Trump ‘recklessly’ started war in support of Israel, think tank says

DAWN, a US-based group founded by slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which promotes democracy and the rule of law in the Middle East, has said that Trump’s decision to attack Iran is illegal and betrays his promise to keep the US out of new wars.

“Trump’s unprovoked and unauthorised attacks on Iran not only violate international law but the US Constitution, which grants only Congress the right to declare war,” said Sarah Leah Whitson, DAWN’s executive director.

“Trump has recklessly launched a war that harms American interests in service of Israeli demands, and broken his promise to the American people to put America first.”

CAIR, AIPAC react to US strikes on Iran

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a US Muslim rights group, has said the US attack on Iran is an “illegal and unjustified” act of war that comes under pressure from the “out-of-control” Israeli government, and despite the longstanding conclusion of US intelligence that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon.

The American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the best-known pro-Israel group in the US, praised the strikes ordered by Trump and said that the US “must now work with our allies to protect our troops and regional interests against Iranian attacks”.

Iran’s Araghchi says ‘outrageous’ US attack will have ‘everlasting consequences’

In his first public remarks after the US strikes, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has accused Washington of breaching international law.

“The United States, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, has committed a grave violation of the UN Charter, international law and the NPT by attacking Iran’s peaceful nuclear installations,” Araghchi said in a social media post.

“The events this morning are outrageous and will have everlasting consequences. Each and every member of the UN must be alarmed over this extremely dangerous, lawless and criminal behavior.”

He added that Iran “reserves all options to defend its sovereignty, interest, and people”.

US strikes on Iran will ‘encourage more states’ to seek nuclear weapons

The US Arms Control Association, a nonpartisan group, has condemned US attacks as “illegal” and says it only increases the risk of Iran and other countries seeking nuclear weapons.

“President Donald Trump’s decision to join Israel’s illegal attacks against the Iranian leadership, civilian targets, and the country’s major nuclear sites represents an irresponsible departure from Trump’s pursuit of diplomacy and increases the risk of a nuclear-armed Iran,” the organisation said in a statement.

“The failure to resolve the Iranian nuclear crisis will further erode confidence in the global nonproliferation system and encourage more states to consider the pursuit of nuclear weapons to thwart attacks by other nuclear-armed states,” it added.

Australia, New Zealand call for diplomacy

The Australian government appeared to offer tacit support for Trump’s actions, saying Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programme has been a threat to international security. It said it notes Trump’s statement that now is the time for peace, and added, “We continue to call for de-escalation, dialogue and diplomacy.”

New Zealand Foreign Minister Winston Peters, meanwhile, expressed worry about the action, but did not condemn the attacks. “It is critical further escalation is avoided,” Peters said. “New Zealand strongly supports efforts towards diplomacy. We urge all parties to return to talks. Diplomacy will deliver a more enduring resolution than further military action.”

China says US attack ‘seriously violates’ international law

Beijing has “strongly condemned” the US attack on Iran, noting its nuclear facilities were under the safeguards of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency.

“The actions of the US seriously violate the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and international law, and have exacerbated tensions in the Middle East,” China’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

“China calls on the parties to the conflict, Israel in particular, to reach a ceasefire as soon as possible, ensure the safety of civilians, and start dialogue and negotiation.”

Iran calls for UN Security Council meeting

The semi-official Fars news agency is reporting that Iran’s mission to the UN has demanded an urgent meeting of the Security Council following the US’s attacks on its nuclear facilities.

The mission described the US bombing as a “blatant and illegal aggression”, and demanded it be condemned in the strongest possible terms.

The mission also called for “all necessary measures to be taken within the framework of the Council’s responsibilities under the United Nations Charter, so that the perpetrator of these heinous crimes is held fully accountable and does not escape punishment”.

Iran demands IAEA investigate US attacks on nuclear sites

Iran is calling for an investigation into the US attacks on its nuclear facilities. That’s according to a letter from the country’s nuclear chief, Mohammad Eslami, to IAEA head Rafael Grossi, Iran’s SNN news network reported.

Eslami urged Grossi to condemn the US action and take appropriate measures. He criticised Grossi for his “inaction and complicity”, adding Iran will pursue “appropriate legal measures”.

“This letter expresses its protest against the gross violation of international laws and regulations, especially the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,” it said.

Earlier, Grossi said he’s calling an emergency meeting of the IAEA’s 35-nation Board of Governors following the US air attacks.

