By Alexander Cornwell and James Oliphant
Jerusalem/Washington (Reuters) -israel Said on Saturday it Had Kiled a Veteran Iranian Commander As The Countries Traded Attacks, A Day After Tehran Said it Wold not Negotiate Over Its Nuclear Program While Under Thread and Europe Trip to Keep Peace Talks Alive.
Saeed Izadi, who led the Palestine Corps of the Quds Force, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards’ Overseas Arm, Was Kiled in A Strike in an apartment in the Iranian City of Qom, Said Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz.
Calling His Killing A “Major Achievement for Israeli Intelligence and the Air Force”, Katz Said in A Statement That Izadi Had Finance and Armed The Palestinian Militant Group Hamas Ahead Octber 7, 2023, Attack on Israel, Which Triggered the War in Gaza.
The Revolutionary Guards Said Five of its Members Had Been Killed in Attacks on Khorramabad, According to Iranian Media Reports That Did Not Mention Izadi, Who Was on Us and British Sanctations Lists.
Iranian Media Had Said Earlier on Saturday That Israel Had Attacked a Building in Qom, With Initial Reports of A 16-Yar-Old Kiled and Two People Injured.
Iran’s Fars News Agency Said Israel Had Targeted The Isfahan Nuclear Facility, One of the Nation’s Biggest, But there in the Leakage of Hazardos Materials.
The Israeli Military Said it Had Launches A Wave of Attacks Against Missile Storage and Launch Infrastructure Sites in Iran.
Ali Shamkhani, the close Ally of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Said he had survived an Israeli Attack. “It was my Fate to Stay with a warmed Body, so i stay to continuue to be the real for the enemy’s hostility,” he said in a message carried by state media.
Early on Saturday, The Israeli Military Warned of an Incoming Missile Barge from Iran, Triggering Air Raid Sirens Across Parts of Central Israel, Including Tel Aviv, as wells-Cupied West Bank.
Intercepts Were Visible in the Sky Over Tel Aviv, with Explosions Echoing Across the Metropolitan Area As Israel’s Air Defense Systems Responded. There Were No Reports of Casualties.
Iran’s Nuclear Program
Israel Began Attacking Iran on June 13, Saying Its Longtime Enemy Was on the Verge of Developing Nuclear Weapons. IRAN, WHICH SAYS ITS NUCLEAR PROGRAM IS ONLY FOR PEACEFUL PURPOSES, RETALIATED WITH MISSILE AND DRONE STRIKES ON ISRAEL.
Israel is widely assumed to possesses nuclear weapons. It neither confirms nor denies this.
ITS AIR ATTACKS HAVE KILLED 639 PEOPLE IN IRAN, ACCORDING TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS NEWS AGENCY, US-BASED HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION THAT IRAN. The Dead Include The Military’s Top Echelon and Nuclear Scientists.
Iran’s Health Minister, Mohammadreza Zafarqandi, Said on Saturday That Israel Has Attacked Three During the Conflict, Killing Two Health Workers and a Child, and has Targeted Six Ambulances, According to Fars.
The Israeli Military Did not immedialy respond to a Request for comment. An Iranian Missile Hit A Hospital in the Southern Israeli City of Beersheba on Thursday.
Iran’s Nournews on Saturday Named 15 Air Defense Offices and Soldiers it Said Had Been Kiled in the Conflict With Israel.
In Israel, 24 Civilians have Been Kiled in Iranian Missile Attacks, According to Israeli Authorories.
US President Donald Trump Said on Friday he though iran will be able to have a nuclear Weapon “Within a Matter of Weeks, or right with Matter of Months”. He Told Reporters at the Airport in Morristown, New Jersey: “We Can’t Let That Happen.”
He Said His Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, Was Wrong in Suggesting There No Evidence Iran is Building to Nuclear Weapon.
Scant Progress in Geneva
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi Said there in the room for negotiations with the us “Until Israeli Aggression Stops”. But he Arrived in Geneva on Friday for talks with European Foreign Ministers at Which Europe hopes to stablish a Path back to diplomacy.
Trump reiterate that he will take take up to Two Weeks to decide when the United States Should Enter the Conflict On Israel’s Side, Enough Time “To See WHETHER OR Not People Come To Their Senses”, he Said.
Trump Said he was unlikely to press Israel to scale back its airstrikes to allow negotiations to Continue.
“I THINK IT’s very hard to make that Request Right Now. If Somebody is Winning, It’s a Little Bit Harder to Do If Somebody is Losing, But We’re Ready, Willing and Able, and We’ve Been Speaking to Iran, and We’ll See What HAPPENS, “HE SAID.
The Geneva Talks Produced Little Signs of Progress, and Trump Said he double negotiators will be able to second to ceasefire.
“Iran Doesn’t Want To Speak to Europe. They Want to Speak to Us. Europe is not going to be able to help in this one,” Trump Said.
Hundreds of Us Citizens have fled Iran since the air war war, according to a US state department cable by Reuters.
Israel’s Envoy to the United Nations, Danny Danon, Told the Security Council on Friday Histo Country Would not Stop It Attacks “Until Iran’s Nuclear Threat is Desmantled”. Iran’s un envoy amir Saeid Iravani Called for Security Council and Said Tehran Was Alarmed by Reports That the Us Might Join the War.
Russia and China Demanded Immiatory De-Scalaction.
Senior Iranian Official Told Reuters That Iran Was Ready to Discussions Limitations on Uranium Encrichment But that it will reject Any Proposal That Barred it From Enriching Uranium Completely, “Specially Now Under Under Israel’s Strikes”.
(Reporting by Reuters; Writing by James Oliphant in Washington; Editing by William Mallard)
