A senior Iranian official threatened Friday that Israel would be targeted if US attacks on Iranian infrastructure continued, accusing Jerusalem of directing Washington\u2019s renewed military campaign.<\/p>\n
How a resumption of strikes will impact Trump politically<\/p>\n
Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, secretary of Iran\u2019s Supreme National Security Council, said attacks on infrastructure would be met with retaliation in kind, adding that the \u201ccriminal Zionist regime,\u201d which he blamed for the strikes, \u201cwill not be safe from the response of the fighters.\u201d<\/p>\n
Zolghadr also lashed out at US President Donald Trump, calling him \u201cthe most despised figure in the world\u201d and accusing him of insulting Iranians as the country concluded the funeral ceremonies for former supreme leader Ali Khamenei. He praised the mass processions held across Iran and Iraq as a \u201chistoric epic.\u201d<\/p>\n
The US enters a second night of strikes against Iran<\/p>\n
The warning followed a new wave of US strikes on Iran. US Central Command said it struck approximately 90 military targets along the Iranian coast on Wednesday, including air-defense systems, coastal surveillance equipment, missile and drone storage facilities, naval assets and logistics centers. Iranian state media said the perimeter of the Bushehr nuclear power plant and a strategic railway bridge linking Iran with Central Asia were also hit.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu discusses Israel’s military preparedness amid new Iran strikes<\/p>\n
Iran responded by launching missiles and drones at US military positions across the Gulf, including facilities in Bahrain and Kuwait. An American source told i24NEWS that continued Iranian fire could turn US strikes into a \u201cdaily\u201d or \u201cweekly\u201d occurrence. Khamenei, who was killed in the opening US-Israeli strike of the war on February 28, was buried Thursday in Mashhad following a week of funeral processions through Iran and Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A senior Iranian official threatened Friday that Israel would be targeted if US attacks on Iranian infrastructure continued,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-534729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}