Iran Israel attack live updates: Trump hints at strikes against Iran; says ‘patience has run out’

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Israel Iran attack news live updates: The conflict between Iran and Israel entered its sixth day with full force as both the nations traded missile strikes on Wednesday.  As the conflict escalates, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stated that israel has “made a huge mistake” and will be “punished” for its attack on Iran. Meanwhile, Israel has launched fresh attacks against Tehran. ...Read More

US President Donald Trump on the other hand, stated that iran has “no air defence systems and are defenceless” as he hinted towards strikes against the country. 

During the early hours of Wednesday, sirens sounded across Israel twice within an hour as Iran launched strikes, said the Israel Defence Forces. Sirens sounded again in northern Israel due to a hostile aircraft infiltration. 

The strikes come even after United States President Donald Trump asked for ‘unconditional surrender’ by Iran.

Trump also said that they know the location of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei but will not kill him, at least for now, adding that the US does not want missiles shot at civilians, or American soldiers. “Our patience is wearing thin,” said Trump.

The conflict between Iran and Israel is now seeing more active participation from the United States as it is deploying more fighter jets and other warplanes to the Middle East, Reuters reported citing three US officials. Trump also met with his National Security Council on Tuesday afternoon after leaving the G7 summit a day early to discuss what is happening in the Middle East. However, the details of the meeting are not yet known.

Ever since Israel took Iran by surprise and launched ‘Operation Rising Lion’ against it by attacking its nuclear and military sites on Friday, Iran has lost several key commanders considered close to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who now finds himself isolated. The loss of senior Revolutionary Guards officials—those most trusted by the Supreme Leader—has created a significant strategic vacuum, reported Reuters citing five individuals familiar with the inner workings of Khamenei’s circle.

Iran Israel conflict | Key points

• The conflict between Iran and Israel started after the latter launched a series of surprise strikes against Iranian military and nuclear infrastructure under ‘Operation Rising Lion’ last Friday.
• Israel justified its actions by saying that Iran was very close to building nuclear weapons which puts Israel’s security in jeopardy.
• United States President Donald Trump has also maintained that he does not want Iran to have nuclear weapons, a stance echoed by the G7 leaders who were hosted in Canada.
• The US is getting actively involved in the Middle East conflict as Trump said that they have “complete and total control of the skies over Iran” on Tuesday. Though US forces have not launched any offensive against Iran yet, they are positioned in defensive positions in the region.
• So far, Iran has reported 224 deaths because of the ongoing conflict while Israel said 24 of its civilians have been killed.

Iran Israel conflict: As tensions escalate between iran and Israel, India has launched ‘Operation Sindhu’ in order to evacuate and bring back Indian students stranded in Iran. 

The first flight carrying 110 students from Armenia is expected to land in New Delhi on Thursday. 

Iran Israel war news updates: Amid the back and forth strikes between Iran and Israel, NetBlocks has stated that Iran is near a complete national internet blackout. 

“ Confirmed: Live network data show #Iran is now in the midst of a near-total national internet blackout; the incident follows a series of earlier partial disruptions and comes amid escalating military tensions with Israel after days of back-and-forth missile strikes,” the data observor wrote on X. 

Iran Israel conflict news: US President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that his patience with Iran has “run out”

“It's already run out. That's why we're doing what we're doing,” he told reporters. However, the US president added that it was “not too late” for negotiations. 

Iran israel tensions: US President Donald Trump has hinted towards strikes against Iran. Speaking to reporters, the US president stated that he “may or may not” strike Tehran, adding that “patience has run out.” 

Iran israel war news updates: As per the latest update shared by Israeli defence minister Israel Katz, the Israeli military has destroyed Iran's International Securtiy Headqauters. 

“Air Force jets have now destroyed the Iranian regime's Internal Security Headquarters - the Iranian dictator's central repressive arm. As we promised - we will continue to harm symbols of government and strike at the ayatollah regime everywhere,” Katz shared on X.

Iran Israel war news updates: As the conflict between Iran and Israel escalates, the Israeli military has intercepted an iranian missile in the occupied Golan Heights region. 

