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The United States and Israeli forces expanded their bombardment of Iran late on Saturday, including with strikes on fuel depots near Tehran, as Iran’s de facto leader vowed to continue retaliatory strikes and to make the nation’s enemies “pay the price” for attacking it.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel said the attacks on fuel depots, which appeared to be the first on Iran’s energy infrastructure since the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran last weekend, were part of Israel’s attempts to reach “many more targets” in order to destabilise Iran’s government and “allow for change.”
The Israeli military said it had targeted the fuel depots because they were being used by Iran’s military. US forces on Saturday intensified strikes into Iran against a swath of military targets, including Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, air defences and missiles, a senior US military official said.
Iran’s de facto leader, Ali Larijani, a close confidant of the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that Iran was determined to avenge the killing of the leader, who died on the first day of the US-Israeli campaign of airstrikes against Iran.
“Americans must know that we will not let them go,” Larijani said on national television, as the war entered a second week. “Our people are with us, our leadership is united, there is no division in fighting Israel and America.”
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