Israel-Iran conflict: List of key events, June 20, 2025

Here’s wherever things basal on Friday, June 20:

Fighting

• Israel said connected Friday that it had struck dozens of subject targets successful Iran overnight, including Tehran’s Organisation of Defensive Innovation and Research, rocket accumulation sites and subject facilities successful occidental and cardinal Iran.
• The Israeli subject said it struck surface-to-air rocket batteries successful occidental Iran, sidesplitting a squad of Iranian soldiers connected the determination during the operation, including a commandant of an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) base.
• Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said helium had instructed the subject to intensify attacks connected “symbols of the regime” and “mechanisms of oppression” successful the Iranian capital, Tehran, aiming to destabilise it.
• Air defence systems were activated successful Bushehr successful confederate Iran, the determination of the country’s lone operating atomic powerfulness plant, according to the Young Journalists Club, cited by authorities broadcaster IRIB.
• Iran’s IRGC said it had fired its 17th question of missiles astatine Israeli subject facilities, including the Nevatim and Hatzerim bases.
• Iran fired missiles astatine Beersheba successful confederate Israel, with archetypal Israeli media reports besides pointing to rocket impacts successful Tel Aviv, the Negev and Haifa. Iran said that the “precise hits” demonstrated “our violative rocket powerfulness is growing”.
• The Fars quality bureau quoted an Iranian subject spokesperson arsenic saying Tehran’s rocket and drone attacks connected Friday had utilized long-range and ultra-heavy missiles against Israeli subject sites, defence industries and bid and power centres.

Casualties and disruptions

• Israel’s onslaught connected Tehran’s Organisation of Defensive Innovation and Research, which it says is progressive successful Iran’s alleged atomic weapons development, killed a atomic scientist, according to Israeli media reports.
• Iranian media reported that an concern works progressive successful the accumulation of c fibre successful bluish Iran was damaged successful an attack.
• Iran’s wellness ministry said a 3rd infirmary successful Tehran had been struck by Israeli bombs, according to authorities quality bureau IRNA.
• At slightest 5 radical were injured erstwhile Israel deed a five-storey gathering successful Tehran lodging a bakery and a hairdresser’s, Fars quality bureau reported.
• Iranian quality outlet Asriran said that a drone attacked an flat successful a residential gathering successful the Iranian capital’s cardinal Gisha district.
• The Human Rights Activists News Agency, a US-based quality rights organisation that tracks Iran, said that Israeli aerial attacks person killed 639 radical successful the country. Israeli authorities had antecedently said 24 civilians had been killed successful Iranian attacks.
• Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue work said its teams were providing attraction to 17 people, 3 successful superior condition, aft Iran’s strikes.
• Israeli railway officials told section media that, owed to the Iranian rocket onslaught connected Beersheba, the city’s northbound presumption was temporarily closed.
• Afghanistan’s agriculture curate said his state was successful discussions with Russia to import definite foodstuffs arsenic the struggle betwixt Israel and Iran, 1 of its largest trading partners, risked cutting disconnected supplies.

Protests

• Tens of thousands of radical attended anti-Israel protestation marches successful Tehran, arsenic good arsenic different large Iranian cities, including Isfahan, Shiraz, Mashhad and Qom.
• Demonstrators successful confederate Beirut, Lebanon held a pro-Iran rally aft Friday prayers.
• Thousands of Iraqis gathered for Friday prayers successful Baghdad’s Sadr City, a suburb with a ample Shia population, chanting against the US and Israel amid the attacks connected Iran.
• Pro-Palestinian activists successful the UK broke into the Royal Air Force Brize Norton basal successful Oxfordshire and damaged 2 aircraft.

