Beirut – Iran and Israel exchanged air attacks and barriers of ballistic missiles during the night and until Sunday night, and none of the parties showed any inclination to go back from a resentment match in the two enemies for a long time.
The fight, which occurred after Israel launched fulminant attacks on Friday decapitating the maximum military leadership of Iran and hitting its nuclear infrastructure, killed to 128 people in Iran on Friday and Saturday and wounded almost 1,000, according to the Iranian government.
Iranian President Masoud Peeshkian accused the United States of giving Israel the “green light” for the operation. President Trump denied the position and warned Iran not to retaliate against the United States also on Sunday, there were news reports that Trump vetoed an Israeli plan to kill the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatolá Ali Khamenei.
The Iranian government has not yet provided an updated number of deaths, but human rights activists, a Washington -based group, was summoned by Associated Press on Sunday as calculated at least 406 dead and 654 wounded. Iranian health minister, Mohammad-Reza Zafarghandi, said in an interview with the state media that most of the victims were women and children.
Iran's retaliation attacks have killed at least 14 people, including children, and wounded another 390 in Israel, according to health authorities there.
Meanwhile, both nations have been tight for a long confrontation. The Iranian government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajarani, said in an interview with the state media that the subway stations and mosques would be open 24 hours a day from Sunday night for use as shelters. Residential buildings in Iran have no shelters.
Mohajarani added that “there would be no problem” when providing food, medicines and fuel.
Israeli soldiers seek through the debris of residential buildings destroyed by an Iranian missile strike in Bat Yam, Central Israel, on Sunday.
(Baz Ratner / Associated Press)
The Israel National Security Council warned citizens who do not enter the country through their terrestrial borders with Jordan and Egypt, nations with decades of peace with Israel who have pro-Palestinian populations. Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, meanwhile, was also closed.
The rhetoric and the growing scale of the damage indicate that a diplomatic ramp will not be soon.
In the last three days, Israel has attacked military bases, sites and airports, even in Isfahan, Arak and Kermanshah; Residences of nuclear military commanders and scientists; and the best uranium enrichment center in Natanz.
But Israel has also expanded the scope of its attacks to achieve economic objectives, turning vital parts of Iran's fossil fuel infrastructure in Inferns. The attacks hit the Shahran gas deposit, an important center in Tehran and the South Pars field, according to the Iran Ministry of Petroleum. The latter is the world's largest natural gas field, which produces approximately two thirds of Iran's gas production. The Ministry reported that the Fajr Jam Gas Refining Co. was also attacked.
The attacks have energy markets destroyed by Iran interruptions, an oil and gas power with the second tested natural gas reserves in the world and the third largest crude oil reserves, according to the United States energy information administration.
Petroleum prices increased at least 7% on the day Israel launched its campaign, while JPMorgan Chase & Co. said in a report that an extended military confrontation or the closure of the Hormuz Strait, the passage for a fifth of the global oil, could boost oil prices, now around $ 74 per barrel, as high as $ 130 per barrel.
An Israeli shot around noon on Sunday and in the afternoon saw four areas in Tehran attacked, including the main commercial routes, according to state media.
“If Khamenei continues to shoot missiles in the front of the Israeli house, Tehran will burn,” said Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz.
But the leadership of Iran has maintained a challenging tone, promising to meet any aggression with a “more severe and powerful response,” according to a fish -Saturday statement on Saturday.
Three days after the conflict, a certain rhythm has been established, with reports of Israeli air attacks in Iran followed shortly after by barriers of ballistic missiles that travel approximately 1,000 miles between Iran and Israel, a 12 -minute trip on Iraq, Syria, Jordan and occasionally Lebanon. Although Israel's defense system and a network of united pro-states allies have demolished most of the 270 missiles launched by Iran, some have reached their footprint.
The transmissions have represented the rescue teams that collect the debris of destroyed buildings to take out the survivors in the mostly intact cities in previous episodes of violence, such as Tel Aviv. On Sunday night, a missile crashed into the port city of northern Haifa, with a transmission that shows an explosion that briefly illuminates the night sky.
“When we make this historical decision, a difficult decision, we knew that we will have difficult times and we will face casualties,” said Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar, in an interview with CNN on Sunday.
“But saying that, we had no choice.”
Israel states that their actions are preventive and aim to guarantee a setback for Iran's nuclear ambitions. When Israel launched its campaign, the United States and Iran were in the middle of the negotiations on the Tehran nuclear program, with the sixth round of those negotiations scheduled for Sunday in the Omaní capital, Muscat. The conversations were canceled amid accusations by Iranian officials of American complicity in Israel's attacks.
At a cabinet meeting on Sunday, Pezeshkian said that the United States had given Israel the approval of his actions, according to the official news agency of the Islamic Republic. “What we are witnessing today is being done with the direct support of Washington,” he said.
