UPDATE 19:45 Israeli military says Iran has launched missiles at Israel

A military statement says Israel's defense systems are working to intercept the attack, notes ALJazeera.

He also advised citizens to take shelter in shelters and remain there until further orders.

UPDATE 19:40

Iranian journalist Younes Shadlou said that many of his colleagues were still in the Iranian state television building at the time of the Israeli attack.

"I don't know how many of my colleagues are still inside now," he said from outside the burning building in Tehran.

"We were given evacuation warnings, but everyone stayed until the last moment to show the world the true face of the Zionist regime."

UPDATE 19:00

Reuters : Iran preparing for “largest and most intense missile attack on Israeli territory in history” – Iranian state media

UPDATE 18:45 Reuters: Iranian state television attacked by Israel

The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) was targeted in an attack launched by Israeli forces on Iranian territory, Reuters reports.

During a live broadcast, an Iranian television reporter said the studio was filling with dust after she heard “the sound of an aggression against the homeland.” Seconds later, an explosion ripped through the screen behind her. The journalist quickly walked out of the frame as dust and debris filled the studio, and shouts of “Allahu Akbar” could be heard in the background.

The channel immediately stopped the live broadcast and switched to pre-recorded footage.

UPDATE 18:00

Iran asks Gulf states to mediate ceasefire with Israel – sources

Tehran has asked Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman to pressure US President Donald Trump to use his influence over Israel to accept an immediate ceasefire in exchange for Iran's flexibility in nuclear negotiations, sources told Reuters.

Gulf leaders and their diplomats spoke by phone over the weekend with Tehran, Washington and beyond in an effort to avoid an escalation of the conflict, as Israel and Iran stepped up attacks in the biggest confrontation in their history.

Iran is willing to be flexible in nuclear talks if a ceasefire is reached, one of the Iranian sources said.

UPDATE 17:45 G7 adopts draft declaration on the conflict between Israel and Iran, but Trump has not signed it yet

The G7 has adopted a draft declaration on the conflict between Israel and Iran, but US President Donald Trump has not yet signed it, writes skynews.

World leaders gathered in Canada today.

It is a meeting overshadowed by the conflict in the Middle East and marked by fears about what Trump might do.

The draft calls for a de-escalation of the conflict, but states that Israel has the right to defend itself. It also emphasizes that Iran can never have nuclear weapons.

It is unclear how close or far the American leader, who shamefully abandoned a joint G7 statement during his first term, is.

Iran's Fars news agency said the attacks triggered the air defense system.

This happened less than an hour after Israel issued an evacuation warning for certain areas of the Iranian capital.

In a statement, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said: “Dear citizens, for your safety, we ask you to immediately leave the aforementioned area in Tehran’s 3rd District.

"In the coming hours, the Israeli military will take action in this area to attack the Iranian regime's military infrastructure, as it has done in recent days around Tehran."

"Your presence in this area puts your life in danger."

Update 16:00 Netanyahu says Israel is "on the path to victory"

The Israeli prime minister says his country's air force "has control of the airspace over Tehran."

Benjamin Netanyahu made these statements during his visit to the Tel Nof air base, in central Israel, along with Defense Minister Israel Katz and Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, according to Israeli media.

"We are on track to achieve our two goals: eliminating the nuclear threat and eliminating the missile threat," he said.

The prime minister also threatened citizens in Tehran, telling them to leave the Iranian capital."We are taking action," Netanyahu said.

UPDATE 15:30 Pakistan closes border crossings with Iran

Pakistan has closed all border crossings with neighboring Iran indefinitely, according to provincial officials.

"Border facilities in all five districts - Chaghi, Washuk, Panjgur, Kech and Gwadar - have been suspended," Qadir Bakhsh Pirkani, a senior official in Balochistan province, which borders Iran, told AFP.

However, there is"no ban on commercial activities" at the border, and Pakistani citizens who need to return to their country from Iran can cross the border, he added.

"We expect about 200 Pakistani students to arrive today," Munim said.

UPDATE 15:00 Israel raids prison cells in crackdown on Palestinian prisoners who were "celebrating" Iranian attacks

Israel said it raided prison cells after officials heard detainees expressing "joy" during a series of Iranian airstrikes against Israel.

"During recent fighting, sounds of celebration were heard from criminal prisoners who are residents of the Palestinian territories" in a prison in central Israel, the country's prison service said Sunday.

He said the prison service's elite"Metzada" unit was called in to raid the cells and remove those involved.

