\n\t\t\t\t\t\tIsrael said it launched airstrikes against Iranian missile launchers and a nuclear research site Tuesday, and Iran struck back against Israel and across the Gulf region, targeting U.S. embassies and disrupting energy supplies and travel.Four days into a war that President Donald Trump suggested would last several weeks but perhaps longer, nearly 800 people have been killed in Iran, including some Trump said he had considered as possible future leaders of the country.Explosions rang out Tuesday in Tehran and in Lebanon \u2014 where Israel said it retaliated against Hezbollah militants \u2014 and the American embassy in Saudi Arabia came under drone attack. Iran has fired dozens of ballistic missiles at Israel, though most of the incoming fire has been intercepted. Eleven people in Israel have been killed since the conflict began.The spiraling nature of the war raised questions about when and how it would end. Trump seemed to leave open the possibility for more extensive U.S. military involvement, telling the New York Post on Monday that he was not ruling out the possibility of boots on the ground.The administration has given various objectives. While the initial U.S.-Israeli strikes killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Trump urged Iranians to overthrow their government, senior administration officials have since said regime change was not the goal.Trump said Monday the military campaign\u2019s four objectives were to destroy Iran\u2019s missile capabilities, wipe out its navy, prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon and ensure that it cannot continue to support allied armed groups.Trump says people the US had in mind to lead Iran are deadTrump said Tuesday that \u201csomeone from within\u201d the Iranian regime might be the best choice to take power once the U.S.-Israel campaign is finished.Video above: What’s next for Iran?Speaking from the Oval Office Tuesday, Trump said Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran\u2019s toppled Shah, is not someone that his administration has considered in depth to take over.As far as possible leaders inside Iran, \u201cthe people we had in mind are dead,\u201d Trump said.\u201cI guess the worst case would be do this, and then somebody takes over who\u2019s as bad as the previous person, right? That could happen,” Trump said. “We don\u2019t want that to happen.\u201dIran\u2019s leaders are scrambling to replace Khamenei, who ruled the country for 37 years. It\u2019s only the second time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that a new supreme leader is being chosen. Potential candidates range from hard-liners committed to confrontation with the West to reformists who seek diplomatic engagement.Israel and US strike nuclear facilities and other targets in IranInformation coming out of Iran has been limited because of poor communications, round-the-clock airstrikes and tight restrictions on journalists. But across Iran\u2019s capital, aircraft were heard overhead and explosions rang out.The Israeli military said it conducted a wave of airstrikes on sites that produce and store ballistic missiles, in Tehran and Isfahan.The United Nations\u2019 nuclear watchdog said Iran\u2019s Natanz nuclear enrichment site had sustained \u201csome recent damage,\u201d though there was \u201cno radiological consequence expected.\u201d The U.S. hit Natanz during the 12-day war in June, when Israeli and American strikes greatly weakened Iran’s nuclear program.Without offering evidence, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Iran was rebuilding \u201cnew sites, new places\u201d underground for making atomic bombs. Iran has said it has not enriched uranium since June, though it has maintained its right to and says its nuclear program is peaceful.After Hezbollah fired missiles at Israel on Monday, Israel retaliated. On Tuesday, the Israeli military hit Beirut with more airstrikes and said it had moved additional troops into southern Lebanon.Fears rise in Tehran as bombardment of capital intensifiesNew rounds of U.S. and Israeli airstrikes rattled Tehran and several other Iranian cities.\u201cSince midnight, I and my wife are hearing sound of explosions,\u201d said Ali Amoli, an engineer living in north Tehran. \u201cSometimes from the west side of the city and sometimes from other directions.\u201d Streets and gas stations appeared quieter than in recent days.Local media published images of a damaged commercial plane at Bushehr airport that broke apart following an airstrike on Tuesday.A north Tehran resident who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation described growing fears in the capital as it comes under heavy bombardment. The resident said most stores in the normally bustling area of Tajrish were closed and that ATMs were mostly \u201cout of cash.\u201d Bakeries and supermarkets were open, though, the resident said.Iran hits the US Embassy in Riyadh and Washington pulls out staffAn attack from two drones on the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh caused a \u201climited fire,\u201d according to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Defense Ministry, and the embassy urged Americans to avoid the compound. It followed an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait. U.S. Embassies in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Lebanon said they were closed to the public.The U.S. State Department ordered the evacuation of non-emergency personnel and family in Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Qatar, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. In addition, the U.S. has urged citizens to leave more than a dozen Middle Eastern countries, though with much of the airspace closed many remained stranded.The State Department said Tuesday it\u2019s preparing military and charter flights for Americans who want to leave the Middle East. Several other countries arranged evacuation flights for their citizens.The U.S.