Israel The soldiers said on Saturday that he was preparing for the possibility of a long war and announced that he had struck a Iranian Easy nuclear research overnight and killed three Iranian high commanders in targeted attacks.
The prospect of a broader war also threatened. The Houthi rebels supported by Iran in Yemen said they would resume attacks on American ships and warships in the Red Sea if the Trump administration joins the military campaign of Israel against Iran. The Houthis stopped such attacks in May under an agreement with the United States
The Israeli air defense system is triggered to intercept the missiles during an Iranian attack on Tel Aviv, Israel, on Saturday June 21, 2025.
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The American ambassador to Israel announced that the United States had started “assisted departure flights”, the first flights of this type from Israel since the attack led by Hamas on October 7, 2023, which sparked the war in progress in Gaza.
Iran inside Iran came out of an area near a mountain in Isfahan, where the province of the province for security affairs, Akbar Salehi, confirmed that Israeli strikes have damaged the establishment but did not cause any victim.
The objective was a centrifuge production site, said the Israeli army. Isfahan was also affected in the first 24 hours of the war as part of Israel’s objective to destroy the Iranian nuclear program. The International Atomic Energy Agency has confirmed the last attack.
Iran has again launched drones and missiles in Israel, but there was no immediate report of significant damage.
An Israeli military official, speaking on condition of anonymity under the guidelines of the army for briefs the journalists, described him as a “small dam” which was largely intercepted by the defenses of Israel. The official estimated that the Israeli soldiers withdrew more than 50% of Iranian launchers.
“We make them more difficult for them to pull towards Israel,” he said. “After saying all of this, I mean that the Iranian diet obviously has capacity.”
The Chief of the Israeli Army, Brig. General Effie Defrin, said later that the chief of staff, Lieutenant-General Eyal Zamir, told the army to prepare for an “prolonged campaign”.
The Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi listens to speeches as he attended the Council of Foreign Affairs Ministers of the Reunion of the Islamic Cooperation Organization in Istanbul, Turkey, Saturday, June 21, 2025.
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Iran says that US military participation would be “dangerous”
President Donald Trump weighs an active American military involvement in the war. On Saturday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said: “I think it would be very, very dangerous for everyone”. He spoke on the sidelines of an Islamic cooperation meeting in Türkiye.
Less than a commando raid or even a nuclear strike, the installation of underground enrichment of uranium from Uranium of Iran is considered to be out of reach of all the “bunker-business” bombs in America. Trump said he would postpone his decision on military participation for up to two weeks.
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The war broke out on June 13, the Israeli air strikes targeting the nuclear and military sites of Iran, the superior generals and nuclear scientists. At least 722 people, including 285 civilians, were killed in Iran and more than 2,500 injured, according to an Iranian human rights group based in Washington.
A resident of Tehran, Nasrin, twisted in her hospital bed when she described how an explosion threw her against a wall in her apartment. “I underwent five surgeries. I think I have nothing here that is intact, ”she said on Saturday. Another patient, Shahram Nourmohammadi, said that he had delivered when “something exploded right in front of me” at an intersection.
A number of Iranians fled the country. “Everyone is leaving Tehran at the moment,” said one who did not give his name after crossing Armenia.
Iran retaliated by pulling more than 450 missiles and 1,000 drones in Israel, according to estimates by the Israeli army. Air defenses on several levels of Israel have shot down most of them, but at least 24 people in Israel have been killed and hundreds injured.
Iran has long maintained that its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes, but it is the only non -nuclear weapon state to enrich uranium up to 60% – a short technical step in the level of weapons of 90%. Israel is largely considered to be the only country in the Middle East with a nuclear weapon program but has never recognized it.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Israeli military operations would continue “as long as it takes” to eliminate what he called the existential threat of the Iranian nuclear program and the arsenal of ballistic missiles.
US President Donald Trump looks at La Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, the United States, on June 20, 2025. Trump said on Friday that it would be difficult to ask Israel to stop his air strikes in Iran, even though he was pursuing a diplomatic solution to end the conflict.
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No date defined for new conferences
While discussions in Geneva on Friday did not produce a breakthroughThe Iranian Foreign Minister said he was open to a dialogue. He stressed that Tehran had no interest in negotiating with the United States while Israel continues to attack.
No date has been set for a new series of discussions.
For many Iranians, updates have remained difficult. The plaid group on Internet-Access Netblocks.org said on Saturday that limited internet access was again “collapsed”. An internet closure at the national level has been in place for several days.
More attacks on Iranian military commanders
The Israeli Defense Minister said the soldiers had killed a paramilitary revolutionary guard commander who had funded and armed in Hamas in preparation for October 7, 2023, an attack on Israel which sparked the war during 20 months in Gaza.
Iranian officials did not immediately confirm the death of Saeed Izadi, but the office of the governor of Qom said that there had been an attack on a four -story building and that the local media had reported that two people had been killed.
Israel also said that he had killed the commander of the Arms Transfer Unit of Force Quds, who, according to him, was responsible for providing weapons to Hezbollah and Hamas. Behnam Shahriyari was killed while traveling in western Iran, the army said.
DOSSIER – Managing Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Mariano Grossi at a meeting with the Japanese government in Tokyo on Thursday, March 14, 2024.
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Iran threatens the head of the United Nations nuclear guard dog
Iranian leaders say that the declarations of the head of the IAEA Rafael grown on the status of the Iranian nuclear program caused the attack on Israel. On Saturday, a main advisor for the supreme leader of Iran, Ali Khamanei, Ali Larijani, said on social networks, without development, that Iran would make “pay” fat once the war is over.
Grosse, the leader of the United Nations nuclear guard dog, warned on Friday against attacks against Iranian nuclear reactors, in particular his only commercial nuclear power plant in the southern city of Bushehr.
“In the event of an attack on the Bushehr nuclear power plant, a direct blow would lead to a very great release of radioactivity,” said Grosi, adding: “It is the nuclear site in Iran where the consequences could be the most serious.”
Israel has not targeted Iranian nuclear reactors, focusing on the main uranium workshops in Natanz, centrifuge workshops near Tehran, laboratories in Isfahan and the country’s heavy water reactor in the southwest of the capital.
Iran had previously agreed to limit its enrichment of uranium and allow international inspectors to access its nuclear sites under a 2015 agreement in exchange for the relief of sanctions. But after Trump withdrew the United States from the United States during its first mandate, Iran began to enrich uranium up to 60% and restricted access to its nuclear installations.
Iran insisted on its right to enrich uranium – at lower levels – in recent talks on its nuclear program. But Trump, like Israel, asked Iran to end his enrichment program completely.
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Rising reported in Dubai United Arab Emirates. The writers of the Associated Press Mehmet Guzel in Istanbul, Josef Federman in Jerusalem and Farnoush Amiri in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates contributed to this report.