Israel-Iran conflict: List of key events, June 18, 2025

What is the current situation for Monday, June 18:

Fighting

The Israeli army continued to attack Iran’s capital Tehran, where explosions were reported throughout the day in the central province of Isfahan and close to Kahraj, while also launching attacks against the capital there.
• Israel claimed to have struck 40 Iranian sites, including weapons installations. According to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the strikes targeted two centrifuge production facilities: one in Tehran and one in Kahraj.
• Israel’s military confirmed that one of its unmanned aircraft was downed in Iranian territory, while confirming that another claimed to be “operating freely” in Iranian skies. An Israeli drone and fighter jet were shot down by Iranian forces, according to Iranian state media.
• Israel reported that a second Iranian drone was intercepted in the southern of the country after it entered Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which was also intercepted.
• Iran also launched a string of missile attacks against Israel. Long-range Sejjil missiles were used in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (12th wave of attacks on Israel), according to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
• Iranian missiles and drones are permitted in the skies above “occupied lands,” according to the IRGC, who added that the attacks will be “focused and continuous.”
• In the greater Tel Aviv region and the city’s east, explosions were reported. In that evening salvo, Israel claimed to have intercepted eight missiles.

Accidents and turbulence

• Six people, including a pregnant woman and two children, were killed in an Israeli-isfahani accident in Najafabad, according to local media reports.
• On Wednesday, Israel did not report any fatalities.
• Iran’s Ministry of Communications announced a temporary suspension of internet access to stop “the enemy from threatening citizens’ lives and property.”
• There was a “near-total national internet blackout,” according to the London-based internet watchdog NetBlocks.
• Iranian domestic and international flight cancellations have been extended until early on Thursday, according to a spokesman for the Ministry of Roads and Urban Development.
• Israeli laws that severely restricted activity were eased. Up until Friday evening, only small gatherings and work can now be conducted in locations where people can quickly access a “standard protected place” (SCP) and close to it.

Diplomacy

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei warned that any US military intervention in the conflict would have “irreparable consequences” and delivered his first televised address since Friday when Israel began its attacks.
• Any US intervention, according to Esmaeil Baghaei, a spokesman for Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “could lead to an all-out war in the region,” according to Esmaeil Baghaei in an interview with Al Jazeera.
• When asked if the US was considering striking Iran, US President Donald Trump said, “I may do it. I’m not going to do it.
• Trump also asserted that Iranian officials had contacted him and suggested he go to the White House. Iran has refuted this claim, saying that his cowardly threat to “take out” Iran’s Supreme Leader is the only thing that can be said to be more abhorrent than his lies.
• Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, thanked Trump for his “support for the defense of Israel’s skies,” describing him as a “great friend of the state of Israel.
• Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, reiterated that his nation was willing to assist in the crisis’ resolution.
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, claimed that his country wants a diplomatic solution and that Ankara could play a constructive role, but that Israel has launched “crazed” attacks against Iran, which constitute “state terrorism.”
• Following President Emmanuel Macron’s chairing of a defense and national security council meeting, France plans to work with European partners to propose a negotiated resolution to end the conflict between Iran and Israel.
• According to a spokesperson for France’s foreign ministry, Macron has indicated that changing the military structure in Iran is a strategic move.
• Iran’s delegation to the UN requested an urgent meeting of the UN Security Council, claiming that mounting and unsubstantial evidence points to direct US involvement.
• Antonio Guterres, the UN’s chief, stated that he is still “profoundly alarmed” and that he has called for “immediate de-escalation leading to a ceasefire.”
• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz defended his remarks, which some thought were outraged, calling Israel’s attacks on Iran “dirty work Israel is doing for all of us.”
• Iran has consistently denied wanting one, and IAEA’s Rafael Grossi, the head of the UN nuclear watchdog, stated that there is no proof that Iran is planning one.
• Friday will be the UN Security Council’s first meeting of the day. Iran called for the meeting, claiming that mounting and unconfirmable evidence of direct US involvement in this illegal campaign has dangerously escalated.