Israel attacked Iran’s capital early Friday in airstrikes that targeted the country’s nuclear programme and military sites, raising the possibility of a full-scale war between the two bitter Middle East adversaries. Several people, including, including women and children, were killed after Israeli airstrikes hit a residential building in Tehran, according to Iran’s state news agency IRNA. In retaliation, Iran has vowed to ‘give a harsh response’ to Israel. “The response to the Israeli attack will be harsh and decisive,” the Iranian official told news agency Reuters.
Israel, meanwhile, declared a state of emergency after the “preemptive” strikes against Iran. The country said that the attack was necessary to ward off what they described as an imminent threat that Iran would build nuclear bombs. The Israeli airstrikes killed the leader of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, Iranian state television reported, in a big setback to Tehran’s governing theocracy and an immediate spiralling of the nations’ long-simmering conflict.
