On the night of Thursday 13 June, Israel started a massive campaign of bombings against Iran. More than 200 hunting of theIsraeli aviation and an unknown number of operations of the Mossad – the Israeli external intelligence service – have affected a hundred objectives throughout the country, including several nuclear siteswith the aim of weakening the‘military apparatus of Tehran And damage deeply The Iranian nuclear program.
According to the Israeli government, the attacks would have taken place because the intelligence services would have collected evidence of the fact that the nuclear program Iranian was about to reach the point of no return in the production of atomic weapons. The Iranian authorities communicated that, following the raids, at least they would be killed 6 scientists involved in the nuclear program, with beyond 50 injured. On the morning of Friday 13 June, Iran then launched one First wave of drones against Israel As a retaliation. The United States They said they had been informed of the operation, but that they are not directly involved.
The geopolitical uncertainty about the future of the Middle East is also causing effects on the economy, as demonstrated from the increase of oil price, with the crude oil arrived at 73.48 dollars per barrel (+8%).
The attack on nuclear sites
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu immediately released a recorded message, in which he declares that the country is in a decisive moment in its history “a little while ago Israel has launched theRising Lion operationa targeted military operation to undermine Iran’s existential threat to Israel. This operation will continue for every day necessary to eliminate such threat».
Threat that for Tel Aviv it coincides with the Iranian nuclear program. Many of the Israeli air attacks have in fact hit plants related to this program. Among those affected there are Natanzwhere the turbines to enrich the uranium and transform it into nuclear fuel (potentially usable also for military purposes), the Experimental nuclear reactor Of Arak and the city of Isfahanwhere there is a nuclear research center. The bombings also targeted personality of the Iranian scientific community Involved in the nuclear program, which Tehran reiterates to be only with civil purposes. At least 6 scientists would have been killed in the raids on Thursday night, including Fereydoun Abbasiat the head of the organization for Iranian atomic energy between 2011 and 2013, e Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchiphysical and rector of the Azad Islamic University of Tehran.
The Iranian military leaders were affected
Israel’s attack also hit i Iranian military summitsprobably to undermine its retaliation. The hunting of the Israeli aviation also attacked the headquarters of the Guardians of the Revolution to Tehran and other military structures across the country. In the hours following the raids the general death was confirmed Rashid Gholamals and above all of Mohammad Bagheri, Head of the Iranian regular army and the highest authority of the country after the supreme guide Ali Khamenei. Even the guards of the revolution have lost their commander in chief Hossein salami.
Khamenei has already promised one hard reaction towards Israel, in which the state of emergency is now in force. Also it Israeli airspace And Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport will be closed up to a new order. According to reports from the local authorities, Israel has already started break down of the Iranian drones that flew to the airspace of some neighboring countries, including Syria, Jordan And Saudi Arabia.
The reaction and position of the United States
The attack of Israel, at least officially, has been launched without the direct approval of the US governmentwho however admitted that he had been informed of the operation, for design for several months. Thursday 12 June the US president Donald Trump he said he was against an attack on Iransaying confidently that it was still possible to deal with Tehran to reach a new agreement on the Iranian nuclear program. It should be remembered that it was Trump himself, during his first term, who retired from the previous agreement signed by his predecessor Barack Obama. The hope expressed by Trump refers to the interviews who were in program Sunday 15 June Among the US and Iranian delegations in Oman. The government Iranianhowever, communicated on the morning of June 13 that will not participate to the interviews. While a new agreement becomes further away now after now, the markets also give signals of uncertainty about the future of the Middle East, as also demonstrated by the increase in oil price.
