What we know about Israel’s attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites and military commanders

Israel says he has launched a new wave of air strikes on Iran, after reaching nuclear and military sites overnight.

Friday evening, the Israeli Air Force said that it continued to “attack missile launchers and infrastructure” in Iran.

There are explosion reports across the country. The BBC checked at least one evening explosion near the Téhéran capital. Iran has not yet commented.

Israel said that his night attack had targeted the “heart” of the Iranian nuclear program.

These strikes Hossein Salami killedThe head of the powerful military branch of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards, as well as several nuclear military and scientific personalities.

Civilians, including children, were among the people killed, said Iran.

The BBC is not able to independently check these reports.

The Israeli army said Iran launched around 100 drones to Israel on Friday morning that Israel Defense forces (FDI) said it was intercepted.

A state of emergency has been declared in Israel.

Friday evening, the Israeli army told residents across the country to remain “close to protected areas”. He said that movement in public spaces should be minimized and that public rallies have avoided.

The United States said it was not involved in strikes, but President Donald Trump said he was aware of Israel’s plans in advance.

Explosions were reported in the Iranian capital Tehran around 03:30, local time (01:00 BST) Friday.

Iranian state television said that the Tehran residential areas had been affected, with explosions also heard in the northeast of the capital.

In Israel, residents were woken up by air raid sirens at the same time and received emergency telephone alerts.

The Israeli army said it had struck “dozens of military objectives, including nuclear targets in different regions of Iran”.

A few hours after the initial strikes, an explosion was reported in the Natanz nuclear installation, which is located approximately 225 km (140 miles) south of the capital, according to Iranian media.

The FDI later confirmed that it had struck the site and said that its attack had caused significant damage.

The Global Nuclear Watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said that he had been informed by the Iranian authorities that there had been no increase in radiation levels at the Natanz factory.

IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said that nuclear installations “should never be attacked” and that such strikes have “serious implications for nuclear security, security and guarantees, as well as regional and international peace and security”.

In a press release from the members of the Board of Directors, he called “all the parties to exercise a maximum restraint to avoid a new escalation”, claiming that “any military action which endangers the security and safety of nuclear installations risks serious consequences for the Iranian people, the region and beyond”.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said strikes – called Rising Lion Operation – were “A targeted military operation To make the Iranian threat back for the very survival of Israel “.

He said that the operation “would continue for as many days as it took it to withdraw the spread”.

Netanyahu said that Iran has taken measures to “arm” in recent months and that, “if they have not stopped, Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in a very short time”.

An Israeli military official told BBC that Iran had enough nuclear material to create nuclear bombs “in a few days”.

Iran has denied having a nuclear weapon program.

Strikes are involved while the United States continues on the Iranian nuclear program, which has started in April, seems to have blocked in recent days. The next series of discussions was scheduled for Sunday.

Trump had hoped to conclude an agreement to prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon. Iran has long insisted that its nuclear activities are peaceful.

Earlier this week, Trump would have had a “tense” telephone call with Netanyahu, who has long pleaded for a military approach rather than diplomatic of Iran’s nuclear capacities.

Last year, Iran and Israel have launched a number of air strikes against each other In April and October – although the strikes of Israel last year were not supposed to be as varied as its current operation.

Iran’s supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that Israel “should anticipate a severe punishment”, while the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, described the attack as a “declaration of war”.

Iran launched a hundred drones to Israel on Friday morning, the FDI said. The army said it intercepted drones.

The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that its armed forces “would not hesitate to defend Iran’s sovereignty with full strength and the way they deem appropriate”.

In a statement, the ministry described the Israel Operation as “acts of assault” and said that “the United States government, as the main boss of this regime, will also be responsible”.

Major Gen Mohammad Pakpour, who was quickly appointed to replace Hossein Salami, promised to open “the doors of hell” in retaliation.

Reacting to strikes, Trump said that he had given Iran “luck after luck” to conclude an agreement, but “they just couldn’t do it”.

Some Iranian officials “spoke courageously, but they did not know what was going to happen,” wrote Trump in an article on social networks, adding: “They are all dead now”.

“There has already been a great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this massacre, the next attacks already planned being even more brutal, ending.

“Iran must conclude an agreement, before it remains, and save what was formerly known as the Iranian Empire. More death, more destruction, do it, before it is too late.”

Earlier, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the United States was not involved in the strikes and has no assistance. He said the absolute priority for the White House was to protect American forces in the region.

American citizens were invited not to go to Iran, the US State Department, urging those who are in the country to leave or to “worry in place” on Friday.

On Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin made separate telephone calls with Netanyahu and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, said the Kremlin.

Putin condemned Israeli actions and also “expressed the desire to provide mediation services to avoid a new climbing of tensions,” a statement said.

Russia is a key military and political ally of Iran.

In other international reactions, Oman, which has implemented Iranian American nuclear talkssaid that he had held Israel responsible for “this escalation and its consequences”.

The United Kingdom, France, Australia and China were among the nations that expressed their concern about climbing and called for calm.

The FDI said that three Iranian military commanders had been “eliminated in Israeli strikes across Iran”.

They were:

• Hossein Salami, commander -in -chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC)
• Gholamali Rashid, commander of Khatam-Al Anbiya Central Headquarters
• Mohammad Bagheri, chief of staff from the Iranian armed forces

The IRGC later said that Mir Ali Hajizadeh, the commander of his air force, was also killed alongside a group of other IRGC forces.

The Israeli army said that its night attack focused on “more than 100 objectives, including higher figures from the Iranian staff and nuclear program leaders”.

The news agency affiliated to the IRGC, Tasnim, reported that six nuclear scientists had also been killed in strikes, five of which were appointed:

• Fereydoon Abbasi, former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran
• Mohammad Mahdi Tehranchi, who has accused of being involved in the Iranian nuclear weapons program that Tehran Nie exists
• Abdulhamid Minouchehr, nuclear engineering manager at the Iranian University of Shahid Beheshti
• Ahmad Reza Zolfaghari, nuclear engineering professor at Shahid Beheshti University
• Amirhossein Feqhi, another nuclear teacher at Shahid Beheshti University

Ali Shamkhani, principal advisor to the supreme chief of Iran, was seriously injured, according to Iranian media.

State media also said that civilians, including children, were also one of people killed.

The BBC is not able to independently check these reports.

Iran has long argued that its nuclear program is for peaceful and civilian purposes only. It has several installations around Iran, some of which have been targeted in Israeli strikes.

But many countries – as well as the global nuclear guard dog, IAEA – are not convinced that the program is for civil purposes.

This week, the Governors’ Council of the Cost Dog officially declared Iran in violation of its non-proliferation obligations For the first time in 20 years.

He has cited Iran’s “many failures” to provide complete responses to unconceived nuclear materials and Uranium stocks enriched with Iran.

An anterior IAEA report said that Iran has enriched uranium at 60% purity, near the quality of weapons, to potentially make nine nuclear bombs.