Israel-Iran conflict: List of key events, June 17, 2025

On Monday, June 17, 2018, this is how things are going.

Fighting

As Israel increased its bombardment, several explosions shook locations across Iran, including its central and western provinces and Tehran’s densely populated capital.
According to the Israeli military, “12 missile launch and storage sites” were struck.
Isfahan province and Tabriz city are two of the areas targeted by Israel, while Tehran’s attacks were “continued and intense,” according to Iranian state media IRNA.
Iranian armed forces chief Ali Shadmani was killed in one of Israel’s military strikes in Tehran, according to the Israeli military.
Iranian missile attacks on a military intelligence center and a Mossad operations planning center were reportedly carried out by Iran in retaliatory strikes on parts of northern Israel and Tel Aviv.
Iranian air bases, which were the target of Iranian attacks, are being targeted by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, according to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards.
In addition, Iran’s army claimed to have intercepted and tracked 28 “hostile aircraft” within the last 24 hours, with one of them allegedly being a spy drone attempting to gather information from “sensitive” websites.
The Iranian Armed Forces’ chief of staff, Abdolrahim Mousavi, said the attacks had been “warning for deterrence” and that “the punitive operation will be executed soon”

Three people died in the strikes on Kashan, the capital city, on Monday, according to Iran, including three who were killed in Israel’s attack on a State television building.
On Tuesday, Israel did not report any fatalities.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced that it had analyzed more satellite imagery for Israel’s recent attacks on Iranian nuclear sites and that it had found additional “direct impacts” on the “underground enrichment halls” in the Natanz facility.
The IAEA added that its analysis did not show any change at the two other significant nuclear installations that Israel had targeted in its wake, Isfahan and Fordow.
The World Health Organization (WHO) head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed concern about the potential health risks and devastating effects on civilians caused by Israel’s nuclear-site attacks on Iran.
In recent days, over 600 foreign nationals have flown from Iran into neighboring Azerbaijan, including Americans from Russia, Germany, Spain, Italy, Romania, and the United States, among others.
The latest nations to advise their citizens to leave Israel and Iran, invoking “significant deterioration of the security situation” in the region, are China, South Korea, and Ukraine.

After leaving the G7 summit early, US President Donald Trump stated that he wants a “real end” with Iran “giving up entirely” on nuclear weapons but is not pushing for an Israeli-Iran ceasefire.
Without further clarification, he also threatened to assassinate Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a thinly veiled threat to “we now have complete and control over the skies over Iran”.
Trump may take “further action to end Iranian enrichment,” according to US Vice President JD Vance.
Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for the Kremlin, stated that Russia is willing to play the role of a mediator, but that Israel is “reluctant” to engage in dialogue.
The Russian government’s foreign ministry criticized Israel’s continued attacks as unlawful.
King Abdullah II of Jordan warned that Israel’s “attacks” on Iran “could threaten to seriously upend tensions and pose a threat to people everywhere.”
Qatar also criticized Israel’s attacks, calling them “an uncalculated measure that will have very dire repercussions.”
Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, vowed to oppose military action against Iran that might lead to a possible “chaos” and regime change.
Yemen’s political bureau, led by Houthi activist Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, said the organization would “intervene in support of Tehran against Zionist aggressions” and that it would support any Arab or Muslim nation under attack.

Source: Aljazeera