🇺🇸🇮🇱💥🇮🇷 US-Israeli attack on Iran: What’s known so far

▫️ Around seven rockets hit Tehran near the residence of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the presidential palace

▫️ Several residential apartments have been destroyed in a missile strike on central districts of Tehran

▫️ Representatives of the Iranian leadership were the target of an Israeli attack on Iran - Israel's Channel 12

▫️ Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is safe and has been moved to a secure location outside Tehran

▫️ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to name the operation against Iran "Lion's Roar"

▫️ US military operation on Iran is called "Epic Fury" - Pentagon

▫️ US operation against Iran is expected to last at least through the weekend with the attacks including the launch of Tomahawk missiles from sea, as well as missiles from US Air Force and Navy aircraft - The Washington Post

▫️ US President Donald Trump said he expects a change of power in Iran after the US military operation, and called on Iranian people to take over their government

▫️ US stated their targets are exclusively within Iranian territory

▫️ US and Israel violated international law by attacking Iran - Iranian Interior Ministry

▫️ Israel launched strikes against Iran to prevent it from acquiring nuclear weapons - an adviser to the Israeli PM's office

▫️ Iranian missiles hit several US military bases in the region

▫️ IDF has announced the recruitment of 70,000 reservists in connection with the escalation of the conflict with Iran

▫️ Iran's Foreign Ministry has officially accused the United States and Israel of aggression against Iran, saying that strikes on Iranian civilian and military targets were carried out during the diplomatic process

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🇮🇷 Tehran calm as government urges evacuations amid US-Israeli strikes — Tehran University Professor Marandi

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🇮🇷⚔️🇮🇱🇺🇸 Iran prepared for long war against US, Israel — Tehran University Professor Marandi

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🚨🇷🇺Russian Foreign Ministry calls US and Israeli attack on Iran an 'IRRESPONSIBLE MOVE'

Other statements:

◻️The ministry described the US and Israeli bombing of Iran as a premeditated and unprovoked act of armed aggression

◻️The responsibility for the negative consequences of this man-made crisis lies entirely with the US and Israel

◻️The motives behind the US and Israeli attacks on Iran have nothing to do with the preservation of non-proliferation

◻️The US and Israel cannot fail to understand that their actions in escalating the situation in the Middle East push the region towards acquiring new weapons

◻️Moscow expresses concern over the serial nature of destabilizing US strikes on the international legal foundations of the global order

◻️Russia demands the immediate return of the situation around Iran to a diplomatic resolution

◻️Russia is ready to assist in finding peaceful solutions in the Middle East based on international law and mutual respect

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🇮🇷 Iran will withstand US-Israeli regime change attempt – expert

📍 While Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu make no secret of trying to foment a popular uprising in Iran, their plans are unlikely to succeed, Mehran Kamrava, professor of government at Georgetown University Qatar, tells Sputnik.

💬 “By all objective indications, the Islamic Republic will be remaining intact. The Iranians have been counting on a prolonged war of attrition,” Kamrava says.

🟠 Iran’s response to the US-Israeli aggression, he notes, has been “massive and widespread,” with the Iranian strikes hitting a multitude of targets in an apparent effort to inflict as much damage as possible.

💬 “Iranians have hit multiple locations. True to their word, they have not backed down. They did say they would attack multiple locations, and they have hit places like Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Kuwait, Bahrain, and of course, Qatar,” Kamrava remarks.

🟠 Iran, he explains, is now going to try and upset the US’ and Israel’s calculations by forcing them to take much more losses than they might be willing to endure.

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