Israel warns "Tehran will burn" if Iran continues retaliatory attacks

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Israel's defence curate warned Saturday that "Tehran volition burn" if Iran continues firing missiles astatine Israel. Iran's retaliatory strikes travel aft Israel unleashed a bid of blistering attacks connected Iran's atomic programme and equipped forces connected Thursday.

Speaking aft an appraisal gathering with the army's main of staff, Defense Minister Israel Katz said Iran volition wage a dense terms for harming Israeli citizens. At slightest 3 radical person died successful Israel, and dozens wounded, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) officials said Saturday morning. Iran's U.N. ambassador said astatine slightest 78 radical person died and hundreds person been wounded successful Iran from Israel's strikes.

"If (Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali) Khamenei continues to occurrence missiles astatine the Israeli location beforehand — Tehran volition burn," Katz said.

Iranian authorities tv reported online that aerial defenses were firing successful the cities of Khorramabad, Kermanshah and Tabriz, signaling the commencement of what could beryllium a caller Israeli onslaught connected Saturday. Footage from Tabriz showed achromatic fume rising from the city.

An Israeli subject authoritative said Saturday that the subject was poised to transportation retired much strikes successful Iran, saying, "This is not over." He spoke connected information of anonymity, successful enactment with authoritative procedures.

Israel's archetypal battle utilized warplanes — arsenic good arsenic drones smuggled into the state successful advance, according to officials — to deed cardinal facilities and termination apical generals and scientists. Israel's service said Saturday it killed 9 elder scientists and experts progressive successful Iran's atomic project.

"The individuals who were eliminated played a cardinal portion of the advancement toward atomic weapons," the IDF said successful a quality release. "Their elimination represents a important stroke to the Iranian regime's quality to get weapons of wide destruction."

Iran retaliated by launching waves of drones and ballistic missiles astatine Israel, wherever explosions lit the nighttime skies implicit Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and shook the buildings below. The Israeli subject urged civilians, already rattled by 20 months of warfare successful Gaza sparked by Hamas' Oct. 7 attack, to caput to structure for hours. U.S. officials confirmed to CBS News that U.S. forces helped Israel intercept Iranian missiles connected Friday.

Both Israel and Iran said their attacks would continue, raising the imaginable of different protracted Mideast conflict. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that his nonsubjective was to destruct immoderate Iranian menace to Israel, but helium besides urged Iranians to emergence up against their leaders. Israel would invited the government's overthrow adjacent if it is not actively seeking it.

"The clip has travel for you to unite astir your emblem and your historical legacy, by lasting up for your state from an evil and oppressive regime," Netanyahu said Friday. "It has ne'er been weaker. This is your accidental to basal up and fto your voices beryllium heard."

Strikes could derail U.S.-Iran atomic talks

Israel's strikes besides enactment further talks betwixt the United States and Iran implicit a atomic accord into uncertainty earlier they were acceptable to conscionable Sunday successful Oman. Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei called further atomic talks with the United States "meaningless" aft Israeli strikes connected the country, authorities tv said.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said the U.S. was not progressive successful Israel's archetypal strike, and that his apical precedence is protecting American assets successful the Middle East. The State Department connected Thursday informed aggregate U.S.-allied governments successful the Middle East successful beforehand of Israel's strikes connected Iran, 4 sources told CBS News.

"The U.S. did a occupation that made the talks go meaningless," Baghaei was quoted arsenic saying. He added that Israel had passed each Iran's reddish lines by committing a "criminal act" done its strikes.

However, helium stopped abbreviated of saying the talks were cancelled. The Mizan quality agency, which is tally by Iran's judiciary, quoted him arsenic saying: "It is inactive not wide what we determine astir Sunday's talks."

President Trump urged Iran connected Friday to scope a woody with the U.S. connected its atomic program, informing connected his Truth Social level that Israel's attacks "will lone get worse."

"Iran indispensable marque a deal, earlier determination is thing left," helium wrote.

Will Todman, the main of unit of the Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department and a elder chap successful the Middle East Program astatine the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told CBS News that Mr. Trump has "put a batch of effort into the atomic negotiations with Iran," but "seems to person grown frustrated with the deficiency of occurrence successful those talks."

"The Iranians thin to negociate precise slowly. And beryllium precise dilatory to marque concessions," Todman said. "And truthful I deliberation he's present viewing these subject actions by Israel arsenic a mode of expanding unit connected Iran to marque those concessions and yet travel to a deal."

Iranian missiles onslaught Israel

Khamenei said successful a recorded connection Friday: "We volition not let them to flight safely from this large transgression they committed."

Iran launched waves of missiles astatine Israel precocious Friday and aboriginal Saturday. Iranians awoke Saturday to authorities tv airing repeated clips of strikes connected Israel, arsenic good arsenic videos of radical cheering and handing retired sweets. Israel's subject said much drones were intercepted adjacent the Dead Sea aboriginal Saturday.

A infirmary successful Tel Aviv treated 7 radical wounded successful the 2nd Iranian barrage; each but 1 of them had airy injuries. Israel's Fire and Rescue Services said they were wounded erstwhile a projectile deed a gathering successful the city. A spokesperson for Beilinson Hospital said 1 pistillate was killed.

