Israel-Iran latest: Israel strikes Iran’s largest nuclear research facility after huge explosion rocks Haifa
Iran and Israel launched a new round of strikes early Saturday, a day after Tehran ruled out nuclear talks while under threat and European powers continued efforts to revive diplomacy.
The Israeli military said it had carried out a wave of attacks on missile storage and launch sites across Iran. Israeli defence minister Israel Katz confirmed that among those killed was Saeed Izadi, a senior commander in the Quds Force, the overseas wing of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
Iran’s Fars news agency reported that Israel had targeted the Isfahan nuclear facility, one of the country’s largest, but said there was no leakage of hazardous material. Iranian media also reported an Israeli strike on a building in the city of Qom, where a 16-year-old was reportedly killed and two others injured.
Meanwhile, US president Donald Trump slammed the US intelligence Community’s assessment of Iran’s nuclear weapons program and claimed Tehran could produce a working weapon within a “matter of weeks”.
At the United Nations Security Council on Friday, Israel’s envoy Danny Danon declared the country would continue its military operations “until Iran’s nuclear threat is dismantled.”
