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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Israel deed Iranian authorities targets successful Tehran connected Monday successful a bid of strikes that followed a salvo of missiles and drones fired by Iran astatine Israel successful the aftermath of the Trump administration's monolithic strikes connected Iranian atomic sites the time before.
The Israeli subject besides confirmed it struck roads astir Iran's Fordo enrichment installation to obstruct entree to the site. The underground tract was 1 of those deed successful Sunday's onslaught by the United States connected 3 atomic facilities. The Israeli subject did not elaborate.
In Tehran attacks, Israel's Defense Ministry said it deed targets that included the notorious Evin Prison successful the Iranian superior and the information office of the paramilitary Revolutionary Guards.
"The Iranian dictator volition beryllium punished with afloat unit for attacking the Israeli location front," the ministry said.
The strikes besides deed Tehran's Palestine Square and different "military bid centers belonging to the Iranian regime," it said.
According to an Israeli authoritative acquainted with the government's strategy, Israel is targeting these sites to enactment unit connected the Iranian medication but is not actively seeking to topple it. The authoritative spoke connected information of anonymity to sermon interior authorities deliberations.
The Israeli determination came conscionable hours aft President Donald Trump wrote connected his Truth Social website: "If the existent Iranian Regime is incapable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, wherefore wouldn't determination beryllium a Regime change???"
Nuclear fears equine aft US strikes
In Vienna, the caput of the United Nations atomic watchdog said helium expected determination to beryllium dense harm astatine the Fordo installation already pursuing the Sunday's U.S. airstrike determination with blase bunker-buster bombs.
"Given the explosive payload utilized ... precise important harm ... is expected to person occurred," said Rafael Grossi, the caput of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
With the strikes connected Sunday connected Iranian atomic sites, the United States inserted itself into Israel's war, prompting fears of a wider determination conflict. Iran said the U.S. had crossed "a precise large reddish line" with its risky gambit to onslaught the 3 sites with missiles and 30,000-pound bunker-buster bombs.
Several Iranian officials, including Atomic Energy Organization of Iran spokesperson Behrouz Kamalvandi, person claimed Iran removed atomic worldly from targeted sites up of time.
Grossi told the IAEA committee of governors connected Monday that Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had informed him connected June 13 that Iran would "adopt peculiar measures to support atomic instrumentality and materials."
"I indicated that immoderate transportation of atomic worldly from a safeguarded installation to different determination successful Iran indispensable beryllium declared," Grossi said, without saying whether Iran had responded.
Israel and Iran property their attacks
Iran described its Monday onslaught connected Israel arsenic as a caller question of its Operation "True Promise 3," saying it was targeting the Israeli cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv, according to Iranian authorities television.
Explosions were besides heard successful Jerusalem. There were nary contiguous reports of damage.
In Iran, witnesses reported Israeli airstrikes deed areas astir Iran's capital, Tehran, astir midday. Iranian authorities tv confirmed 1 Israeli onslaught deed the gross of Evin Prison.
The study shared what appeared to beryllium black-and-white-surveillance footage of the strike. The situation is known for holding dual nationals and Westerners often utilized by Iran arsenic bargaining chips successful negotiations with the West.
Evin besides has specialized units for governmental prisoners and those with Western ties, tally by the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, which answers lone to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The installation is the people of some U.S. and European Union sanctions.
Earlier Monday, Iranian Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi, the main of associated unit of equipped forces, warned Washington its strikes had fixed Iranian forces a "free manus " to "act against U.S. interests and its army."
Tens of thousands of American troops are based successful the Middle East, galore successful locations wrong scope of short-range Iranian missiles.
US Embassy successful Qatar urges Americans to structure successful spot 'until further notice'
The U.S. Embassy successful Qatar recommended American citizens to "shelter successful spot until further notice" retired of "an abundance of caution," the embassy said connected Monday.
The Al Udeid Base successful Qatar -- the largest U.S. subject installation successful the Middle East -- houses astir 10,000 American troops.
Qatar closed its airspace amid Iranian retaliation threats against the U.S., arsenic well.
Calls for de-escalation
The U.S. described its Sunday onslaught connected the Fordo and Natanz enrichment facilities, arsenic good arsenic the Isfahan atomic sit, arsenic a one-off to instrumentality retired Iran's atomic program, but Trump has warned of further strikes if Tehran retaliates.
Mousavi described the American attacks arsenic violating Iran's sovereignty and being tantamount to invading the country, the state-run IRNA quality bureau reported.
Russia is 1 of Iran's closest allies and connected Monday, President Vladimir Putin said aft gathering successful Moscow with Araghchi, the Iranian overseas minister, that they had explored "how we tin get retired of today's situation."
Putin called the Israeli and American attacks connected Iran an "absolutely unprovoked aggression."
Elsewhere, calls continued for de-escalation and the instrumentality to diplomacy to effort and resoluteness the conflict.
Iran, which insists its atomic programme is for civilian purposes only, antecedently agreed to bounds its uranium enrichment and let planetary inspectors entree to its atomic sites nether a 2015 woody with the U.S., France, China, Russia, Britain and Germany successful speech for sanctions relief.
But aft Trump pulled the U.S. unilaterally retired of the woody during his archetypal term, Iran began enriching uranium up to 60% - a short, method measurement distant from weapons-grade levels of 90% - and restricting entree to its atomic facilities.
In Brussels, the European Union's apical diplomat said the bloc remained "very overmuch focused connected the diplomatic solution."
"The concerns of retaliation and this warfare escalating are huge," Kaja Kallas said astatine the commencement of a overseas ministers' gathering successful Brussels wherever Iran has jumped to the apical of the agenda.
"Especially closing of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran is thing that would beryllium highly unsafe and not bully for anybody," Kallas said, referring to a maritime way important for lipid transport.
After Sunday's attacks, Iranian officials repeated their longtime threats of perchance closing the cardinal shipping lane.
ABC News contributed to this report.
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