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The Israeli Defense Minister warned on Saturday that “Tehran will burn” if Iran continues to pull missiles, while the two countries were switched to blows a day after Israel spear A dazzling surprise attack On Iranian nuclear and military sites, killing a number of best generals.
The Israeli army said that strikes also killed nine scientists and higher experts involved in the Iranian nuclear program. Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations said 78 people were killed and more than 320 injured in the attacks.
Iran retaliated by launching waves of ballistic drones and missiles in Israel, where explosions lit the night sky on Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and shaken the buildings.
The Israeli army urged civilians, already shaken by 20 months of war in Gaza launched by the attack on October 7 of Hamas, to go to the shelter for hours. Health officials said three people had been killed and dozens injured.
Speaking after an evaluation meeting with the chief of staff of the army, the Minister of Defense, Israel Katz, said that Iran would pay a high price to harm the Israeli citizens.
“If (the supreme Iranian chief of Ayatollah Ali) Khamenei continues to pull missiles on the Israeli inner front – Tehran will burn,” Katz said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that his goal was to eliminate any Iranian threat to Israel, but also urged the Iranians to present their leaders. Israel would host the government’s overthrow even if he does not actively seek it.
Strikes could derail nuclear talks
Israel’s strikes have also questioned other talks between the United States and Iran about a nuclear agreement. The United States and Iran were to meet in Oman on Sunday.
Iran’s best diplomat said on Saturday that talks with the United States were “unjustifiable” after Israeli strikes in his country, probably noted any negotiation this weekend with Washington. However, he ceased to say that the talks were canceled.
The comments of Abbas Araghchi, Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs, occurred when he spoke by phone with Kaja Kallas, the best diplomat in the European Union.
Israeli air strikes were “the result of Washington’s direct support,” Araghchi said in a statement published by the IRNA news agency managed by the State. The United States said it was not one of the strikes.
Iranian missiles strike Israel
Khamenei said in a message recorded on Friday: “We do not allow them to escape safely from this great crime they have committed.”
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Iran launched waves of missiles in Israel on Friday evening and early Saturday, and the Iranians woke up on state television broadcasting repeated clips of strikes on Israel, as well as videos of people encouraging and distributing candy.
The Iranian attacks killed at least three people and injured around 70, mainly in and around Tel Aviv, according to two local hospitals. A missile has severely damaged at least four houses in the neighboring town of Rishhon Lezion, according to the first speakers.
The Israeli army said that seven soldiers had been slightly injured when a missile struck the center of Israel, without specifying where the impact occurred. It was the first report of Israeli military victims since the first Israeli strikes.
The fires and smoke rise from a building, which would have been struck by a missile from Iran, in the center of Tel Aviv, on June 13, 2025.
Images Jack Guez / Getty
The American air defense systems in the region helped to shoot Iranian missiles, said an American official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the measures.
In Ramat Gan, east of Tel Aviv, a journalist from Associated Press saw burned cars and at least three damaged houses, one of which was almost entirely torn off.
Residents of an Israeli central city which was struck on Friday evening told the Associated Press that the explosion was so powerful that it rocked their shelter. “We thought, that’s all, the house left, and in fact half the house had disappeared, it collapsed,” said Moshe Shani.
Israeli troops and the first speakers gather in front of a building struck by a missile from Iran, in Ramat Gan near Tel Aviv on June 13, 2025.
(Photo of Jack Gjack Guez / Getty Images
Israeli police said that debris from the interception of drones and missiles fell into dozens of locations in northern Israel, causing damage and fires but no injuries.
Israel’s main international airport said on Saturday that it would remain closed until further notice.
Indications of a new Israeli attack
Iranian state television reported online that air defenses drew in the cities of Khorramabad, Kermanshah and Tabriz, signaling the start of what could be a new Israeli attack. Images of Tabriz have shown that black smoke rising from the city.
An Israeli military official said on Saturday that soldiers were about to perform more strikes in Iran, saying: “It’s not over.” He spoke under the cover of anonymity in accordance with official procedures.
Overnight, the sound of Iranian air explosions and air defense systems firing targets resonated in the center of the Tehran. The Iranian semi-official Tasnim news agency reported a fire at Mehrabad in Tehran International Airport.
The Israeli army said that it had made one night strikes over dozens of targets, including air defenses, “in the Tehran region”.
The current air strikes in Israel and the reprisals of Iran have raised concerns concerning the total war between countries and propelled the region, already on board, in even greater upheavals.
The 20 -month war of Israel with Gaza shows no end sign. At least 27 people were killed by Israeli fires in Gaza overnight, according to local hospitals.
Pays in the region have condemned the attack on Israel, while leaders around the world called for immediate de -escalation on both sides.
“ Over a few weeks ” to repair nuclear installations
Among the main sites which attacked that Israel was the main establishment of nuclear enrichment of Iran in Natanz, where black smoke could be seen in the air.
Israel said he had also struck a nuclear research installation in Isfahan and said that he had destroyed dozens of radar installations and air surface missile launchers in West Iran. Iran confirmed the strike in Isfahan.
The Israeli military official said that, according to the initial army assessment, “it will take much more than a few weeks” so that Iran repairs damage to the nuclear sites in Natanz and Isfahan. The official said that the army had “concrete information that production in Isfahan was for military purposes”.
Israel has denied having struck the Center for Nuclear Enrichment in Fordo, about 100 kilometers south-east of Tehran, after a Iranian media near the government reported the sound of explosions near the site.
The UN nuclear chief, Rafael Grossi, told the Security Council that the section above the ground of the Natanz installation had been destroyed. The main underground centrifuge did not seem to have been affected, but the loss of power could have damaged the infrastructure there, he said.
Netanyahu said the attack had been for months and was scheduled for April before being postponed.
Among the people killed were three of the main Iranian military leaders: the one who supervised all the armed forces, General Mohammad Bagheri; Whoever managed the Revolutionary’s paramilitary guard, General Hossein Salami; And the head of the goalkeeper’s ballistic missile program, General Amir Ali Hajizadeh.
Two of the deputies of Bagheri were also killed, confirmed Iran on Saturday: General Gholamreza Mehrabi, the deputy for the intelligence of the general staff of the armed forces, and General Mehdi Rabbani, the deputy for operations.
On Saturday, Khamenei appointed a new leader for the aerospace division of the revolutionary goalkeeper. General Majid Mousavi will replace General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, who was killed on Friday air strike. The caretaker’s aerospace division oversees the arsenal of Iran’s ballistic missiles.
Trump urged Iran on Friday to conclude an agreement with the United States on its nuclear program, warning its social platform of truth that Israel’s attacks “will only get worse”.
“Iran must conclude an agreement, before it left,” he wrote.
