Iran has threatened to attack the military bases of the United States in the Middle East in retaliation for the unprecedented American strikes against Iranian nuclear sites, raising fears of an upheaval out of control of the region.
An Ayatollah Ali Khamenei advisor, the Iranian supreme guide, said the United States no longer had their place
in the Middle East and that they had to expect irreparable consequences
After their attack on the night of Saturday to Sunday.
Ali Akbar Velayati, quoted by the official Irna agency, warned that the bases used by American forces to launch attacks against Iranian nuclear sites would be considered as legitimate targets
.
US President Donald Trump urged Tehran to end the conflict after the-press attack on Saturday to Sunday, using B-2 strategic bombers.
These strikes have targeted an underground site for enriching uranium in Fordo, as well as installations in Ispahan and Natanz, where the extent of the damage remains to be evaluated.
Monumental damage has been caused to all nuclear sites in Iran, as shown by satellite images. Total destruction is the suitable expression
said Donald Trump on social networks.
The most important damage was caused well below the ground level. Right in the thousand !!!
he congratulated himself.
These two satellite photos show the Fordo before (left) underground complex and after (right) the strikes carried out by the United States against these underground nuclear installations.
Photo : Reuters / MAXAR TECHNOLOGIES
He also seemed to plead for a regime change in Tehran, even though several senior officials of his administration had affirmed earlier that it was not the objective of the American intervention.
If the current Iranian regime is unable to give Iran its greatness, why would there not be a change of diet ???
said Donald Trump on his Truth social network.
Earlier, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said the United States had devastated the Iranian nuclear program
.
Ali Shamkhani, another adviser to the Iranian supreme guide, however said on X that Iran still had enriched uranium stocks.
The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA) has announced a emergency meeting
Monday, considering impossible at this stage to assess the extent of the damage.
“Dangerous turn”
In Fordo, an uranium enrichment factory buried under a mountain south of Tehran, the ground seems to have been affected by the strikes and the color of the mountain changed compared to June 19, according to an analysis of satellite images of AFP from the data of the American company Planet Labs PBC.
In the province of Semnan, east of Tehran, Samireh, a 46 -year -old Iranian housewife, said he was shocked
by American strikes.
The province of Semnan is very far from targeted nuclear installations, but I am very worried about people who live near these nuclear sites
She said by phone to AFP.
In Tehran, demonstrators have shouted vengeance
Against the United States, according to images broadcast by state television.
While Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian has promised a riposte
At the American strikes, Washington called on Sunday evening his nationals around the world to a vigilance increased
facing potential demonstrations against citizens and American interests abroad
.
In front of the UN Security Council, which gathered on Sunday in an emergency, its secretary general Antonio Guterres warned, for a Cycle without reprisals
qualifying the American strikes as dangerous turning
.
“The United States has once again recklessly sacrificed its own security to protect Netanyahu,” accused Iranian ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani.
Photo : Getty Images / Michael M. Santiago
Sunday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu said that his country was very close
From its war objectives against Iran thanks to American strikes, while leaving doubt about the continuation of military operations.
The Israeli army announced in the evening that it had hit missile sites and other military infrastructure in western Iran, on the tenth day of the war between the two countries.
At least three people were killed in the center of the country after a drone strike in Israel has touched an ambulance, Iranian news agency ISNA reported.
The Zionist enemy made a big mistake, committed a great crime; He must be punished and he is being punished
wrote on X the supreme Iranian guide Ali Khamenei, accompanying his declaration of drawing a skull with a David star on the forehead being crossed by dozens of missiles.
The United States “ready to discuss” with Iran
Before the massive offensive launched on June 13 by Israel against Iran, Tehran and Washington have led talks via Oman mediation for a nuclear agreement since April.
The United States is loans to discuss
With Iran on its civilian nuclear program, the American leader of the American diplomacy Marco Rubio assured Sunday.
But for his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, the United States and Israel crossed a major red line
.
Mr. Araghchi is due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on MOSSCOT Monday, whose country has denounced bombing irresponsible
.
An American B-2 bomber in the Missouri sky, September 14, 2024. (Archives photo)
Photo : Reuters / U.S. Air National Guard
The American-underwater attack, baptized Midnight hammer
was led using seven B-2 stealth bombers. For the first time, Washington used powerful GBU-57 anti-bunker bombs, capable of sinking tens of meters deep before exploding.
Israel launched an unprecedented offensive against Iran on June 13 to prevent the country from acquiring the atomic bomb and has been struck since the war of the hundreds of military sites or linked to the Iranian nuclear program since the war.
His army also beheaded the general staff of the armed forces and killed a dozen nuclear scientists.
Iran retaliated by ballistic drone and missile salvan, most of them intercepted by Israeli defense systems.
On the Iranian side, the war left more than 400 people dead and 3056 injured, mostly civilians, according to an official assessment. Iranian shots on Israel left 24 people dead, according to the Israeli authorities.