Iran has legal right to leave NPT: Lawmaker

Iran has the legal right to withdraw from the nuclear Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons – based on its Article 10 – following US strikes on three nuclear facilities, Abbas Golroo, head of the parliament foreign policy committee, says.

Article 10 states that an NPT member has “the right to withdraw from the Treaty if it decides that extraordinary events have jeopardized the supreme interests of its country”.

NPT is a landmark international treaty aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and promoting the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. It was opened for signature on July 1, 1968, and entered into force on March 5, 1970.

Araghchi to European officials: ‘US blew up diplomacy’

The Iranian foreign minister has issued a new statement on social media, commenting on European officials urging Iran to “return” to negotiations following the US attacks.

“Last week, we were in negotiations with the US when Israel decided to blow up that diplomacy. This week, we held talks with the E3/EU when the US decided to blow up that diplomacy,” Abbas Araghchi wrote on X.

“What conclusion would you draw? To Britain and the EU High Rep, it is Iran which must ‘return’ to the table,” he said.

“But how can Iran return to something it never left, let alone blew up?”

Last week, we were in negotiations with the US when Israel decided to blow up that diplomacy.

This week, we held talks with the E3/EU when the US decided to blow up that diplomacy.

What conclusion would you draw?

To Britain and the EU High Rep, it is Iran which must "return"…

— Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) June 22, 2025

Iran promises to resist US attacks ‘with all its might’

Iran’s Foreign Ministry has issued a statement slamming the US’s latest strikes on its nuclear facilities as a “gross and unprecedented violation” of international law, and saying it has the right to resist such “aggression”.

“The world must not forget that it was the United States that, in the midst of a diplomatic process, betrayed diplomacy” by supporting Israel’s “aggressive action”, and is now waging “a dangerous war against Iran”, the ministry said in a statement carried by the semi-official Tasnim news agency.The ministry said it has become clear that the US “adheres to no rules or ethics, and in order to advance the aims of a genocidal and occupying regime, spares no lawlessness or crime”.

The ministry said it has become clear that the US “adheres to no rules or ethics, and in order to advance the aims of a genocidal and occupying regime, spares no lawlessness or crime”.“The Islamic Republic of Iran considers it its right to stand with all its might against US military aggression and the crimes committed by this rogue regime, and to defend the security and national interests of Iran,” it added.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran considers it its right to stand with all its might against US military aggression and the crimes committed by this rogue regime, and to defend the security and national interests of Iran,” it added.

Iranians fear Netanyahu wants to ‘dismember’ Iran along ethnic lines

We’ve been speaking to Mehran Kamrava, a professor of government at Georgetown University in Qatar. He told Al Jazeera that the people of Iran fear that Israel’s goals stretch far beyond its stated goal of destroying the country’s nuclear and missile programmes.

“Many in Iran believe that Israel’s end game, really, is to turn Iran into Libya, into Iraq, what it was after the US invasion in 2003, and/or Afghanistan. And so the dismemberment of Iran is what Netanyahu has in mind, at least in as far as Tehran is concerned,” he said.

“And so, for the Iranians, capitulation is not an option. Because they would see this as not just regime change, but as a dismemberment of the country. Already, there’s talk in Jerusalem of providing security guarantees to Iran’s different ethnic communities, the Baluch, the Arabs, the Kurds, and to do to Iran the de-facto division that has occurred in places like Libya, Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan.”

US bases ‘not strength but greatest vulnerability’: IRGC

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps says “the criminal American regime” has not learned the lessons of past Middle East wars and will suffer the consequences after bombing Iran. “The US’s repetition of past failed follies demonstrates strategic incompetence and disregard for the realities on the ground in the region,” the IRGC said in a statement.

“Instead of learning from repeated failures, Washington has effectively placed itself on the front lines of aggression by directly attacking peaceful [nuclear] installations.”

The paramilitary force said the flight locations of the US aircraft that participated in the attack “have been identified and monitored”. “The number, dispersion, and size of US military bases in the region are not a strength but have doubled their vulnerability,” the IRGC warned.

Meanwhile the 'regular' bombing continues

Israeli emergency services say rockets, shrapnel hit 10 locations

A spokesperson for Israel’s emergency services has said that initial reports show rockets and shrapnel fell in 10 locations in Israel. They included Carmel, Haifa, the Tel Aviv area and the northern coastal plain.


