Iran does not want to expand the war to its neighbors who house the foundations of the 40,000 US soldiers in the Middle East. But he had to react to the bombing of B2 fighters to his three main nuclear power plants. The retaliation was planned to minimize victims, with notice to Qatar, headquarters of Al Udeid Air Base, the United States Central Command, which was already on alert, with anti-emissiles ready to defend themselves from Iranian missiles. And so a door for a peaceful departure from participants – the striker, wholesale and the countries that closed their airspace, such as the United Arab and Bahrein, was open.
Saudi Arabia protested, “in the heaviest terms,” the “blatant violation of international law.” Qatar reserved the right to “respond directly, and equivalently, to this blatant aggression.” President Donald Trump threatened “a tragedy” for Iran, retaliated, until he said where he is hiding, the missile proof, the supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Israeli aviation continued firing against Iranian targets, such as the road that leads to the nuclear plant of Ford, the paramilitary barracks who watch over the morals, customs and garments of Iran’s women, and a prison.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, criticized for not knowing how to get out of wars, repeated twice that he is “very, very close” to his aviation landing in a ceasefire. He intended to destroy Iran’s nuclear capacity. He even involved the US with its 13 -ton pumps, unique to explode in the depths of the Forda Plant. But was the uranium stock vaporized? It is rumored that 400 pounds of refined uranium have been removed on time and can turn 10 atomic bombs.
President Trump did not like the doubts that are arising about the efficiency of bombing to the nuclear plants of Ford, Natanz and Esfahan. And he retaliated through Truth Social, his network on the Internet: “The places we hit in Iran were totally destroyed, and everyone knows it. Only the fake news would say something different to try to humiliate, as much as possible – and even they say they were ‘very well destroyed!’
French President Emmanuel Macron expressed his “solidarity” at Patar and asked for a bass and return to negotiations. Other European leaders made choir. In Moscow, Iranian Chancellor Abbas Araye met with President Vladimir Putin after meetings with France, Germany and the United Kingdom in Geneva and Turkish President Erdogan in Istanbul. Putin did not want to aggravate tensions. He just commented that Iran suffered “an absolutely unnatural aggression” – the same case, in fact, of the invasion of Ukraine. Russia at war, armed with Iranian drones and missiles, cannot help its partner except politically.
There was readiness against the retaliation of Iran also between US forces parked in Syria and Iraq, but the warning was reduced. Bahrain, the port of the fifth US fleet, played the siren, but to alert the end of danger.
Iran says its retaliation is not over, it will continue to “punish the aggressor”, and only then can accept the path of diplomacy. A government source in Qatar has now equated the retaliation of now on 2020, when Iran fired a round of ballistic missiles against a US base in Iraq, avenging the murder of General Qase Soleimani, ordered by President Trump at his first management in 2020.
Iran is very weakened with nine days of Israeli air strikes, its destroyed air defense system and reduced missile stock. Ayatollah Khamenei, 86, lost all his military summit, Hezbollah, Al-Assad’s Syrian support, Hamas, and only the Houthis remains in Yemen. He reappeared today on platform X, where he posted: “Iran was not the one who started this conflict and will not accept to be the target of anyone, under any circumstances. We will not submit to anyone’s harassment. This is the logic behind the Iranian nation.”
The White House representative for ceasefire negotiations in the wars in Ukraine, Gaza and now in Iran Steve Witkoff, tried to encourage his Iranian partners to a round of conversation in Oman or Italy, but failed, because Aiatola Khamenei must authorize her, and he has not left his shielded shelter.
