Israel launched a wave of air strikes across Iran early on Friday morning with over 200 Israeli warplanes.

A residential building in Tehran that was struck by Israeli warplanes early on Friday

News Brief – June 13, 2025

Israel launched a wave of air strikes across Iran early on Friday morning with over 200 Israeli warplanes.

Around one hundred sites linked to Iran’s military or its nuclear program were targeted

At least six Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed, as well as a number of senior military commanders.

At around 3.00 am Israeli jets struck several residential buildings in Tehran that were home to senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commanders, as well as the homes of senior Iranian nuclear scientists.

 

The Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri and commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Hossein Salami were both killed in the pre-dawn strikes.

Videos circulating on social media reportedly show widespread destruction in residential areas of Tehran.

Iran has denounced the strikes as a “declaration of war” and senior Iranian military commanders are reportedly preparing to launch retaliatory counter strikes against Israel.

Meanwhile, President Trump has warned of even more brutal attacks to come if Iran didn’t agree to a deal over its nuclear program.

However, Trump’s warning will only underline suspicions that the U.S.president had prior knowledge of the Israeli strikes and that the U.S. may even have helped Israel logistically to carry out the attacks.

Israeli warplanes also struck Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility, although the Iranian authorities claim that the damage was limited to buildings on the surface. Iran’s more sensitive nuclear equipment is housed in bunkers deep underground.

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3 Responses to “Israel launched a wave of air strikes across Iran early on Friday morning with over 200 Israeli warplanes.”

  1. Belyi says:

    If the US hadn’t armed Ukraine, they would never have been able to kill thousands of their own citizens. If the US hadn’t armed Israel, it would have just been another state.

    If it hadn’t continued to pretend that Israel is a non-nuclear state while sanctioning Iran for trying to enrich uranium for its own use, we might have believed the rhetoric.

    The US might not have instigated any wars for several years as DT is proud of insisting, but supplying the bullets for other people to fire comes to the same thing. It’s just a bit more dishonest.

  2. pete fairhurst 2 says:

    Par for the course for Zionists, they always claim the right for pre-emptive slaughter

    All the way back to 4thC BC, see the festival of Purim, an early celebration of Jewish genocide:

    “so the King allows Mordecai and Esther to write another decree as they wish. They decree that Jewish people may preemptively kill those thought to pose a lethal risk. As a result, on 13 Adar, 500 attackers and 10 of Haman’s sons are killed in Shushan. Throughout the empire 75,000 of the Jewish peoples’ enemies are killed.[20] On the 14th, another 300 are killed in Shushan. No spoils are taken”

    This act is celebrated as a Jewish festival “that commemorates the saving of the Jewish people from annihilation at the hands of an official of the Achaemenid Empire named Haman”

    So not genocide, saving Jews. Somethings never change

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purim

    • pete fairhurst 2 says:

      But I do wonder how real all this is. Iranians seem to keep falling for the same old Israeli tricks, over and over again

      Israeli bombings of Iran with no significant response, despite claims that Iran has devastating superiority in missiles?

      Assassinated generals killed in their own beds? Hello, they’ve got form, maybe you should take some precautions and sleep more securely when war is likely? Never any dead Israeli generals in response?

      Total failure of Iranian air defences? Despite all the alt media characters like Prof Marandi saying Iran is technologically prepared

      These Iranians seem a tad slow on the uptake to me, making me wonder if this is just all part of the ongoing show

      Dmitry Orlov was absolutely scathing about Iran in his latest chat with Nima. The implication of what he said is that Iranians are either stupid or complicit, see early minutes here:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxHhBx-HYWU

      Also see here:
      Iran’s Jewish Rulers
      https://mileswmathis.com/iran.pdf

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