An detonation is seen during a rocket onslaught successful Tel Aviv

Hours later, an Iranian rocket struck adjacent homes successful the cardinal Israeli metropolis of Rishon Lezion, sidesplitting 2 much radical and wounding 19, according to Israel's paramedic work Magen David Adom. Israel's Fire and Rescue work said 4 homes were severely damaged.

Israel's main planetary airdrome said Saturday it volition stay closed until further notice.

Meanwhile, the dependable of explosions and Iranian aerial defence systems firing astatine targets echoed crossed cardinal Tehran soon aft midnight. Iran's semiofficial Tasnim quality bureau reported a occurrence astatine Tehran's Mehrabad International Airport. A video posted connected X showed a file of fume and flames rising from what the outlet said was the airport.

The Israeli subject said it carried retired overnight strikes connected dozens of targets, including aerial defenses, "in the country of Tehran."

Israel's paramedic services said 34 radical were wounded successful the barrage connected the Tel Aviv area, including a pistillate who was critically injured aft being trapped nether rubble. In Ramat Gan, eastbound of Tel Aviv, an AP writer saw burned-out cars and astatine slightest 3 damaged houses, including 1 wherever the beforehand was astir wholly torn away.

Residents of a cardinal Israeli metropolis that was deed Friday nighttime told the AP the detonation was truthful almighty it shook their structure doorway open. "We thought, that's it, the location is gone, and successful information fractional of the location was gone, it fell apart," said Moshe Shani.

U.S. ground-based aerial defence systems successful the portion were helping to sprout down Iranian missiles, said a U.S. authoritative who spoke connected information of anonymity to sermon the measures.

Israel's ongoing airstrikes and Iran's retaliation raised concerns astir all-out warfare betwixt the countries and propelled the region, already connected edge, into adjacent greater upheaval. Israel's 20-month-long warfare with Gaza shows nary signs of ending. At slightest 27 radical were killed by Israeli strikes successful Gaza overnight Friday, according to section hospitals.

Strikes rise fears of all-out war

Countries successful the portion condemned Israel's attack, portion leaders astir the globe called for contiguous de-escalation from some sides.

Israel had agelong threatened specified a strike, and successive American administrations sought to forestall it, fearing it would ignite a wider struggle crossed the Middle East and perchance beryllium ineffective astatine destroying Iran's dispersed and hardened atomic program.

But a confluence of developments triggered by Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, onslaught — positive the reelection of Mr. Trump — created the conditions that allowed Israel to yet travel done connected its threats. Netanyahu said the U.S. was informed successful beforehand of the attack.

On Thursday, Iran was censured by the U.N.'s atomic watchdog for not complying with obligations meant to forestall it from processing a atomic weapon.

Above-ground conception of Natanz installation destroyed

Among the cardinal sites Israel attacked was Iran's main atomic enrichment installation successful Natanz, wherever achromatic fume could beryllium seen rising into the air. It besides appeared to onslaught a second, smaller atomic enrichment installation successful Fordo, astir 60 miles southeast of Tehran, according to an Iranian quality outlet adjacent to the authorities that reported proceeding explosions nearby.

Israel said it besides struck a atomic probe installation successful Isfahan, and said it destroyed dozens of radar installations and surface-to-air rocket launchers successful occidental Iran. Iran confirmed the onslaught astatine Isfahan.

U.N. atomic main Rafael Grossi told the Security Council that the above-ground conception of the Natanz installation was destroyed. The main centrifuge installation underground did not look to person been hit, but the nonaccomplishment of powerfulness could person damaged the infrastructure there, helium said.

Netanyahu said the onslaught had been months successful the making and was planned for April earlier being postponed.

Israel's Mossad spy bureau positioned explosive drones and precision weapons wrong Iran up of time, and utilized them to people Iranian aerial defenses and rocket launchers adjacent Tehran, according to 2 information officials who spoke connected information of anonymity.

It was not imaginable to independently corroborate those claims.

Over the past year, Israel has been targeting Iran's aerial defenses, hitting a radar strategy for a Russian-made aerial defence artillery successful April 2024, and surface-to-air rocket sites and rocket manufacturing facilities successful October.

The archetypal question of strikes gave Israel "significant state of movement" successful Iran's skies, clearing the mode for further attacks, according to an Israeli subject authoritative who spoke connected information of anonymity due to the fact that helium was not authorized to sermon details of the onslaught with the media.

The authoritative said Israel is prepared for an cognition that could past up to 2 weeks, but that determination was nary steadfast timeline.

Among those killed were 3 of Iran's apical subject leaders: 1 who oversaw the full equipped forces, Gen. Mohammad Bagheri; 1 who led the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Gen. Hossein Salami; and the caput of the Guard's ballistic rocket program, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh.

Two of Bagheri's deputies were besides killed, Iran confirmed Saturday: Gen. Gholamreza Mehrabi, the lawman of quality for the equipped forces' wide staff, and Gen. Mehdi Rabbani, the lawman of operations.

On Saturday, Khamenei named a caller person for the Revolutionary Guard's aerospace division. Gen. Majid Mousavi volition regenerate Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who was killed successful Friday's airstrike. The Guard's aerospace part oversees Iran's arsenal of ballistic missiles.