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15-06-2025
TEHRAN: Israel’s Defence Minister warns that “Tehran will burn” if Iran keeps firing missiles, after both sides exchanged strikes overnight.
Explosions were heard in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Tehran after Iran launched waves of missiles in retaliation for Israeli strikes which targeted Iran’s nuclear program on Friday.
Iran warns the UK, US and France it will target their bases and ships in the region if they help stop the strikes on Israel, state media reports.
Downing Street hasn’t responded yet, but it’s understood the UK has not taken part in any military action, including efforts to defend Israel against strikes, our political correspondent reports.
In Israel, officials say three people have been killed and dozens injured, while Iranian state TV reports 60 people have been killed in a strike in Tehran.
Israeli PM Netanyahu has opened another open-front war and the Iranian regime is going to see this as a battle for survival, reports Lyse Doucet.
Iran & Israel trade fire
Israel says it struck “dozens” of targets in Tehran overnight, including surface-to-air missile infrastructure.
Sixty people, including 20 children were killed in an Israeli strike on a residential building in Tehran, Iranian state media reports.
In Israel three people have been killed by retaliatory strikes from Iran and dozens are injured, officials say.
Our diplomatic correspondent James Landale asks; what might happen if the US was dragged into the conflict? Things would dramatically escalate if Donald Trump felt forced to act.
Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz warns “Tehran will burn” if Iran keeps firing missiles.
The IDF says it has killed nine Iranian nuclear scientists and experts, a higher figure than the six it initially said were killed in the wave of strikes it launched on Thursday.
Iran warns it will target UK, US and French military bases in the region if those countries offer Israel assistance to stop Tehran’s strikes, according to state media.
The move is a result of the heightened conflict between Israel and Iran, according to a domestic order by the interior minister.
“Special vigilance” must be given “to all sites that could be targeted by terrorist or malicious acts by a foreign power”, interior minister Bruno Retailleau said in a message to French Regional Security Chiefs.
Security should be boosted near “places of worship, schools, state and institutional buildings, sites with high traffic” including “festive, cultural or religious gatherings”.
The order applied also to “Israeli and US interests as well as to establishments in the Jewish community”. France is home to the biggest Jewish community in Europe.
UK ‘alarmed by further strikes’ in Israel-Iran conflict
Foreign Secretary David Lammy says his country is “alarmed” by events that took place overnight in the Israel-Iran conflict.
“Alarmed by further strikes in the Middle East overnight with reports of fatalities and injuries in Israel,” he said.
“We must urgently de-escalate & prevent any further harm to civilians,” Lammy said, adding he spoke to his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi “to urge calm”.
On the Iranian side, they need to protect the command and control because any time any leaders pop up in any meaningful way, they’ve been targeted for assassination.
(Int’l News Desk)
