By Olivier Acuña Barba •
Printed: 13 Jun 2025 • 22:49
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Shortly after Iran’s Supreme Chief Ali Khamenei stated Iran “will inflict heavy blows” in retaliation for Israel’s “launched struggle”, explosions might be heard over central Israel, and reviews of buildings being hit have been pouring in.
On Friday night, Iran reported it had fired “tons of of numerous ballistic missiles towards Israel, in what it described because the “starting” of its “crushing response.”
IRNA, Iran’s official information company, stated, “Moments in the past, with the launch of tons of of assorted ballistic missiles towards the occupied territories, the operation of decisive response to the savage assault of the Zionist regime has begun.” Following the alleged barrage, Israeli army officers contradicted Iran, saying it had fired fewer than 100 missiles and that only a few of them had hit targets contained in the nation
Iran ‘has crossed purple traces’
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz stated late on Friday that Iran had “crossed purple traces” by firing missiles at civilian inhabitants centres and vowed they’d pay a “very heavy worth” for his or her actions.
The US helped Israel intercept Iranian missiles on Friday night, two Israeli sources instructed CNN. Different nations within the area additionally supported Israeli air defences, one supply stated, in an identical approach to how they’d carried out in earlier Iranian assaults on Israel.
CNN stated its correspondents in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem heard loud explosions, and video from Tel Aviv confirmed incoming rockets and smoke rising amid the town’s skyscrapers.
Pictures and video launched by Magen David Adom, Israel’s affiliate of the Crimson Cross, confirmed civil defence personnel surveying mangled automobiles and collapsed buildings in central Israel.
Donald Trump tries to take credit score
The Iranian assault adopted Israel’s launch of an enormous two-pronged assault on Iran early Friday morning native time, with strikes aiming to destroy Iranian nuclear websites and decapitate its army management in Tehran.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on to Iranians, saying that “Israel’s struggle just isn’t in opposition to the Iranian individuals,” however slightly its authorities. He additionally warned them that.
“Extra is on the best way. The regime doesn’t know what hit them, or what is going to hit them.”
Whereas Al Jazeera confirmed that Donald Trump didn’t give Israel his blessings for the seven assaults on Iran, and his Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated they Jewish state had acted “unilaterally”, the US president started claiming he was totally conscious and that it got here on the finish of a 60-day ultimatum he had given Iran to achieve a nucler programme deal.
“At the moment is day 61,” he wrote on Fact Social. “I instructed [Iran] what to do, however they simply couldn’t get there.”