Security and Security Threats of the Middle East: Nuclear Enrichment in the Light of the Israeli Attack on the “Iranian Axis”

The Israeli strikes killed top Iranian military leaders and nuclear scientists ahead of planned negotiations in Oman on Sunday aimed at addressing international concerns over Iran’s uranium enrichment program.

Some of the busiest airports in the Arab Gulf have been forced to cancel flights due to the risk of missiles.

Netanyahu warned that once the region’s “Iranian axis” was broken, Iran would accelerate its nuclear program. Netanyahu said that the attack on Iran was supposed to occur in April.

Iran has failed to comply with non-proliferation agreements, the International Atomic Energy Agency stated this week. Iran insists its enrichment program is for peaceful purposes.

Trump said he was giving the nation “chance after chance to make a deal” on its nuclear program and said that the alternative “would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told.”

“Two months ago I gave Iran a 60 day ultimatum to ‘make a deal.’ They should have done it!” He wrote on a social network. “Now they have, perhaps, a second chance!”

The meeting was canceled on Saturday, according to the Omani foreign minister. He said that “diplomacy and dialogue remain the only pathway to lasting peace.”

The U.S. and Iran were planning to begin the sixth round of talks about Iran’s nuclear program on Sunday in Oman. The U.S. was trying to strike a deal with Iran to limit its uranium enrichment in exchange for lifting sanctions, which have crippled Iran’s economy.

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Israel claimed to have killed nine top Iranian nuclear scientists as part of its strikes on the country.

The fear is that the conflict could cause a domino effect which could endanger global energy markets.

A US official told NPR that the U.S. helped shoot down the Iranian missiles. The U.S. official spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

Iran’s U.N. ambassador accused Israel of trying to “kill diplomacy” by referring to it as the most dangerous and terrorist regime in the world. He urged the council to hold Israel accountable.

Over 300 people were hurt and at least 78 people were killed. The death toll was expected to rise as the state television reported that a residential building in Tehran was also hit.

Israeli emergency services organization Magen David Adom said three people were killed and dozens more injured. The Palestinian Red Crescent said that children were among the Palestinians injured by shrapnel near the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

Israel’s defense minister warned Iran of a “very heavy price” after it crossed red lines by firing missiles at civilians, the Times of Israel reported.

In a video statement on Friday evening, Prime Minister Netanyahu said the attack on Iran was in the works for months since September, following Israel’s assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, in Beirut.

A missile strike on a neighborhood in Rishon LeZion, Israel, where two people were killed in a high-rise

The missile hit around 5 a.m. on Saturday, when Mr. Malachi was at home with his family. The impact shook his house and blew open the door to his fortified room. He emerged on the street to see people who were bleeding desperately for help.

It was unclear if the damage and deaths had been caused by the missiles themselves or by the missile defense systems that were sent to shoot them down. The Israeli military said they hit some areas in Israel, but did not give further details.

A chorus of alarms from damaged cars and buildings wailed on Saturday afternoon through the empty streets of central Tel Aviv. The night before, Iran had launched a missile attack and left a gaping hole in one high-rise.

The air-raid alarms went off in the middle of the night and there was a loud blast and smoke coming from their shelter.

They were not able to see in the dark, so they ran through a hallway and found the floor was ruined. She said that she couldn’t see what they were talking about. “There’s no more house.”

She will be staying in a hotel for until the building can be made back to normal. The municipal office says Ms. Tzur Amrani won’t be able to retrieve her belongings for at least a week.

People from the Rishon LeZion suburb came out to check out the damage of a strike that occurred in a two-story home and killed two people in the dense neighborhood.

The sight was not entirely unfamiliar to residents. Rishon LeZion, like other cities in central and southern Israel, has previously been hit by some of the thousands of rockets launched from Gaza since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that ignited the war there.

Tzabari Malachi lives near the destroyed home and said they are already practiced. He watched the tumult on the street from his balcony.

Residents of the quiet suburb of Rishon LeZion piled up shattered roof tiles and glass on the sidewalks after a projectile killed two of their neighbors in a two-story home. Those who lived close to the site were hurrying to get their belongings out of the way.