Israeli army issues evacuation threat for district in Tehran
The Israeli army says people should leave an industrial area of the Iranian capital known as District 18, near Mehrabad Airport.
“In the coming hours, the [Israeli] military will operate in the area as it has in the past days in areas of Tehran to attack military infrastructure belonging to the regime,” an Israeli army spokesperson said.
The tactic echoes forced evacuation orders Israel has previously issued in Lebanon and continues to use in Gaza.
Iranian forces arrest ‘terrorist team’ linked to Israel
Iranian security forces arrested a “terrorist team” linked to Israel with explosives in a town southwest of the capital, Tehran, Iranian state media reported.
Israeli military announces new attacks on Tehran
Israel’s military has issued a brief statement saying it has “begun a wave of strikes in the Tehran area”. The military gave no further details.
Iranian missile evades Israel’s Iron Dome defence system
In the last hour, there were two separate waves of missile attacks from Iran into Israel. In fact, in the last sort of 15 minutes, the Israeli Home Front Command has issued an all clear, so people are now allowed to leave their shelters.
Something has got through.
Israel always says that its Iron Dome defence system is not able to intercept every missile that’s fired. It gets most of them. Nevertheless, the ones that do – as you see from there – are able to cause considerable damage if they hit a target.
It is early days to say exactly what and where has been hit. And there is also, remember, military censorship in Israel in wartime, and so it is not always possible to know exactly the significance of the location that might have been hit by those Iranian missiles if the Israelis consider it militarily sensitive.
For example, if it’s a military base or something like that, then the media is not allowed to report what the area is that has been hit by a missile.
‘We will show the Zionists no mercy’: Khamenei
Despite Trump’s threats, the Iranian supreme leader reiterates that Iran will harshly retaliate against Israel’s attacks.
“We must give a strong response to the terrorist Zionist regime,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wrote in English on X. “We will show the Zionists no mercy.”
