A man takes a cellphone photo as missiles fired from Iran toward Israel fly over Syrian territory in Damascus, Syria, early Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
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Israeli warplanes have bombarded Iran’s capital throughout the night and into today, targeting a facility involved in producing uranium centrifuges and another involved in manufacturing missile components, according to the Israeli military.

The military stated it intercepted 10 missiles overnight as Iran’s retaliatory attacks decreased.

Iran meanwhile warned that any US intervention in the conflict would risk “all-out war in the region”.
A man takes a cellphone photo as missiles fired from Iran toward Israel fly over Syrian territory in Damascus, Syria, early Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
A man takes a cellphone photo as missiles fired from Iran toward Israel fly over Syrian territory in Damascus, Syria, early Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed) (AP)

Israel is carrying out blistering attacks on Iran’s nuclear program and military sites that began with a surprise bombardment on Friday.

A Washington-based Iranian human rights group said at least 585 people, including 239 civilians, have been killed and more than 1300 wounded.

Shops have closed throughout Tehran, Iran’s capital, including its well-known Grand Bazaar, as people queue for gas and fill roads leading out of the city to escape the conflict.

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.

Israelis take shelter in a car park during a missile alert from Iran, in Tel Aviv, Israel, early Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

It has not explained the decline, but it comes after Israel targeted many Iranian launchers.

Attention is focused on Washington, where President Donald Trump initially kept a distance from the Israeli strikes but has suggested the possibility of increased US involvement, expressing a desire for something “much bigger” than a ceasefire. Additionally, the US has dispatched more warplanes to the area.

Esmail Baghaei, a spokesman for Iran’s Foreign Ministry, said in an interview with Al Jazeera English that “any American intervention would be a recipe for an all-out war in the region”.

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 2022 protests over the death of Mahsa Amini, crosschecks local reports against a network of sources it has developed in the country.

Iran has not been publishing regular death tolls during the conflict and has minimized casualties in the past. Its last update, issued Monday, put the death toll at 224 people killed and 1277 others wounded.

In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, troops march during the army parade commemorating National Army Day in front of the shrine of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran.
In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, troops march during the army parade commemorating National Army Day in front of the shrine of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran. (AP)

A major explosion could be heard around 5am in Tehran Wednesday morning, following other explosions that boomed earlier in the predawn darkness.

Authorities in Iran offered no acknowledgement of the attacks, which has become increasingly common as the Israeli airstrikes have intensified.

At least one strike appeared to target Tehran’s eastern neighborhood of Hakimiyeh, where the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has an academy.

Israel says it launched the strikes to prevent Iran from building a nuclear weapon, after talks between the United States and Iran over a diplomatic resolution had made little visible progress over two months but were still ongoing.

Trump has said Israel’s campaign came after a 60-day window he set for the talks.

Iran long has insisted its nuclear program was peaceful, though it is the only non-nuclear-armed state to enrich uranium up to 60 per cent, a short, technical step away from weapons-grade levels of 90 per cent.

US intelligence agencies have said they did not believe Iran was actively pursuing the bomb.

As the conflict entered a sixth day, neither side showed signs of backing down.

This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows the Natanz nuclear enrichment facility, where multiple buildings were destroyed from recent Israeli airstrikes, in Iran, on Saturday, June 14, 2025. (Maxar Technologies via AP)

“We will show the Zionists no mercy,” Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said in a post on his official X account.

“A storm is passing over Tehran,” Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz posted. “This is how dictatorships collapse.”

Trump demands Iranian surrender

Trump demanded “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” in a post on social media and warned Khamenei that the US knows where he is hiding but that there were no plans to kill him “at least not for now.”

Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about the evolving situation over the phone on Tuesday, according to a White House official.

US President Donald Trump
US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters while flying aboard Air Force One en route from Calgary, Canada to Joint Base Andrews, Md., late Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Iran offered no immediate response to the president’s posts, but the country’s military leaders vowed that Israel would soon see more attacks.

“The operations carried out so far have been solely for the purpose of warning and deterrence,” Gen. Abdul Rahim Mousavi, the commander in chief of Iran’s army, said in a video.

“The punishment operation will be carried out soon.”

Israel welcomes first repatriation flights

Israelis began returning to the country on flights for the first time since the country’s international airport shut down at the start of the conflict.

Two flights from Larnaca, Cyprus, landed at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion International Airport on Wednesday morning, said Lisa Dvir, an airport spokesperson.

Firefighters work at site hit by a missile launched from Iran in central Israel on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

Israel closed its airspace to commercial flights because of the ballistic missile attacks, leaving tens of thousands of Israelis stranded abroad.

The conflict has disrupted flight patterns across the region.

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