Bombardment, strikes, deaths in third day of fierce Israel-Iran conflict

Iran has launched a caller question of ballistic missiles against Israel soon aft large explosions were heard successful its superior Tehran, arsenic the 2 countries proceed to commercialized dense occurrence for a 3rd consecutive time and arsenic US President Donald Trump hints some astatine bid coming “soon” and astatine the anticipation of the United States joining the conflict.

On Sunday, residents successful Tehran reported shuddering blasts successful antithetic areas successful the bosom of the city. Reports accidental missiles struck successful Niavaran and Tajrish, successful the capital’s north, and astir the Valiasr and Hafte Tir squares successful the metropolis centre.

Other cities attacked by Israel included Shiraz and Isfahan, wherever a subject basal of the Defence Ministry was hit. The Israeli service said it struck an aerial refuelling craft astatine Mashhad Airport successful eastbound Iran, describing it arsenic its longest-range onslaught since launching operations against Iran past week.

Reporting from Tehran, Al Jazeera’s Tohid Asadi said, “Iran has not experienced a warfare to this grade since the Iran-Iraq War ended successful 1988. There were akin Israeli strikes past year, of course, but thing compared to what’s been happening since Friday.”

“The authorities said earlier contiguous that metro stations, schools and mosques are going to beryllium acceptable to big people. But parts of these facilities, including mosques and schools, bash not look harmless capable to beryllium utilized arsenic a benignant of shelter,” helium added.

Iranian officials accidental astatine slightest 138 radical person been killed successful Israel’s onslaught since Friday, including 60 connected Saturday, fractional of them children, erstwhile a rocket brought down a 14-storey flat artifact successful Tehran. There were nary reports arsenic yet of casualties from Sunday’s attacks.

In Israel, authorities said connected Sunday that respective missiles were launched from Iran, astir of which were intercepted.

Rescue workers were searching for survivors successful the rubble from the erstwhile night’s question of Iranian strikes. The hardest deed country was the municipality of Bat Yam, wherever much than 60 buildings were damaged. “Iran volition wage a dense terms for the execution of civilians, women and children,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said from a balcony overlooking blown-out apartments successful Bat Yam, a metropolis conscionable southbound of Tel Aviv.

Overnight, Iran struck the larboard metropolis of Haifa and neighbouring Tamra, wherever astatine slightest 4 women were killed. Since the commencement of the struggle connected Thursday, astatine slightest 13 radical person been killed and 380 person been wounded successful Israel.

A gathering shows dense harm from an Israeli onslaught targeting the Narmak territory successful eastbound Tehran, connected June 15, 2025 [Fatemeh Bahrami /Anadolu Agency]

Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh, reporting from Amman, Jordan, said, “The harm from Iranian attacks is surely extended and unprecedented. This is the archetypal clip that Israel has confronted a authorities with a formidable service successful the region, surely the archetypal clip since 1973 [against Egypt]”.

“To the north, successful Haifa, lipid and state pipelines were damaged, but activities proceed astatine the lipid refineries”, she added.

Israel launched its cognition with a astonishment onslaught connected Friday that killed respective members of the Iranian military’s apical echelon, killed respective atomic scientists, and damaged the country’s atomic sites. Since then, Israel’s attacks person been broadening successful their scope, hitting residential areas and Iran’s civilian and vigor sectors and raising the stakes for the planetary system and the functioning of the Iranian state.

Diplomacy

As some parties proceed to lb each different with strikes, hopes for a diplomatic solution look distant for now, though they volition nary uncertainty beryllium precocious connected the docket of the Group of Seven summit opening Monday successful Canada.

Speaking astatine a property league successful Tehran connected Sunday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran does not question to grow the struggle to neighbouring countries unless forced to.

Araghchi reaffirmed Iran’s absorption to atomic weapons but defended its close to peaceful atomic development. He said Iran had been acceptable to connection assurances successful the now-cancelled sixth circular of US talks, which could person led to an agreement, though Israel derailed the diplomatic progress.

The US and Iran person held 5 rounds of talks since April to effort to find a way to a caller atomic woody that would regenerate a 2015 accord that Trump abandoned during his archetypal word successful office.

Araghchi besides said Israel’s attacks connected his state could not person materialised without the statement and enactment of the US.

“We person well-documented and solid evidence of the enactment provided by American forces successful the portion and their bases for the subject attacks of the Zionist regime”.

He said Trump has publically and explicitly confirmed he knew astir the attacks, that they could not person happened without US weapons and equipment, and that much attacks are coming. “Therefore, the US, successful our opinion, is simply a spouse successful these attacks and indispensable judge its responsibility.”

Talking to Fox News, Netanyahu seemed to intelligibly corroborate that, saying helium informed Trump up of launching the attacks.

He described the practice with the Trump medication arsenic “unprecedented”, adding that the Israeli quality shares “every spot of information” with Washington. Netanyahu projected that authorities alteration successful Iran could beryllium a effect of Israel’s attacks.

Trump has denied immoderate engagement and warned Tehran not to widen its retaliation to see US targets, but besides didn’t regularisation retired much nonstop US engagement beyond the immense arsenal and quality the US provides to Israel.

“If we are attacked successful immoderate way, signifier oregon signifier by Iran, the afloat spot and mightiness of the U.S. Armed Forces volition travel down connected you astatine levels ne'er seen before,” the US president said successful a connection connected Truth Social.

He besides claimed bid could beryllium reached “soon”, suggesting that galore diplomatic meetings were taking place.

“We tin easy get a woody done betwixt Iran and Israel, and extremity this bloody conflict,” helium said.

Trump has repeatedly said Iran could extremity the warfare by agreeing to pugnacious restrictions connected its atomic programme, which Iran says is for peaceful purposes but Western countries accidental could beryllium utilized to marque a bomb.

Trump told ABC helium would beryllium “open” to Russian President Vladimir Putin being a mediator. “He is ready. He called maine astir it. We had a agelong speech astir it”.

The US president’s words were a archetypal hint astatine Washington’s diplomatic engagement successful the ongoing conflict. In caller days, the US has ratcheted down its diplomatic beingness successful countries successful the region, anticipating that aerial strikes connected Iranian subject sites would beryllium taking place.