The president Donald Trump threatened this Saturday with intensify their attacks on Iranwho promised that he will not give in to United States or Israeldespite a new series of bombings on the eighth day of war.
The wave of israeli attacksbefore dawn this Saturday, was one of the most intense since the start of the guerra a week ago. Among the whites there was a military academy, an underground command center and a missile depot.
Another target was the Mehrabad international airport, one of the two in the Iranian capital, where a fire and abundant smoke could be seen.
“Today Iran will be hit very hard!” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform.
“Under serious consideration for complete destruction and certain death, due to Iran’s bad behavior, are areas and groups of people that have not been considered targets until this moment,” he threatened.
The Iranian president, Masud Pezeshkian, had already appeared defiant before his American counterpartwho demanded the day before the “unconditional surrender” of Tehran to end the war.
“Enemies will take to the grave their desire for the Iranian people to surrender,” Pezeshkian said in a televised speech.
Israel bombed numerous Hezbollah targets in southern and eastern Lebanon in parallel.
The pro-Iranian militia party said it had fought off an Israeli incursion along the Syrian border, and the Health Ministry reported 41 dead and 40 injured. A previous toll showed 16 deaths.
The ministry reported the deaths of six other people, including four children, in a separate Israeli attack from the raid, also in the east of the country.
In total, nearly 300 people were killed this week in Israeli bombings, according to Lebanese authorities.
Attack on two oil tankers
The Islamic republic, which lost its supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, in a bombing a week ago, continued its campaign of retaliation.
this saturday Sirens and explosions were heard in Jerusalem and in Gulf cities such as Dubai, Manama and Riyadhwhere Saudi defenses intercepted missiles aimed at an air base with American military personnel.
Dubai airport, the busiest international airport, briefly suspended operations and then partially resumed them after an interception in the area. The country’s Ministry of Defense stated that Iran launched 15 missiles and 119 drones against its territory this Saturday.
Pezeshkian apologized to his Gulf neighbors, many with American bases, and promised that they would not be attacked “unless there is an attack against Iran from those countries.”
For its part, Jordan accused Iran of having fired 119 projectiles at its country since the start of the war and of attacking “vital facilities.”
The war also has an impact on maritime traffic due to the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of the crude oil and liquefied gas consumed worldwide usually transit.
The Iranian Revolutionary Guards claimed this Saturday to have attacked two oil tankers in the Gulf, one of them flying the Marshall Islands flag.. In both cases, drones were used.
Humanitarian disaster
The war, which begins its second week, began on February 28 with the joint Israeli and American bombing campaign in Iran, accused of wanting to acquire the atomic bomb and threatening both powers with its missile arsenal.
Since then it has reached the rest of the Gulf, Lebanon, Cyprus – an EU member country that hosts two British bases -, Azerbaijan, Turkey and even the coast of Sri Lanka, where a North American submarine torpedoed an Iranian frigate.
Inside Iran, damage to residential buildings and infrastructure is increasing. The residents of Tehran live anxiously and attentively to the strong presence of security agents on the streets.
“I don’t think anyone who hasn’t lived through a war can understand it,” a terrified 26-year-old teacher from the capital, who requested anonymity, told AFP.
The Iranian Ministry of Health stated on Friday that In the Israeli-American attacks, 926 civilians died, in addition to some 6,000 wounded. AFP has not been able to independently verify those figures.
On the other hand, 10 people have died in Israel and 13 in the Gulf countries since the start of the war due to Iranian retaliation. The US forces lost six members.
In Lebanon, dragged into war on Monday when Hezbollah launched projectiles against Israel, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam warned that “a humanitarian disaster is closing.”
Some 300,000 people had to abandon their homes in the south and east of the country and on the southern outskirts of Beirut, a stronghold of Hezbollah, according to the NGO Norwegian Refugee Council..
Russian intelligence
According to the American press, Russia provides information to Iran about possible American targets, but Washington was quick to downplay it.
“We’re not worried. We’ll deal with it if we have to,” Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said, according to excerpts released Friday of an interview with CBS’ “60 Minutes” scheduled for Sunday.
On Friday, Trump also promised to help rebuild Iran’s economy if Tehran names someone “acceptable” as Khamenei’s successor.
Pending said election, the country is temporarily led by a triumvirate composed of President Pezeshkian; the head of the judiciary, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejeí, and a religious dignitary member of the Assembly of Experts and the Council of Guardians of the Constitution, Alireza Arafi.
Amir Saeid Iravani, Iranian ambassador to the United Nations, responded by saying that Washington will have no role in choosing the next supreme leader, a figure with more power than the president in Tehran and who has the final say on foreign policy issues..
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