Location at an overview: rockets and threats: Iran and Israel continue war

There is no de -escalation in sight between the arch enemies of Israel and Iran on the second day after the beginning of the war. According to the armed forces, Israel was again attacked with rockets at dawn. The air defense was also active again in the Iranian capital Tehran at night. Eyewitnesses and local media reported explosions in the center and northeast of the city of the million.

In the center of Israel, several people were reportedly injured when a rocket was hit and residential buildings were badly damaged. The population can now leave the shelters, but should continue to be near them, the Israeli army said.

Reports of dozens of injuries

According to the media, dozens of people in Israel were injured in the previous waves of attack. A woman succumbed to her injuries. Although the United States helped its ally, according to the unconfirmed media reports, in the missile defense against rocket, several rockets in the Tel Aviv greater area. According to the local media, nine buildings were destroyed in the suburb of Ramat Gan.

Iran exceeded a red line with attacks on civilian goals and will pay a “very high price”, threatened Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz. A senior Israeli security officer was quoted in domestic media with the statement that Israel will target Iranian oil systems if Iran was to attack population centers in Israel.

Iran reacted immediately to the threats: Then important economic and energy centers in Israel were “immediately and far-destroy and devastating”, wrote the news agency Fars, known as the language tube of the Iranian elite forces. Previously, Iran’s head of state Ajatollah Ali Chamenei had already written on X: “The armed forces of the Islamic Republic will certainly move this wicked Zionist enemy.”

IAEA: System for uranium enrichment partially destroyed

Iran’s attacks are the answer to the major attack that Israel started on Friday night. Israel is the only nuclear power in the region and, with his major attack, primarily targeted Iran’s nuclear program. According to Israeli information, more than 100 destinations were made in the Iranian million cities of Tehran, Tabris and Schiras as well as the uranium enrichment facility in Natan.

According to official Iranian information, dozens of people were killed in the attacks and hundreds were injured. Most victims are civilians, including women and children, said Iranian UN ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani in front of the UN Security Council in New York.

The above-ground part of the facility in Natans, in which uranium was enriched to up to 60 percent, was destroyed, said the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Grossi, in the UN Security Council. A degree of purity of a good 90 percent is required for nuclear weapons.

Iran also announced that the nuclear facilities in Isfahan and Fordo had also been attacked, said Grossi. So far, however, the IAEA has only information that there have been military activities around these systems. There are no knowledge about possible damage.

Leading Iranian military killed

According to Iranian information, leading heads of their own military were also killed, including the commander of the mighty revolutionary guards, Hussein Salami, chief general staff Mohammed Bagheri and the commander of the air forces of the revolutionary guards, Brigadegeneral Amir Ali Hajisadeh.

In addition, at least six leading scientists and professors from the fields of nuclear research and physics were killed in attacks on their apartments in Tehran.

UN chief demands at the end of the mutual attacks

UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged both countries for de-escalation. “Israeli bombing of Iranian nuclear systems. Iranian rocket attacks on Tel Aviv. Enough escalation,” he wrote on X. Peace and diplomacy.

However, it does not look like that at the moment. A senior Iranian official told the US broadcaster CNN that Iran would strengthen his attacks on Israel and target the regional bases of all countries that defend Israel.

Warning of surface fire

“The region has never been as close to a full-blown surface fire as now,” said Ali Vaez, head of the Iran department at the Thinktank International Crisis Group, the Arab broadcaster Al-Jazira. It is unclear how many weapons and defense systems of their archenemy would have destroyed the Israelis. However, Iran definitely still has attack potential – and not only have one of the most developed and most extensive arsenals of marching air bodies in the Middle East, but also strong allies in the region like the Huthi militia in Yemen.

The Palestinian terrorist organization Hamas and the Lebanese Hezbollah militia are also largely supported by Tehran. “If this continues, it can get very ugly very quickly,” warned Vaez.

Israel’s major attack caused a difficult blow to the Iranian power apparatus, “but that does not mean that it means the type of paralysis or implosion of the regime, which Israel hopes,” said Vaez. If the number of victims continues to rise and Americans living in Israel are also killed, it will also be “very difficult” for the US government not to join the military conflict.

“We are only at the beginning”

Israel and other states like the United States want to prevent Iran from building an atomic bomb. Tehran denies to pursue this goal at all – and insists on wanting to use nuclear energy for civilian purposes solely.

The Israeli chief of staff Ejal Zamir explained the major attack with a view to Iran’s nuclear program as follows: “We started this operation because the time has come” – there was no return. “We cannot afford to wait for another time, we have no other choice.”

“We are only at the beginning of an event that will probably differ greatly from previous direct clashes between Israel and Iran,” said Danny Citrinowicz from the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies to the “Wall Street Journal”. In his opinion, the consequences of the current conflict could be far -reaching and significant for the future of Iran and the stability of the entire region.