Iran fired missiles at Israel and some Gulf countries, while explosions were heard around Tehran and the central Iranian city of Isfahan on Friday. No casualties were immediately reported.
Israel’s military, meanwhile, said its air defenses were working to shoot down missiles fired from Iran. The army said in a statement that it had “identified missiles fired from Iran towards the territory of the State of Israel”.
He further added, “Defensive systems work to intercept the threat”. According to Israel Military Radio, the train station in Tel Aviv was damaged by shrapnel, without specifying where it was fired from.
This comes just a day after US-Israeli strikes targeted the “B1 bridge in Karaj” in Iran, killing eight civilians and injuring 95 others.
What did Trump say?
Following the attack, US President Donald Trump shared the clip and wrote on Truth Social: “Iran’s biggest bridge will collapse, never to be used again — Many more to come! IT’S TIME FOR IRAN TO GET A DEAL BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE AND NOTHING LEFT OF WHAT COULD HAVE STILL BEEN A GREAT COUNTRY!”
Our military, the largest and most powerful (by far!) anywhere in the world, has not even begun to destroy what is left of Iran. More bridges, then electric power plants! The New Regime leadership knows what needs to be done and they need to do it, FAST!
What did President Masoud Pezeshkian say?
Following such attacks, President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran remains “determined to defend itself against American and Israeli aggressors using all its capabilities,” state-run Press TV reported. This came more than a month after the start of a military conflict that Tehran describes as an unprovoked war of aggression against the Islamic Republic.
The Iranian president made these observations during a telephone conversation with his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev on Thursday. During the exchange of views, Pezeshkian emphasized that Tehran was engaged in “indirect negotiations with the United States” at the moment Washington launched its “attacks and bombing campaign.”
As the war, which began on February 28, was about to enter its sixth week, Israel, Bahrain and Kuwait warned of incoming missile fire, although it was unclear if anything had been hit. Activists reported strikes around Tehran and the central city of Isfahan, but it was not immediately clear what had been hit.
Iran’s attacks on energy infrastructure in the Persian Gulf region and its tight grip on the Strait of Hormuz, through which a fifth of the world’s oil and natural gas is transported in peacetime, have sent oil prices skyrocketing.
