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On Wednesday, the supreme head of Iran rejected calls to the United States in the face of more Israeli strikes and warned that any military involvement by the Americans would cause “irreparable damage”. European diplomats prepared for interviews with Iran on Friday.
The second public appearance of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei since the Israeli strikes began last Friday came while Israel has raised certain restrictions on daily life, suggesting that the threat of the missiles of Iran was relaxed.
Khamenei spoke a day after US President Donald Trump demanded in a social media position that Iran goes without conditions and warned Khamenei that the United States knows where he is but does not intend to kill him, “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, he has referred to greater American involvement, saying that he wanted something “much bigger” than a cease-fire. The United States has also sent more military planes and warships to the region.
Friday, senior European diplomats were to organize nuclear talks with Iran in Geneva, according to a European official familiar with the issue.
The official, who was not authorized to comment on publicly and asked anonymity to freely discuss questions, said that the meeting would include high-ranking diplomats from Germany, France and the United Kingdom, as well as the first diplomat of the European Union.
According to another American official, there is no plan for talks, although this can change, according to another American official who spoke under the guise of anonymity to discuss private diplomatic communications.
In addition, the United Nations Security Council has planned a second emergency meeting on the Israel-Iran conflict for Friday at the request of Russia, China and Pakistan. Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to help Media a resolution, suggesting that Moscow could help negotiate a regulation allowing Tehran to pursue a peaceful atomic program while murdering Israeli security problems.
“In my opinion, a solution could be found,” said Putin on Wednesday during a session with journalists.
Israeli PM highlights Trump’s support
In a video address to the Israelis, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed his appreciation for the support of Trump in the conflict, calling him “a great friend of Israel” and congratulating us from the defense of the sky of Israel.
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“We are talking constantly, including last night,” Netanyahu said on Wednesday. “We had a very warm conversation.”
Khamenei rejected “threatening and absurd statements” by Trump.
“The sages who know Iran, its people and its history never speak to this nation with the language of threats, because the Iranian nation is not one to go,” he said in a low-resolution video.
“Americans should know that any military involvement in the United States will undoubtedly lead to irreparable damage.”
Iran published the Khamenei Declaration before the video broadcast, perhaps as a safety measure. Its location is not known, and it was impossible to discern tight shot, which showed only beige curtains, an Iranian flag and a portrait of the great Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the immediate predecessor of Khamenei, who died in 1989.
An Iranian diplomat warned on Wednesday earlier that the American intervention would risk “total war”.
The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry 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.
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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.
Meanwhile, Iranian state television reported on Wednesday evening that it was under a cyber attack by Israel.
Social media users have indicated that the regular broadcast on state television has been briefly interrupted and replaced by an antigan video urging people to descend into the street. After the normal broadcast has resumed, a message on the screen said: “If you see an unrelevant message on the screen, this is due to a cyber attack of the Zionist diet.”
Strike in Tehran, in western Iran
Israeli military spokesperson Brig. General Effie Defrin said on Wednesday at a press conference that Israel had launched three waves of air attacks in the last 24 hours, deployment of dozens of war aircraft to strike more than 60 targets in Tehran and western Iran.
The Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz said that the soldiers had also struck the headquarters of Iran’s internal security forces, without specifying the agency or the place. The strike marks a change towards targeting the internal security apparatus of Iran, which has long suppressed dissent and abolished the demonstrations.
Iran’s police forces recognized the strike a few hours later, saying that Israel struck its central command buildings in Tehran and injured certain officers, without saying how much.
In addition, the United Nations nuclear surveillance agency said that Israel had struck two centrifuge production facilities in Tehran and near Tehran.
Israel’s air campaign has 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 in Iran and more than 1,300 injured.
In retaliation, Iran pulled some 400 missiles and hundreds of drones, killing at least 24 people in Israel and injuring hundreds. Some have struck apartments in the center of Israel, causing heavy damage.
Iran pulling fewer missiles
Israeli military officials said their defenses intercepted 10 missiles overnight and several others on Wednesday evening while Iran’s reprisal dams decreased. The air raid sirens forced the Israelis to run for a shelter. There was no injury report.
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.
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Some American diplomats and their families from the United States Embassy in Israel were evacuated Wednesday, according to two US officials who spoke under the guise of anonymity to describe sensitive diplomatic movements. A number of them left on government plane shortly before the American ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee announced that the Embassy made evacuation plans for private American citizens, officials said.
Wednesday, Israel attenuated some of the restrictions it had imposed on civilians when Iran launched its reprisal attack, allowing gatherings of 30 people and leaving the workplaces to reopen as long as there is a nearby shelter.
