Israel-Iran conflict: List of key events, June 22, 2025

Here’s wherever things basal connected Sunday, June 22:

Fighting

• United States President Donald Trump told the satellite that strikes had been launched by his country’s subject against three cardinal Iranian atomic sites.
• Trump claimed successful a station that the heavy fortified Fordow atomic installation was “gone”.
• The US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth told reporters astatine the Pentagon that the US strikes were an “incredible and overwhelming success”, without providing immoderate grounds oregon details.
• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a further menace against Iran, saying immoderate retaliation would beryllium “the worst mistake they’ve ever made.”
• During an code to a gathering of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) successful Istanbul, Turkiye, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the US crossed “a precise large reddish line” by attacking Iran’s 3 atomic facilities.
• The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran said the atomic sites successful Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan were “attacked by enemies of [Iran] successful a barbaric enactment that violated planetary law, particularly the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty”.

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Trump connected a ‘bold decision’ to onslaught Iran.
• Israeli exigency services accidental Iranian rockets and falling shrapnel deed 10 locations. The latest Iranian retaliation followed the US strikes.
• Israel’s subject said it carried retired much attacks connected occidental Iran against what it claimed are “military targets”.
• The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Iran’s astir caller rocket strikes targeted Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport, on with probe facilities.
• The IRGC is present deploying 1 of its astir precocious missiles, the Kheibar Shekan, arsenic portion of its retaliatory measures. Unveiled successful 2022, the rocket besides known arsenic Khorramshahr-4 is believed to person the heaviest payload of Iran’s ballistic rocket arsenal.

Casualties and disruptions

• The caput of Iran’s Red Crescent Society, Pir Hossein Kolivand, said that determination person been nary fatalities successful the US strikes connected Iran’s atomic facilities.
• An advisor to Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said that Iran had been anticipating the US onslaught connected Fordow. “The tract has agelong been evacuated and has not suffered immoderate irreversible harm successful the attack,” the advisor said.
• The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran has said that radiation strategy information and tract surveys bash not amusement signs of contamination oregon information to residents adjacent the sites of Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz.
• The Israel Airports Authority says it has closed its airspace until further announcement “due to caller developments”, referring to the US onslaught connected Iran.
• Airline carriers person continued to steer wide of important areas of the Middle East pursuing the US strikes, according to Flightradar24.
• A antheral convicted of spying for Israel has been executed, the Iranian judicial quality outlet Mizan Online reports.
• At slightest 27 radical person been wounded successful Israel aft Iran launched 40 missiles soon aft the US attacks. One of the targets deed was Ramat Aviv successful Tel Aviv, with missiles tearing holes successful the facades of flat blocks.
• The semiofficial Tasnim quality bureau reported that Israel bombed the metropolis of Tabriz, targeting the IRGC’s Martyr Madani camp, wounding astatine slightest two.
• Iranian authorities said 9 information unit were killed aft Israeli forces struck 2 subject sites successful the cardinal state of Yazd, Iran’s Fars News Agency reported.
• Gulf states, location to aggregate US subject bases, are connected precocious alert aft the bombardment of Iran raised the anticipation of a widening warfare successful the region.
• Bahrain has told 70 percent of authorities employees to enactment from location until further notice.

US absorption to attacks

• In 1 of the archetypal responses to the onslaught by a Democratic subordinate of the US Congress, Sara Jacobs said: “Trump’s strikes against Iran are not lone unconstitutional, but an escalation that risks bringing the US into different endless and deadly war.”
• House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries said that Trump did not question legislature authorisation for the strikes and volition carnivore afloat work for “any adverse consequences”.
• Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian-American congresswoman, said Trump’s ordering of strikes connected Iran without the support of lawmakers is simply a “blatant violation” of the US Constitution.
• Republican congressman Thomas Massie, who has been starring a legislative effort to curb Trump’s quality to onslaught Iran without the support of Congress, said the strikes interruption the US Constitution, which gives lawmakers the authorization implicit warfare decisions.
• US Senator Chris Murphy joined the Democratic chorus of criticism. “I was briefed connected the quality past week,” helium said. “Iran posed nary imminent menace of onslaught to the United States.”

Global reactions, authorities and diplomacy

• The United Nations Security Council volition clasp an exigency league connected Sunday pursuing the US strikes connected Iranian atomic facilities.
• UN main Antonio Guterres expressed “grave alarm”, describing the battle arsenic a “dangerous escalation”, informing that the struggle successful the Middle East could rapidly get “out of control”.
• The caput of the International Committee of the Red Cross said planetary instrumentality isn’t a prime but an obligation.
• China “strongly condemned” the US attack, noting its atomic facilities were nether the safeguards of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency.
• Dmitry Medvedev, lawman president of Russia’s Security Council, said the “absolute majority” of nations are against “the actions of Israel and the United States”.
• Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Palestinian radical Hamas and Yemen’s Houthis, each allies of Iran, condemned what Hezbollah called the “barbaric and treacherous” US onslaught connected Iran’s atomic facilities.

• Saudi Arabia said that it’s “following with heavy interest the developments successful the Islamic Republic of Iran, peculiarly the targeting of Iranian atomic facilities by the United States of America.”
• Gulf nations Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates each besides expressed interest implicit what the attacks could portend for the region.
• Turkiye’s Foreign Ministry warned that the US strikes person made the hazard of escalation much likely.
• British Prime Minister Keir Starmer backed the US subject action, saying the attacks “alleviate” the “threat” posed by Tehran’s atomic programme.
• The European Union’s overseas argumentation chief, Kaja Kallas, is calling for a instrumentality to dialogue. “Iran indispensable not beryllium allowed to make a atomic weapon,” she said, “as it would beryllium a menace to planetary security.”

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