Tehran has called off nuclear talks that Washington was the only way to stop Israeli bombing, and Israeli Benjamin Netanyahu said the attacks have not compared anything Iran immediately sees.
Iran counterattacks, missile launch waves in Israel
Iran has launched a missile counterattack in Israel. This comes after Israeli missile attacks damaged Iran’s nuclear and military facilities.
Tel Aviv/Dubai, June 14 (Reuters) – Israel and Iran launched new attacks on each other late on Saturday, robbing the fear of wider conflict after Israel expanded its surprise campaign against its major rivals on a strike in the world’s largest gas field.
Tehran called for nuclear talks, which stated Washington was the only way to stop Israeli bombing, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attacks were not comparing to what Iran would see in the coming days.
Israeli forces said more missiles were fired from Iran towards Israel on Saturday and were working to intercept them. He also said it was attacking a military target in Tehran. Iran’s state television said Iran launched missiles and drones in Israel.
Later on Saturday, several projectiles were visible in the night sky in Jerusalem. The sirens of the air raid did not ring in the city, but were heard in Haifa, in northern Israel.
An Israeli ambulance said a woman in her 20s was killed and 13 people were injured when the missile struck a two-storey home in northern Israel.
Iran said Tehran’s Sharan oil depot was targeted in an Israeli attack, but the situation was under control.
US President Donald Trump has warned Iran that it will continue to be bad, but said it will be too late to halt Israel’s campaign if Tehran accepts a sharp downgrade to its nuclear program.
The US-Iran nuclear talks scheduled to be held in Oman on Sunday have been cancelled, and Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Arakich said there was no discussion while Iran was exposed to Israel’s “wild” attacks.
In the first obvious attack that hit Iran’s energy infrastructure, the semi-official Tasnim news agency said Iran partially suspended production in the world’s largest gas field after Iran launched a fire on Saturday.
South Pursfield, offshore of Iran’s southern Busher province, is the source of most gas produced in Iran.
Fear of potential disruptions in local oil exports had already raised oil prices by 9% on Friday, despite Israel sparing Iran’s oil and gas on the first day of the attack.
Iranian general Esmail Kosari said on Saturday that he was reviewing whether Tehran would control access to the tanker’s bay and close the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran says the score was killed
Iran said it scored second more, including 60 people, including 60 who defeated a 14-storey apartment block in Tehran, where 78 people died on the first day of the Israeli campaign, and 29 of the deaths were children.
Iran launched its own retaliatory missile volley on Friday night, killing at least three people in Israel.
Israel says the operation could last for several weeks, and Netanyahu urges Iranians to stand up to Islamic administrative rulers, fearing that a huge regional fire will be dragged in by external forces.
B’tselem, Israel’s leading human rights group, said on Saturday that instead of exhausting all possibilities for a diplomatic resolution, the Israeli government chose to launch a war that puts the entire region at risk.
Tehran warns Israeli allies that military bases in the area will also burn if they help fire down Iranian missiles.
However, last year, 20 months of war in Gaza and the conflict in Lebanon have led to Tehran’s most powerful regional proxies, Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, with fewer options for retaliation.
Israel saw Iran’s nuclear program as a threat to its existence, saying the bombing was designed to avoid a final step towards the production of nuclear weapons.
Tehran claims the program is entirely civilian and does not seek an atomic bomb. However, the United Nations Nuclear Watchdog reported this week that it was violating its obligations under the global non-proliferation treaty.