UPDATE 14:26 Israel "began preparing attacks on Iran several months ago"

A former Israeli defense minister has said that preparations for an attack on Iran began months ago. Relations between Israel and Iran have been tense for years, with the two countries involved in direct or indirect conflict. After the October 7 attacks on Israel, the situation has worsened even further.

Yoav Gallant, an Israeli politician who served as defense minister from 2022 to 2024, said that preparations for the attack on Iran began “as early as October 24.” He made the statement while sharing an image of himself visiting Bat Yam, a city in central Israel that has been hit by Iranian attacks in recent days.

"Iran did not understand that as early as October 24th we began preparing the air corridor for an attack on Tehran – now we are capable of responding to any enemy missile with dozens of heavy, precise bombs in the heart of Tehran; that is what we will do," he says.

UPDATE 14:06

The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, said on Monday that no additional damage had been identified at Iran's main uranium enrichment facilities, according to Reuters.

UPDATE 13:50 UNRWA chief: "The tragedies and deaths in Gaza continue, while attention is directed elsewhere"

The head of the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has warned people not to forget the tragedies and deaths in Gaza, as, according to him, attention is being diverted elsewhere.

Philippe Lazzarini says “dozens of people” have been killed and injured in the enclave in recent days. Among them, he says, are starving people trying to get food from what he calls a “lethal distribution system.” The UN was recently cut off from distributing aid to Gaza, replaced by an Israeli-backed plan after it said Hamas was diverting resources.

A new US-based organization, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, has taken its place, but dozens of people have previously been killed near aid distribution points. Now, Lazzarini warned that the deaths are continuing.

#Gaza : tragedies go on unabated while attention shifts elsewhere.

Scores of people have been killed & injured in the past days including of starving people trying to get some food from a lethal distribution system.

Restrictions on bringing in aid from the UN including @UNRWA…

— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) June 16, 2025

UPDATE 13:25

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz says there is no intention to physically harm Iranian civilians, but they will be forced to leave their homes in the areas targeted by the attacks, The Times of Israel reports.

UPDATE 12:45 IDF: Israel "pays the price" for attacks on Iran

IDF spokeswoman Effie Defrin said after the overnight attacks that Israel was “paying the price” for its attacks on Iran. She confirmed that rockets hit northern and central Israel during Tehran’s airstrikes last night.

"Unfortunately, eight civilians were killed and dozens were injured. This is the face of the Iranian regime," he says.

"We are striking nuclear and military capabilities that should have annihilated the Israelis, but they are targeting civilians."

Defrin states that Israel used 50 fighter jets and other aircraft during the night to destroy over 120 launchers and surface-to-surface missiles in Iran.

He also says that Israel targeted 20 headquarters of the Iranian military and the elite Quds Force, stating that"many of their capabilities have been completely annihilated."

Israel has now destroyed a third of Iran's stockpile of missile launchers, meaning it was only able to launch half of the missiles it wanted to launch last night.

UPDATE 11:56 Iran prepares bill to withdraw from Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Iran could take a major step towards reconfiguring its international relations and nuclear policy, after a Foreign Ministry spokesman said the Iranian parliament is preparing a bill to withdraw the country from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), writes SkyNews.

A spy who worked with the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad has been executed by the Iranian government, after the verdict was confirmed by authorities.

UPDATE 10:20

Oil prices rose again on Sunday, extending last week's 7% rally as the escalating military conflict between Israel and Iran raised concerns about global oil supplies.

UPDATE 9:55 Nearly 300 people were transported to hospitals in Israel overnight

Israel's Health Ministry said 287 people were taken to hospital overnight across the country. One person is in serious condition and 14 are moderately injured, including two at a children's hospital in east Tel Aviv.

We are also receiving information from local media that three more bodies have been pulled from the rubble in the port city of Haifa, bringing the death toll in Israel overnight to eight.

UPDATE 9:50 Rescue teams are searching for survivors in the ruins of buildings in central Israel

Rescue teams are searching for survivors trapped under rubble in central Israel after Iranian missile attacks killed at least five people. The cities of Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak and Petah Tikva were all hit.

Bunkall describes the attacks as"not just an intense barrage, but, from Iran's point of view, an effective one."

"For another day... for the fourth consecutive morning, Israelis wake up to discover the damage caused by rockets that fell overnight," he says.

UPDATE 9:30

The head of Iran's intelligence agency was killed in an Israeli strike on Tehran. Mohammed Kazemi, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) Intelligence Organization, led one of the country's two main intelligence agencies.

