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Israel carries out strikes targeting Iranian nuclear, military sites
Senior military officials and nuclear scientists have been killed in the attacks, according to Iranian state media.

A firefighter calls out to his colleagues at the scene of an explosion in a residential compound in northern Tehran, Iran, on June 13, 2025 [Vahid Salemi/AP Photo]
By Alastair McCready
Published On 13 Jun 202513 Jun 2025
The Israeli military has carried out several waves of airstrikes targeting nuclear facilities and military sites across Iran, killing senior Iranian military officials and nuclear scientists.
In a prerecorded video message posted early Friday morning, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the strikes were aimed at hurting Iran’s nuclear infrastructure and ballistic missile factories.
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“This operation will take as long as is needed to complete the task of fending off the threat of annihilation against us,” Netanyahu said.
The Israeli military confirmed to The Times of Israel newspaper it had “launched an aerial campaign against Iran’s nuclear programme” in an operation dubbed “Nation of Lions”.
The Israeli military’s chief of staff, Eyal Zamir, said Iran’s nuclear programme had reached a “point of no return”, and Israel could not “wait for another moment to act” in the “fight to preserve our existence”.
An unnamed Israeli military official has told reporters that fighter jets have carried out five waves of attacks, featuring hundreds of strikes in total. Israeli strikes have been confirmed in at least eight locations across Iran, including the capital Tehran, Iran’s main uranium enrichment site in Natanz, and a nuclear research centre in Tabriz.