With aerial assaults between Iran and Israel raging -- including fresh strikes by Israel on what it said were military targets in Iran -- the US State Department issued a worldwide caution alert for its citizens traveling or living abroad.
Ali Akbar Velayati, an advisor to Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said bases used by US forces could be attacked in retaliation.
“America has attacked the heart of the Islamic world and must await irreparable consequences.”
President Donald Trump urged Iran to end the conflict after he launched surprise strikes on a key underground uranium enrichment site at Fordo, along with nuclear facilities in Isfahan and Natanz.
And while the US president did not directly advocate regime change in the Islamic republic, he openly played with the idea -- even after his aides stressed that was not a goal of American intervention.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told a Pentagon press briefing earlier that Iran’s nuclear program had been “devastated,“ adding the operation “did not target Iranian troops or the Iranian people.”
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meanwhile said his country’s military strikes will “finish” once the stated objectives of destroying Iran’s nuclear and missile capabilities have been achieved.
Tehran protests
People gathered Sunday in central Tehran to protest against US and Israeli attacks, waving flags and chanting slogans.
“Semnan province is very far from the nuclear facilities targeted, but I’m very concerned for the people who live near,“ she said.
“We know that we set the Iranian nuclear program back substantially last night,“ Vance told ABC.
“We’re going to work in the coming weeks to ensure that we do something with that fuel,“ he said. “They no longer have the capacity to turn that stockpile of highly enriched uranium to weapons-grade uranium.”
Rafael Grossi, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council that craters were visible at the Fordo facility, but no one had been able to assess the underground damage.
The main US strike group was seven B-2 Spirit bombers that flew 18 hours from the American mainland to Iran.
Nine members of the Revolutionary Guards were killed Sunday in Israeli attacks on central Iran, local media reported, while three people were killed after an ambulance was also struck.
The United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Oman, which had been mediating Iran-US nuclear talks, criticized the US strikes and called for de-escalation, while France, Germany and Britain called on Tehran “not to take any further action that could destabilize the region.”
“There is the potential for demonstrations against US citizens and interests abroad,“ the security alert said. “The Department of State advises US citizens worldwide to exercise increased caution.”
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