He was killed alongside his deputy, Hassan Mohaqiq, and Moshen Bagheri, a third intelligence officer, during an attack on Iran's capital.

Benjamin Netanyahu announced the deaths during an interview with the American channel Fox News, with his claims confirmed by Iranian state media a short time later.

This latest attack on Iran's military leadership comes just days after Israel killed several other senior military officials and nuclear scientists. These include the commander of the IRGC's air force and the head of the IRGC's surface-to-surface missile system, with Israel claiming that more than 20 senior military commanders were killed.

UPDATE 9:00 Israel: Tehran residents will pay the price for deadly attacks

Israel's defense minister said "the people of Tehran will pay the price, and soon," after another night of attacks by Iran.

At least five people were killed in Israel overnight, according to the country's emergency services.

In a post on X, Israel Katz called Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei,"a cowardly criminal who launches targeted attacks on civilians in Israel."

UPDATE 8:45 Five people were killed in Israel overnight

Another person was killed in Iran's overnight attacks on Israel, according to the country's national emergency services.

The latest victim was found in the ruins of a building in Petah Tikva, in central Israel, which was damaged in the attack.

This brings the number of people killed in Israel overnight to five. Emergency services had previously reported that two women and two men had died.

UPDATE 8:30 Damage near the US embassy in Tel Aviv

Donald Trump's ambassador to Israel said the US embassy in Tel Aviv would remain closed after "minor damage" was reported nearby in overnight Iranian attacks.

Mike Huckabee stated that no American personnel were injured during the attacks.

UPDATE 8:00 The number of victims in Israel rose to four overnight

A fourth person has died in central Israel as a result of the latest series of Iranian attacks.

An Israeli police spokesman said an 80-year-old man was found dead in Bnei Brak, east of Tel Aviv.

Police added that more than 20 people with"injuries of varying degrees" were evacuated from the scene of the attack.

UPDATE 7:50 IDF says it hit Quds Force command centers in Tehran

The IDF says its jets attacked the command centers of the Quds Force in Tehran. The Quds Force is the external intelligence and paramilitary arm of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

It exerts strong influence over militias allied with Tehran in the Middle East, including groups such as Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The IDF states that the centers it struck were being used by the Quds Force"to plan terrorist attacks against Israel through Iranian regime representatives in the Middle East."

UPDATE 06:00 Three dead in central Israel following the latest Iranian attack

Three people were killed in the latest wave of missile attacks launched by Iran, according to Israel's national emergency service, Magen David Adom (MDA).

The rockets hit several areas in central and coastal Israel, including residential buildings.

MDA announced that it intervened in four locations, and dozens of injured people were transported to hospitals in the central region of the country.

These new deaths bring the total death toll in Israel to 17 since the start of the exchange of rockets between the two countries on Friday.

In Iran, at least 224 people have died and 1,277 have been hospitalized since the start of hostilities, according to Iran's Health Ministry, quoted by official media.

UPDATE 05:15 Several areas in Israel have been hit by Iranian missiles

According to Israeli authorities, Iranian missiles hit several areas in central and coastal Israel, including residential buildings. Rescuers are working to treat the injured.

The Magen David Adom emergency service says several people were slightly injured, and a 10-year-old boy is in serious condition.

Iranian state television IRNA said the latest wave of attacks was Iran's eighth wave of operations in response to repeated Israeli attacks.

UPDATE 04:30 Iran has launched a new wave of missiles at Israel

Israel announced that it has identified new missiles launched from Iran and is currently acting to intercept the threat, according to a statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

Warning sirens began to sound in several areas of Israel, including Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and the IDF warned that the defense system"is not airtight."

A CNN producer reported hearing sirens in Jerusalem and loud explosions.

The IDF instructed the population across the country to enter shelters and remain there until further orders.

"Leaving the protected area is only permitted following an explicit directive," the IDF said.

Israel and Iran continue mutual attacks

Iran has launched several waves of drones and missiles in the past 24 hours, while Israel struck the Islamic Republic's capital, Tehran, killing another senior military official.

Since Friday, at least 224 people have been killed in Iran, according to the government, which said most of the victims were civilians.

The Iranian attacks caused 14 deaths and approximately 400 injuries in Israel, according to Israeli emergency services.

Tensions between the two countries escalated on Friday when Israel launched surprise strikes on Iranian military and nuclear sites. Since then, Israel's air campaign has highlighted its air superiority and exposed the limits Tehran faces in its ability to respond effectively.