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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday (June 13) that the attack on Iran would “continue” after the Jewish nation declared it struck Iranian nuclear sites in ‘Operation Rising Lion’.
“This operation will continue for as many days as it takes to remove this threat,” Netanyahu said in a video statement.
“We struck at the heart of Iran’s nuclear enrichment programme. We targeted Iran’s main enrichment facility at Natanz… We also struck at the heart of Iran’s ballistic missile programme,” he said, adding that Israel had also hit Iranian nuclear scientists “working on the Iranian bomb”.
Israel launched strikes on Tehran early Friday, targeting nuclear and military sites, with explosions echoing across Iran’s capital.
The attack follows heightened tensions over Iran’s advancing nuclear programme.
On Thursday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors censured Iran for the first time in two decades for failing to cooperate with inspectors. Iran responded by announcing a third enrichment site and plans to upgrade centrifuges.
Israel has long vowed to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, despite Tehran’s denials of such ambitions, though Iranian officials have hinted at their capability to build them. The US has braced for escalation, withdrawing some diplomats from Iraq and offering voluntary evacuations for families of US troops in the Middle East.
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