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At least 11 wounded in Israel after latest Iranian attack

Eleven people in Israel have been hurt from Iran’s missile attack and are receiving medical treatment. One sustained shrapnel wounds while 10 others are “lightly hurt”, The Times of Israel reports, citing the Magen David Adom national emergency service.

‘Extensive damage’ in Tel Aviv, Haifa after missile attack

The Israeli army says Iran launched two volleys with a total of 27 missiles. Twenty-two in the first volley and five in the second.

The areas that were targeted were quite large, spanning from the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, to the upper Galilee, to the northern and central coastal areas. Ten separate sites were impacted, either directly by missiles or by large shrapnel, and there’s extensive damage in those sites, especially in the Tel Aviv area and Haifa. We do not know the nature of the buildings struck in these attacks.

Initial reports from Israeli medical services say there are up to 16 injuries. Medical crews are still combing through damaged areas to make sure they have treated all those injured.

This is certainly the first time that we’ve seen two volleys coming in such close succession. Usually, there are hours between each volley of missiles. This time, it was less than half an hour.


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IRGC says it targeted Israeli airport, bases

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has said Iran’s most recent missile strikes targeted Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport, along with research facilities and “support bases and various layers of control and command centres”, according to the Tasnim news agency.

The statement said the strike included the use of both long-range liquid and solid-fuel missiles.

Injury toll in Israel rises

At least 20 people have been wounded in Israel in Iran’s latest missile barrage, Arutz Sheva reports, citing the emergency services.

The ongoing conflict with Iran has forced more than 10,000 people to evacuate, according to the outlet. Some 32,000 people have requested government compensation for damage to their homes or property, it added.

Why the fuck do rescue workers carry machine guns in Israel... Sick nation.

Israeli military announces ‘new wave’ of bombing in western Iran

Israel’s military says it is carrying out more attacks on western Iran against “military targets”. It claimed earlier strikes destroyed Iranian missile launchers and targeted Iranian soldiers.

“The air force has now begun a wave of strikes against military targets in western Iran,” it said in a statement.

Two wounded in Israeli attack on Iran’s Tabriz: Report

The semi-official Tasnim news agency is reporting that Israeli forces have bombed the city of Tabriz, targeting the IRGC’s Martyr Madani camp, and wounding at least two people.

Footage of the attack, verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad agency, showed thick smoke rising over Tabriz following the attack.

Israel claims hits on Iranian jets, missile launchers, Isfahan airport

The Israeli military has given more details about the targets of its latest strikes in western Iran. The attack, it said, successfully targeted two F-5 jets stationed at Iran’s Dezful airport in the western Khuzestan province.

In the attacks earlier this morning, the military said it destroyed eight Iranian missile launchers, six of which were “ready for immediate launch toward” Israeli territory. Last night, 20 Israeli jets attacked dozens of targets in central Iran, including weapons production and storage sites, as well as the airport in Isfahan, it added.

Explosions in central, southwestern Iran: Report

Iran’s Shargh news outlet reports an explosion in Iran’s central Yazd province, where it said air defence systems have been activated.

A separate “loud explosion” was also heard in the southwestern province of Bushehr, it also reported.

Israel’s army says four Iranian regions targeted

An Israeli army spokesman said Israeli jets carried out dozens of strikes on Iran today, targeting military sites in Isfahan, Bushehr, Ahvaz and Yazd.

He claimed the strike in Yazd hit a site where Khorramshahr ballistic missiles were being stored, while strikes in Isfahan, Bushehr and Ahvaz targeted missile launch platforms, sites where air defence batteries were being manufactured and a drone warehouse.

Some of the strikes killed Iranian military personnel who were detected operating at launch platforms, the army said.

And the real reason for attacking Iran reveals itself

Netanyahu benefitting politically from attack on Iran

Israeli political analyst Akiva Eldar says the attacks on Iran could bolster PM Netanyahu’s popularity, even as he faces continued scrutiny over corruption charges and security failures on October 7, 2023.

“What we see right now is that we are not looking at Gaza. We are not thinking of hoping to get back the Israeli captives; there are 20 or 22 people still alive, and Netanyahu never took responsibility for that. Now, as we see in the polls and in the public mood, Netanyahu is the greatest hero in history,” Eldar told Al Jazeera.

“It seems he’s going to accomplish his ‘mission from God’, which is to destroy the ‘post-modern Nazis’, as he calls Iran. And if there were elections today, we can forget about his corruption trial, forget about the failure of October 7,” he added.

