Israel-Iran conflict: List of key events, June 18, 2025

Here’s wherever things basal connected Monday, June 18:

Fighting

• The Israeli service continued to launch attacks crossed Iran, targeting the superior Tehran, wherever explosions were reported passim the day, successful the cardinal state of Isfahan arsenic good arsenic adjacent Kahraj.
• Israel said it struck 40 sites successful Iran, including weapons facilities. Other strikes targeted 2 centrifuge accumulation facilities – 1 successful Tehran and 1 successful Kahraj, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
• Israel’s subject claimed it is “operating freely” successful Iranian skies, portion confirming 1 of its unmanned craft was downed successful Iranian territory. Iranian authorities media said Iranian forces changeable down an Israeli drone and combatant jet.
• An Iranian drone that entered airspace implicit the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights successful Syria was besides intercepted, Israel said, adding aboriginal that a 2nd drone was intercepted successful the southbound of the territory.
• Iran besides launched a question of rocket attacks towards Israel. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said long-range Sejjil missiles were utilized successful its 12th question of firings astatine Israel.
• The IRGC warned that the skies supra “occupied lands” are unfastened to Iranian missiles and drones, adding that the attacks volition beryllium “focused and continuous”.
• Explosions were reported successful the greater Tel Aviv country and eastbound of the city. Israel said it intercepted 8 missiles successful that salvo successful the evening.

Casualties and disruptions

• An Israeli onslaught connected a conveyance successful Isfahan’s Najafabad killed six people, including a large pistillate and 2 children, according to section media reports.
• Israel did not study immoderate deaths connected Wednesday.
• Iran’s Ministry of Communications said it volition temporarily bounds net entree to forestall “the force from threatening citizens’ lives and property”.
• The London-based net watchdog NetBlocks besides said that determination was a “near-total nationalist net blackout”.
• A spokesperson for the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development successful Iran announced the hold of home and planetary formation cancellations until aboriginal Thursday.
• Public information guidelines successful Israel that heavy restricted enactment were eased. Limited gatherings and enactment operations are present allowed successful areas wherever radical tin rapidly scope a “standard protected place” until Friday evening.

Diplomacy

• Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei delivered his first televised address since Israel began its attacks connected Friday, informing that immoderate United States subject involution successful the struggle would beryllium met with “irreparable consequences”.
• Esmaeil Baghaei, Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman, warned successful an interrogation with Al Jazeera that immoderate US involution would beryllium “a look for an all-out warfare successful the region”.
• US President Donald Trump spoke to reporters connected the White House lawn, and erstwhile asked if the US was moving person to striking Iran, helium said: “I whitethorn bash it. I whitethorn not bash it.”
• Trump besides claimed that Iranian officials reached retired to him and suggested visiting the White House. Iran has denied this, saying “the lone happening much despicable than his lies is his cowardly menace to ‘take out’ Iran’s Supreme Leader”.
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Trump for his “support successful defending Israel’s skies”, describing him arsenic a “a large person of the authorities of Israel”.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated his country’s willingness to assistance mediate the crisis.
• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said his state wants to spot the situation resolved diplomatically and Ankara could play a constructive role, but accused Israel of waging “crazed” attacks against Iran that magnitude to “state terrorism”.
• France is readying on with European partners to suggest a negotiated solution to extremity the struggle betwixt Iran and Israel, the country’s presidency said, aft President Emmanuel Macron chaired a Defence and National Security Council meeting.
• Macron has indicated that subject authorities alteration successful Iran is simply a strategical mistake, according to France’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson.
• Iran’s ngo to the United Nations has requested an exigency UN Security Council meeting, saying the concern “has dangerously escalated owed to mounting and undeniable grounds of nonstop US involvement”.
• UN main Antonio Guterres said helium remains “profoundly alarmed” and reiterated calls for “immediate de-escalation starring to a ceasefire”.
• Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz defended his comments, which drew outrage successful immoderate quarters, terming Israel’s attacks connected Iran arsenic “dirty enactment Israel is doing for each of us”.
• Iran has consistently denied seeking a atomic weapon, and IAEA main Rafael Grossi told Al Jazeera that the UN atomic watchdog has recovered nary grounds that Iran was gathering one.
• The UN Security Council volition clasp an exigency gathering connected Friday. Iran requested the meeting, saying the concern “has dangerously escalated owed to mounting and undeniable grounds of nonstop US engagement successful this unlawful campaign”.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies