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The supreme head of Iran rejected on Wednesday American surrender calls Faced with puffed Israeli strikes and warned that any military involvement by the Americans would cause them “irreparable damage”, in an official declaration read by an anchor of state television.
The remarks of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has only been seen once since the start of strikes, came after the American president Donald Trump required “unconditional surrender” in an article on social networks and warned Khamenei that the United States knows where it is but does not intend to kill it, “at least not for the moment”.
Trump initially moved away from Israel’s surprise attack on Friday which sparked the conflict, but in recent days have referred to a greater American involvement, saying that he wanted something “much bigger” than a cease-fire. The United States has also sent more war planes to the region.
An Iranian official had previously warned Wednesday that the American intervention would risk “total war”.
The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Esmail Baghaei, has not developed, but thousands of American troops are based in neighboring countries within Iranian weapons. The United States has threatened a massive response to any attack.
Another Iranian official said that the country would continue to enrich uranium for peaceful purposes, apparently excluding Trump’s requests that Iran abandoned his disputed nuclear program.
Strike in Tehran and the surrounding area
The latest Israeli strikes struck an installation used to manufacture uranium centrifugal and another that made missile components, the Israeli army said. He said he had intercepted 10 missiles overnight as Iran’s reprisal dams decreased. The United Nations nuclear watchdog said that Israel had struck two centrifuge production facilities in Tehran and near Tehran.
The Israeli army said it had also carried out strikes in western Iran, hitting missile storage sites and a loaded missile launcher.
Israeli strikes have struck several nuclear and military sites, killing the best generals and nuclear scientists. An Iranian human rights group based in Washington said that at least 585 people, including 239 civilians, had been killed and more than 1,300 injured.
Iran pulled some 400 missiles and hundreds of drones in reprisals that killed at least 24 people in Israel and injured hundreds. Some have struck apartments in the center of Israel, causing heavy damage, and the sirens of the air raids have repeatedly forced the Israelis to run for a shelter.
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Iran has pulled fewer missiles when the conflict has worn. He did not explain the decline, but Israel has targeted launchers and other infrastructures related to missiles.
Human rights activists based in Washington said they had identified 239 of people killed in Israeli strikes as civilians and 126 as security staff.
The group, which also provided detailed figures during the 2022 demonstrations against the death of Mahsa Amini, checks the local reports against a network of sources it has developed in Iran.
Iran has not published regular death tasks during the conflict and minimized the victims in the past. His latest update, published on Monday, tolls 224 people killed and 1,277 others injured.
The stores have been closed through Tehran, including in its famous big bazaar, while people expect gas pipes and put roads leading to the city to escape the assault.
A major explosion could be heard around 5 a.m. in Tehran on Wednesday morning, following other explosions earlier in darkness before dawn. The authorities of Iran offered no recognition of the attacks, which have become increasingly common as Israeli air strikes intensified.
At least one strike seemed to target the eastern district of Tehran in Hakimiyeh, where the paramilitary revolution goalkeeper has an academy.
Israel says that he launched strikes to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon, after talks between the United States and Iran about a diplomatic resolution made little visible progress over two months but was still underway. Trump said the Israel’s campaign came after a 60 -day window that he set for talks.
Iran long insisted that its nuclear program was peaceful, although it is the only non -nuclear state to enrich uranium up to 60%, at a short technical step in the level of weapons of 90%. American intelligence agencies said they did not think Iran actively pursued the bomb.
Israel is the only country in the Middle East with nuclear weapons but has never recognized them publicly.
Iranian ambassador to Geneva, Ali Bahreini, told journalists that Iran “will continue to produce uranium enriched how much we need for peaceful purposes”.
He rejected any discourse on a setback in Iran’s nuclear research and development of Israeli strikes, saying: “Our scientists will continue their work.”
He said Trump’s remarks were “completely unjustified” and “very hostile” and that Iran could not ignore them. He said that Iranian authorities were “vigilant” on comments and would decide whether the United States has crossed lines. “Once the red line is crossed, the answer will come.”
Israel welcomes the first repatriation flights
The Israelis began to return to flights for the first time since the country’s international airport stopped at the start of the conflict.
On Wednesday morning, two Larnaca, Cyprus flights landed at Ben Gurion International Aviv International Aviv, said Lisa Dvir, airport spokesperson.
Israel has closed its airspace to commercial flights due to ballistic missile attacks, leaving tens of thousands of Israelis blocked abroad. The conflict disturbed the flight models in the region.
–Frankel reported in Jerusalem. The writers of the associated press Amir Vahdat and Nasser Karimi in Iran, and Jamey Kealen in Geneva, contributed.
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