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Hiya and welcome to the Guardian’s dwell protection of the Center East.
Israel and Iran exchanged one other spherical of strikes late on Saturday and into Sunday, with no less than eight individuals killed in Israel when Iranian missiles penetrated air defences within the north and centre of the nation in addition to hitting a science institute close to Tel Aviv.
The most recent wave of Iranian assaults started shortly after 11 pm on Saturday, when air raid sirens blared in Jerusalem and Haifa. Israeli media stated no less than 35 individuals have been lacking after a strike hit Bat Yam, a metropolis south of Tel Aviv, in a second wave of strikes for the night time, which started after 2am.
A spokesperson for the emergency providers stated a missile hit an eight-storey constructing there and whereas many individuals have been rescued, there have been no less than 4 fatalities.
No less than 4 individuals have been killed in an Iranian strike on the Palestinian majority city of Tamra, in Israel’s north. All 4 have been reported to be from the identical household, together with a lady and her two daughters aged 13 and 20.
In Iran, Shahran oil depot in Tehran was focused and set ablaze in an Israeli assault, Iran stated, however added the state of affairs was underneath management. Israeli strikes additionally focused Iran‘s defence ministry constructing, inflicting minor harm, the semi-official Tasnim information company stated on Sunday.
Iran has stated 78 individuals have been killed there on Friday, the primary day of Israel’s shock assault, and scores extra on the second, together with 60 when a missile introduced down a 14-storey residence block in Tehran, the place 29 of the lifeless have been kids.
Listed below are the important thing developments:
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No less than eight persons are lifeless and greater than 100 injured after Iran launched a barrage of missile strikes at Israel in a single day, in retaliation for Israel’s Friday strikes which Israel stated focused Tehran’s nuclear program, hitting key websites together with its defence ministry.
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An unknown variety of missiles evaded Israel’s air defence system to hit Rehovot and Bat Yam in Tel Aviv, killing a 69-year-old girl, an 80-year-old girl, and two kids together with a 10-year-old boy, in accordance with Israeli emergency providers. Greater than 100 have been injured, and dozens nonetheless lacking underneath rubble.
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Earlier strikes on Saturday night time killed no less than 4 Palestinian residents of Israel within the northern city of Tamra, together with a lady and her two daughters aged 13 and 20.
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Two oil services in Iran are on hearth – one in Shahran and one other in southern Tehran – after they have been hit by Israeli strikes.
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The Israeli army stated Iran nonetheless has an arsenal that may trigger grave harm to Israel. The Israeli army added that “at this hour, we’re placing Iran”, and that “Iranian assaults will not be behind us”.
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Iran has stated 78 individuals have been killed there on the primary day of Israel’s assault, and scores extra on the second, together with 60 when a missile introduced down a 14-storey residence block in Tehran, the place 29 of the lifeless have been kids.
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Oman has introduced the most recent Iran-US nuclear talks that have been scheduled to be held in Muscat have been cancelled. “The Iran US talks scheduled to be held in Muscat this Sunday won’t now happen. However diplomacy and dialogue stay the one pathway to lasting peace,” Oman’s international minister, Badr Albusaidi, stated in a publish on X.
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Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s prime adviser to its supreme chief, Ayatollah Khamenei, has died within the hospital a day after Israel launched airstrikes throughout the nation, Iranian media reviews. Shamkhani had beforehand served as Iran’s prime nationwide safety official for a decade and had represented Iran within the China-facilitated rapprochement talks with Saudi Arabia.
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Iranian authorities stated that Israel’s airstrikes on Friday killed no less than 30 army personnel in East Azerbaijan province, in accordance with information company ISNA. “Following the Zionist regime’s aggression towards this province since Friday morning, 30 army personnel and one Crimson Crescent member have been martyred in defence of the Islamic homeland, and 55 individuals have been injured,” ISNA reported on Saturday, quoting East Azerbaijan provincial authorities.
