The US attacks in Iran were initially not explicitly mentioned in the statement by the US State Department. It only said that the conflict between Israel and Iran “led to travel interruptions and temporary airspace closures in the entire Middle East”. There is also “the possibility of demonstrations against US citizens and interests abroad”.
The United States had joined the war between Israel and Iran on Sunday night and the three nuclear facilities Fordo, Natans and Isfahan attacked with B-2 fighting jets and GBU-57 bombs, which can also destroy underground goals. US President Donald Trump had put an end to days of speculation about the US military intervention.
Previously, Trump had repeatedly emphasized that Iran was not allowed to gain any nuclear weapons. The United States had also urged Iran before the outbreak of the Iran Israel War over a week ago for negotiations on an abundance of uranium enrichment.
The US allied Israel had launched a major attack on Iran on June 13 and has been bombing out of the country and military facilities in the country since then. Israel describes his approach as “preventive” and justified it that Iran had to be held from the construction of an atomic bomb. Iran, who strives for the atomic bomb, has been attacking Israel in return with rockets and drones since then.
The leadership in Tehran threatened Trump after the US attacks on Sunday with the words: “There will be either peace or a tragedy for Iran, which is far greater than what we have experienced in the past eight days.” Iran is the “tyrant of the Middle East”, the US President also said with a view to the Islamist militias in Lebanon, in the Gaza Strip and Yemen financed by Iran.
In his part, Iran threatened the United States after the attacks on its nuclear facilities with retaliation. On Sunday, a consultant of the spiritual head of Ayatollah Ali Chamenei named US bases as “legitimate goals” for attacks from Tehran.
“Every country in the region or elsewhere, which is used by American armed forces for attacks on Iran, is viewed by our armed forces as a legitimate goal,” said Ali Akbar Welajati, according to the official news agency IRNA. The United States had “attacked the heart of the Islamic world” and would have to “expect irreparable consequences.
The uncertainty about a possibly more comprehensive war was also evident in the case of the oil price: At the beginning of the trade in Asia, the oil price on Monday temporarily climbed by more than four percent.
The United States had already started on Saturday with evacuation flights from Israel for its citizens as well as people from Israel and the West Bank with a constant residence in the USA. They also instructed the staff of their diplomatic representations in Iraq and Lebanon to leave them.
Meanwhile, the Israeli armed forces reported further attacks on dozens of military goals in Iran. Around 20 fighter jets from the Israeli Air Force had “set up attacks on military destinations in Iran on Sunday,” said the Israeli army. The attacks were therefore directed against “infrastructures for the storage and shooting of rockets” as well as “military satellites and radar systems”.
Meanwhile, Trump confirmed “monumental damage” to “all” Iranian nuclear facilities attacked by the United States. This was shown by satellite pictures, Trump explained on Sunday in his online service Truth Social. “Any destination is an appropriate term,” he wrote. At first he did not provide information on the pictures he referred to. There were initially different information on the extent of the destruction on the uranium enrichment systems.
Even a change of power in the Iran Castle Trump did not go out. “It is not politically correct to use the term ‘change of regime’,” he said on Sunday at Truth Social. “But if the current Iranian regime is unable to make Iran big again, why shouldn’t there be a change of regime?” He wrote.
Based on his own slogan “Make America Great Again” (makes America great again), he added in capital letters: “Miga!” (Make Iran Great Again).
This, like the Iran International North Korea, meanwhile condemned the US attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities. These represented “a severe violation of the UN Charter and the respect of sovereignty,” said the Foreign Ministry, according to the state of North Korean news agency KCNA.
According to experts, North Korea has nuclear weapons. Despite UN sanctions, the government of rulers Kim Jong Un continues its nuclear and rocket program- including with the support of China and Russia.
