Iran targets Israel’s positions; warns US after attack on nuclear sites
Tel Aviv launches new attack on Fordow
Iran and Israel on Monday traded fresh strikes in a second week of the regime’s aggression against the Islamic Republic and a day after the United States launched attack on Iran’s key nuclear facilities.
According to the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Iran’s Armed Forces fired missiles and drones at Israel’s targets in the occupied territories during the 21st wave of strikes as part of the Operation True Promise 3.
The IRGC said it used multi-warhead Kheirbar missile to target Israeli positions in north, south and center of the occupied territories. It underlined that the attacks on Israel will continue until the objectives are met.
Iran’s Army also launched drone strike on the regime’s targets in the early hours of Monday. An Israeli Hermes drone was also destroyed by the Iranian air force in Markazi Province.
According to Israel’s electricity company, the new wave of Iranian missiles disrupted the electricity supply to “several communities” in southern Israel on Monday.
The strikes on Israel came in response to the regime’s unprovoked attacks on Iran which have so far claimed the lives of more than 400 Iranians and wounded over 3,000 others.
Tehran’s provincial governor Mohammad Sadegh Motamedian said on Sunday that more than 200 places in the Iranian capital Tehran have been hit in the Israeli strikes since the start of the regime’s aggression on June 13.
The Israeli regime also on Monday targeted several locations across Iran.
Attack on Evin prison
Iran’s judiciary said an Israeli strike hit Tehran’s Evin prison, leaving sections of the facility damaged.
Iran’s Red Crescent also said an Israeli strike hit near its building in northern Tehran on Monday.
Israel’s attacks also caused power outages in some neighborhoods of the capital Tehran.
Israel also said on Monday that it launched a new attack on “access routes” to Iran’s Fordow nuclear site a day after the United States joined the conflict by launching attack on three nuclear sites in Iran.
US President Donald Trump claimed on Sunday that Iran’s Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan nuclear facilities were “completely and totally obliterated.”
Warning to US
Iran on Monday warned the US of severe repercussions following the strike which involved submarines and stealth B-2 bombers.
“This hostile act... will widen the scope of legitimate targets of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran and pave the way for the extension of war in the region,” said armed forces spokesman Ebrahim Zolfaghari.
“The fighters of Islam will inflict serious, unpredictable consequences on you with powerful and targeted (military) operations,” he said on state television.
Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Lammy told BBC Breakfast the situation was a “moment of peril” and urged Iran to avoid retaliating against US bases in the region. He also warned that blocking the Strait of Hormuz by Iran would be a ‘catastrophic mistake’.
In another development, Anwar Gargash, an advisor to the president of the United Arab Emirates, denounced extremist Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s demand for funding from the Persian Gulf Arab States for the Israel’s war on Iran.