“If Iran does not completely, without threat, open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours of this very moment, the United States will strike and annihilate its various power plants, starting with the largest!”
It is Donald Trump’s ultimatum to Tehran entrusted to a post on Truth. The reply was not long in coming from Iran: “We will target all energy, IT and water desalination infrastructures belonging to the US and the regime.” The IDF has announced attacks on Tehran, while the United Arab Emirates are responding to missile launches by Iran.
Iran responds to Trump, ready to strike US energy infrastructure
The Iranian military has announced that it will target energy facilities and water desalination plants in the region if Donald Trump carries out threats to destroy Iranian power plants. “If Iran’s oil and energy infrastructures are attacked by the enemy – the spokesman for the army’s operational command, Khatam al-Anbiya, told Fars -, all energy, IT and water desalination infrastructures belonging to the US and the regime in the region will be targeted”.
Tehran denies US-GB attack on Diego Garcia
A senior Iranian official, consulted by Al Jazeera, denied Tehran’s responsibility in the missile attack on the British-US military base in the Chagos archipelago in the Indian Ocean. The operation had attracted a lot of attention as the base, used by the US for attacks on the Islamic Republic, is located 4,000 kilometers from Iran, double the maximum range that, according to Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, Tehran’s ballistic arsenal would have.
Iran hit a US logistics center at Baghdad airport
A US diplomatic and logistics center at Baghdad International Airport in Iraq was attacked eight times overnight, an Iraqi security official said on Sunday, amid the ongoing war in the Middle East. “Eight separate attacks, conducted until dawn with rockets and drones, targeted” the US center at the airport, a senior security official told AFP.
“Some rockets landed near the base,” he added. Another security official spoke of at least six attacks. A vehicle carrying a rocket launcher was found in the Al Jihad neighbourhood, near the airport, according to a police source. Iraqi armed factions, aligned with Iran, frequently claim responsibility for attacks against US interests in the region.
United Arab Emirates, we respond to the launch of missiles and drones from Iran
The United Arab Emirates has announced that it is responding to Iran’s launch of airstrikes. “The air defenses of the United Arab Emirates – explained the Ministry of Defense in a note – are responding to missile and drone threats arriving from Iran”. According to the spokesperson, three drones have currently been intercepted and destroyed in the eastern area of the country.
Israeli media, “175 injured in attacks in Dimona and Arad”
175 people were injured last night in Iranian attacks on the southern Israeli cities of Dimona and Arad, 11 of them seriously, according to doctors, after Israeli air defense failed to intercept at least two ballistic missiles. The Israeli media reported it. Soroka Medical Center reported that 115 people were injured in Arad, including nine in serious condition. Among the injured was also a 5-year-old girl, writes the Times of Israel. In Dimona, however, 60 people were injured, including a 12-year-old boy in serious condition, adds Ynet.
“Explosions heard in Jerusalem after attack alert”
AFP journalists heard several explosions in Jerusalem, after the Israeli army raised the alarm over Iranian missile launches towards central Israel. “At the moment there are no injuries reported,” said paramedics from Magen David Adom, Israel’s equivalent of the Red Cross.