, Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Major General Hossein Salami, Commander of Iran's Khatam al-Anbia Central Headquarters Major General Gholam Ali Rashid, Commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force Major General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, and at least six Iranian nuclear scientists have been martyred in the strikes. Leader of the Islamic Revolution Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei has warned the Zionist regime that it will receive a severe punishment for the aggression.
