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Israel and Iran Exchange strikes per week in their war Friday as President Donald Trump weighed US military participation and new diplomatic efforts began.
Trump assessed whether I was necessary to attack Iran by hitting its well-defined uranium enrichment factory, which is buried under a mountain and widely considered beyond the reach of all the “bunker-business” bombs in America. He said he would decide within two weeks if the US military will be involved directly in the war given the “substantial chance” to renew the negotiations on the Tehran nuclear program.
The Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, seemed to be on the way to Geneva for meetings with the first diplomat of the European Union and the counterparts of the United Kingdom, France and Germany. A plane with its usual call index has taken off from the Turkish city of Van, near the Iranian border, showed the flight tracking data from Flightradar24. Iran generally recognizes its departure hours afterwards.
The British Foreign Minister said that he had met the White House with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and envoy Steve Witkoff to discuss the potential of an agreement that could cool the conflict.
Before his theft, Araghchi said on Iranian state television that his country “did not look for negotiations with anyone” as long as the attacks of Israel continued, highlighting the diplomatic challenges to come. He also accused the United States of collaborating with Israel, noting that Trump regularly used “we” in publications and interviews on social networks talking about attacks on Iran.
“It is the Americans who want talks,” he said in comments on Thursday that was broadcast on Friday. “They have sent messages on several occasions – very serious – but we have explicitly clearly that this attack and this invasion continue, there is absolutely no place to speak or diplomacy. We are engaged in a legitimate self -defense, and this defense will in no way stop. ”
He added that he expected that talks in Switzerland only focus on the Iranian nuclear program and that Iranian missile capacities were “to defend the country” and not to discuss.
French President Emmanuel Macron said that the best European diplomats in Geneva would make a “complete diplomatic and technical offer” to Iran, as a key response to the “threat” represented by the Iranian nuclear program.
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“No one can seriously believe that this threat can be welcomed only with current operations (of Israel),” he told journalists on the sidelines of the Air Paris show, saying that certain plants are highly fortified and that no one knows exactly where all enrichment of uranium takes place.
“We must regain control of the program (Iranian nuclear) by technical expertise and negotiation.”
Iran had previously agreed to limit its enrichment of uranium and allow international inspectors to its nuclear sites under a 2015 agreement with the United States, France, China, Russia, Great Britain and Germany in exchange for relief of sanctions and other provisions.
After Trump withdrew the United States unilaterally from the agreement during its last mandate, Iran began to enrich uranium at higher levels and limit access to its facilities.
Israel says the air campaign will target more sites
Israel said he had made air strikes until Friday morning in Iran with more than 60 planes that struck what he said was industrial sites to make missiles. He did not develop the locations. He also said that he had struck the headquarters of the Iranian organization of innovation and defensive research, known by his acronym in Farsi, Spnd. The United States in the past has linked this agency to alleged Iranian research and tests linked to the possible development of nuclear explosive devices.
He also carried out air strikes targeting the areas around Kermanshah and Tabriz in western Iran, where the soldiers said that 25 fighter planes had struck “the storage and launch infrastructure components” on Friday morning. There had been anti-aircraft fire reports in the areas.
Iran has not immediately recognized the losses and has not discussed damage caused so far to its soldiers during the one -week war.
“We are strengthening our air control in the region and progressing our air offensive,” said Israeli military spokesman Brig. General Effie Defrin told journalists.
“We have more sites to knock in Tehran, in western Iran and other places.”
Israeli air strikes also reached the city of Rasht on the Caspian Sea on Friday, Iranian media reported. The Israeli army had warned the public to flee the area around the industrial city of Rasht, in the southwest of the city center of the city. But with the Iranian Internet that stopped in the outside world, it is not clear how much people could see the message.
Damage caused by missiles in southern Israel
In Israel, the Magen David Adom paramedical service said that Iranian missiles struck a residential area in southern Israel causing damage to buildings, including a six -story building. They provided medical treatment to five people with minor injuries such as bruises, smoke inhalation and anxiety, he said.
It comes one day after that at least 80 patients and medical workers were injured during a strike on the Soroka Medical Center in the city of southern Beersheba.
The Israeli Defense Minister threatened the Iranian chief of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday after the Iranian missile collapsed in the hospital. The Israeli army “has been educated and knows that to achieve all his objectives, this man should absolutely not continue to exist,” said Defense Minister Israel Katz.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he trusted Trump “would do what is best for America.” Speaking of rubble and broken glass around the hospital, he added: “I can tell you that they already help a lot.”
The war between Israel and Iran broke out on June 13, with Israeli air strikes targeting nuclear and military sites, superior generals and nuclear scientists. At least 657 people, including 263 civilians, were killed in Iran and more than 2,000 injured, according to an Iranian human rights group based in Washington.
Iran retaliated by pulling 450 missiles and 1,000 drones in Israel, according to estimates by the Israeli army. Most were shot dead by aerial defenses on several levels of Israel, but at least 24 people in Israel were killed and hundreds injured.
Iran has long maintained that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. But it is the only non -nuclear weapon state to enrich uranium up to 60%, a short technical step in the levels of quality of arms of 90%.
Israel is largely considered to be the only country in the Middle East with a nuclear weapon program but has never recognized it.
The Israeli air campaign has targeted the Iranz enrichment site in Natanz, centrifuge workshops around Tehran, a nuclear site in Isfahan and what the army assesses most of the Iranian ballistic missile launchers. The destruction of these launchers has contributed to the constant decline in Iranian attacks since the start of the conflict.
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Gambrell and rising reported in Dubai United Arab Emirates. The writer Associated Press Sylvie Corbet in Paris contributed to this report.