-Israeli strikes have killed at least 787 people in Iran, according to the Red Crescent Society. In Lebanon, where Israel launched retaliatory strikes on the Iranian-supported militant group Hezbollah, 40 people were killed, including seven children, in Lebanon, the health ministry said. The ministry had previously said 52 people were killed.The U.S. military has confirmed six deaths of American service members. In addition, three people were killed in the United Arab Emirates, and one each in Kuwait and Bahrain. The conflict is roiling business interests in the MideastIran has hit many countries deemed safe havens in the Mideast in retaliation for the U.S.-Israeli strikes. Recent targets included two Amazon data centers in the United Arab Emirates and one in Bahrain.Iran has also struck energy facilities in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and attacked several ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of all oil traded passes, sending global oil and natural gas prices soaring.\u201cThe Strait of Hormuz is closed,\u201d declared Iranian Brig. Gen. Ebrahim Jabbari, an adviser to the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, vowing that any ships that passed through it would be set on fire.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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Israel said it launched airstrikes against Iranian missile launchers and a nuclear research site Tuesday, and Iran struck back against Israel and across the Gulf region, targeting U.S. embassies and disrupting energy supplies and travel.<\/p>\n
Four days into a war that President Donald Trump suggested would last several weeks but perhaps longer, nearly 800 people have been killed in Iran, including some Trump said he had considered as possible future leaders of the country.<\/p>\n
Explosions rang out Tuesday in Tehran and in Lebanon \u2014 where Israel said it retaliated against Hezbollah militants \u2014 and the American embassy in Saudi Arabia came under drone attack. Iran has fired dozens of ballistic missiles at Israel, though most of the incoming fire has been intercepted. Eleven people in Israel have been killed since the conflict began.<\/p>\n
The spiraling nature of the war raised questions about when and how it would end. Trump seemed to leave open the possibility for more extensive U.S. military involvement, telling the New York Post on Monday that he was not ruling out the possibility of boots on the ground.<\/p>\n
The administration has given various objectives. While the initial U.S.-Israeli strikes killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Trump urged Iranians to overthrow their government, senior administration officials have since said regime change was not the goal.<\/p>\n
Trump said Monday the military campaign\u2019s four objectives were to destroy Iran\u2019s missile capabilities, wipe out its navy, prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon and ensure that it cannot continue to support allied armed groups.<\/p>\n
Trump says people the US had in mind to lead Iran are dead<\/p>\n
Trump said Tuesday that \u201csomeone from within\u201d the Iranian regime might be the best choice to take power once the U.S.-Israel campaign is finished.<\/p>\n
Video above: What’s next for Iran?<\/p>\n
Speaking from the Oval Office Tuesday, Trump said Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iran\u2019s toppled Shah, is not someone that his administration has considered in depth to take over.<\/p>\n
As far as possible leaders inside Iran, \u201cthe people we had in mind are dead,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess the worst case would be do this, and then somebody takes over who\u2019s as bad as the previous person, right? That could happen,” Trump said. “We don\u2019t want that to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s leaders are scrambling to replace Khamenei, who ruled the country for 37 years. It\u2019s only the second time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that a new supreme leader is being chosen. Potential candidates range from hard-liners committed to confrontation with the West to reformists who seek diplomatic engagement.<\/p>\n
Israel and US strike nuclear facilities and other targets in Iran<\/p>\n
Information coming out of Iran has been limited because of poor communications, round-the-clock airstrikes and tight restrictions on journalists. But across Iran\u2019s capital, aircraft were heard overhead and explosions rang out.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military said it conducted a wave of airstrikes on sites that produce and store ballistic missiles, in Tehran and Isfahan.<\/p>\n
