Iran said Monday that the US attack in its nuclear sites expanded the range of legitimate objectives for its Armed Forces and called the president of the United States, Donald Trump, a “player” to join Israel’s military campaign against the Islamic Republic.
Since Trump joined Israel’s campaign, dropping mass bumn bombs in Iranian nuclear places on Sunday morning, Tehran has repeatedly threatened to retaliate.
But although he has continued shooting Israel missiles, he has not yet taken measures against the United States, either shooting at the bases of the United States or pointing at 20 percent of global oil shipments that pass near his coast at the mouth of the Gulf.
“Mr. Trump, the player, can begin this war, but we will be those who will finish it,” said Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesman for the central military headquarters of Iran Khatam al-Anbiya, on Monday in English at the end of a recorded video statement.
Iran and Israel exchanged another wave of air and missile attacks on Monday when the world prepared for Tehran’s response.
The Trump administration has repeatedly said that its goal is exclusively to destroy Iran’s nuclear program, not to open a broader war.
But in a publication on social networks on Sunday, Trump talked openly about demolishing the hard -line clerical rulers who have been Washington’s main enemies in the Middle East since the 1979 Iran Revolution.
“It is not politically correct to use the term, ‘regime change’, but if the current Iranian regime cannot cause Iran to be great again, why would there be a regime change?” He wrote.
The experts who surveyed commercial satellite images said that it seemed that the United States attack had severely damaged the site of the Iran ForDow nuclear plant, built inside a mountain, and possibly destroyed it and the centrifugals that enriched the uranium that housed, although there was no independent confirmation.
Trump called the strike as “Bullseye!”
“The monumental damage was made to all nuclear sites in Iran,” he wrote. “The greatest damage took place well below soil level.”
More Israeli strikes
Israel’s air attacks in Iran have found little resistance to Iranian defenses since Israel launched their surprise attack on June 13, killing many of Iran’s main commanders.
The Israeli army said Monday that about 20 aircraft had carried out a wave of strikes against military objectives in western Iran and Tehran during the night. In Kermanshah, in western Iran, the missile and radar infrastructure was attacked, and in Tehran a air missile launcher was hit, he said.
Iranian news agencies reported that aerial defenses had been activated in Tehran’s central districts, and Israeli air attacks had arrived in Parking, the location of a military complex southeast of the capital.
Iran says that more than 400 people have been killed in Israeli attacks, mostly civilians, but has published few images of the damage since the initial bombing days. Tehran, a city of 10 million people, has emptied to a large extent, with residents fleeing the field to escape the attacks.
Iran’s retaliation missile attacks on Israel have killed 24 people, all civilians and wounded hundreds, the first time that a significant number of Iranian missiles has penetrated Israeli defenses.
The Israeli army said that a missile launched from Iran in the early hours of Monday had been intercepted by Israeli defenses. The sirens of air attacks sounded during the night in Tel Aviv and other parts of the center of Israel.
Limited reprisals
Beyond those missiles, Iran’s ability to retaliate is much more limited than a few months ago, since Israel inflicted the defeat in the most feared regional power of Iran, Hezbollah in Lebanon, whose fall was quickly followed by that of the most powerful client ruler of Iran, Bashar al-Assad.
Iran’s most effective threat to hurt the West would probably be restricted to the Gulf Global Petroleum Flows. Oil prices increased Monday at its highest point since January. But they have not yet shot at crisis levels, indicating that merchants see a path outside the conflict that avoids a serious interruption.
Brent Crude futures fell 0.5 percent to $ 76.64 per barrel at 8:30 am GMT (1:30 PM PKT), after briefly jumping over $ 80 at the opening.
The Parliament of Iran has approved a movement to close the hormuk narrow that leads to the Gulf, which would require the approval of the Supreme National Security Council, an agency led by a designated one of the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Try to strangle the Strait could send the prices of global oil to shoot, derail the world economy and invite the conflict with the fifth mass fleet of the US Navy. UU. That patrol the Gulf from its base in Bahrein.
“It is economic suicide for them if they do. And we keep options to deal with that,” said the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio.
When Tehran weighs his options, Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi was expected to have conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin today in Moscow today. The Kremlin has a strategic association with Iran, but also close links with Israel.
Speaking yesterday in Istanbul, Araqchi said that his country would consider all possible answers and that there would be no return to diplomacy until he had retaliated. Tassel The news agency cited him later saying that Iran and Russia were coordinating their positions.
