Israel pounded Iran for a second day yesterday, and the nation’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says its campaign would intensify, while Tehran called off nuclear talks that Washington had held out as the only way to halt the bombing.
A day after Israel wiped out the top echelon of Iran’s military command with a surprise attack on its old foe, it appeared to have hit Iran’s oil and gas industry for the first time, with Iranian state media reporting a blaze at a gas field.
Netanyahu says Israel’s strikes had set back Iran’s nuclear program possibly by years and rejected international calls for restraint.
He says they will hit every site and every target of the Ayatollahs’ regime, and what they have felt so far is nothing compared with what they will be handed in the coming days.
In Tehran, Iranian authorities said around 60 people, including 29 children, were killed in an attack on a housing complex, with more strikes reported across the country.
Israel says it had attacked more than 150 targets.
Iran had launched its own retaliatory missile volley on Friday night, killing at least three people in Israel.
Air raid sirens sent Israelis into shelters as waves of missiles streaked across the sky and interceptors rose to meet them.
US President Donald Trump has lauded Israel’s strikes and warned Iran of much worse to come.
He says it was not too late to halt the Israeli campaign, but only if Tehran quickly accepted a sharp downgrading of its nuclear program at talks with Washington, which had been scheduled for Sunday