“The drone had entered into the south of the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights, setting off alerts,” said the IDF. 

Iran Israel war news LIVE: Russia is telling the United States not to strike Iran as it would radically destabilise the Middle East, Reuters reports.

Russian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov, while speaking on the sidelines of an economic forum in St Petersburg, told Interfax news agency Moscow was urging Washington to refrain from direct involvement.

"This would be a step that would radically destabilise the entire situation," he said.

Iran Israel war news LIVE: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that it has hit 1,100 Iranian targets since June 13, the Times of Israel reports. Some 40 Iranian military targets in western Iran were hit on Wednesday morning, the IDF says.

Iran Israel war news LIVE: After a series of blasts were heard in Tehran, the Israeli military says that it is attacking military targets in Tehran, reports Reuters.

Iran Israel war news LIVE: Multiple explosions were heard in the Iranian capital Tehran, AFP reports. The series of blasts was heard shortly before 3:30pm local time.

Iran Israel news updates: The families of British diplomatic staff in Israel have been “temporarily withdrawn” amid the tensions between Israel and iran. 

The Foreign Office said on Wednesday that family members of staff at the embassy in Tel Aviv and consulate in Jerusalem had been “temporarily withdrawn as a precautionary measure”.

Iran Israel war news update: Russian President Vladimir Putin and UAE President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan called for an immediate end to the conflict between Israel and Iran on Wednesday.

As per the statement issued by the Kremlin, Putin reiterated Russia's readiness to serve as a mediator to help find a diplomatic solution to Israeli and Western concerns about Iran's nuclear programme.

Iran Israel war news updates: Amid escalating tensions between Israel and Iran, at least 110 Indian students, including 90 from Kashmir, were safely evacuated to Armenia.  Iran is home to more than 4,000 Indian nationals, about half of them students. Many of the students are from Jammu and Kashmir and are enrolled in medical and other professional courses

Iran Israel war news: As the conflict between Iran and Israel continues to grow, Germany has called on Tehran to talk and negotiation. Speaking to reporters, German foreign minister has stated that Berlin has “made it clear to Iran that it is never too late to come to the negotiating table."

Iran Israel conflict news: Israel's military has claimed it has destroyed five Iranian AH-1 attack helicopters at a base in western Iran in Kermanshah.

The military also published black-and-white video of the bombing destroying the helicopters. Iran is yet to confirm the attack

Iran Israel war news: Israel has launched a phased airlift operation to bring home its citizens, after the country's military strike on Iran closed air space across the Middle East. 

As per an FP report, the first rescue flight, operated by national carrier El Al, touched down at Tel Aviv Airport early Wednesday morning, returning passengers from Larnaca, Cyprus.

Iran Israel war news updates: In his televised address, Iran's Supreme Leader directly referenced US President Donald Trump’s earlier call for a “unconditional surrender," as “vulgar." 

“Iran’s people are not to be surrendered,” he said, “and the Americans must know that any military entry will undoubtedly be met with irreparable damage.”

Iran Israel war news update: Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has stated that israel “made a huge mistake” attacking Iran and will be “punished” for its aggression, reported state run Mehr News.

Iran-Israel conflict update: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has backed Iran and stated that the region was defending itself against Israel's illegal, "crazed" attacks, and “state terrorism.” 

Speaking to members of his ruling AK Party in parliament, Erdogan also said Israel had attacked Turkey's neighbour Iran without waiting for an end to nuclear talks between Washington and Tehran. 

Iran Israel war news updates: The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has said that two centrifuge production facilities in Iran, a workshop in Karaj and the Tehran Nuclear Research Center, were hit in Israeli attacks on Wednesday.

"The IAEA has information that two centrifuge production facilities in Iran, the TESA Karaj workshop and the Tehran Research Center, were hit. Both sites were previously under IAEA monitoring and verification as part of the JCPOA," the UN watchdog wrote on X.

Iran Israel war news LIVE: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is to deliver a televised speech "in a few minutes", as per official IRNA news agency 

Khamenei's announcement comes as the conflict between Iran and Israel enters its sixth day. 

