Iran’s command and control remains in place: Analyst
Continuing with his interview with Al Jazeera from Tehran, Center for Strategic and International Studies’ Dareini said Iran’s military structure remains intact despite the loss of key military leaders such as Hossein Salami, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
“That is a big loss for Iran, but the command-and-control structure remains in place. No matter whether one or two top military commanders are assassinated, the structure remains intact,” he said.
“Iran is in the process of making a fateful decision in the hours to come. There will be retaliation. This time, very much different from the previous ones,” he added.
Rights group calls on US to ‘decouple’ interests with Israel
DAWN, a human rights advocacy group based in Washington, DC, says the Israeli attacks on Iran are “unlawful” and “unprovoked”.
“The United States should completely decouple its interests from Israel’s reckless war-making and refuse any support, material or political, for these attacks on Iran,” Raed Jarrar, DAWN’s advocacy director, said in a statement.
“We are now seeing Israel unlawfully bombarding Iranian neighborhoods allegedly housing Iranian officials with the same maliciousness it has bombed Lebanon and Gaza.”
Jordan closes its airspace
The Hashemite kingdom’s civil aviation authority says it “temporarily” closed Jordanian airspace to all flights “in anticipation of any dangers resulting from the escalation happening in the region”.
Last year, some Iranian missiles that targeted Israeli military bases flew over Jordan.
Mostly women and children among 50 injured in Israeli attack: Report
Iran’s Tasnim news agency is reporting that at least 50 people injured in the Israeli attack have been transferred to the Chamran Hospital in the northern Tehran district of Tajrish. According to Tasnim, 35 of those who were injured were women and children.
