2025 Israeli attacks on Iran
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| Date | 13 June 2025 - 24 June 2025 |
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| Description | "Netanyahu going for broke" (Ori Goldberg) |
The 2025 Israeli attacks on Iran began on Friday 13th June 2025 with several waves of air strikes targeting nuclear facilities and military sites across Iran, killing senior Iranian military officials and nuclear scientists, and raising fears of an all-out war in the Middle East.[1]
Israeli political analyst Ori Goldberg told Al Jazeera that Netanyahu was "going for broke" with these attacks, and that Israel had become "an agent of chaos and disruption."[2]
Iran warned Israel of "harsh punishment" for the attacks.[3] The South China Morning Post reported:
US bombs Iran
On 21 June 2025, President Donald Trump said the US had targeted three nuclear sites in Iran, as Washington directly joined Israel's attacks on the Islamic Republic.[5] Trump declared:
In response Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of President Vladimir Putin’s Security Council, said:
- "The enrichment of nuclear material - and, now we can say it outright, the future production of nuclear weapons - will continue.
- "A number of countries are ready to directly supply Iran with their own nuclear warheads."[6]
Ceasefire
On 23 June 2025, in response to the US attacks, Iran launched missiles at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar in a calibrated action which paved the way for negotiations. Following the strikes, Trump expressed openness to a ceasefire, thanking Iran for notifying the US in advance and limiting the scope of its retaliation.
A phased ceasefire mediated by the United States and Qatar started on the morning of 24 June 2025. The previous evening, Trump had written that an agreement to a ceasefire between Israel and Iran would go into effect the following day. Iran's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abbas Araghchi, said that no proposal had been agreed to, but that Iran would cease its military action if Israel likewise ceased hostilities "no later than 4am Tehran time" (UTC+3.5). Some time before 7am Tehran time, Iranian air defences responded to continued Israeli strikes on the capital, with Iran firing another salvo of missiles at Beer Sheva.
Later on 24 June, the Secretariat of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council announced in a statement that the Israeli regime was forced to unilaterally end its aggression against the Islamic Republic following a determined and powerful response from the Iranian Armed Forces. The regime and its backers were warned not to resume aggression against the Islamic Republic.[7]
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wesley Clark | “In 2001, in the Pentagon, a general told me : ‘I just received a classified memo from the Secretary of Defense: we will take seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finally, Iran.’” | Wesley Clark | 2 March 2007 |
Related Documents
| Title | Type | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Genocidal RAF Squadron Targeted by Palestine Action is Owned by a Hedge Fund | blog post | 25 June 2025 | Craig Murray | "That such an obviously rotten and corrupt arrangement exists in the RAF I had no idea. Some British military personnel are in fact contracted mercenaries. It gives new context to the active RAF involvement in the Genocide in Gaza. Palestine Action’s excellent act of resistance in vandalising this Hedge Fund Air Force has brought all of this to our attention. Which is yet a further reason to be grateful to Palestine Action." |
| Document:My Francis: Francis A. Boyle | obituary | 5 June 2025 | Sam Husseini | "People mocked my Francis. But it was he who saw the scope of the coming Israeli crimes for years in Gaza. It was he who urged for decades that some country invoke the Genocide Convention against Israel, which South Africa finally did in late 2023. It was he who emphasised that the next step in that process was for the UN General Assembly to vigorously use Uniting for Peace, a step that desperately needs to happen." |
| Document:The Phantom Ceasefire | blog post | 24 June 2025 | Craig Murray | You can never trust the Israelis – or indeed the Americans – with either a ceasefire or a negotiation. Reuters reported that a senior Iranian official had confirmed the ceasefire had been agreed. Israel then repeated precisely what I had seen in Beirut – massive carpet bombing of the city just before the 3.30am deadline for the Israel/Iran ceasefire. |
| Document:What If the US Does Attack Iran? | interview | 20 June 2025 | Andrew Napolitano | "I hope Trump has the good sense not to take the United States into this war. And I hope that the fact that he's not been talking so hawkishly the past two days means that he's beginning to see the light and then I hope he goes to great lengths to get the Israelis and the Iranians to do something to bring this to an end. Am I hopeful that will happen? No but that's sort of the best case I can make at this point in time." (John Mearsheimer on 20 June 2025) |
| Document:Why did Israel attack Iran? | blog post | 14 June 2025 | Ori Goldberg | Israel has two reasons to attack Iran. The first is to divert the world's attention from the genocide in Gaza (and the one beginning in the besieged West Bank). The second is for the Jewish supremacist state to achieve "security" through continued killing with impunity. A world that allows this to become a norm is a world whose end is near. |
| File:Which Path to Persia.pdf | paper | June 2009 | Kenneth M. Pollack Martin Indyk Bruce Riedel Suzanne Maloney Daniel Byman Michael O’Hanlon | Policy paper by the Brookings Institution on how to undermine / "contain" Iran |
References
- ↑ "Israel carries out strikes targeting Iran’s nuclear, military sites"
- ↑ "Israeli attack on Iran serves Netanyahu’s political ambitions"
- ↑ "After the Airstrikes: Iran Appoints New Commanders and Warns of Severe Retaliation"
- ↑ "Iran fires missiles at Israel in retaliation for strikes on nuclear sites"
- ↑ "US bombs Iran: Congress divided over Trump's strikes largely along party lines"
- ↑ "US strikes on Iran: How the world reacted"
- ↑ "Iran’s top military command warns Israel, US against resuming aggression"