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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on Saturday that Israel’s strikes have set Iran’s nuclear programme again, probably by years, and that heavier blows have been but to come back. “We are going to hit each web site and each goal of the Ayatollahs’ regime and what they’ve felt thus far is nothing in contrast with what they are going to be handed within the coming days,” Netanyahu stated in a video message.
Key occasions
Germany, France and Britain are prepared to carry rapid talks with Iran over Tehran’s nuclear programme in a bid to de-escalate the state of affairs within the Center East, German international minister Johann Wadephul stated.
Wadephul, who’s on a go to to the Center East, stated he was making an attempt to contribute in the direction of a de-escalation of the battle between Israel and Iran, and famous Tehran had beforehand didn’t take the chance to enter into constructive talks, Reuters reviews.
“I hope that’s nonetheless attainable,” Wadephul instructed German public broadcaster ARD late on Saturday. “Germany, along with France and Britain are prepared. We’re providing Iran rapid negotiations in regards to the nuclear programme, I hope (the supply) is accepted.
“That is additionally a key prerequisite for reaching a pacification of this battle, that Iran presents no hazard to the area, for the state of Israel or to Europe.”
Wadephul, who’s in Oman on Sunday, stated the battle can be ended solely when affect is exerted on Iran and Israel from all sides.
“There’s a shared expectation that throughout the subsequent week, a critical try have to be made on each side to interrupt the spiral of violence,” he stated.
When requested whether or not he believed the Iranian authorities might fall, Wadephul stated his assumption was that it was not Israel’s intention to carry down the administration in Tehran.
Israel on Sunday issued an evacuation warning to Iranians residing close to reactors in Iran, an Israeli army spokesperson stated in a publish on X, Reuters reviews.
Israel dying toll rises to 10
Israeli authorities have raised the confirmed dying toll at Bat Yam to 6, with about 180 injured, after two our bodies have been recovered from the rubble. It brings the variety of fatalities from Iran’s missile strikes on Israel to 10.
They’ve additionally downgraded the variety of lacking on the web site from the handfuls beforehand thought. There are seven individuals nonetheless unaccounted for within the rubble of buildings hit by Iranian missiles in a single day. Regional police commander Daniel Hadad instructed reporters it “might take days” to finish the search.
“There may be nice destruction right here, plenty of rubble and particles that needs to be lifted to seek out the lacking,” he stated, in accordance with the Occasions of Israel.
5 Palestinians killed by Israeli hearth at help distribution websites – reviews
Israeli forces have opened hearth on individuals at a number of help distribution websites in Gaza, killing no less than 5 civilians, in accordance with Palestinian media.
The information company Wafa reviews three individuals have been killed and others injured on the former Netzarim hall in central Gaza, in accordance with medical sources and eyewitnesses.
“Additional south, in Khan Younis, two Palestinians have been killed and others injured when Israeli forces fired on a separate group ready for help. Simply previous to that, an Israeli airstrike focused the Hamad Metropolis, north of Khan Younis,” the report stated.
Al-Jazeera Palestine reported various Palestinians have been injured by Israeli artillery shelling whereas ready for help within the Al-Tawam space.
Israel’s blockade on help coming into Gaza has created a mass hunger disaster. A small variety of help vehicles have been allowed in, however the World Meals Program has stated it’s removed from sufficient.
Giant numbers of individuals have been killed by Israeli forces at meals distribution websites, a lot of them related to the Gaza Humanitarian Basis (GHF), which has come underneath important criticism and scrutiny over its operations, and a system which forces individuals to journey by means of fight zones to succeed in meals.
Iranian information businesses report that operations on the Tehran refinery are persevering with, with out disruption to gas manufacturing or distribution.
Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis stated on Sunday that they focused Israel in coordination with Iran, the primary time an Iran-aligned group has publicly introduced joint cooperation on assaults with Tehran, Reuters reviews.
The Yemeni group focused central Israel’s Jaffa with a number of ballistic missiles within the final 24 hours, army spokesperson Yehya Sarea stated in a televised handle.
“Triumphing for the oppressed Palestinian and Iranian peoples…This operation was coordinated with the operations carried out by the Iranian military towards the prison Israeli enemy,” he added.