Iran israel attack news: Iran has stated that it “respond strongly” to Israel's “aggression” and will do so likewise against the United States if US forces join the conflict between 

Speaking to reporters, Ali Bahreini, Iran's ambassador in Geneva, vowed a strong response from Tehran if Israeli aggression continues. 

Israel Iran war news update: Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed on Wednesday that his country would show no mercy towards Israel's rulers. 

"We must give a strong response to the terrorist Zionist regime. We will show the Zionists no mercy," Khamenei posted on X.

Iran's warning comes after US president Donald Trump called on Tehran to “unconditionally surrender" amid its conflict with Israel. 

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman says, 'Any American intervention would be a recipe for an all-out war in the region.'

Iran's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva said on Wednesday that the country will respond to Israeli strikes "strongly" and “without restraint". 

"We will not show any reluctance in defending our people, security and land. We will respond seriously and strongly, without restraint," Reuters quoted Ali Bahreini, the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations in Geneva, as saying.

The families of Russian diplomats have left Israel, Russia's ambassador to Tel Aviv Anatoly Viktorov said on Wednesday, as Israel and Iran traded fire for a sixth day.

"Almost all the wives and children of embassy employees" left on Tuesday via Egypt "to return to their homeland," Viktorov said, interviewed by pro-Kremlin presenter Vladimir Solovyev.

He also did not rule out the possibility that the Russian embassy could be moved "to a more secure location without leaving Israel," after another night of strikes between Israel and Iran.  (AFP)

Iranian army air defence units shot down an advanced Hermes drone early this morning over central Isfahan province, reports Iranian state TV 

The drone was intercepted around 05:00 local time, according to a BBC correspondent at the scene, standing next to the wreckage.

The drone was reportedly destroyed before it could launch any weapons.

Almost 800 Chinese citizens have been evacuated from Iran since Israel launched military strikes against the country last week, Beijing said Wednesday.

"Currently... 791 Chinese nationals have been relocated from Iran to safe areas," foreign ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said at a regular news conference, adding some Chinese nationals have also safely evacuated from Israel. (AFP)

Iran has fired some 400 missiles and hundreds of drones in retaliatory strikes that have killed at least 24 people in Israel and wounded hundreds. Some have hit apartment buildings in central Israel, causing heavy damage, and air raid sirens have repeatedly forced Israelis to run for shelter.

Iran has fired fewer missiles in each of its barrages, with just a handful launched on Wednesday. It has not explained the decline, but it comes after Israel targeted many Iranian launchers. (AP)

In a post on X, the Israeli Defence Forces said, "The IDF struck a centrifuge production site and multiple weapon manufacturing facilities in the Tehran area, key elements of Iran’s nuclear weapons and missile programs.

Over 50 IAF fighter jets targeted:

- A facility for producing centrifuges used to enrich uranium beyond civilian levels.

- Sites manufacturing parts for surface-to-surface missiles fired at Israel.

- A facility for surface-to-air missile components used to target aircraft.

These strikes directly degrade Iran’s ability to threaten Israel and the region."

Israel Iran attack news live updates: Iran said Wednesday it had detained five suspected agents of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency on charges of tarnishing the country's image online, Iranian news agencies reported.

"These mercenaries sought to sow fear among the public and tarnish the image of the sacred system of the Islamic Republic of Iran through their calculated activities online," the Tasnim and ISNA news agencies quoted a statement from the Revolutionary Guards as saying. They added that the arrests had been made in western Iran. (AFP)

Israel began flying home citizens stranded abroad on Wednesday, launching a phased airlift operation after the country's surprise military strike on Iran left tens of thousands of Israelis stuck overseas.

The first rescue flight, operated by national carrier El Al, touched down at Ben Gurion Airport early Wednesday morning, bringing home passengers from Larnaca, Cyprus.

Worldwide, Israel's transport ministry estimates that more than 50,000 stranded Israelis are trying to come home.

