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The United States and Israel launched an onslaught Saturday connected Iran, with the archetypal evident onslaught happening adjacent the offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iranian media reported strikes nationwide, and fume could beryllium seen rising from the capital.
President Donald Trump said successful a video posted connected societal media that the U.S. had begun “major combat operations successful Iran.” He claimed Iran has continued to make its atomic programme and plans to make missiles to scope U.S.
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Blasts successful bluish Israel
Explosions rocked bluish Israel connected Saturday arsenic the state worked to intercept incoming Iranian missiles aft launching a nationwide onslaught with the U.S. connected Iran.
The blasts echoed conscionable aft the Israeli subject said it would beryllium utilizing its aerial defence systems to bring down the Iranian fire.
There was nary contiguous connection connected immoderate harm oregon casualties from the ongoing attack.
Israel says aerial defenses to activate
Israel issued a nationwide informing Saturday aft Iran reportedly launched missiles targeting the country.
The Israeli subject said aerial defence systems would beryllium activated to support the country.
There whitethorn beryllium US casualties successful operations against Iran, Trump says
Trump acknowledged that the operations against Iran whitethorn pb to U.S. casualties.
“The lives of courageous American heroes whitethorn beryllium lost, and we whitethorn person casualties,” helium said successful a video posted to societal media aboriginal Saturday morning. “That often happens successful war."
In the video, Trump wore a achromatic shot headdress with the letters USA, a navy suit and achromatic garment with nary necktie. There appeared to beryllium a acheronian bluish curtain down him arsenic the president announced the warfare successful a video from Mar-a-Lago, his location and nine successful Palm Beach, Florida.
After the June attacks connected Iran’s atomic sites, Trump said, “We warned them ne'er to resume their malicious pursuit of atomic weapons. And we sought repeatedly to marque a deal. We tried.”
He added that Iran “rejected each accidental to renounce their atomic ambitions, and we can’t instrumentality it anymore.”
Iran blocked inspectors from atomic sites
Iran has said it hasn’t enriched uranium since June, but it has blocked planetary inspectors from visiting the sites the United States bombed during the 12-day warfare then.
Satellite photos analyzed by The Associated Press person shown caller enactment astatine 2 of those sites, suggesting Iran is trying to measure and perchance retrieve worldly there.
Trump accuses Iran of trying to rebuild atomic program
Despite claims that past year’s onslaught against Iran’s atomic facilities destroyed the country’s atomic program, Trump said that Iran “attempted to rebuild their atomic programme and to proceed processing the long-range missiles that tin present endanger our precise bully friends and allies successful Europe, our troops stationed overseas, and could soon scope the American homeland.”
Trump said that Saturday’s strikes would beryllium portion of “a monolithic and ongoing operation” that volition purpose to “destroy their missiles and raze their rocket manufacture to the ground” arsenic good arsenic “annihilate their navy,” and “ensure that the region’s violent proxies tin nary longer destabilize the portion oregon the satellite and onslaught our forces.”
Trump tells Iranian officials to laic down arms oregon ‘face death’
Trump called the attacks connected Iran “a noble mission,” saying they were indispensable due to the fact that of Iran’s pursuit of atomic weapons and rocket systems that could scope the U.S.
He called connected Iranian officials to “lay down your arms” oregon “you volition look definite death,” and encouraged the Iranian radical to “take implicit your authorities — it volition beryllium yours to take.”
Iraq closes its airspace
Iraq’s Ministry of Transport said Saturday the country’s airspace has been closed pursuing airstrikes connected neighboring Iran.
The ministry’s spokesman, Mitham al-Safi, told state-run Iraqi News Agency that “the closure was preceded by the evacuation of each aerial postulation from Iraqi airspace.”
Trump says US begins ‘major combat operations successful Iran’
The U.S. began “major combat operations successful Iran,” President Donald Trump said successful a video connected Truth Social.
He said the nonsubjective is to support the U.S. by “eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime.”
U.S. is taking portion successful strikes connected Iran, sources archer AP
The United States is participating successful the strikes, according to a U.S. authoritative and a idiosyncratic acquainted with the operation, who spoke connected information of anonymity to item delicate subject operations. The afloat grade of U.S. engagement was not instantly clear.
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By Konstantin Toropin successful Washington
Explosions heard successful Tehran
Two residents reported proceeding the sounds of strikes echoing crossed the Iranian capital. A nonmigratory successful the country of Mehrabad airdrome reported the sounds of “two dense explosions” shaking windows conscionable implicit fractional an hr ago.
In cardinal Tehran adjacent Vanak, different nonmigratory reported the sounds of “blasts and war” coming astatine astir the aforesaid moment.
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By Amir-Hussein Radjy.
Israel Airports Authority says Israel’s airspace is wholly closed
Planes that were en way to onshore successful Israel are present being sent to country airports. Passengers who were astatine the airdrome awaiting flights are being shuttled backmost to assorted locations wrong Israel.
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