The Israeli army earlier stated sirens have been activated in a number of areas within the nation following missile launches from Iran and Yemen.
Israel and Iran continued to change missile assaults since Israel launched its biggest-ever army strike towards its longstanding enemy on Friday.
On the identical day Israel launched its assault on Iran, Israel stated a missile that was launched from Yemen in the direction of Israel fell in Hebron within the occupied West Financial institution. The Yemeni group nevertheless didn’t declare accountability for the missile launch.
The Israeli defence power says that within the final hour it has performed “one other wave of assaults” in western Iran, concentrating on missile storage and infrastructure.
Iran’s civil aviation authorities have introduced the nation’s airspace will stay closed till 3pm Sunday. It urged passengers to watch the web site for updates relatively than go to airports in individual.
Trump threatens assault on Iran ‘at ranges by no means seen earlier than’ if it assaults US
Hours after presiding over an unprecedented army parade in Washington DC, Donald Trump has threatened that if Iran assaults the US in any manner, it will face the may of the US army “at ranges by no means seen earlier than.”
In a publish on his Reality Social platform, Trump additionally stated the US had nothing to do with Israel’s newest assault on Iran in a single day and that “we will simply get a deal finished” to finish the battle. He wrote:
The US had nothing to do with the assault on Iran, tonight. If we’re attacked in any manner, form or kind by Iran, the total energy and may of the US Armed Forces will come down on you at ranges by no means seen earlier than. Nevertheless, we will simply get a deal finished between Iran and Israel, and finish this bloody battle!!!
The upcoming G7 summit “represents the primary collective alternative for western leaders to problem Trump with the results of his unilateralism, however with the world on a knife-edge, the six leaders can’t threat being seen to gang up on him and spark a presidential explosion,” writes the Guardian’s diplomatic editor Patrick Wintour right now.
European leaders will search an evidence about what persuaded Trump to present Israel a inexperienced gentle to strike Iran earlier than talks involving his particular envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Iran’s international minister, Abbas Araghchi, in Oman, had come to an finish…
With the diplomatic route presently closed, western leaders on the summit will as a substitute collectively should assess how shut Israel is to completely destroying Iran’s nuclear services, and the danger that the nation’s reeling management will declare that the lesson of the conflict is that its safety can solely be protected by speeding to construct a nuclear bomb. Calls for for the management to take the fateful step are being brazenly voiced by demonstrators and by politicians.
Israel is making an attempt to create the circumstances for the regime to be overthrown however western diplomats report even inside critics of the brinkmanship over its nuclear programme are rallying to patriotic calls.
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Right here’s some video displaying the Iranian oil depot on hearth and Iranian missiles within the sky over Israel:
The US Council of Muslim Organizations, the most important coalition of American Muslim teams, has known as on Trump to reject reported calls for from Netanyahu for the US to extend its involvement within the conflict.
“We name on President Trump to demand a right away finish to the assaults that Israel is launching, together with towards Iranian civilians, utilizing American bombs, American jets and American taxpayer {dollars},” it stated in a press release simply launched.
“Let’s be clear. What we’re seeing right now echoes the lies that led to the Iraq conflict. Simply as Iraq didn’t have WMDs, Iran doesn’t have nuclear weapons, was not making nuclear weapons, and was on the negotiating desk able to decide to limiting its uranium enrichment to the quantity that may solely be used for civilian functions.
As an alternative of creating a deal and avoiding one other pointless conflict, our authorities has enabled Netanyahu’s newest conflict crimes.”
You possibly can learn the total assertion right here:
New assertion launched by the US Council of Muslim Organizations, the most important coalition of American Muslim teams, on Israel’s U.S.-backed conflict on Iran:
“The Israeli authorities’s Unlawful, pointless and unprovoked conflict on Iran is simply the most recent instance of its relentless violence…
— CAIR Nationwide (@CAIRNational) June 15, 2025
Opening abstract
Hiya and welcome to the Guardian’s dwell protection of the Center East.
