Saying that Israeli strikes on Iran are “nothing” compared to what is planned, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday the military operation will only intensify.
Meanwhile, Tehran canceled nuclear talks President Trump had urged it to continue, unless Iran wanted the attacks from Israel to continue.
Reuters reports that part of the most recent strikes on Iran appear to be oil and gas facilities, with Iranian state media reporting a blaze at a gas field.
Also Saturday, Israel endured its fifth round of Iranian ballistic missiles, with previous strikes having reduced some neighborhoods in the central part of the country to rubble.
Said Netanyahu in a video message: “We will hit every site and every target of the Ayatollahs’ regime, and what they have felt so far is nothing compared with what they will be handed in the coming days.”
Reuters reports that in Tehran, Iranian authorities said around 60 people, including 29 children, were killed in an attack on a housing complex, with more strikes reported across the country. Israel said it had attacked more than 150 targets.
Like Netanyahu, Trump has warned Iran of much worse to come. He said it was not too late to halt the Israeli campaign, but only if Tehran accepted a sharp downgrading of its nuclear program.
Many in the West hope the destabilizing of Iran will help the people there rise up against the Islamic leadership in Tehran.
“If (Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali) Khamenei continues to fire missiles at the Israeli home front, Tehran will burn,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Saturday.
Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by phone on Saturday.
“He feels, as do I, this war in Israel-Iran should end,” Trump wrote on social media.