Israel has launched a "preventive attack" on Iran and bombed dozens of military targets
The Israeli Army has announced that Iran has launched more than 100 drones into Israel in response and that "all defence systems are working to eliminate threats".
200 Israeli Army aircraft have bombed Iran's "military targets" in the first phaseof a "pre-emptive attack" ordered by the Israeli Government on Iran's nuclear program, the Israeli Defense Forces (FDI) reported.
According to the Israeli Government, the Israeli Army has ensured that Iran was working on a covert plan to develop all components of a nuclear weapon.
The attacks are believed to have targeted residential areas in Tehran and activated the Iranian air defense system in the province around the capital, according to the Iranian news agency Mehr.
The Israeli Army has claimed that Iran was working on a covert plan to develop all components of a nuclear weapon.
"The Iranian regime is pushing for a secret plan for the development of nuclear weapons, within which high-level Iranian nuclear scientists have been secretly working to develop all the necessary components of a nuclear weapon," they said.
According to the Israeli Army, Iran was trying to produce "thousands of kilograms" of enriched uranium.
Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, declared Israel's fate "bitter and painful" after confirming the death of Iran's top military and nuclear officials.
"With this crime, the Zionist regime prepared a bitter and painful fate that it will certainly receive," Khamenei said in a statement posted on his website.
The highest Iranian political and religious authority has declared that Israel will be "severely punished"by revealing its "perverse character" after bombing the housing area of the Iranian capital.
Iran's response
The Israeli Army has announced that Iran has launched more than 100 drones into Israel and that "all defence systems are working to eliminate threats."
At a brief virtual press conference, Army spokesman Effie Defrin reported that 200 aircraft were involved in the attack on Iran and attacked more than 100 points in the country with 330 rounds of ammunition.
Among the targets, he has highlighted the senior members of the General Staff and the security headquarters of the Iranian regime, and three people who have been killed in the attacks: General Mohammad Bagheri, commander of the Armed Forces General Staff, Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, General Hossein Salami, and General Gholam Ali Rashid, head of the Khatam Ol-Anbiya air base.
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