IRAN LAUNCHES MISSILE ATTACK ON TEL AVIV

Fri 13 June 2025:

Iran has started what it called a “crushing” retaliation against the Israeli attacks.

“A few minutes ago, the decisive response to the Zionist Regime’s brutal attack began with the firing of hundreds of ballistic missiles at the occupied territories,” it said.

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has said in a statement that Israel initiated a war and said it will not be allowed to do “hit and run” attacks without grave consequences.

“The Zionist regime [Israel] will not remain unscathed from the consequences of its crime. The Iranian nation must be guaranteed that our response will not be half-measured,” Khamenei said in a statement.

An Iranian senior official has told Reuters that “nowhere in Israel will be safe, our revenge will be painful”.

The official is reported to have told the news agency that Israel “will pay a high price for killing our commanders, scientists and people”.

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Israel says ‘another volley’ of Iranian missiles launched

The Israeli military says Iran is continuing to fire missiles at Israel.

“Another volley of dozens of missiles was launched towards the State of Israel,” it said in a statement.

“The explosions you hear are from interceptions or crashes. The air defence system constantly identifies and intercepts threats.”

There are a number of unconfirmed reports appearing in Israeli media following Iran’s retaliatory attacks.

Israel’s Channel 13 reports a fire near Israel’s Defence Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, while Israel Hayom reports that rockets fell across seven areas in central Israel.

Trump quiet, meeting with experts in White House Situation Room

After a flurry of activity by the US president, not only in his platform Truth Social, but also giving various interviews to American journalists, he’s been largely quiet in the last couple of hours.

And we think that’s because he is in the Situation Room still with his team of security experts.

Now, [it] has been confirmed by the US president, as well as by the Israeli Prime Minister, that the United States did know in advance that this was going to take place.

The US president [has been] reminding people of that 60-day deadline he gave Iran to come to some agreement to limit its nuclear programme, but not being able to get there.

What does he mean by get there?

He means that Iran wanted – and this is the sticking point – to have a nuclear programme for civilian purposes, something that the US president suggested was a possibility initially, but then later changed his mind and said there would not be that opportunity, and there could be no path to a nuclear weapon.

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