El Al has said repatriation flights are already scheduled from Athens, Rome, Milan and Paris. Smaller rivals Arkia and Israir are also taking part in the operation. (Reuters) 

Israel Iran attack news live updates: A powerful US bunker-buster bomb is believed to be the only weapon capable of destroying Iran’s heavily fortified underground nuclear sites—making it the likely option for President Donald Trump if he decides to offer military support to Israel. The GBU-57, a 30,000-pound (13,607 kg) bomb designed to penetrate up to 200 feet (61 metres) underground before detonation, is not part of Israel’s arsenal, even though Israel has repeatedly pledged to stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. (AFP)

Israel Iran attack news live updates: Israel Iran attack news live updates: Donald Trump met his top military advisers to discuss the Israel-Iran conflict, just hours after UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer claimed the US President wanted to ease tensions. The meeting took place in the White House Situation Room, shortly after Trump posted a series of aggressive messages online and made an abrupt exit from the G7 summit in Canada.

Israel Iran attack news live updates: Iran and Israel continued exchanging fire for a sixth consecutive day, as former US President Donald Trump met with his national security team to assess the escalating conflict—stirring fresh speculation that Washington may be preparing to enter the fray.

Israel armed forces say that during IDF activity in al-Walaja in West Bank, a terrorist armed with a knife attempted to stab IDF soldiers who were operating in the area and steal their weapons. 

The soldiers responded with fire and neutralized the terrorist and no IDF injuries were reported.

Israel air force intercepted three drones launched by Iran overnight, the military confirms, reported the Times of Israel.

While two of the drones were shot down over the Dead Sea area, the other one was intercepted over northern Israel. 

Israel Iran attack news live updates: Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a warning against Israel on Wednesday, which reads, “battle begins”. The translated version of the post, shared on social media platform X (formerly Twitter), reads, “In the name of the renowned Haydar, the battle begins”. 

“In the name of the renowned #Haydar, the battle begins

Ali, with his Zulfiqar, to #Khaybar returns,” read the full post.

The post contains religious symbols of Islamic history and Shia iconology. Haydar is a name often used for Imam Ali, who is considered the first Imam in Shia Islam. Zulfiqar is the name of the famous double-edged sword of Imam Ali.

The conflict between Israel and Iran is spilling over into the digital world, inflaming a decades-long campaign of hacks and espionage between two nations renowned for their cyber prowess.

On Tuesday, a pro-Israel hacking group claimed responsibility for a disruptive cyberattack against a major Iranian bank, and Iran’s state-run IRIB News reported that Israel had launched a full-scale cyberattack on the country’s critical infrastructure.

Iran’s Fars News Agency, affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, reported that the country has endured more than 6,700 distributed denial-of-service attacks over the past three days. It said temporary internet restrictions were implemented as a measure to blunt the impact of large-scale cyberattacks. DDoS attacks overwhelm servers with artificial traffic, disrupting access to websites and online services. (Bloomberg) 

Israel Iran attack news live updates: An Arab town in northern Israel paid a heavy price for the ongoing air war between Iran and Israel when a ballistic missile slammed into a home there, killing four people and upending life in the small community.

Hundreds of sobbing residents crowded the narrow streets of Tamra on Tuesday to watch as the wooden coffins adorned with colourful wreaths were carried to the town's cemetery.

To some, the Iranian strike highlighted the unequal protections afforded Israel's Arab minority, while to others, it merely underscored the cruel indifference of war.

Raja Khatib has been left to pick up the pieces from an attack that killed his wife, two of his daughters and a sister in law.

"I wish to myself, if only the missile would have hit me as well. And I would be with them, and I wouldn't be suffering anymore," Khatib told AFP. (AFP)

Israel Iran attack news live updates: According to IDF, over the past few hours, more than 50 IAF fighter jets completed a series of intelligence-based strikes on military targets in the area of Tehran.

“As part of the broad effort to operate against Iran’s nuclear weapons development project, the IAF struck a facility used to manufacture centrifuges in Tehran that was designed to enable the Iranian regime to expand the scale and speed of its uranium enrichment to develop nuclear weapons,” said IDF. 

