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New attack on Iran’s Tabriz: Report
Iran’s Tasnim news agency is reporting a new Israeli attack in the city of Tabriz in northwestern Iran.
Israelis ‘hysterical’, panic buying as they await Iran’s response
Israeli political scientist Ori Goldberg has told Al Jazeera that the Israeli government’s warning to citizens to stock up on enough essentials to last for two weeks seems to have been taken to heart.
“I live above a small grocery store [in Herzliya, near Tel Aviv]”, he said. “I went down there at around 10am (07:00 GMT). It was like the fall of Saigon. “There was a line stretching out forever and only the meanest dry goods left. It’s profoundly hysterical, but at the same time, people are rallying around the flag,” he added.
Iran launched more than 100 drones towards Israel as an initial response to its strikes, but a much stronger response is expected in the coming hours.
Iran’s supreme leader names new IRGC chief
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has appointed Major General Mohammad Pakpour as the new commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps after the killing of Hossein Salami, the Tasnim news agency reports.
Iran requests emergency meeting of UN Security Council
Iran has requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council in the wake of Israeli attacks targeting its nuclear programme and military this morning, state media report.
Amir Saeed Iravani, Iran’s permanent representative to the UN, made a written request for an emergency meeting of the council, calling for it to take “decisive action … against these criminal acts”, Iran’s Tasnim state news agency reported.
“In a reckless, illegal and premeditated act, the Zionist regime has carried out a series of coordinated military attacks against the nuclear facilities and civilian infrastructure of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which are considered a clear violation of the UN Charter and the fundamental principles of international law, and whose dangerous consequences seriously threaten regional and international peace and security,” the letter said.
Israel is ‘going for broke’ to distract the world from Gaza
Israeli political commentator Ori Goldberg tells Al Jazeera that Israel’s attack is a desperate move to distract the world from Gaza and its recent blunders with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
“The IAEA report did not reveal new or dramatic information so nothing imminent, nothing inevitable. The timing I think is a combination of domestic and foreign political reasons. I would say that the single biggest factor has to do with an attempt to divert global attention from what Israel is doing in Gaza,” he said.
The attacks on Iran prove that Israel is now “going for broke”, he said, to see how much further it can push the international community.
“Israel doesn’t have another opportunity to strike Iran. Once Israel has committed to doing so now, it is all or nothing,” he said. “This is an attempt to convince the world that all is well despite Gaza. … This is Netanyahu, the final attack of despair, trying to show that all is well.”
Yep, the reporting on Gaza has evaporated, nothing for June 13th so far.
