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An Iranian official warned on Wednesday that any American intervention in the conflict with Israel would risk “total war”, while the unprecedented conflict led by war planes and ballistic missiles entered the sixth day. Overnight, a new Israeli missile dam crossed the sky of Tehran. Most were removed by IranAir defenses, but the Israeli army and the United Nations nuclear surveillance said that another Iranian nuclear program was affected.
Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, the spokesperson for Brigadier General Effie Defrin, the Israel Defense Forces spokesman, said that the night had involved more than 50 fighter planes deployed for three waves of strikes, during which “we hit a centrifuge production site which was to allow the regime to continue to improve its nuclear program.
The UN International Atomic Energy Agency said in a Social media message that he had “information according to which two centrifuge production facilities in Iran, the workshop of Tesa Karaj and the Research Tehran, were struck,” adding that “the two sites were previously under the supervision and verification of IAEA within the framework of the JCPOA” – the International Nuclear Agreement of Iran that Mr. Trump withdrew in his first mandate.
Iran retaliated with another wave of missiles launched in Israel by the country’s Islamic revolution. The sirens took in Israel to warn that they were on the way, but the missiles were intercepted, with explosions seen in the sky on Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.
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The constant exchange of fire has taken an increasing cost in human life. The Iranian authorities have not provided any update since the weekend during the weekend that more than 220 people had been killed. Human rights activists based in the United States in the Iranian organization, which relies on a network of contacts in the country, said on Tuesday that it had documented at least 452 deaths in Iran since Israel had launched its attacks, including 109 experienced soldiers, 224 civilians and 119 people which it could not identify immediately.
The war also sparked an exodus of the Iranian capital Tehran with a video showing thousands of vehicles to a dead point on the primary outlet roads. These frantic escape offers were fed by Trump’s direct warning to around 10 million inhabitants of Tehran earlier this week to “evacuate immediately”.
Although Israel could have inflicted much more damage to Iran, it was not immune to suffering. At least 24 people were killed by Iranian missiles that take place in the country’s robust air defenses.
Bella Ashkinaze, 90, and her husband Chaim slept in their building near Tel Aviv on Sunday when an Iranian missile crashed in their house. Bella died and was buried this week in an emotional farewell. His granddaughter Shani Boana told CBS News that his grandparents were both too fragile to continue going to their bomb shelters each time the sirens went up.
“I would like to be able to go back in time and take him to the safe room,” she said. “I will miss it a lot … But I always think we have to do what it takes to stop this threat [from Iran]. “”
Israel advised its citizens to stay close to bombs shelters, and the United States Embassy said it would be closed on Wednesday at least on Saturday.
“I think that any American intervention would be a recipe for a total war in the region with very, very bad consequences for the whole international community,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said on Wednesday, adding that the Trump administration could dictate to Israel what he could and could not do.
Ali Bahreini, Iranian ambassador to Geneva and superior diplomat in the country, said Tehran “would strongly respond” to what he called the ongoing Israeli assault “attack”, and he warned that Iran would do the same against the United States if the American forces join the conflict.
In a press release that the Iranian state media initially declared that television is broadcast on Wednesday, Iran Supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei said the United States “should know that Iran will not surrender and that any American strike will have serious irreparable consequences,” said state-managed news agency.
“Those who know the history of Iran know that Iranians do not respond well to the language of threats,” said Khamenei in remarks, which have been transmitted without a new video appearance by Ayatollah. He would also have said that Israel had made a “enormous error”, for which the country would be “punished”.
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The provocative messages came after President Trump issued a severe warning on Tuesday, demanding an “unconditional surrender” by Iranian office leaders. Trump threatened the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei directly, saying that the United States knew where he was but that he would not kill him yet. He added: “Our patience is thinning.”
The Trump administration insisted since Israel launched its first strikes on Iran that the US military does not participate directly in the attacks. But five familiar sources with the case told CBS News on Tuesday that Mr. Trump is now Considering strikes, including potential attacks against Iran’s secret Nuclear enrichment ease. The site is buried deep under a mountain, and Israel would need American war planes to effectively strike the installation.
There is a disagreement between the close advisers of Mr. Trump on taking this action, said CBS News sources, but the US military has sent additional war aircraft to their original bases in Europe, which, according to analysts, could be the preparation of a larger role in the Middle East.
The CBS News partner network, BBC News, said on Tuesday that its own analysis of flight monitoring data had checked at least 30 US military planes flying from the United States to Europe in the previous three days-all oil tankers had used to re-eat fighter aircraft and bombers. Data from the Flightradar24 tracking website showed at least seven of the planes – all KC -135 stratotankers – had stopped in American bases in Spain, Scotland and England.
Justin Bronk, principal analyst at the Royal United SERVICE SERVICE (RUSI) reflection group in London, told BBC that deployments were “highly suggestive” American military contingency to “support intensive combat operations” in the Middle East in the coming days.