Israel-Iran: Hebrew state warns that Tehran residents will 'pay the price' for Iranian strikes on civilians

Israeli emergency services reported five dead and 92 injured on Monday in an updated toll from the overnight Iranian strikes.

This new death toll brings to 18 the total number of people killed in Israel since the first Iranian retaliatory strikes on Friday, according to emergency services and police. In Iran, Israeli strikes have left at least 224 dead and more than 1,000 injured, the Iranian Health Ministry announced Sunday.

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The calm of the Canadian Rockies will be helpful to the G7 leaders who are meeting there on Monday for a summit that promises to be a delicate one. Donald Trump's dramatic return to power, the race to slap on tariffs , and the conflict in Ukraine have been compounded since Friday by the open war between Israel and Iran.

Officially, the summit's priorities remained the same, centered on energy policy, the trade war, and war itself. But the IDF's offensive has upended everything. The unofficial priority, however, has not changed. It is about controlling Donald Trump, who, since his return to the White House, has conscientiously attacked free trade, the order established since 1945, and his allies.

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Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned Monday that Tehran's residents will " pay the price " for Iranian strikes on Israeli civilians, in a message posted on his social media.

" The boastful dictator of Tehran has transformed himself into a cowardly murderer who deliberately shoots civilians in Israel to deter the IDF (the Israeli army, editor's note) from continuing the offensive that is decimating its (military) capabilities . The people of Tehran will pay the price, and soon ," he said after another night of Iranian strikes on Israel.

Early Monday morning, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian addressed the war Israel has launched against his country, calling on his people to "unite" to "resist Zionist aggression." "We do not seek domination, and it is Israel that seeks to strike Muslims one by one and impose its dictates on them," he said . "The Zionist entity will not be able to defeat us through murder and assassination, and our forces will resist these cowards," he encouraged.

The Iranian president also refuted any desire to obtain nuclear weapons. "We do not want to possess nuclear weapons," Masoud Pezeshkian defended. "We are not the ones who left the negotiations," he said, referring to the nuclear negotiations that have been underway with the United States in recent months. But "no one has the right to deprive us of the right to benefit from nuclear energy and research that serves the interests of our people."

Ali Khamenei heard Benjamin Netanyahu call on Iranians to rise up. Many would like to do so, but they fear repression. In recent days, the wealthiest have left Tehran, which has been repeatedly targeted, for the countryside or the Caspian Sea. The others have stayed, fearing strikes and their collateral damage, or even a blunder. "If there are dozens of civilian deaths in an Israeli bombing, the Iranians, even if they don't like their regime, will reject Netanyahu's rule," a researcher who wishes to remain anonymous told Le Figaro .

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The Iranian news agency Fars News, relayed by the American news agency Reuters, announces that Iran has hanged an Israeli Mossad agent arrested in 2023.

" Esmaeil Fekri, a Mossad agent convicted of the capital crimes of 'corruption on earth' and 'moharebeh' (war against God) , was hanged following the judicial proceedings ," the judiciary-linked news website Mizan Online also reported.

The Israeli army said Monday it had struck command centers in Tehran of the Qods Force, the elite unit responsible for external operations of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards.

The aircraft "struck command centers belonging to the Qods Force (of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) thanks to precise information from the intelligence service" of the Israeli army, the army said in a statement, specifying that the targets were located in Tehran.

Also read : "Danger is everywhere": Israeli strikes sow shock and chaos in Tehran

Israeli rescuers announced that a fourth body was discovered this morning. The overnight death toll thus rises to four and 87 injured.

The total death toll from the Iranian response since Friday is 17 and 467 wounded. In Iran, Israeli strikes have left at least 224 dead since Friday and more than 1,000 wounded, the Health Ministry announced on Sunday.

On X, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee announced that the embassy in Jerusalem would remain closed this Monday. He also indicated that " minor damage " was reported near the embassy's Tel Aviv branch following the Iranian missile strikes. " No U.S. personnel were injured ," Huckabee said.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call on Sunday that diplomacy was the best " long-term " solution with Iran.

However, von der Leyen stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire, stating that " Iran should obviously not have a nuclear weapon ." But " of course, I think a negotiated solution is, in the long term, the best solution ," she added.

" A new wave of attacks by the Revolutionary Guards (...) has enabled missiles to successfully and effectively hit targets " in Israel, the Iranian regime's ideological army said in a statement, promising to continue " effective, targeted and more devastating operations against vital targets ."

Iran fired new missiles at several major Israeli cities on Monday, killing at least three people according to emergency services, in response to Israeli strikes that hit Iranian territory for the fourth consecutive night. The Islamic Republic claims to have " successfully " struck the Jewish state.

Explosions were heard in several cities across the country, including Haifa, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.

Also read: "At first I thought the missile had fallen on us": the report by Le Figaro's special correspondent in the suburbs of Tel Aviv

Israel continued its strikes across Iran for the fourth consecutive night on Monday , saying it was targeting surface-to-surface missile sites after bombing the capital, the holy city of Mashhad in the far northeast of the country, as well as military installations in the west, with Tehran responding with new missile strikes.

In Iran, Israeli strikes have killed at least 224 people since Friday and injured more than 1,000, the Health Ministry announced on Sunday.

On the Israeli side, the toll of Iranian retaliation since Friday is 13 dead and 380 injured, according to police and emergency services.

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