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Israel Iran conflict highlights: Tel Aviv targeted Tehran's defence ministry HQ, blasts heard in city
Israel Iran highlights: Iran has launched several drone and missile strikes against Israel. Air raid sirens were sounded in several cities and Israeli citizens were urged to take shelter.
- 6:01 AM IST, June 15The live updates on this blog have ended and have now moved
- 2:51 PM IST, June 14Israel says 'Tehran will burn' if it fires more missiles
- 3:10 PM IST, June 13Most of Revolutionary Guards Air Force leaders eliminated, says Israeli defence ministry
- 3:08 PM IST, June 13Israeli action 'unprovoked, unacceptable, says Russian foreign ministry
- 3:06 PM IST, June 13Israel says it struck uranium enrichment centrifuge in Iran
- 3:04 PM IST, June 13Iran says Israeli attack ‘declaration of war’
- 3:03 PM IST, June 13Iran names new chiefs of Revolutionary Guards, armed forces
- 2:48 PM IST, June 13Israeli officials say they smuggled drones, other weapons into Iran, reports AP
Israel Iran highlights: Iran launched a series of fresh missile strikes against Israel on Sunday and claimed to have hit key Israeli military targets as a part of Operation ‘Honest Promise 3’. Iran launched retaliatory missile and drone strikes against Israel on Saturday in response to Jerusalem's series of attacks on Tehran's nuclear and military infrastructure on Friday. While Israel used warplanes, Iran attacked with a wave of drones and ballistic missiles....Read More
As Iran retaliated, air-raid sirens were sounded across northern Israel and the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights, with civilians being urged to take shelter and stay near protected places.
Israeli airstrikes under ‘Operation Rising Lion’ earlier rocked the Iranian soil and killed several top military officials, including the chief of its Revolutionary Guards, Hossein Salami and chief of staff of the armed forces, Gen Mohammad Bagheri.
The high-stakes escalation between Israel and Iran marks one of the most dangerous flashpoints in the Middle East region years.
Israel justified its attack on Iran, saying it had intel which suggested that Iran's nuclear programme had almost reached ‘point of no return’.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after the strikes on Iran, had said that the targeted military operation aimed “to roll back the Iranian threat to Israel's very surviva”, adding that “this operation will continue for as many days as it takes to remove this threat.”
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei on Friday vowed to "act forcefully" and enact revenge on Israel after the country's senior generals were killed in a strike targeting key nuclear facilities.
Israel “should not think that it is over because they attacked and it is finished. No. They started this and initiated the war. We won’t allow them to escape unscathed from this great crime they have committed,” Khamenei said in a pre-recorded message shown on state TV.
Israel-Iran conflict: Key updates
- The United States has said that Israel's strikes on Iran is the country's ‘unilateral’ action and the US is not involved. However, reports say they were involved in intercepting drones on behalf of Israel.
- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio clarified in a statement that Washington is “not involved” in the strikes against Iran, affirming that their top priority is to protect the American forces in the region.
- Both Iran and Israel have closed their airspace following the strikes.
- World leaders have been urging restraint from both the sides as Israel-Iran tensions continued to escalated. UN chief asked "both sides to show maximum restraint". China also expressed deep concerns over the situation. France also urged the two countries to "avoid any escalation that could undermine regional stability".
- Iran on Saturday warned that it will attack the bases and ships of the US, UK, and France if they helped Israel block Iranian strikes.
