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Israel unleashed airstrikes crossed Iran for a 3rd time Sunday and threatened adjacent greater unit arsenic immoderate Iranian missiles evaded Israeli aerial defenses to onslaught buildings successful the bosom of the country. Planned talks connected Iran's atomic program, which could supply an off-ramp, were canceled.
Israel's strikes person killed astatine slightest 406 radical successful Iran and wounded different 654, according to a quality rights radical that has agelong tracked the country, Washington-based Human Rights Activists. Iran's authorities has not offered wide casualty figures.
The portion braced for a protracted struggle aft Israel's astonishment bombardment Friday of Iranian atomic and subject sites killed respective apical generals and atomic scientists. Neither broadside showed immoderate motion of backing down.
Iran said Israel struck 2 lipid refineries, raising the imaginable of a broader battle connected Iran's heavy sanctioned vigor manufacture that could impact planetary markets. The Israeli military, successful a societal media post, warned Iranians to evacuate arms factories, signaling a further widening of the campaign.
Israeli information forces inspect a destroyed gathering that was deed by a rocket fired from Iran, adjacent Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, June 15, 2025.
AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg
Israel, the sole though undeclared nuclear-armed authorities successful the Middle East, said it launched the onslaught to forestall Iran from processing a atomic weapon. The 2 countries person been adversaries for decades.
Explosions shook Iran's capital, Tehran, astir noon and again astir 3:30 p.m. Sirens went disconnected crossed overmuch of Israel astir 4 p.m., informing of Iran's archetypal daytime battle since warring began.
Israel said 14 radical person been killed determination since Friday and 390 wounded. Iran has fired implicit 270 missiles, 22 of which got done the country's blase multi-tiered aerial defenses, according to Israeli figures. Israel's main planetary airdrome and airspace remained closed for a 3rd day.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said if Israel's strikes connected Iran stop, past "our responses volition besides stop." Iran's president, Masoud Pezeshkian, criticized the United States for supporting Israel and said if Israel's "hostile actions" continue, "the responses volition beryllium much decisive and severe," authorities TV reported.
U.S. President Donald Trump said the U.S. "had thing to bash with the attack" and that Iran tin debar further demolition lone by agreeing to a caller atomic deal.
Mosques arsenic weaponry shelters
Israeli strikes targeted Iran's Defense Ministry aboriginal Sunday aft hitting aerial defenses, subject bases and sites associated with its atomic program. The sidesplitting of respective apical generals and atomic scientists successful targeted strikes indicated that Israeli quality has penetrated Iran astatine the highest levels.
Israel claimed it attacked an Iranian refueling craft successful Mashhad successful the northeast, calling it the farthest onslaught the subject had yet carried out. Iran did not instantly admit immoderate attack. Video obtained and verified by The Associated Press showed fume rising from the city.
Iran's overseas curate said Israel targeted an lipid refinery adjacent Tehran and different successful a state connected the Persian Gulf. Semiofficial Iranian quality agencies person reported that an Israeli drone onslaught caused a "strong explosion" astatine an Iranian earthy state processing works astatine the South Pars earthy state field.
Human Rights Activists said its number showed astatine slightest 197 civilians and 90 members of the subject person been killed crossed Iran. The radical crosschecks section reports against a web of section sources.
In a motion that Iran expects Israeli strikes to continue, authorities tv reported that metro stations and mosques would beryllium made disposable arsenic weaponry shelters opening Sunday night.
Death toll rises successful Israel
In Israel, astatine slightest six people, including a 10-year-old and a 9-year-old, were killed erstwhile a rocket deed an flat gathering successful Bat Yam, adjacent Tel Aviv. Daniel Hadad, a section constabulary commander, said 180 radical were wounded and 7 were missing.
Another 4 people, including a 13-year-old, were killed and 24 wounded erstwhile a rocket struck a gathering successful the Arab municipality of Tamra successful bluish Israel. A onslaught connected the cardinal metropolis of Rehovot wounded 42.
The Weizmann Institute of Science, an important halfway for probe successful Rehovot, reported "a fig of hits to buildings connected the campus." It said nary 1 was harmed.
An lipid refinery was damaged successful the bluish Israeli metropolis of Haifa, according to the steadfast operating it, which said nary 1 was wounded.
Urgent calls to deescalate
World leaders made urgent calls to deescalate. The onslaught connected atomic sites acceptable a "dangerous precedent," China's overseas curate said Saturday. The portion is already connected borderline arsenic Israel seeks to annihilate Hamas, an Iranian ally, successful the Gaza Strip, wherever warfare inactive rages aft Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, attack.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has brushed disconnected specified calls, saying Israel's strikes truthful acold are "nothing compared to what they volition consciousness nether the sway of our forces successful the coming days."
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar told CNN that the extremity "is not a authorities change," adding that "this is for the Iranian radical to decide."
Iran has ever said its atomic programme was peaceful, and the U.S. and others person assessed that it has not pursued a limb since 2003. But Iran has enriched ever larger stockpiles of uranium to adjacent weapons-grade levels successful caller years and was believed to person the capableness to make aggregate weapons wrong months if it chose to bash so.
The U.N.'s atomic watchdog issued a uncommon censure of Iran past week.
Iran calls atomic talks 'unjustifiable'
Iran's overseas curate connected Saturday called the atomic talks "unjustifiable" aft Israel's strikes.
A elder U.S. official, speaking connected information of anonymity to sermon the delicate atomic talks, said Washington remained committed to them and hoped the Iranians would instrumentality to the table.
In a societal media post, Trump warned Iran that immoderate retaliation directed against it would bring an American effect "at levels ne'er seen before."
"However, we tin easy get a woody done betwixt Iran and Israel, and extremity this bloody conflict!!!" helium wrote.
'More than a fewer weeks' to repair atomic facilities
In Iran, outer photos analyzed by AP amusement extended harm astatine Iran's main atomic enrichment installation successful Natanz. The images changeable Saturday by Planet Labs PBC amusement aggregate buildings damaged oregon destroyed. The structures deed see buildings identified by experts arsenic supplying powerfulness to the facility.
U.N. atomic main Rafael Grossi told the Security Council that the above-ground conception of the Natanz installation was destroyed. The main centrifuge installation underground did not look to beryllium hit, but the nonaccomplishment of powerfulness could person damaged infrastructure there, helium said.
Israel besides struck a atomic probe installation successful Isfahan. The International Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N. atomic watchdog, said 4 "critical buildings" were damaged, including Isfahan's uranium-conversion facility. The IAEA said determination was nary motion of accrued radiation astatine Natanz oregon Isfahan.
An Israeli subject official, speaking connected information of anonymity Sunday successful enactment with authoritative procedures, said it would instrumentality "many months, possibly more" to reconstruct the 2 sites.
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Melzer reported from Nahariya, Israel, and Goldenberg from Tel Aviv, Israel. Associated Press writers Nasser Karimi and Amir Vahdat successful Tehran, Iran; Sam Mednick and Melanie Lidman successful Tel Aviv, Israel, and Julia Frankel successful Jerusalem contributed to this report.
