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(NewsNation) — Iran and Israel traded rocket occurrence overnight and into Wednesday, marking the sixth time of attacks betwixt the countries arsenic the United States seems poised for imaginable intervention.
As the U.S. shifted warplanes and ships to the Middle East connected Tuesday, Trump touted control of Iran's skies and called for its "unconditional surrender."
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected that request successful a connection released Wednesday.
"Intelligent radical who cognize Iran, the Iranian nation, and its past volition ne'er talk to this federation successful threatening connection due to the fact that the Iranian federation volition not surrender," helium said, adding that U.S. engagement volition "undoubtedly beryllium accompanied by irreparable damage."
Iran’s overseas ministry warned nonstop engagement from the U.S. could pb to “all-out war.”
The warnings travel Vice President JD Vance saying Trump whitethorn instrumentality "further action to extremity Iranian enrichment" and alluding to imaginable "foreign entanglement" connected Tuesday.
Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke implicit the telephone connected Tuesday, according to a White House official.
Bipartisan pushback to imaginable US engagement successful Israel-Iran conflict
One of Trump’s astir loyal backers spoke retired Wednesday against U.S. involution successful the conflict.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., said connected social media that getting progressive is not successful America's champion interest.
"Americans privation inexpensive gas, groceries, bills, and housing. They privation affordable insurance, harmless communities, and bully acquisition for their children. They privation a authorities that works connected these issues," Greene's station reads. "Considering Americans wage for the full authorities and authorities salaries with their hard earned taxation dollars, this is wherever our absorption should be. Not going into different overseas war."
On Tuesday, Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., announced helium would introduce a resolution to forestall U.S. engagement successful Iran.
“This is not our war. But if it were, Congress indispensable determine specified matters according to our Constitution. I’m introducing a bipartisan War Powers Resolution time to prohibit our involvement,” Massie said. “I invitation each members of Congress to cosponsor this resolution.”
Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., said that helium would co-lead the resolution with Massie.
Israel, Iran commercialized attacks arsenic casualties mount
Israel sent a barrage of attacks connected Wednesday morning, according to a station from the Israeli Air Force connected the societal level X: "The Air Force identified and attacked 5 Iranian AH-1 combat helicopters astatine a subject basal successful the Kermanshah area. These helicopters were intended to people Air Force craft operating successful Iranian airspace."
NewsNation crews successful Tel Aviv observed an active nighttime successful the Middle East. Within the span of 1 hour, Iran fired 2 abstracted rocket salvos, causing millions to instrumentality shelter.
Missiles fired from Iran are pictured successful the nighttime entity implicit Jerusalem connected June 14, 2025. Israel and Iran exchanged occurrence connected June 14, a time aft Israel unleashed an unprecedented aerial bombing run that Iran said deed its atomic facilities, "martyred" apical commanders and killed dozens of civilians (Photo by Menahem Kahana / GETTY-AFP)
Smoke billows from an detonation astatine the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting gathering successful Tehran connected June 16, 2025. The IRIB gathering was struck successful an Israeli onslaught connected June 16, cutting unrecorded sum immediately. The blast occurred arsenic the presenter was unrecorded connected TV lambasting Israel earlier she was seen leaving the unrecorded broadcast, Iranian media reported, sharing a video of the incident. (Photo by Getty-AFP)
Israeli rescuers hunt done the rubble astatine the tract of an overnight Iranian rocket onslaught successful Bat Yam connected June 15, 2025. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Iran would wage "a precise dense price" for sidesplitting Israeli civilians, during a June 15 sojourn to the tract of a rocket onslaught connected a residential gathering adjacent Tel Aviv, arsenic the 2 foes kept up aggravated fighting. (Photo by Menahem Kahana /Getty-AFP)
Though Iran's attacks stay frequent, the missiles utilized are increasing smaller. The Israelis contend this is due to the fact that their Air Force is degrading Iran's capabilities, pushing their ballistic motorboat sites retired of the westbound towards cardinal Iran.
Iranian enactment has rejected that premise, saying their capabilities person not been degraded but that they are holding back. Officials warned that if Israel does not relent, Iran volition up its strikes from a level of deterrence to what they picture arsenic "punitive" to large colonisation centers.
Iranian Army Commander-in-Chief Abdolrahim Mousavi issued a informing to Israeli residents to evacuate Haifa and Tel Aviv “for their ain information and not to go victims of Netanyahu’s barbaric actions.”
Iran has fired astir 400 missiles and hundreds of drones successful retaliatory strikes that person killed astatine slightest 24 radical successful Israel and wounded hundreds.
Washington-based Iranian quality rights radical said astatine slightest 585 people, including 239 civilians, person been killed and much than 1,300 wounded by Israeli attacks.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