Israel and Iran exchanged one other spherical of strikes late on Saturday and into Sunday, with no less than eight individuals killed in Israel when Iranian missiles penetrated air defences within the north and centre of the nation in addition to hitting a science institute close to Tel Aviv.
The most recent wave of Iranian assaults started shortly after 11 pm on Saturday, when air raid sirens blared in Jerusalem and Haifa. Israeli media stated no less than 35 individuals have been lacking after a strike hit Bat Yam, a metropolis south of Tel Aviv, in a second wave of strikes for the night time, which started after 2am.
A spokesperson for the emergency providers stated a missile hit an eight-storey constructing there and whereas many individuals have been rescued, there have been no less than 4 fatalities.
No less than 4 individuals have been killed in an Iranian strike on the Palestinian majority city of Tamra, in Israel’s north. All 4 have been reported to be from the identical household, together with a lady and her two daughters aged 13 and 20.
In Iran, Shahran oil depot in Tehran was focused and set ablaze in an Israeli assault, Iran stated, however added the state of affairs was underneath management. Israeli strikes additionally focused Iran‘s defence ministry constructing, inflicting minor harm, the semi-official Tasnim information company stated on Sunday.
Iran has stated 78 individuals have been killed there on Friday, the primary day of Israel’s shock assault, and scores extra on the second, together with 60 when a missile introduced down a 14-storey residence block in Tehran, the place 29 of the lifeless have been kids.
Listed below are the important thing developments:
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No less than eight persons are lifeless and greater than 100 injured after Iran launched a barrage of missile strikes at Israel in a single day, in retaliation for Israel’s Friday strikes which Israel stated focused Tehran’s nuclear program, hitting key websites together with its defence ministry.
-
An unknown variety of missiles evaded Israel’s air defence system to hit Rehovot and Bat Yam in Tel Aviv, killing a 69-year-old girl, an 80-year-old girl, and two kids together with a 10-year-old boy, in accordance with Israeli emergency providers. Greater than 100 have been injured, and dozens nonetheless lacking underneath rubble.
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Earlier strikes on Saturday night time killed no less than 4 Palestinian residents of Israel within the northern city of Tamra, together with a lady and her two daughters aged 13 and 20.
-
Two oil services in Iran are on hearth – one in Shahran and one other in southern Tehran – after they have been hit by Israeli strikes.
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The Israeli army stated Iran nonetheless has an arsenal that may trigger grave harm to Israel. The Israeli army added that “at this hour, we’re placing Iran”, and that “Iranian assaults will not be behind us”.
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Iran has stated 78 individuals have been killed there on the primary day of Israel’s assault, and scores extra on the second, together with 60 when a missile introduced down a 14-storey residence block in Tehran, the place 29 of the lifeless have been kids.
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Oman has introduced the most recent Iran-US nuclear talks that have been scheduled to be held in Muscat have been cancelled. “The Iran US talks scheduled to be held in Muscat this Sunday won’t now happen. However diplomacy and dialogue stay the one pathway to lasting peace,” Oman’s international minister, Badr Albusaidi, stated in a publish on X.
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Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s prime adviser to its supreme chief, Ayatollah Khamenei, has died within the hospital a day after Israel launched airstrikes throughout the nation, Iranian media reviews. Shamkhani had beforehand served as Iran’s prime nationwide safety official for a decade and had represented Iran within the China-facilitated rapprochement talks with Saudi Arabia.
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Iranian authorities stated that Israel’s airstrikes on Friday killed no less than 30 army personnel in East Azerbaijan province, in accordance with information company ISNA. “Following the Zionist regime’s aggression towards this province since Friday morning, 30 army personnel and one Crimson Crescent member have been martyred in defence of the Islamic homeland, and 55 individuals have been injured,” ISNA reported on Saturday, quoting East Azerbaijan provincial authorities.
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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated on Saturday that Israel’s strikes have set Iran’s nuclear programme again, probably by years, and that heavier blows have been but to come back. “We are going to hit each web site and each goal of the Ayatollahs’ regime and what they’ve felt thus far is nothing in contrast with what they are going to be handed within the coming days,” Netanyahu stated in a video message.