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Updated June 18, 2025, 3:22 AM EDT
What we know
- INTENSIFYING CONFLICT: Israel, which is trying to destruct Iran's atomic program, said it had struck uranium enrichment sites aft the 2 countries launched different barrage of missiles astatine each different overnight.
- TRUMP WEIGHS OPTIONS: There are increasing signs that the U.S. could participate the conflict, aft President Donald Trump demanded Iran's “unconditional surrender” and said “We present person implicit and full power of the skies implicit Iran.” Multiple officials told NBC News helium is considering a assortment of options connected Iran, including a imaginable U.S. strike.
- IRAN'S LEADERSHIP TARGETED: Both Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu person raised the thought of assassinating Iran's ultimate leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with Trump saying yesterday that helium was "an casual target." Khamenei said successful a societal media post, "The conflict begins."
- INTERNET BLACKOUT: Iran plunged into a near-total net blackout yesterday arsenic Israel continued to bombard the country. Some ATMs were not moving successful Iran, a root connected the crushed told NBC News, aft a pro-Israel hacker radical claimed a cyberattack connected a large Iranian bank.
- IRAN ARRESTS SPIES: The Revolutionary Guard Corps successful Lorestan state arrested 5 individuals it said were moving for Mossad, the Israeli spy agency.
Israeli combatant jets struck uranium and weapons manufacturing sites successful Tehran, IDF says
Over 50 Israeli combatant jets deed a installation for producing centrifuges that enrich uranium, the cardinal worldly for making atomic weapons, the Israeli subject said aboriginal contiguous successful a post connected X.
Israeli jets besides deed sites manufacturing parts for surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles. "These strikes straight degrade Iran’s quality to endanger Israel and the region," the IDF said.
'The conflict begins,' Iran's ultimate person says, vowing 'no mercy' connected Israel
Iran "must springiness a beardown response" to Israel, Iran's ultimate leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said successful English successful a station connected X yesterday, vowing to amusement "no mercy."
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei successful 2024.Majid Saeedi / Getty Images fileIn a abstracted station successful Farsi, helium said, “The conflict begins.”
Iranian Nobel Peace laureates telephone for extremity to warring and Iran’s an uranium enrichment
Several salient Iranian activists and filmmakers, including Nobel Peace laureates Shirin Ebadi and Narges Mohammadi, called for an contiguous extremity to the warring betwixt Israel and Iran.
The group, which besides included movie directors Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof, denounced attacks connected civilians by some Iran and Israel, demanded an extremity to Iran’s uranium enrichment and called for a modulation to ideology successful Iran.
“Deeply committed to Iran’s territorial integrity and the inalienable close of its radical to self-determination nether genuine sovereignty, we judge that continuing uranium enrichment and the devastating warfare betwixt the Islamic Republic and the Israeli authorities neither serves the Iranian radical nor humanity astatine large,” it said successful an op-ed successful French paper Le Monde.
They added: “Iran and its radical should not beryllium sacrificed for uranium enrichment and the ambitions of the Islamic Republic.”
U.S. embassy and consulate to stay closed successful Israel
The U.S. Embassy successful Jerusalem and the consulate successful Tel Aviv volition stay closed done the extremity of the workweek, the State Department said.
“Given the information concern and successful compliance with Israel Home Front Command guidance, the U.S. Embassy successful Jerusalem volition beryllium closed time (Wednesday, June 18) done Friday (June 20),” the department’s question relationship said connected X.
The closure besides applies to the consular bureau successful Tel Aviv, it said.
Amid this week’s “do not travel” advisory for Americans readying trips to Israel, the section said accusation connected imaginable assistance for backstage citizens who privation to permission the portion is unavailable for now, and that it cannot endorse third-party question options.
The country’s main airport, Ben Gurion International, is closed amid the speech of aerial attacks. The State Department said immoderate non-emergency authorities employees and the household of employees were authorized to leave, but should structure successful spot if they were incapable to bash so.
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