Israel-Iran conflict: List of key events, June 22, 2025 | Israel-Iran conflict News

Listed below are the important thing occasions on day 9 of the Israel-Iran battle.

Right here’s the place issues stand on Sunday, June 22:

Combating

• United States President Donald Trump advised the world that strikes had been launched by his nation’s navy towards three key Iranian nuclear sites.
• Trump claimed in a submit that the closely fortified Fordow nuclear facility was “gone”.
• The US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth advised reporters on the Pentagon that the US strikes had been an “unbelievable and overwhelming success”, with out offering any proof or particulars.
• US Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued an additional menace towards Iran, saying any retaliation could be “the worst mistake they’ve ever made.”
• Throughout an deal with to a gathering of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul, Turkiye, Iran’s Overseas Minister Abbas Araghchi stated the US crossed “a really huge purple line” by attacking Iran’s three nuclear services.
• The Atomic Vitality Group of Iran stated the nuclear websites in Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan had been “attacked by enemies of [Iran] in a barbaric act that violated worldwide regulation, particularly the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty”.

• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Trump on a ‘daring resolution’ to assault Iran.
• Israeli emergency companies say Iranian rockets and falling shrapnel hit 10 areas. The newest Iranian retaliation adopted the US strikes.
• Israel’s navy stated it carried out extra assaults on western Iran towards what it claimed are “navy targets”.
• The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) stated Iran’s most up-to-date missile strikes focused Israel’s Ben Gurion Worldwide Airport, together with analysis services.
• The IRGC is now deploying one among its most superior missiles, the Kheibar Shekan, as a part of its retaliatory measures. Unveiled in 2022, the missile often known as Khorramshahr-4 is believed to have the heaviest payload of Iran’s ballistic missile arsenal.

Casualties and disruptions

• The top of Iran’s Pink Crescent Society, Pir Hossein Kolivand, stated that there have been no fatalities within the US strikes on Iran’s nuclear services.
• An adviser to Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf stated that Iran had been anticipating the US assault on Fordow. “The location has lengthy been evacuated and has not suffered any irreversible injury within the assault,” the adviser stated.
• The Atomic Vitality Group of Iran has stated that radiation system knowledge and discipline surveys don’t present indicators of contamination or hazard to residents close to the websites of Fordow, Isfahan and Natanz.
• The Israel Airports Authority says it has closed its airspace till additional discover “as a result of latest developments”, referring to the US assault on Iran.
• Airline carriers have continued to avoid vital areas of the Center East following the US strikes, based on Flightradar24.
• A person convicted of spying for Israel has been executed, the Iranian judicial information outlet Mizan On-line studies.
• At the least 27 individuals have been wounded in Israel after Iran launched 40 missiles shortly after the US assaults. One of many targets hit was Ramat Aviv in Tel Aviv, with missiles tearing holes within the facades of house blocks.
• The semiofficial Tasnim information company reported that Israel bombed the town of Tabriz, focusing on the IRGC’s Martyr Madani camp, wounding no less than two.
• Iranian authorities stated 9 safety personnel had been killed after Israeli forces struck two navy websites within the central province of Yazd, Iran’s Fars Information Company reported.
• Gulf states, dwelling to a number of US navy bases, are on excessive alert after the bombardment of Iran raised the opportunity of a widening warfare within the area.
• Bahrain has advised 70 % of presidency workers to work at home till additional discover.

US opposition to assaults

• In one of many first responses to the assault by a Democratic member of the US Congress, Sara Jacobs stated: “Trump’s strikes towards Iran are usually not solely unconstitutional, however an escalation that dangers bringing the US into one other countless and lethal warfare.”
• Home Democratic Chief Hakeem Jeffries stated that Trump didn’t search congressional authorisation for the strikes and can bear full duty for “any hostile penalties”.
• Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian-American congresswoman, stated Trump’s ordering of strikes on Iran with out the approval of lawmakers is a “blatant violation” of the US Structure.
• Republican congressman Thomas Massie, who has been main a legislative effort to curb Trump’s capacity to assault Iran with out the approval of Congress, stated the strikes violate the US Structure, which provides lawmakers the authority over warfare choices.
• US Senator Chris Murphy joined the Democratic refrain of criticism. “I used to be briefed on the intelligence final week,” he stated. “Iran posed no imminent menace of assault to america.”

International reactions, politics and diplomacy

• The United Nations Safety Council will maintain an emergency session on Sunday following the US strikes on Iranian nuclear services.
• UN chief Antonio Guterres expressed “grave alarm”, describing the assault as a “harmful escalation”, warning that the battle within the Center East may rapidly get “uncontrolled”.
• The top of the Worldwide Committee of the Pink Cross stated worldwide regulation isn’t a selection however an obligation.
• China “strongly condemned” the US assault, noting its nuclear services had been below the safeguards of the UN’s Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company.
• Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of Russia’s Safety Council, stated the “absolute majority” of countries are towards “the actions of Israel and america”.
• Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Palestinian group Hamas and Yemen’s Houthis, all allies of Iran, condemned what Hezbollah known as the “barbaric and treacherous” US assault on Iran’s nuclear services.

• Saudi Arabia stated that it’s “following with deep concern the developments within the Islamic Republic of Iran, significantly the focusing on of Iranian nuclear services by america of America.”
• Gulf nations Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates all additionally expressed concern over what the assaults may portend for the area.
• Turkiye’s Overseas Ministry warned that the US strikes have made the danger of escalation extra seemingly.
• British Prime Minister Keir Starmer backed the US navy motion, saying the assaults “alleviate” the “menace” posed by Tehran’s nuclear programme.
• The European Union’s overseas coverage chief, Kaja Kallas, is looking for a return to dialogue. “Iran should not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon,” she stated, “as it could be a menace to worldwide safety.”