The US Warned that the attacks where coming……
The State Department had warned Americans to leave the country if they could….
There HAVE been report that Iran had advanced it’s nucler weapon capabilities….
Trump has been against any direct attack against Iran publicly….
(We don’t know what he has said privately to Netanyahu…)
Israeli military says it has attacked military and nucler program targets only in Iran….
Israeli’s militarty has operated recent attacks gainst Hamas in Gaza, Houthi in Yemen , Lebanon’s Hezbola, Syria ands now Iran….
Explosions rocked Tehran early Friday morning, as Israeli warplanes carried out an large attack on Iran that Israeli officials claimed was intended to cripple its nuclear program. The strikes raised fears of the long-simmering conflict between the two countries could escalate into a war involving the most powerful militaries in the Middle East.
Neither the scale of the attack nor the damage it caused was immediately clear but an Israeli military official, who briefed reporters on the condition of anonymity to comply with protocol, said the strikes had targeted elements of Iran’s nuclear program and long-range missile capabilities.
The defense minister, Israel Katz, declared a special emergency across Israel, saying a counterattack “is expected in the immediate time frame.” Sirens rang out in Jerusalem and other cities.
Residents of Tehran, the Iranian capital, reported hearing huge explosions, and Iran’s state television and the Tasnim news agency broadcast explosions across the city, with smoke and fire billowing from buildings. One Iranian senior official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said fighter jets had taken off to intercept the Israeli warplanes.
Mohammad Jamali was standing on a roof in Tehran near Chitgar lake when he saw what appeared to be two jets moving fast and attacking what he believed to be nearby military bases. “What I can see is two massive flames and smoke coming from two military bases in eastern Tehran,” he said.
In Washington, a U.S. official said no American airplanes were involved in the strikes.
The Israeli strike followed months of disagreement between President Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel over how to handle Iran. Mr. Netanyahu has long proposed using military force to derail Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
On Thursday, Mr. Trump said again that he did not want Israel to launch an attack, predicting that doing so would scuttle the chance of a diplomatic solution. “I think it would blow it,” he said. Then he added a nod to the other side of the equation, saying that an attack “might help it, actually, but it could also blow it.”
Several months ago, Mr. Trump waved off an Israeli plan to strike at Iran, insisting that he wanted a chance to negotiate a deal with Tehran. Two weeks ago, Mr. Trump said that he had warned Mr. Netanyahu against launching a strike while the United States was negotiating with Iran.Those talks faltered in recent weeks, however, and it was unclear how much effort Mr. Trump had made to prevent this latest attack…
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Netanyahu said in a video statement that Israel’s operation would continue “for as many days as it takes.”
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An Israeli military official briefing reporters on the condition of anonymity in line with army rules said that Israeli intelligence indicated that Iran had been advancing a secret program to assemble a nuclear weapon and said that the country now had enough material to rapidly assemble nuclear bombs. He added that the project was reaching a point of no return…
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A U.S. defense official said that air defense systems were being deployed to protect the more than 40,000 American troops scattered at more than a dozen military bases in the region, but declined to say what role the United States was taking in Israel’s defense in the event of Iranian retaliation….
Image…Smoke rises after an explosion in Tehran, Iran, on Friday.Credit…Vahid Salemi/Associated Press
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