US-Israel-Iran conflict: List of key events, June 23, 2025

Here’s wherever things basal connected Monday, June 23:

Fighting

• Iran has fired ballistic missiles astatine the Al Udeid Air Base successful Qatar, the United States’ largest subject installation successful the Middle East. Doha said the onslaught was intercepted and determination were nary casualties.
• Fellow Gulf countries Bahrain and Kuwait – which besides big US facilities – joined Qatar successful closing their airspace, past reopened them.
• Earlier, Israel had struck Tehran’s Evin Prison, notorious for holding governmental activists. Iranian authorities tv shared surveillance footage of the strike, which reportedly blew the facility’s gross open.
• Explosions were heard connected the occidental outskirts of the southwestern Iranian metropolis of Ahvaz, superior of oil-rich Khuzestan province, the Fars quality bureau reported.
• Tasnim quality bureau reported a onslaught astatine an energy feeder presumption successful the Evin neighbourhood successful northbound Tehran.
• Earlier, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said his state had attacked “regime targets and authorities repression bodies successful the bosom of Tehran”, including Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) bid centres.
• Israel besides carried retired a onslaught connected the Fordow enrichment facility, a time aft the US deed the underground tract southbound of Tehran with alleged “bunker buster” bombs.
• The Israeli subject issued an evacuation menace to residents of Tehran, telling them to enactment distant from weapons accumulation centres and subject bases.
• Iranian authorities tv said connected Monday that the state had targeted the Israeli cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv. It claimed the bulk of its projectiles fired since the aboriginal hours of the time had successfully reached their targets.
• Sirens sounded crossed Israel earlier noon connected Monday, with a ample fig of impacts recorded successful respective areas, including the Ashdod country successful confederate Israel and the Lachish area, southbound of Jerusalem.

Casualties and disruptions

• Eleven days into the conflict, ample numbers of Tehran’s 10 cardinal colonisation person reportedly fled.
• After Israel’s onslaught connected Evin Prison, Iran’s IRIB authorities broadcaster released video showing rescue workers combing the flattened wreckage of a gathering astatine the prison, carrying a wounded antheral connected a stretcher.
• Iranian powerfulness institution Tavanir said determination were powerfulness cuts successful the Iranian capital, Tehran.
• In Qatar, anterior to Iran’s onslaught connected Al Udeid, the US and the United Kingdom had urged their citizens successful the state to “shelter successful place”.
• Britain said on Monday that a Royal Air Force flight carrying 63 British nationals and their dependents retired of Israel had near Tel Aviv.
• A fig of airlines, including Kuwait Airways, Finnair and Singapore Airlines, person suspended operations successful the Middle East. Air India said it was not lone halting operations to the region, but besides stopping flights to and from the US eastbound seashore and Europe.

Politics and diplomacy

• After Iran’s onslaught connected Al Udeid Air Base successful Qatar, US President Donald Trump thanked Tehran for giving him ”early notice” of the attack, which helium described arsenic a ”very anemic response” to the US onslaught connected Iranian atomic facilities. In a abstracted post, helium thanked the emir of Qatar for his bid efforts.
• A spokesperson for the Qatari Foreign Ministry said that the state considered the Iranian onslaught to beryllium a “surprise”, announcing the concern successful the state was safe.

• Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei posted connected his Farsi-language X account: “We person not violated anyone’s rights, nor volition we ever judge anyone violating ours, and we volition not surrender to anyone’s violation; this is the logic of the Iranian nation.”

• Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said successful a connection posted by his ministry connected Telegram that Iran would beryllium acceptable to respond again successful lawsuit of further enactment by the US.

• Earlier successful the day, Ali Akbar Velayati, an advisor to Khamenei, said bases utilized by US forces “in the portion oregon elsewhere” could beryllium attacked – that evening, Iran targeted Al Udeid successful Qatar.
• Abdolrahim Mousavi, Iran’s equipped forces main of staff, pledged that the state would instrumentality “firm action” successful effect to US strikes connected cardinal atomic sites the time before. “This transgression and desecration volition not spell unanswered,” helium said connected authorities television.
• Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesperson for Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya cardinal subject headquarters, addressed US involution successful the warfare successful a video statement, saying: “Mr Trump, the gambler, you whitethorn commencement this war, but we volition beryllium the ones to extremity it.”
• Iran’s semi-official Tasnim quality bureau said a parliamentary committee had approved a wide program to suspend practice with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
• Iran’s ngo to the United Nations said the US, the UK, France, Israel and IAEA main Rafael Grossi were liable for the deaths of guiltless civilians and the demolition of infrastructure.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin slammed attacks connected Iran arsenic “unprovoked” and “unjustified” successful a Moscow gathering with Tehran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
• Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said, “Our strategical concern with Iran is unbreakable,” but was not drawn connected the question of whether Iran had requested subject assistance – oregon whether immoderate assistance would beryllium forthcoming.
• After Israel’s onslaught connected Tehran’s Evin Prison, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar wrote “Viva la libertad!”, Spanish for “long unrecorded liberty”, connected X.
• French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said that the Israeli onslaught connected Tehran’s Evin Prison, which holds immoderate French prisoners, was unacceptable.
• China’s UN ambassador, Fu Cong, said US credibility was “damaged” aft its bombing of Iran’s atomic sites, informing the struggle could “go retired of control”, according to the authorities broadcaster.
• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said of Sunday’s US strikes connected Iranian atomic sites: “Yes, it is not without risk, but leaving it arsenic it was wasn’t an enactment either.”
• British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said his state stood acceptable to “defend our personnel, our assets and those of our allies and partners”.
• NATO main Mark Rutte said confederation members had “long agreed that Iran indispensable not make a atomic weapon” and called an Iranian atomic weaponry his “greatest fear”.
• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called connected China to assistance deter Iran from closing the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for one-fifth of the world’s lipid proviso and a imaginable lever for retaliatory action.
• The European Union’s overseas argumentation chief, Kaja Kallas, said closing the strait would beryllium “extremely dangerous”.
• US President Trump posted an online connection connected lipid accumulation to the US Department of Energy, encouraging it to “drill, baby, drill”, and saying, “I mean now.”
• Reza Pahlavi, the long-exiled lad of Iran’s toppled shah, but not seen arsenic a subordinate with immoderate existent power successful Iran itself, warned the US and Europe not to propulsion a “lifeline” to Iran’s existent leadership. “This is our Berlin Wall moment,” helium said successful an interrogation with the AFP quality agency.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies