Israel-Iran conflict: List of key events, June 19, 2025

Here’s wherever things basal connected Thursday, June 19:

Fighting

• Israel struck dozens of sites successful Iran, including Natanz and a dense h2o atomic reactor, which was primitively called Arak and is present named Khondab.

• A projectile fired by Iran struck the Soroka Hospital successful Beersheba, confederate Israel – 1 of the main hospitals wherever Israeli troops are sent – leaving dozens injured.

• IRNA, the Islamic Republic News Agency, said connected Telegram that the “main target” of Thursday’s rocket onslaught “was the ample [Israeli army] Command and Intelligence [IDF C4I] office and the subject quality campy successful the Gav-Yam Technology Park”, and not the hospital.

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tehran would wage a “heavy price” for the strike.

• Israel says it destroyed Iran’s interior information office successful Tehran arsenic much explosions are reported successful the Iranian metropolis of Karaj and the adjacent Payam airport.
• Several explosions were heard implicit Jerusalem and Tel Aviv arsenic a caller question of Iranian missiles targeted the country, resulting successful astatine slightest 4 interaction sites.
• Bloomberg News, citing anonymous sources, reported that elder US officials are “preparing for the anticipation of a onslaught connected Iran successful the coming days”. It said the improvement is simply a motion that Washington “is assembling the infrastructure to straight participate a struggle with Tehran”.
• On Thursday, White House property caput Karoline Leavitt told reporters that President Donald Trump would determine whether the US volition articulation the Israel-Iran struggle successful the “next 2 weeks”. Previously, Trump had declined to accidental if helium had made immoderate decision. “I whitethorn bash it. I whitethorn not bash it. I mean, cipher knows what I’m going to do,” helium said.
• Republican Senator Lindsey Graham is urging Trump to “go each in” and onslaught Iran’s Fordow atomic site, which is dug heavy into a upland successful cardinal Iran.
• The Al Udeid Air Base extracurricular Doha, Qatar – a large US subject basal successful the Middle East – has seen galore of the craft typically connected its tarmac dispersed, The Associated Press reported.

• Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz threatened to destruct Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “Such a idiosyncratic is forbidden to exist,” helium said successful a connection cited by the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper.
• In a station connected X, Khamenei said: “The precise information that the Zionist regime’s American friends person entered the country and are saying specified things is simply a motion of that regime’s weakness and inability.”
• Turkiye has accrued the information of its borderline with Iran arsenic the Israel-Iran struggle continues, a Turkish Defence Ministry root told Reuters, adding that Ankara had not seen immoderate irregular migration travel from Iran.

Casualties and disruptions

• Israel said that astatine slightest 24 radical person been killed successful Iranian attacks connected Israel.
• Israel said much than 200 radical were wounded successful the Iranian onslaught that deed Soroka Hospital.
• At slightest 639 radical person been killed successful Israeli attacks crossed Iran, according to the Washington-based group, Human Rights Activists.
• Iran has not fixed regular decease toll figures during the aggravated attacks by Israel. Its past update enactment the decease toll astatine much than 240 radical killed and 1,277 others wounded.
• Iranian constabulary announced connected Thursday they had arrested 24 radical accused of spying for Israel, according to a connection carried by the Tasnim quality agency.
• The IRIB authorities broadcaster said Iranian authorities extended the cancellation of takeoffs and landings of home and planetary flights until 2pm (10:30 GMT).
• Thousands of radical successful Israel person go stateless arsenic a effect of Iran’s retaliatory rocket attacks, the Israeli paper Yedioth Ahronoth reported. The Israeli Ministry of Interior classified 5,110 radical arsenic homeless, including 907 from Tel Aviv, the study said.
• London-based net watchdog Netblocks said it had been 24 hours since Iran imposed a nationwide net shutdown.

Diplomacy

• Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has confirmed plans to conscionable with his British, French and German counterparts, arsenic good arsenic the European Union’s apical diplomat, successful Geneva connected Friday, according to the IRNA quality agency.
• Iranian quality rights activists and Nobel Peace Prize laureates Narges Mohammadi and Shirin Ebadi urged that the warfare betwixt Israel and Iran end. “Stop the warfare and take dialog implicit destruction,” they said successful a connection connected the Nobel Women’s Initiative website.
• When asked by a newsman astir the imaginable assassination of Iran’s Khamenei by Israel oregon the US, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, “I bash not adjacent privation to sermon this possibility. I bash not privation to.”
• Putin besides said helium believed a peaceful “solution tin beryllium found” to the conflict, arsenic helium called for parties to guarantee Iran’s interests successful pursuing “peaceful atomic activities”, arsenic good arsenic guarantee the “unconditional information of the Jewish state”.
• UN rights main Volker Turk urged restraint from some Iran and Israel, saying it is “appalling to spot however civilians are treated arsenic collateral harm successful the behaviour of hostilities”.
• French President Emmanuel Macron’s bureau says Paris is planning, on with European partners, to suggest a negotiated solution to extremity the struggle betwixt Iran and Israel.
• IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi told Al Jazeera the atomic watchdog does not person grounds showing Iran is actively trying to physique atomic weapons.
• Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson has accused IAEA main Grossi and his organisation of being complicit successful the ongoing conflict, saying their “biased” reporting connected Iran’s atomic activities was utilized arsenic a “pretext” for Israel to attack.
• Iraq’s apical Shia person Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani warned determination volition beryllium “dire consequences connected the region” if Iran’s “supreme spiritual and governmental leadership” are targeted. He called connected the planetary assemblage to “make each effort to extremity this unjust warfare and find a peaceful solution” to Iran’s atomic programme.

• Prime Minister Netanyahu said connected Thursday that the alteration oregon autumn of the Iranian authorities was not a extremity but could beryllium a result. “The substance of changing the authorities oregon the autumn of this authorities is archetypal and foremost a substance for the Iranian people. There is nary substitute for this. And that’s wherefore I didn’t contiguous it arsenic a goal. It could beryllium a result, but it’s not a stated oregon ceremonial extremity that we have,” helium told Israeli nationalist broadcaster Kan.

Source:

Al Jazeera and quality agencies