In the attacks on “two production facilities for centrifuges” in Isfahan, “a difficult blow against the capacities of Iran for the production of centrifuges”, the Israeli army said. Israel had already attacked the facility in Isfahan against Iran over a week at the beginning of his war. The damage has now been enlarged.
Later, according to the army, Israel also attacked “military infrastructure” in the southwest of Iran. Iranian media reported “violent explosions” in the southwest in the city of Ahwas in the province of Chusistan, the most important oil -producing region of the country on the border with Iraq.
The Israeli army also reported the killing of three rank -high Iranian military leaders. One was the commander of the Palestine Corps of the Al-Kuds brigades and Iranian liaison to the radical Islamic Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Said Isadi. He was “one of the main organizers of the massacre of October 7” in 2023, it said in a explanation of the army with a view to the Hamas attack on Israel with more than 1200 deaths.
In addition, the head of unit 190 of the Al-Kuds brigades, Behnam Schahrijari, as well as the head of the drone unit of the Iranian revolutionary guards, Aminpur Dschudaki, was killed, the army announced. Schahrijari organized the arms deliveries from Iran to allied groups. Judaki was responsible for “hundreds of drone attacks on Israeli territory”.
According to the Iranian news agency ISNA, four fighters were also killed in an Israeli attack on an Iranian revolutionary training center training center. The attack occurred in the city of Tabris.
In turn, the Israeli ambulance service gave David Adom a drone attack on Saturday on a residential building in the Bet Schean region in the northeast of the country on the border with Jordan. There were no injuries. The exact destinations or locations of attacks are subject to a strict military censorship in Israel and are not always published in detail.
Meanwhile, Israel confirmed an Iranian rocket attack on the renowned Weizmann research institute near Tel Aviv. According to the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the rocket “directly” in a building of the Weizmann Institute for Cancer Research in Rechovot south of the Coastal metropolis Tel Aviv. Another building, which has not yet been put into operation, was also destroyed, the Ministry wrote in online service X.
At the same time, the European efforts for a negotiating solution for the war stood up. France President Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday in online service X after a phone call with the Iranian President Massud Peseschkian that the European countries would “advance” negotiations with Iran to end the war and “to avert worse dangers”. At the same time, he again expressed his concern about the Iranian nuclear program.
On Friday, the Foreign Minister of Germany, France and Great Britain as well as the EU foreign representative Kaja Kallas in Geneva met the Iranian chief diplomat Abbas Araghtschi to urge a negotiating solution. The Europeans then expressed their satisfaction about the course. However, US President Donald Trump declared the European initiative hopeless. “Iran doesn’t want to talk to Europe. They want to talk to us,” Trump said to journalists on Friday. Europe will therefore “be unable to help”.
Tehran gave the number of fatalities due to Israeli attacks since the beginning of the war on June 13 on Saturday with over 400, mostly civilians. The Iranian Ministry of Health explained 3056 people. A non -governmental organization based in the United States put the number of people killed in Iran to 657. At least 263 civilians, including more than 20 children, explained the Human Rights Activists News Agency.
Israel started a major attack on targets in Iran on June 13th. The declared goal is to keep Tehran from building an atomic bomb. Since then, the Israeli army has bombed military and nuclear facilities in Iran. In response, Iran attacks goals in Israel with rockets. Western states have been accusing Iran to strive for nuclear weapons for years, which Tehran denies.