The United Nations\u2019 nuclear watchdog said Iran\u2019s Natanz nuclear enrichment site had sustained \u201csome recent damage,\u201d though there was \u201cno radiological consequence expected.\u201d The U.S. hit Natanz during the 12-day war in June, when Israeli and American strikes greatly weakened Iran’s nuclear program.<\/p>\n
Without offering evidence, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Iran was rebuilding \u201cnew sites, new places\u201d underground for making atomic bombs. Iran has said it has not enriched uranium since June, though it has maintained its right to and says its nuclear program is peaceful.<\/p>\n
After Hezbollah fired missiles at Israel on Monday, Israel retaliated. On Tuesday, the Israeli military hit Beirut with more airstrikes and said it had moved additional troops into southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n
Fears rise in Tehran as bombardment of capital intensifies<\/p>\n
New rounds of U.S. and Israeli airstrikes rattled Tehran and several other Iranian cities.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince midnight, I and my wife are hearing sound of explosions,\u201d said Ali Amoli, an engineer living in north Tehran. \u201cSometimes from the west side of the city and sometimes from other directions.\u201d Streets and gas stations appeared quieter than in recent days.<\/p>\n
Local media published images of a damaged commercial plane at Bushehr airport that broke apart following an airstrike on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
A north Tehran resident who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation described growing fears in the capital as it comes under heavy bombardment. The resident said most stores in the normally bustling area of Tajrish were closed and that ATMs were mostly \u201cout of cash.\u201d Bakeries and supermarkets were open, though, the resident said.<\/p>\n
Iran hits the US Embassy in Riyadh and Washington pulls out staff<\/p>\n
An attack from two drones on the U.S. Embassy in Riyadh caused a \u201climited fire,\u201d according to Saudi Arabia\u2019s Defense Ministry, and the embassy urged Americans to avoid the compound. It followed an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Kuwait. U.S. Embassies in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Lebanon said they were closed to the public.<\/p>\n
The U.S. State Department ordered the evacuation of non-emergency personnel and family in Kuwait, Bahrain, Iraq, Qatar, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates. In addition, the U.S. has urged citizens to leave more than a dozen Middle Eastern countries, though with much of the airspace closed many remained stranded.<\/p>\n
The State Department said Tuesday it\u2019s preparing military and charter flights for Americans who want to leave the Middle East. Several other countries arranged evacuation flights for their citizens.<\/p>\n
The U.S.-Israeli strikes have killed at least 787 people in Iran, according to the Red Crescent Society. In Lebanon, where Israel launched retaliatory strikes on the Iranian-supported militant group Hezbollah, 40 people were killed, including seven children, in Lebanon, the health ministry said. The ministry had previously said 52 people were killed.<\/p>\n
The U.S. military has confirmed six deaths of American service members. In addition, three people were killed in the United Arab Emirates, and one each in Kuwait and Bahrain.<\/p>\n
The conflict is roiling business interests in the Mideast<\/p>\n
Iran has hit many countries deemed safe havens in the Mideast in retaliation for the U.S.-Israeli strikes. Recent targets included two Amazon data centers in the United Arab Emirates and one in Bahrain.<\/p>\n
Iran has also struck energy facilities in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, and attacked several ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of all oil traded passes, sending global oil and natural gas prices soaring.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Strait of Hormuz is closed,\u201d declared Iranian Brig. Gen. Ebrahim Jabbari, an adviser to the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, vowing that any ships that passed through it would be set on fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israel said it launched airstrikes against Iranian missile launchers and a nuclear research site Tuesday, and Iran struck…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[713,1511,84,1507,1273,177,1502,711,682,1505,1512,1509,1508,100,34,218,37,717,1517,35,93,1510,1514,1506,1515,396,1516,50,101,1518,340,1504,1513,1503],"class_list":{"0":"post-1626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-airstrike","9":"tag-amazon-data-centers-uae","10":"tag-attack","11":"tag-ayatollah-khamenei-killed","12":"tag-casualties","13":"tag-conflict","14":"tag-dhnd","15":"tag-drone","16":"tag-drone-attack","17":"tag-embassy-attack-kuwait","18":"tag-energy-facilities-attacked","19":"tag-evacuations","20":"tag-gulf-escalation","21":"tag-hezbollah","22":"tag-iran","23":"tag-iran-israel-war","24":"tag-israel","25":"tag-israel-strikes","26":"tag-israeli-strike","27":"tag-kuwait","28":"tag-lebanon","29":"tag-lebanon-strikes","30":"tag-mistaken-jet-shootdown","31":"tag-natanz-damage","32":"tag-oil-prices-surge","33":"tag-people","34":"tag-regional-war","35":"tag-saudi-arabia","36":"tag-strait-of-hormuz","37":"tag-tuesday","38":"tag-u-s-embassy","39":"tag-us-embassy-riyadh","40":"tag-us-service-members-killed","41":"tag-us-strikes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}