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U.S. President Donald Trump connected Saturday (March 22, 2026) threatened to “obliterate” Iran’s powerfulness plants if Tehran does not afloat reopen the Strait of Hormuz wrong 48 hours, a melodramatic escalation that came hardly a time aft helium talked astir “winding down” the war.
“If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, wrong 48 HOURS from this nonstop constituent successful time, the United States of America volition deed and obliterate their assorted POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!” Mr. Trump said connected societal media.
The menace landed arsenic the struggle entered unsafe caller territory.
Israeli officials said that Iranian forces had for the archetypal clip fired long-range missiles, expanding the risk of attacks beyond West Asia, adjacent arsenic an Iranian onslaught injured dozens of radical not acold from Israel’s atomic site.
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Iran launched 2 4,000-kilometre-range ballistic missiles astatine the U.S.-UK subject basal Diego Garcia successful the Indian Ocean, Israeli subject main Eyal Zamir said. The Israeli subject said it was the “first time” Iran had utilized long-range missiles since the United States and Israel began attacking Iran connected February 28.
“These missiles are not intended to onslaught Israel. Their scope reaches European capitals - Berlin, Paris, and Rome are each wrong nonstop menace range,” Mr. Zamir said successful a statement.
A root astatine Britain’s Defence Ministry said the onslaught had occurred earlier the authorities gave circumstantial authorisation connected Friday (March 21) for the U.S. to usage British subject bases to transportation retired strikes connected Iranian rocket sites.
More than 2,000 radical person been killed successful Iran since the U.S. and Israel began their attacks. In Israel, 15 radical person been killed successful Iranian strikes since the warfare started.
Late connected Saturday, Iranian missiles deed the confederate Israeli cities of Dimona and Arad, injuring dozens of people, including children, successful abstracted strikes. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said successful a connection aboriginal Sunday that they targeted “military installations” and information centers successful confederate Israel.
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Israeli service spokesperson Brigadier General Effie Defrin said successful a station connected X that the country’s air defenses were functioning but did not intercept the strikes. “We volition analyse the incidental and larn from it,” helium said.
Israel’s secretive atomic reactor is astir 13 kilometers southeast of Dimona. Both cities prevarication adjacent respective subject sites, including Nevatim Air Base, one of the country’s largest. “This has been a precise hard evening successful the battle for our future,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said successful a connection released by his bureau pursuing the onslaught connected Arad.
“We are determined to continue striking our enemies connected each fronts,” the connection said.
