Right here’s the place issues stand on Monday, June 16:
Combating
- A number of blasts have been reported in Tehran as Israel issued new evacuation threats to the capital’s residents and attacked a army base within the west of town.
- The Israeli army intensified its bombing of civilian targets, hanging the constructing of Iran’s state broadcaster in Tehran in addition to the Farabi Hospital in Kermanshah in central Iran, damaging components of it.
- In response, Iran later issued warnings for Israeli information channels N12 and N14.
- Iran launched a waves of assaults on Israel, hitting the Tel Aviv space and Haifa within the north.
- Israel’s Haifa-based Bazan Group stated an influence station producing steam and electrical energy was considerably broken in an Iranian assault, with all refinery services shut down following the assault which additionally killed three individuals.
- The Israeli military claimed it destroyed one-third of Iran’s surface-to-surface missile launchers with out offering proof.
- Israeli Military Radio reported that eight individuals have been killed – 5 in central Israel and three within the port metropolis of Haifa.
Casualties and disruptions
- Greater than 220 Iranians have been killed. Iranian authorities stated 54 girls and youngsters have been killed in current assaults and 75 girls and youngsters have been injured.
- The Israeli army’s House Entrance Command stated greater than 20 individuals have been killed because it attacked Iran and Tehran retaliated.
- Digital interference with industrial ship navigation programs has surged in current days across the Strait of Hormuz and the broader Gulf, impacting vessels crusing by way of the area.
- The pinnacle of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the United Nations nuclear watchdog, stated there was a chance of each radiological and chemical contamination inside Iran’s foremost nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz after Israeli air strikes.
- Pakistan shut all its border crossings with neighbouring Iran for an indefinite interval, in line with provincial officers. Airspace within the Center East has additionally been affected.
Diplomacy
- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian addressed parliament, saying the nation is “not in search of nuclear weapons” and it “should stand robust towards this genocidal felony aggression”.
- Iranian Overseas Minister Abbas Araghchi known as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “a conflict felony” and stated he was intentionally scary conflict to dam a diplomatic breakthrough between Iran and the USA.
- Netanyahu refused to rule out the potential for concentrating on Iranian Supreme Chief Ali Khamenei, saying, “It’s not going to escalate the battle. It’s going to finish the battle.”
- US President Donald Trump, talking on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Canada, stated Iran ought to speak about de-escalating hostilities with Israel “earlier than it’s too late”.
