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The US bombed three Iranian nuclear sites on June 21 after Iran and Israel engaged in air strikes for more than a week.
Iran and Israel continue to trade strikes after their long-standing conflict hit flashpoints. The astonishing attacks on Israel’s Tehran’s nuclear program and the assassination of Iranian leaders launched a series of events that reported hundreds of people being killed and that the United States was at risk of being dragged further into war.
Let’s take a closer look at what has unfolded since Israel’s first strike.
The maps below are based on the American Enterprise Institute and Institute for the Institute of WAR (ISW)’s The Critical Threats Project (CTP). These include confirmed airstrikes, reported airstrikes, reports of explosions with footage, and reports of explosions without footage. This data is collected from sources such as visual evidence of the Earth-melting type and opposition, as well as local and international media. USA Today has conducted additional verifications on some, not all strikes.
June 12th-13th
Israel carried out its first strike in an air campaign targeting Iran’s nuclear program and leadership at 8pm, according to the Critical Threat Project (CTP) of the US Institute of Business and War Research (ISW).
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israeli troops have launched an attack targeting Iran’s uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, launching additional targets at the “center” of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear and ballistic missile programme.
The shocking attack killed almost the entire hierarchy of Iranian military commanders, Reuters reported. Netanyahu said “Iran’s leading nuclear scientists” were also targets for the attack. Iran has launched three retaliation waves of missiles targeted by Israeli.
Let’s take a closer look at Iran’s weapons and nuclear facilities, according to the Nuclear Threat Initiative. Its mission is a nonprofit organization that describes it as “stricken humanity by threats of nuclear, biology and new technology.”
June 14th
According to ISW, Israeli forces attacked an unspecified underground weapons facility in western Iran. Iranian state media reported that Israel had bombed several energy facilities in southern Iran.
South Purs Field, the world’s largest gas field, was hit with the Fazil Jam Gas Factory. Iran’s oil ministry has confirmed that Sharan’s depot is also targeting Israeli, Al Jazeera reported.
June 15th
Israel and Iran continued to trade airstrikes, ISW reported. Israel has also targeted Iranian government buildings, including Tehran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Intelligence Reporting Agency.
Iran sent hundreds of drones and missiles to Israel, damaging the country’s largest oil refinery near the country’s top research centres, Haifa and Wisemann Institute of Science, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Israeli US ambassador Yechiel Leiter appeared on ABC News “This Week” and asked host Martha Raddatz to talk to Leiter about the Fordow Fuel Richment Plant.
The writer suggested that Israel may not need to resort to Radaz, a bomb known as the GBU-57A/B’s large weapon intruder, to achieve its objectives. “We have a lot of contingency that will allow us to deal with Fordows. Not everything is about taking the sky and bombing from afar,” said Lighter. “We are confident that we can retreat the development of nuclear weapons systems within Iran for a very long time.”
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June 16th
The New York Times reported that Israeli strikes raided Iranian state broadcasters on Monday, June 16th, bombing the headquarters of Iranian elite military forces. That same day, Israel said it had attacked an Iranian F-14 fighter jet at Tehran airport.
Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told the BBC it is very likely that the roughly 15,000 centrifuges operating at Iran’s largest uranium enrichment plant have been destroyed or destroyed due to the blackout caused by the Israeli strike.
In a social media post, Defesne Pete Hegseth’s secretary announced “Deploying additional features to the Unded States Central Command Erage’s responsibility area.” The Washington Post reports that more than 20 tanker aircraft were deployed to Europe from the US on Sunday and Monday, citing flight tracking data.
Flight animation shows military planes heading towards Europe
The animation provided by flightradar24 shows what the tanker and the heavy transport jets heading towards Europe said.
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Reuters reports that USS Nimitz, a US aircraft carrier, left the South China Sea on Monday morning and is heading west, according to marine traffic data on the ship tracking website.
According to US officials, five faces and aircraft carriers have shifted aircraft carriers to the Middle East as the Israeli-Iran conflict continues to rage as Israeli-Iran conflict continues to rage.
The Iranian capital saw massive traffic routes in the Iranian capital after a social media post from President Donald Trump.
June 17th
Israel raided Iranian cities with bombs, and several Iranian missiles evaded Israeli iron dome defense systems.
Satellite images taken by Maxar Technologies have caused significant damage to several Iranian military facilities. Multiple storage buildings, roads and tunnels were damaged at the Tabriz missile facility. A destroyed Iranian tanker aircraft was seen at Mashhad Airport.
Israeli national security adviser Tzachi Hanegbi still provides the clearest signal on the goals of Israeli air campaigns, informing Local Channel 12 News on June 17 that the military is chasing Iran’s most difficult target, the Fordo nuclear enrichment plant.
“This operation cannot be concluded without a strike at Ford’s nuclear facility,” said Hanegbi.
June 18th
The ongoing aviation war between Israel and Iran has entered its sixth day. Iranian state media reported that more than 220 Iranians have been killed and at least 1,200 have been injured since the artillery began. 20 Israelis were killed in an Iranian missile attack, officials said.
June 21st
The United States bombed three nuclear facilities in Iran on June 21, with President Donald Trump making an announcement about the true society.
“We have completed a very successful attack on three nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz and Esfahan. All planes are currently outside of Iran’s airspace,” Trump said at 7:50pm (“The full payload of bombs has been dropped on the primary site, Fordow. All planes are on their way home. Congratulations to our great American warriors. We could have done this.”
Contributors: Jennifer Bollesen, Tom Vanden Brook, Cybere Maze Osterman, Kim Hujelmgard, Sean J. Sullivan, USA Today
This is an updated, developing story.
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