It added that the Israeli Air Force also struck several weapons manufacturing sites overnight, including a facility used to produce raw materials and components for the assembly of surface-to-surface missiles, which the Iranian regime has fired and continues to fire toward the State of Israel. In addition, a facility for manufacturing components of surface-to-air missiles designed to attack aircraft was also struck.

Israel Iran attack news live updates: Israeli warplanes targeted the Iranian capital before dawn Wednesday after the military issued a warning on social media for civilians in an area known as District 18 to evacuate.

Iranian state media reported explosions ricocheting in the Piroozi, Sabalan and Sayyad areas of Tehran.

In retaliation, Iran told residents of Tel Aviv to prepare for an attack, with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claiming its hypersonic Fattah-1 missiles were "repeatedly shaking the shelters" in the commercial hub.

"The 11th wave of the proud Operation Honest Promise 3 using Fattah-1 missiles" was carried out, the Guards said in a statement broadcast on state television. (AFP)

Israel Iran attack news live updates: Israeli military says it attacked a centrifuge production site and several weapons production sites of the Iranian regime last night, reported Reuters.

Intense Israeli airstrikes targeted Iran's capital early Wednesday in a conflict that a human rights group said had killed at least 585 people across Iran and wounded 1,326 others.

The Washington-based group Human Rights Activists said it had identified 239 of those killed in Israeli strikes as civilians and 126 as security personnel.

The group, which also provided detailed casualty figures during the 2022 protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, crosschecks local reports in the Islamic Republic against a network of sources it has developed in the country. (AP)

The UN nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency for the first time said Israeli strikes on Iran’s main uranium-enrichment facility at Natanz had also damaged its main underground centrifuge facility, not just an above-ground facility, as previously acknowledged. Israel asserts its sweeping assault is necessary to prevent Iran from getting any closer to building an atomic weapon (AP) 

As Israel pounds Iran with airstrikes targeting military facilities and its nuclear sites, officials in Tehran have proposed a variety of steps the Islamic Republic could take outside of launching retaliatory missile barrages.

Those proposals mirror those previously floated by Iran in confrontations with either Israel or the United States in the last few decades. They include disrupting maritime shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, potentially leaving the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and attacks by allied militants. (AP)

Iran Israel war news live updates: One nuclear site in Iran which Israel still has not been able to target but aims to do so is in Fordo. Buried deep under a mountain in Fordo is a nuclear site where Iran is enriching uranium to 60%, which is just a step away from weapons-grade levels of 90%, reported Associated Press. The site is around 100 kilometers southwest of Iranian capital Tehran.

According to the United Nations nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran’s largest number of its most powerful centrifuges are at Fordo, the report added. Fordo is a highly secretive and heavily guarded facility first made public in 2009. Read more.

Iran Israel war news live updates: Nine countries across the world either officially possess nuclear weapons or are widely believed to maintain them, with the United States, Russia, China, France, and the United Kingdom being the first to develop and declare such capability. These five powers are recognised as nuclear-weapon states under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), which seeks to prevent the spread of nuclear arms while promoting disarmament. 

India and Pakistan, neither of which has signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), have gradually built up their nuclear arsenals.

Israel, which has also not signed the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), has never officially confirmed possessing nuclear weapons, though it is widely believed to have developed them.

North Korea became a party to the NPT in 1985 but declared its withdrawal in 2003, citing alleged US aggression. Read more.

Iran Israel war news live updates: Without United States' help, Israel cannot maintain its missile defence against Iran for over 10 to 12 more days of the latter continues to keep attacking, according to some assessments, reported the Washington Post, citing an individual briefed on US and Israeli intelligence assessments.

The individual, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the Washington Post that by later this week, Israel's defence systems may only be able to intercept only a smaller proportion of missiles launched by Iran and may have to choose what they want to intercept.

Sirens are sounding in northern Israel due to a hostile aircraft infiltration, said Israel Defence Forces.

IDF said that a suspicious air target that crossed from the east was intercepted by their Air Force and that sirens were sounded in accordance with the protocol.