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Traffic flows on a highway in the Iranian capital, Tehran, on June 13, 2025, after reporting the Israeli strikes targeting Iran in the early morning.
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates – Iran has launched more than 100 drones towards the Israeli region on Friday morning after it killed at least three Israeli missile strikes in the country.
“We can now confirm that the Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, IRGC commander and the commander of the Iranian emergency command in the Israeli strike throughout Iran,” said Evi de Derene, a spokesman for the Israeli forces.
“Iran has launched nearly 100 drones towards Israeli territory, which we are working to intercept.”
The rocket warning sirens appeared in northern Jordan, where the Jordanian government media reported that the country intercepted many Iranian drones in the airspace.
Israel’s attack on Iran, which he said was targeting nuclear enrichment facilities, came a few days before the United States and Iranian officials in the sixth round of the nuclear deal talks. It was the largest attack on the Islamic Republic since the Iraqi war in the 1980s.
On Friday, the Iranian government news agency Tasnim informed local time of a new wave of Israeli strikes at a military airport in the northwestern city of Tabriz. Almost at the same time, US President Donald Trump made his first comments on the attacks in a publication on the social truth, urging Iran to reach a deal “before it is too late.”
“Iran gave the opportunity to conclude a deal. I told them, the strongest conditions,” Just do it. “
He added: “Everyone has died now, and it will get worse, but there is still time to stop this massacre – before the following attacks, which are expected to be more brutal. Iran must reach a deal. Just do that, it is too late. God bless you all!”
The news of the strikes sent oil prices to up to 13 % before exfoliation of gains, with Brent global crude measuring more than $ 78 a barrel at one point.
Asian and European stocks decreased, as investors rushed to safe havens amid fear of a wider war in an area representing a third of the world’s oil supplies. Dow futures decreased about 500 points at 6:35 am East time.
Brent crude The last trading was about 75.38 dollars a barrel at 6:35 am EST, an increase of 8.5 %, with the trading of the United States of America in $ 74.11 a barrel, an increase of about 9 %.
In the televised observations on Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the opening strikes on dozens of Iranian sites as “very successful”, saying: “We were shocked by the Supreme Command, and we have struck the leading scientists who enhance the development of nuclear weapons, and we hit nuclear installations.”
He also explained that his country will continue to attack Iran “until the threat is removed,” and said that the Israelis may have to spend “much longer periods of shelters than we have been used to.”
All eyes are now in the following moves by Iran and the United States, especially whether the United States will participate in this conflict. The US State Department stated that it did not participate in Israel’s strikes overnight on Iran, as Foreign Minister Marco Rubio described the measures unilaterally and urged Iran not to target American interests or employees in the region.
Tehran does not see this in this way. The Iranian Foreign Ministry has warned that it would carry Washington responsible for the consequences of Israel’s actions.
President Trump is expected to attend a meeting of the National Security Council scheduled for 11 am.
What happens after that?
On Friday and Iranian response, the Iranian response is likely to start in a quick course of escalation, according to regional analysts.
“My feeling is, which we can say at this early hour – and the damage will have to last for several days,” said Firas Maksad, Managing Director of Middle East and North Africa in the Eurasia Group.
A new round of the US -Iranian nuclear deal negotiations was scheduled to be held on Sunday in Amman. Iranian media cited Iranian officials, saying they will not attend.
“If Iran does not return to the negotiating table, as the United States has already called for it … then I think, and I am afraid of Israel to take successive rounds of work to take the rest of the Iranian nuclear program.”
In jobs on the social media platform X, the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, pledged to respond to the Israeli attacks.
“This (Zionist) system must expect a severe punishment. With the grace of God, the strong arm of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic will not allow them to leave.”
He wrote in a separate publication: “In the enemy attacks, many leaders and scholars have been martyred. On the willingness of God, their successors and colleagues will continue with their duties without delay.”
It was not yet known how and to what extent Iran will be able to deploy the ballistic missile arsenal and the regional armed agents network in its efforts to take revenge.
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2025-06-13 10:45:00
