A firefighter calls out his colleagues on the scene of an explosion in a residence compound in northern Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025.
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AMMAN, Jordan and TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel launched air strikes into Iran early Friday, concentrating on the nation’s nuclear amenities and killing high army leaders, officers and nuclear scientists. The assault prompted Iranian retaliatory strikes because the area braced for additional army escalation.
Israel launched the assaults over its considerations about Iran’s advancing nuclear program.
On Thursday, the U.N. nuclear watchdog declared Iran isn’t complying with nuclear non-proliferation agreements geared toward halting the unfold of nuclear weapons. Iran reacted, saying it might create a brand new uranium enrichment facility. Iran says its uranium enrichment program is for peaceable functions.
The Israeli strikes killed three high Iranian army leaders and a number of other different officers and nuclear scientists forward of deliberate negotiations in Oman on Sunday geared toward addressing worldwide considerations over Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned Israel focused Iran’s primary nuclear enrichment facility at Natanz as a part of its operation “Rising Lion.”
“We’re at a decisive second in Israel’s historical past,” Netanyahu mentioned in a recorded video message early Friday, including that the operation would “roll again the Iranian menace to Israel’s survival.”
He mentioned the operation would proceed for “as many days because it takes to take away this menace.”
Firefighters and folks clear up the scene of an explosion at a residence compound after Israeli assaults in Tehran on Friday.
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