What’s happening in Gaza and the occupied West Bank?

In parallel to attacking Iran, and making periodic attacks on Lebanon, Israel is continuing to target civilians across Gaza.

More than 50 Palestinians have been killed in the last 24-hour reporting period, medical sources say, with the attacks concentrated in southern Khan Younis, central Gaza, and northern Gaza City. At least six of those were killed while waiting for aid.

In the occupied West Bank, Israeli forces have continued to carry out a raid on the village of Sanur, south of Jenin, for a second consecutive day.

Soldiers imposed a curfew and turned entire neighbourhoods into military posts, Wafa news agency reported.

Separately, the Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said Israeli authorities have issued or renewed administrative detention orders against 34 Palestinian detainees.

Palestinian Civil Defence teams said they responded to 17 incidents involving falling shrapnel over the past 24 hours, as Israel and Iran continue to exchange attacks.

Israeli military recovers bodies of 3 captives from Gaza

As the conflict between Israel and Iran escalates, the Israeli military is also continuing its attacks on Gaza. The military, moments ago, said it recovered the bodies of three captives held by Hamas in the Palestinian territory.

It identified the deceased as Ofra Kider, Yonatan Samrano, and Sergeant Shay Levinson.

It said Kider, 71, and Samrano, 21, were killed during the Hamas attack on Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, 2023, and that Levinson, 19, died in battle with Hamas fighters on the same day.

Israeli attacks across Gaza Strip target residential areas

Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip continue … [targeting] different residential areas.

The situation now is more difficult as most of Gaza’s ambulances are no longer operating after the fuel stock ran out.

Israeli forces continue to attack aid seekers and Palestinians who have been very close to the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distribution points, where at least seven Palestinians have been killed since this morning.

In hospitals, the situation is collapsing and deteriorating as facilities are running out of fuel and medical supplies.

According to medical sources, another 37 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip today. They say eight of those were killed while seeking aid.

Chaotic scenes as Palestinians seek aid in Beit Lahiya

Gaza slides into lethal chaos as desperate Palestinians fight to survive

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Between 27 May and 19 June, the Red Cross field hospital in Rafah received 1,874 “weapon-wounded patients” and recorded 18 “mass casualty incidents”, in which the vast majority of the patients reported to medical staff that they had been wounded while trying to access food at or near GHF sites.

According to Médecins Sans Frontières, most of the 285 casualties treated at its primary health clinic in al-Mawasi, Khan Younis and the Red Cross field hospital in Rafah on 11 and 12 June had been seeking supplies at the GHF’s distribution sites. These included 14 people who were declared dead upon arrival or shortly after.

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Even those who obtain food are at risk. Once supplies at the hubs run out, some of those who came too late rob those leaving. Witnesses described adults beating and robbing children to take their food outside one of the three GHF hubs in Rafah. Thieves stabbed an older man in the arm when he tried to hold on to a sack of food, weeping that his children had no food, one said.

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Aid workers in Gaza said some of the food provided by GHF was reaching Hamas, which has been seriously weakened but remains a significant actor in the increasingly fractured and chaotic territory. “They send people in to get it direct from the hubs, which is pretty simple because GHF are not vetting anyone,” said one senior UN official working in Gaza.

It was never about Hamas getting aid, it was always about ethnic cleansing.

Palestinians wounded in Israeli bombing of Al-Buraq camp in Gaza

Local sources have reported an Israeli strike on tents sheltering displaced people in al-Buraq camp near Khan Younis in Gaza, according to Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification unit. Footage published by a Palestinian activist and verified by Sanad showed a deep crater resulting from the bombing.

The video also showed civilians attempting to search for trapped people in the rubble.

Iran’s president tells Macron US ‘must receive response to their aggression’

Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian says the United States must “receive a response” to attacks on nuclear sites in Iran during a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron.

“The Americans must receive a response to their aggression,” Pezeshkian told the French leader, according to the official IRNA news agency.

Response to US will depend on ‘conditions of war’

Iran’s ambassador to Pakistan said Tehran will decide how to respond to US aggression based on the evolving “conditions of war”. He described Israel’s reliance on the US as a sign of its weakness in the face of Iran’s missile and defense capabilities, the IRNA news agency reported.

UN chief says US strikes mark ‘perilous turn in a region that is already reeling’

The United Nations chief has just spoken at an emergency special session of the Security Council. Here are the major talking points: