Israel attacked Iran during the early morning from Thursday to Friday with more than 200 hunting and a deployment of its secret service on Iranian soil. It is one of the most important military operations about the country, thoroughly planned by the Israeli army, which hit more than a hundred objectives on Iranian soil, some related to the country's nuclear program and its air defense systems, but also civil objectives. The offensive ended the death of several Iranian military of the Revolutionary Guard – among them their leader, Hossein Salamí – and a group of scientists responsible for the Iran nuclear program. The attack caused 78 dead and 320 injured, in the first official count of victims ..
Shortly before 8:00 p.m. (10:00 p.m. in Jerusalem) on Friday, Iran's revolutionary guard responded to the operation of the Israeli army with a hundred ballistic missiles that have fallen on targets in Tel Aviv. The Iranian offensive has left three dead for the moment: a woman in her 60s who was achieved by a missile in the city of Ramat Gan, and two others for a direct impact on the center of Israel, according to the local media Haaretz. More than 70 people have been injured. The impact of missiles caused large clouds of smoke in the city and destroyed several buildings in Ramat Gan, despite the fact that the Israeli army had launched its anti -aircraft defense systems.
Israeli emergency services received relief calls from several points from Tel Aviv. Iranian missiles hit various locations of the Gush Dan area, in the north of the city, according to sources cited by EFE. In addition, in the suburb of Ramat Gan Iran's offensive leaves at least 22 injured. Two of them, an elderly couple according to emergency services, which account for more than 40 injured in the metropolitan area of Tel Aviv.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard has confirmed the military operation, which has been baptized as' True III Operation “, and has described as an” overwhelming and precise response against dozens of objectives, military centers and air bases “. One of the ballistic launches has impacted a few meters from the headquarters of the Israeli Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv.
As reported by the Iranian news agency Tasnim and has replicated Iran's state television, two Israeli fighters model F-35 would have been demolished by the revolutionary guard and a pilot would be in custody of Iran, an issue on which the authorities of the Persian country have not been publicly pronounced.
After the impact of the first missiles on Israeli soil, the IDF have asked “not to publish or share the locations and images of the impacts” claiming that they will “monitor these images to improve their impact capabilities.” Shortly after, the military has reported the launch of “DOCTENS OF ADDITIONAL MISS.”
Jamenei: “Israel will not be unscathed”
The Israeli prime minister, Benjamín Netanyahu, warned when announcing the beginning of the attacks that the operation will be extended “during every day that is necessary to eliminate this threat”, in reference to the Iranian nuclear program. After this Friday's attack on Friday, Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Jamenei, has declared that “Israel will not be unscathed” and that Tehran will not respond with “half inks” to Israeli attacks.
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has maintained telephone calls throughout the day with both Iran's president and with the Israeli prime minister. To his Iranian counterpart, Masoud fishshkian, he has transferred that Russia condemns Israel's actions against Tehran “in violation of the United Nations Charter” and has expressed her condolences for those killed in the attacks. Already in his call with Netanyahu, Putin has highlighted “the importance of the return to the conversations process and the resolution of all issues referring to Iran's nuclear program strictly through political and diplomatic channels.”
The president of France, Emmanuel Macron, said this afternoon that France “will help Israel defend themselves if Iran attacks” and states that the country has received “very alarming” intelligence about the Iranian nuclear program. In a press conference after the Israeli attacks, Macron has ruled out the French participation in operations on Iranian territory or that French support to Israel is “unconditional or without limits.”
Already after the end of the double wave of Balistic missiles of Iran, the White House has confirmed a telephone conversation between the president of the United States and the Israeli prime minister, Benjamín Netanyahu. The North American institution had already leaked a conversation between both leaders in the hours prior to the start of the Israeli military offensive. According to Reuters, the US has given military and logistics support to Israel in the interception of missiles launched by Iran over their territory.
The Democratic candidate for the US vice presidency and governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, has criticized the attacks of Israel and Trump's position over the Middle East, suggesting that China could be “the best positioned neutral referee” to seek some type of peaceful solution to the conflict instead of the United States. “Iran has to answer, according to his mentality,” said Walz to Think Tank Center for American Progress, before asking “Who has moral authority? Because we are not seen as a neutral actor, and maybe we never went, I don't want to tell anyone, but I think at least there was an intention to be some kind of mediator.”
Netanyahu went to the Iranian people on Friday, stating that this is their opportunity to “rise” and that Israeli attacks against Iran “open the way to achieve freedom.” “The regime does not know what happened to him or what will happen to him. He has never been so weak. This is your opportunity to raise you and make your voice heard,” said Netanyahu in a video shared video for his office in which he states that his fight is not against the Iranian people, but against the “murderous regime” of Tehran. Precisely in the Iranian capital its inhabitants have celebrated the launch of dozens of missiles against Israeli goals going out to the streets and shouting.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abás Araqchí said Friday that “at this time” his country does not accept “any call to moderation” during a call with his British counterpart David Lammy in which he has reiterated that “Iran's response to Israel's aggression will be firm and decisive, according to the UN letter.” A spokesman for the British Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has detailed this afternoon that the United Kingdom leader has transmitted to his Israeli counterpart “serious concerns” about Iran's nuclear program and that he believes that Israel “has the right to defend himself.”
Later, In the Hebrew account of Ayatolá Jamenei in X The following message has been published: “This serious mistake will make the Zionist entity miserable and will turn her life into misery.”
Iran also accused this Friday to the United States of being accomplice to the attacks of Israel on Friday, according to the words of its ambassador to the UN, Amir Saeid Jalil Iravani. “The complicity of the United States in this terrorist attack is beyond doubt (…) We will not forget that our people lost their lives as a result of an Israeli attack with American weapons,” Iravani said before the Security Council in an emergency session convened to treat these attacks.
The general director of the OIEA confirms radiological contamination in Iran
The International Atomic Energy Agency is waiting to obtain information from the Iranian authorities about the impact of Israeli bombings to Iranian nuclear facilities of Isfahán and Fordow. According to the AFP agency, Iran has confirmed “limited damage” in both nuclear facilities.
In a brief statement published on social networks, the OEA, the UN Nuclear Agency, reported that it has requested such information after knowing that in a new wave of Israeli air attacks Iran had also bombarded the Isfahán plant, located in the southeast of Tehran, and the Suberranea of Fordow, 30 kilometers north of the city of Qom.
“The OIEA is aware of the reports related to the nuclear facilities of Isfahán and Fordow, and is requesting information from the Iranian authorities about any impact,” said the general director of the agency, the Argentine Rafael Grossi, in the note. However, during an intervention before the United Nations Security Council, Grossi has revealed that there is “radiological and chemical” contamination inside Natanz's facilities, attacked in the early hours of Friday by Israel.
According to the director of the OIEA, this radiological contamination can be controlled with protection measures against radiation and has affirmed that the body is “ready to send its experts to Iran to ensure total protection of nuclear facilities and continue its use for peaceful purposes”. And he added: “Nuclear facilities should never be attacked.”