Politics

• US President Donald Trump told reporters connected Friday that his manager of nationalist intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was incorrect to suggest determination is nary grounds Iran is gathering a atomic weapon. “Well, my quality assemblage is wrong,” helium replied erstwhile asked astir Gabbard’s position. Trump besides said that portion helium “might” enactment a ceasefire woody betwixt Israel and Iran, “Israel’s doing good successful presumption of war, and I deliberation you would accidental that Iran is doing little well”.
• Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said the lone mode to extremity the struggle was for Israel to halt its aerial attacks, informing that “failure to bash truthful would effect successful a acold much forceful and regrettable effect from Iran”.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin said successful St Petersburg that Moscow was sharing ideas with “our Israeli and Iranian friends” astir however to extremity the bloodshed and said helium believed determination was a diplomatic solution.
• US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced caller Iran-related sanctions aiming to disrupt Tehran’s efforts to “procure the sensitive, dual-use technology, components, and machinery that underpin the regime’s ballistic missile, unmanned aerial vehicle, and asymmetric weapons programs”.
• Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said successful a telephone speech with Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide that Israel targeting economical facilities successful Iran could pb to catastrophic determination and planetary repercussions.
• French President Emmanuel Macron said determination was “no justification” for strikes connected civilians and connected civilian infrastructure successful the weeklong conflict, adding that Tehran should amusement its willingness to instrumentality to the negotiating array concerning its atomic programme.
• Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said successful comments carried by authorities quality bureau TASS that imaginable usage of tactical atomic weapons by the US successful Iran would beryllium a catastrophic development.
• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed the ongoing struggle betwixt Israel and Iran implicit a telephone call, a German authorities spokesperson said.
• UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy said his state was moving with Israeli authorities to put charter flights for British nationals from Tel Aviv erstwhile Ben Gurion International Airport reopens.

Diplomacy

• The United Nations Security Council met astatine its office successful New York to sermon the concern between Iran and Israel.
• Rafael Grossi, manager of the International Agency for Atomic Energy, warned against attacks connected atomic facilities astatine the meeting, saying a onslaught connected the Bushehr atomic works could origin “radioactive releases with large consequences” beyond Iran’s borders. He called for “maximum restraint”.
• UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said astatine the gathering that enlargement of the Israel-Iran struggle could “ignite a occurrence nary 1 tin control”, calling connected some sides to “give bid a chance”.
• Iran’s UN ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani urged the Security Council to instrumentality action, saying the state was “alarmed by credible report[s] that the United States … whitethorn beryllium joining this war”.
• Israel’s UN ambassador, Danny Danon, pledged astatine the UNSC that determination would beryllium nary letup successful attacks connected Iran. “Not until Iran’s atomic menace is dismantled, not until its warfare instrumentality is disarmed, not until our radical and yours are safe,” helium said.
• Russia’s envoy Vassily Nebenzia stressed that Israel attacked Iran connected the eve of a circular of atomic talks and accused Israel of showing a blatant disregard for attempts to find a diplomatic solution to extremity the conflict.
• Iraq’s typical to the UN, Abbas Kadhom Obaid al-Fatlawi, said 50 Israeli warplanes from the Syrian-Jordanian borderline areas violated Iraqi airspace soon earlier the Security Council meeting.
• Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi attended a gathering successful Geneva with France, the United Kingdom, Germany and the European Union’s overseas argumentation chief, which appeared to output nary breakthrough.
• Araghchi told reporters successful Geneva that Iran would beryllium acceptable to see diplomacy “once the aggression is stopped and the aggressor is held accountable for the crimes committed”. Earlier, helium accused Israel of a “betrayal of diplomacy” successful a code to the UN Human Rights Council.
• French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told reporters aft the Geneva talks that Araghchi had signalled “his willingness to proceed these discussions connected the atomic programme and, much broadly, connected each issues”.
• British Foreign Minister David Lammy said European ministers successful Geneva had made it wide that “Iran cannot person a atomic weapon”.
• Germany’s Defence Ministry said that it had flown 64 radical retired of Israel, describing the flights arsenic a “diplomatic pick-up” and not a subject evacuation mission, which would person required parliamentary approval.
• Ireland’s Foreign Minister Simon Harris announced his state would temporarily relocate embassy unit from Tehran “in airy of the deteriorating situation”.
• The UK said it was temporarily withdrawing unit from its embassy successful Iran, saying the embassy continued to “operate remotely”.
• Switzerland’s Federal Department of Foreign Affairs said it had decided to temporarily adjacent its embassy successful Iran, citing aggravated subject operations there.
• Australia besides said it had suspended operations astatine its embassy successful Iran. Foreign Minister Penny Wong said a “crisis effect team” was being sent to neighbouring Azerbaijan to enactment Australians departing Iran by road.
• Slovakia and the Czech Republic besides announced the impermanent closure of their embassies successful Tehran.
• British constabulary arrested 8 men connected Friday, including 7 on suspicion of grievous bodily harm, following reports of an altercation involving pro and anti-Iranian protesters at a determination adjacent to the Iranian embassy successful London.

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