Iran currently rejects negotiations with the USA or Israel

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Iran’s Foreign Minister initially grants negotiations

The United States has bombed Iranian nuclear facilities. Experts fear attacks on US goals in the region. Israel also flies new attacks. All developments in the news blog.

According to the Israeli Ministry of Health, significantly more people were injured in the Iranian missile attacks in the morning than initially reported by emergency services. The ministry said that 86 people were injured.

Most of them easy. After the US attacks, Iran had replied to his nuclear facilities with a counter-strike on Israel more than forty rockets. At first there was talk of sixteen injuries.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghtschi reacted to the US attacks in a press conference and rejected discussions with the USA. “The door for negotiations is always open, but at the moment it is not the right moment,” said Araghtschi on the sidelines of the meeting of the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul. This was reported by the Arab news channel Al Jazera.

Araghtschie called the procedure of the US government “war-state and lawless”. The United States would “be alone and fully responsible for the dangerous consequences and the implementation of the consequences of its aggression act,” said Iran’s Foreign Minister.

“It is an outrageous, serious and unprecedented violation of the basic principles of the United Nations Charter and international law,” said Araghtschi.

Iran had reacted to the US bombardment directly with air raids to Israel. According to Israeli information, there were more than eighty injuries.

The top Iranian guide, Ajatollah Ali Chamenei, fears an assassination attempt. According to media reports, he avoids mobile phones with which he could be located and only communicates through confidants. Israel had officially declared Chamei to be a war goal. US President Donald Trump commented more cautiously.

The “New York Times”, citing unspecific Iranian officials, reported that Iran’s religious and secular heads had named three possible successors if it is killed by Israel.

Even before the war there was speculation about who one day could take the place of the 86-year-old head of state. In Iran, the process for the successor is actually clearly regulated: the so -called expert council, which 88 Islamic lawyers and clergymen belong, meets in the event of death and determines the successor. According to the constitution, Chamenei is the spiritual and secular head of state. The cleric is also commander -in -chief of the armed forces and has the last word in all matters.

According to the “Amwaj” portal, in addition to the regular succession plan, alternative scenarios are also conceivable, which were already discussed at the death of revolutionary leaders Ruhollah Chomeini. This includes, for example, a management council of several clerics. “If efficiency and determination are decisive factors, an individual will probably be the result again,” the author wrote. “If Chameni is killed and the conflict with Israel extends, a council model could reduce risks.”

According to Israel’s army, new air raids have started on Iran. It was about goals in the west of Iran, reported media.

The attacks followed directly on Iranian rocket attacks on Israel in the early Sunday morning. Iran had reacted to Iranian nuclear facilities to the United States at night. Plants were reported in Natans, Isfahan and Fordo.

Experts expect Iran’s harsh reactions to the US Air Force attacks. Mehdi Khanalizadeh, political analyst and moderator of the program “Foreign Policy”, said: “The Islamic Republic of Iran now looks at all US military bases in the region and every 40,000 to 50,000 American military members stationed here as legitimate goals.” Among other things, the United States has stationed troops in Iraq, where there are pro-Iranian Shiite militias that support the Shiite leadership in Tehran.