As Iran launches new wave of deadly missile attacks, Israel says it has ‘supremacy’ in Tehran’s airspace

Iran shot a new wave of missile attacks against Israel early on Monday, killing at least five people, while Israel said that it had now reached “air superiority” on Tehran and could fly over the Iranian capital without facing major threats.

After days of attacks on the Iranian air defenses and missile systems, the Israeli army said that its planes now controlled the wealth of Iran in Tehran and that it had destroyed more than 120 surface missile launchers on the surface, a third of Iran total, which had shot Israel during night missions.

“Now we can say that we have reached complete aerial supremacy in Tehran airspace,” said military spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Effie Defrin.

Meanwhile, Iran announced that it had launched a hundred missiles and has promised new reprisals for the radical attacks of Israel against its military and nuclear infrastructure, which have killed at least 224 people in the country since last Friday.

A missile fell near the American consulate in Tel Aviv, causing minor damage, said US ambassador Mike Huckabee on X. There were no injury to American staff.

Israel said 24 people had been killed so far and more than 500 injured when Iran had launched more than 370 missiles and hundreds of drones. In response, the Israeli army said that fighter planes had struck 10 command centers in Teheran belonging to the Iranian Quds force, an elite arm of its revolutionary guard which leads military operations and intelligence outside Iran.

Rock explosions Tel Aviv and Petah Tikva

Powerful explosions, probably from Israel’s defense systems intercepting the Iranian missiles, shaken Tel Aviv shortly before dawn on Monday, sending plumes of black smoke in the sky above the coastal city.

Petah Tikva’s central Israeli city authorities said Iranian missiles had struck a residential, concrete, broken windows, tearing up the walls of several apartments.

The Israeli emergency service Magen David Adom (MDA) reported that two women and two men – all in the 1970s – and another person were killed in the wave of missile attacks that hit four sites in the center of Israel.

“We can clearly see that our civilians are targeted,” said Israeli police spokesman Dean Elsdunne outside the bombed building in Petah Tikva.

“And it’s just a scene. We have other sites like this near the coast in the south.”

Petah Tikva’s resident Yoram Suki rushed with his family in a refuge after hearing an air raid alert, emerging after he was finished to find his destroyed apartment.

“Thank goodness, we were going well,” said the 60 -year -old man.

Despite the loss of his house, he urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to maintain attacks on Iran.

“It’s worth it,” he said. “It is for the good of our children and grandchildren.”

In addition to the people killed, the MDA said that paramedical paramedics had evacuated 87 others injured in hospitals, including a 30 -year -old woman in serious condition, while rescuers were still looking for residents trapped under the rubble of their homes.

“When we arrived at the scene of the rocket strike, we saw massive destruction,” said Dr. Gal Rosen, a paramedical ambulancer with MDA who said he had saved a four -day baby while flamboyant fires of the building.

No signs of conflict leaving

On Sunday, during an Iranian missile missile dam in the center of Israel, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran would stop his strikes if Israel does the same.

But after a day of intensive Israeli air attacks which extended the targets beyond military installations to strike oil refineries and government buildings, the revolutionary goalkeeper struck a hard line on Monday, promising that other strike cycles would be “more energetic, severe, precise and destructive than the previous ones”.

The health authorities also indicated that 1,277 had been injured in Iran, without distinguishing military officials and
civilians.

Defense groups, such as the Defense group for Iranian defenders based in Washington called Human Rights activists, have suggested that the number of deaths from the Iranian government is an important sub-account. Human rights activists claim to have documented more than 400 people killed, including 197 civilians.

Israel maintains that its assault against the main Iranian military leaders, uranium enrichment sites and nuclear scientists was necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon.

Iran has always insisted that its nuclear program is peaceful, and the United States and others have evaluated that Tehran has not been pursuing a nuclear weapon since 2003.

But Iran has enriched the ever more launchy stocks of uranium at levels close to the quality of weapons in recent years and would have the capacity to develop several weapons in a few months if it chooses it.

Rafael Grossi, the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said on Monday that there was a possibility of radiological and chemical contamination in the main installation of Iranz nuclear enrichment in Natanz after Israeli strikes, although the radiation levels outside the complex are currently normal.

Grosi made the comments during an urgent session of the United Nations Nuclear Supervisory Board in Vienna convened at the request of Russia. He said that there was apparently no additional damage to Natanz and the Isfahan nuclear research site since Saturday.

He said the main concern inside the installation of Natanz is the chemical toxicity of a gas called uranium hexafluoride, which is the result of a fluorine mixed with uranium during enrichment. It is extremely volatile, corrodes quickly, can burn the skin and is particularly fatal if it is inhaled, say the experts.

“In the midst of these difficult and complex circumstances, it is crucial that the AIEA receives technical information in a timely and regular manner on the facilities and their respective sites,” said that adding that the UN inspectors will remain present in Iran and will inspect the nuclear installations “as soon as the safety conditions allow it”.