An Iranian official warned Wednesday that any U.S. intervention within the battle with Israel would danger “all-out war,” because the unprecedented battle being waged by warplanes and ballistic missiles entered a sixth day. In a single day, a recent barrage of Israeli missiles streaked throughout the skies of Tehran. Most had been taken out by Iran‘s air defenses, but the Israeli military and the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog company stated one other web site linked to Iran’s nuclear program was hit.
Talking to reporters on Wednesday, Israel Protection Forces spokesman Brigadier Common Effie Defrin stated the “extensive operation” in a single day concerned greater than 50 fighter jets deployed for 3 waves of strikes, throughout which “we struck a centrifuge production site that was intended to enable the regime to continue to enhance its uranium enrichment. This complements actions from previous operations we have conducted targeting components of the nuclear program.”
The U.N.’s Worldwide Atomic Power Company stated in a social media submit that it had “information that two centrifuge production facilities in Iran, the TESA Karaj workshop and the Tehran Research Center, were hit,” including that “both sites were previously under IAEA monitoring and verification as part of the JCPOA” — the worldwide Iran nuclear deal that Mr. Trump withdrew the U.S. from unilaterally throughout his first time period.
Iran retaliated with one other wave of missiles launched at Israel by the nation’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard. Sirens blared in Israel to warn they had been on the way in which, however the missiles had been intercepted, with explosions seen within the skies over Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and the occupied West Financial institution.
Missiles fired from Iran are seen streaking throughout the skies over Hebron, within the Israeli-occupied West Financial institution, June 18, 2025.
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The regular trade of fireside has taken an escalating value in human lives. Iranian authorities have offered no updates since saying over the weekend that greater than 220 folks had been killed. The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists in Iran group, which depends on a community of contacts within the nation, stated Tuesday that it had documented no less than 452 deaths in Iran since Israel launched its assaults, together with 109 confirmed navy personnel, 224 civilians and 119 folks it couldn’t instantly determine.
The conflict has additionally sparked an exodus from Iran’s capital Tehran with video displaying 1000’s of autos at a close to standstill on major exit routes. These frantic escape bids had been fueled by Mr. Trump’s direct warning to Tehran’s roughly 10 million inhabitants earlier this week to “evacuate immediately.”
Whereas Israel has been capable of inflict far better injury on Iran, it has not been proof against the struggling. Not less than 24 folks have been killed by Iranian missiles that slip by the nation’s strong air defenses.
“I wish I could turn back time and to take her to the safe room,” she stated. “I am going to miss her a lot… but I still think that we need to do what it takes to stop that threat [from Iran].”
Israel has suggested its residents to stay near bomb shelters, and the U.S. embassy stated it will be closed from Wednesday till no less than Saturday.
Iran warns of “all-out war” if U.S. joins Israeli strikes
“I think any American intervention would be a recipe for an all-out war in the region with very, very bad consequences for the whole international community,” Iranian international ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei informed Al Jazeera English on Wednesday, including that he didn’t consider the Trump administration might dictate to Israel what it might and couldn’t do.
Ali Bahreini, Iran’s ambassador in Geneva and a senior diplomat from the nation, stated Tehran would “respond strongly” to what he referred to as the continued Israeli “aggression,” and he warned that Iran would do the identical in opposition to the USA if U.S. forces be a part of the battle.
“Those who know Iran’s history know that Iranians do not answer well to the language of threats,” Khamenei was quoted as saying within the remarks, which had been conveyed with out a new video look by the ayatollah. He was additionally quoted as saying Israel had made a “huge mistake,” which the nation could be “punished for.”
Iranian males maintain the flags of Lebanon’s Hezbollah and of Iran, together with a portrait of Iran’s supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, throughout a rally to sentence Israeli assaults on Iran, in downtown Tehran, June 14, 2025.
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The defiant messages got here after President Trump issued a stern warning on Tuesday, demanding an “unconditional surrender” by Iran’s clerical rulers. Mr. Trump threatened the nation’s supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei instantly, saying the U.S. knew the place he was however that it will not kill him, but. He added: “Our patience is wearing thin.”
Justin Bronk, a senior analyst on the Royal United Providers Institute (Rusi) assume tank in London, informed the BBC the deployments had been “highly suggestive” of U.S. navy contingency plans to “support intensive combat operations” within the Center East within the days forward.
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