Right here’s the place issues stand on Monday, June 16:
Preventing
- A number of blasts had been reported in Tehran as Israel issued new evacuation threats to the capital’s residents and attacked a army base within the west of the town.
- The Israeli army intensified its bombing of civilian targets, placing the constructing of Iran’s state broadcaster in Tehran in addition to the Farabi Hospital in Kermanshah in central Iran, damaging elements of it.
- In response, Iran later issued warnings for Israeli information channels N12 and N14.
- The Israeli military claimed it destroyed one-third of Iran’s surface-to-surface missile launchers with out offering proof.
- Iran launched a brand new wave of assaults on Israel, hitting the Tel Aviv space and Haifa within the north.
- Israeli Military Radio reported that eight folks had 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 ladies and kids had been killed in latest assaults and 75 ladies and kids had been injured.
- The Israeli army’s Dwelling Entrance Command stated greater than 20 folks have been killed because it attacked Iran and Tehran retaliated.
- Digital interference with business ship navigation techniques has surged in latest days across the Strait of Hormuz and the broader Gulf, impacting vessels crusing via 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 predominant nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz after Israeli air strikes.
- Pakistan shut all its border crossings with neighbouring Iran for an indefinite interval, in response to provincial officers. Airspace within the Center East has additionally been affected.
Diplomacy
- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian addressed parliament, saying the nation is “not looking for nuclear weapons” and it “should stand sturdy in opposition to this genocidal prison aggression”.
- Iranian International Minister Abbas Araghchi known as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “a warfare prison” and stated he was intentionally upsetting warfare to dam a diplomatic breakthrough between Iran and the US.
- Netanyahu refused to rule out the opportunity of focusing 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 discuss de-escalating hostilities with Israel “earlier than it’s too late”.
