Israeli forces strengthened bombings on Iranian cities, and Iran successfully volleyed a retaliatory missile strike to thrust Israeli air defense.
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- Iranian provincial broadcasters were broadcast live.
- Iran is planning a major missile attack, state media said.
- Tehran asks Arab countries to arbitrate with Trump.
- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel is on the way to wipe out Iran’s nuclear program and destroy its missiles.
- Officials from across the country said 224 Iranians and 24 Israelis had been killed in the conflict so far.
TEL AVIV – Israeli strikes have hit Iran’s state broadcasters, with the UN nuclear watchdog causing major damage to Iran’s largest uranium enrichment plant, and Iran has called on the US to force a ceasefire in the air war four days ago.
Israeli forces have strengthened artillery bombardment in Iranian cities, proving that Iran is one of the most successful volleys and can still drill holes in retaliatory missile strikes.
“If President Trump is genuine about diplomacy and is interested in stopping this war, the next step will be consequent,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Arakich said of X, pleading Trump to intervene with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Our response continues as Israel has to stop its aggression and has to carry out a complete halt of military attacks on us. One call will be made from Washington at the muzzle of someone like Netanyahu.”
Sources told Reuters that Tehran has asked Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman to engage President Donald Trump and use his influence on Netanyahu to seek an immediate ceasefire. In return, Iran will show flexibility in nuclear negotiations, the two Iranians and three regional sources said.
Netanyahu told the air base’s troops that Israel is on track to achieve two main objectives: wipe out Iran’s nuclear program and destroy missiles.
“We’re on a path to victory,” he said. “We are ‘evacuating’ to the citizens of Tehran – and we are taking action. ”
Late on June 16, Israel crashed into an Iranian broadcasting agency, saying footage showed news readers rushing from her seat when the explosion struck. Iranian state news agency also reported a strike.
Iranian media said Iran is preparing for the “largest and most intense missile attack” against Israel against military and intelligence report targets.
Damage to Natantz’s nuclear site
Israel launched its air force on June 13th, carrying out a surprising attack that killed almost all levels of Iranian military commanders and their leading nuclear scientists. He now manages Iran’s airspace and says he intends to escalate his campaign in the coming days.
Israel said it struck an Iranian F-14 fighter jet at Tehran airport on June 16, and the airstrikes also released at least two of Iran’s three operating uranium-enriched plants from action.
Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told the BBC on Monday that around 15,000 centrifuges operating at Iran’s largest uranium enrichment plant were very likely damaged or destroyed due to the blackout caused by the Israeli strike.
He said that the separate Fordow factories were very limited or undamaged.
Tehran’s retaliation is the first time in decades of Shadow Wars and proxy conflicts in which missiles fired from Iran thrust quite a few Israeli defenses, killing Israelis at home.
Take shelter in Tehran and Tel Aviv
Iran says that more than 224 Iranians have been killed, most of them civilians. The media has released images of injured children, women and elderly people in cities across the country.
A collapsed presidential building, a burnt-out car, a state television scene on Tehran’s crushed streets. Many residents were trying to escape the capital and described a line of gasoline and ATMs that had been running out of cash.
“I’m desperate. My two kids are so scared I can’t sleep at night. I can’t sleep at night due to air defense and attacks and explosions. But we’re not going anywhere. We were hiding under the dining room.
In Israel, 24 people have been killed in Iran’s missile attacks so far, all of which are civilians. The 24-hour television image showed rescuers working in the ruins of a flat house.
“That’s scary because it’s so unknown,” said 31-year-old guide Teterbaum, a Tel Aviv chef who was in the apartment when he came to the apartment just after 4am.
Trump has consistently said that Israeli attacks could soon be over if Iran agrees to require the US to accept a strict curb against the nuclear program.
Trump: “They should talk.”
“They say Iran hasn’t won this war. They should talk, they should talk just before it’s too late,” Trump said at a G7 conference in Canada.
The Oman-sponsored meeting between the US and Iran was scheduled for June 5th, but was discarded.
On June 16, Iranian lawmakers raised the idea of quitting the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
“Pay the price”
Before dawn on Monday, Iranian missiles struck Tel Aviv and Haifa, killing at least eight people and destroying homes.
Iranian innovative security guards said the latest attacks adopted a new way in which Israeli layered defense systems were targeted at one another so that missiles could pass through.
Global oil prices were eased on Monday, and traders believe exports could be spared despite Israel’s attacks on Israel’s Iran’s oil and gas targets.
Has the Iranian government threatened?
The sudden killing of so many Iranian military commanders and the apparent loss of airspace control could prove to be the biggest test of Iran’s administrative system of control since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
A network of Iranian regional allies that once could have predicted rockets to be rainy in Israel — Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon — have been destroyed by Israeli forces since the start of the Gaza War.
Netanyahu said that overthrowing the Iranian government is not Israel’s main goal, but he believes it could result.
Arcia, a 29-year-old art teacher, told Reuters that his family is leaving Tehran in the town of Damavando, about 30 miles east until the conflict is over.
“My parents are scared. There are attacks every night. There are no air raid sirens, no shelter to go to. Why are you paying the hostile policies of the Islamic Republic?” said Arcia, who withheld her surname for fear of retaliation from the authorities.