Israel strikes Iran’s nuclear sites, Iran retaliates with missile barrages
The Hindu
Israel launches preemptive strikes on Iran's nuclear and military facilities, killing top officials and scientists to prevent nuclear development.
Israel launched blistering attacks on the heart of Iran’s nuclear and military structure on Friday (June 14, 2025), deploying warplanes and drones previously smuggled into the country to assault key facilities and kill top generals and scientists — a barrage it said was necessary before its adversary got any closer to building an atomic weapon.
Iran retaliated late on Friday by unleashing scores of ballistic missiles on Israel, where explosions flared in the skies over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and shook the buildings below.
In a second round of attacks, sirens and explosions, possibly from Israeli interceptors, could be heard booming in the sky over Jerusalem early Saturday. The Israeli military urged civilians, already rattled by the earlier wave of missiles, to head to shelter.
The Iranian outlet Nour News, which has close links with the paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, said a wave was being launched. Associated Press journalists in Tel Aviv could see at least two Iranian missiles hit the ground, but there was no immediate word of casualties.
A hospital in Tel Aviv treated seven people wounded in the second Iranian barrage; all but one of them had light injuries.
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Meanwhile, the sound of explosions and Iranian air defense systems firing at targets echoed across central Tehran shortly after midnight on Saturday, and an Associated Press reporter could hear air raid sirens near their home.
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