Dubai: Explosions were heard in Tehran early Wednesday as Israeli warplanes pounded Iran’s capital overnight and into Wednesday. Iran launched a small barrage of missiles at Israel with no reports of casualties.
A spokesman for Iran’s foreign ministry warned Wednesday that any American intervention in the ongoing Israeli strikes targeting his country would spark “an all-out war” in the region.
The latest Israeli strikes hit a facility used to make uranium centrifuges and another that made missile components, the Israeli military said.
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Iranian ambassador derides Trump’s comments calling for Iran to surrender
Iran’s ambassador in Geneva is deriding as “hostile” and “unwarranted” US President Donald Trump’s comments calling for Iran’s “unconditional surrender”.
Ambassador Ali Bahreini told reporters the Israeli campaign “has not been able to bring big damage to our nuclear facilities” because it had taken precautions to protect them.
Bahraini insisted that Iran has no intention to produce nuclear weapons, a top concern for Israeli authorities. He said, “We will continue to produce the enriched uranium as far as we need for peaceful purposes”.
The ambassador rejected any talk of a “setback” on Iran’s nuclear research and technological activities caused by Israel’s military action, saying “our scientists will continue their work”.
Iranian officials acknowledge the loss of a major radar system
Both the semiofficial Fars and ISNA news agencies reported Wednesday that a replacement system had been installed to replace its Soubashi radar site in western Iran.
The original Soubashi radar, located in the heights of Kaboudarahang County in Iran’s Hamedan province, played a crucial role in Iran’s air defence network, providing extensive coverage for western, northwestern, and southwestern Iran.
Hamedan has been repeatedly targeted in Israeli strikes since Israel’s campaign began Friday.
IAEA confirms Israel struck sites associated with Iran’s nuclear programme around Tehran
“The IAEA has information that two centrifuge production facilities in Iran, the TESA Karaj workshop and the Tehran Research Centre, were hit,” the International Atomic Energy Agency wrote on the social platform X.
Karaj is a city just outside of Tehran.
“At the Tehran site, one building was hit where advanced centrifuge rotors were manufactured and tested,” it added. “At Karaj, two buildings were destroyed where different centrifuge components were manufactured.
AP
