‘Solid evidence’: Iran says US bears responsibility for Israel’s aggression

Tehran, Iran – Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Israel’s attacks connected his state could not person materialised without the statement and enactment of the United States.

“We person well-documented and coagulated grounds of the enactment provided by American forces successful the portion and their bases for the subject attacks of the Zionist regime,” Iran’s apical diplomat told reporters during a quality league successful the capital, Tehran, connected Sunday.

He said, much importantly, US President Donald 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.”

Araghchi said Tehran has received messages from Washington done assorted intermediaries that it was not progressive with Israel’s attacks connected Iran’s atomic facilities successful Isfahan’s Natanz, but it “does not judge this claim” owed to grounds to the contrary.

“It is indispensable for the US authorities to intelligibly authorities its presumption and explicitly condemn the onslaught connected atomic facilities,” helium said. “This enactment is condemned nether planetary law, and our anticipation is that the US government, successful bid to beryllium its bully religion regarding atomic weapons, volition condemn the onslaught connected a peaceful atomic installation and region itself from this conflict.”

Pointing retired that the Israeli attacks came arsenic Iran and the US were slated to clasp a sixth circular of atomic negotiations mediated by Oman connected Sunday, Araghchi emphasised that Israel “will bash anything” to halt the talks and diplomacy, as it has done successful the past.

‘Major strategical mistake’

Iranian authorities said the Israeli attacks, which person targeted residential and subject areas successful Tehran arsenic good arsenic galore cities crossed the state since Friday, person killed astatine slightest 80 people, including civilians.

Multiple top-ranking commanders of the Iranian equipped forces and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were besides assassinated, arsenic were a fig of atomic scientists and assemblage professors.

Iran has truthful acold launched 2 nights of retaliatory attacks connected Israel’s Tel Aviv and Haifa, utilizing hundreds of missiles and drones, which person led to astatine slightest 10 deaths and dozens of injuries.

Araghchi told reporters that Iran’s attacks overnight into Sunday started targeting Israel’s vigor infrastructure aft the Israeli service deed refineries, powerfulness stations and lipid reserves crossed Iran.

As sounds of explosions and aerial defences rang crossed Tehran successful the aboriginal hours of Sunday, Israel deed a substance reserve successful occidental Tehran’s Shahran neighbourhood that caused a monolithic fire. Authorities said the occurrence was contained aft respective hours and that astir of the substance successful the reserve was taken retired earlier the aerial raids.

On Saturday, the Israeli subject deed Asaluyeh connected Iran’s confederate shores successful the state of Bushehr, hitting Phase 14 of South Pars, the largest gasfield successful the world.

Araghchi said the onslaught was a “major strategical mistake” that was apt carried retired deliberately with the volition of dragging different nations into the war.

“The Persian Gulf portion is highly delicate and complex, and immoderate subject improvement determination could impact the full region, and adjacent the full world,” helium said, utilizing the sanction of the Gulf, which is besides commonly known arsenic the Arabian Gulf.

Iran and Israel person said their attacks volition proceed for now, and the Israeli subject connected Sunday issued a menace to Iranians to enactment distant from what it called “military weapons accumulation factories and their enactment institutions”, oregon hazard being killed.

But Araghchi said Tehran is consenting to halt if Israel halts its attacks, and urged the planetary assemblage to intervene and condemn Israel.

‘National battle’

Iranian newspapers connected Sunday dedicated their beforehand pages to the war, with much hardline outlets manoeuvring connected Iran’s attacks portion others focusing connected a consciousness of nationalist unity.

Keyhan, whose editor-in-chief is appointed by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, published the headline: “We volition decorativeness the warfare and Israel together”, and wrote astir “unprecedented damages successful occupied territories” caused by the Iranian missiles.

“National battle”, work a header from the reformist Ham-Mihan, with Etemad paper penning astir “Israel’s gamble connected a minefield” and Sazandegi highlighting “Slap for Tel Aviv” successful its header story.

For the archetypal clip successful astir 4 decades, Iranian authorities tv connected Saturday broadcast a triumph march. It was past heard successful the 1980s during Iran’s eight-year penetration by neighbouring Iraq, which was backed and equipped by large powers.

Mehdi Chamran, president of the City Council of Tehran, said the superior volition soon beryllium forced to usage the aforesaid shelters utilized during that war, arsenic good arsenic metro stations and immoderate car parks, arsenic nary caller dedicated shelters person been built.

Government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani said connected Sunday that each flights are cancelled until further announcement and tried to guarantee radical that measures are nether mode to guarantee the authorities tin supply basal necessities, including fuel, successful lawsuit of a prolonged conflict.

Vehicles jam a road arsenic a occurrence blazes adjacent successful the lipid depots of Shahran, northwest of Tehran, connected June 15, 2025 [Atta Kenare/AFP]

The Tehran Chamber of Guilds announced that each concern associations, expansive bazaars and malls were unfastened successful the capital, but authorities workers were told to enactment remotely until astatine slightest Wednesday, successful an denotation that Tehran is expected to beryllium deed again.

The Tehran Stock Exchange was besides closed connected Sunday, with its manager saying the determination to support it closed oregon unfastened it for Monday volition beryllium taken connected the day, considering Sunday night’s developments.

Iran’s currency, the rial, has taken different nosedive since the commencement of the latest conflict, having depreciated from astir 840,000 against the US dollar earlier the Israeli attacks to astir 955,000 connected Sunday.