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Iran, Israel exchange missiles and drones strikes
Iranian missiles hit Tel Aviv on June 14, 2025- photo circulated on social media platforms
CAIRO – 14 June 2025: Iran launched a devastating missile attack on central Israel on early hours of Saturday in retaliation for Israeli airstrikes earlier that day targeting Tehran and Iranian nuclear facilities. The Israeli strikes reportedly killed hundreds, including military leaders and nuclear scientists.
Dozens of Iranian missiles fell on Tel Aviv, causing widespread destruction to residential buildings and forcing hundreds to evacuate their homes. Three Israelis were killed and more than 170 others injured so far according to the Israeli MDA Ambulance amid continuing the military escalation between the both sides.
Iranian TV reported that about 60 civilians, including 20 children, were killed in yesterday's Zionist attack on a 14-story residential complex in Tehran. Other more than 70 Iranian were killed on Friday. Also, Iranian media outlets reported that besides killing military leaders and nuclear scientists by the Israeli strikes on Friday, more military leaders in Iran were killed including General Gholam Reza Mharabi, deputy head of the intelligence department, and General Mehdi Rabbani, Deputy Chief of the Operations Department of the Iranian Armed Forces.
Islamic Revolution Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei appointed Brigadier General Brigadier General Seyyed Majid Mousavi as the new commander of the IRGC Aerospace Force, Mehr News Agency reported.
Iranian military spokesman Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi was quoted as saying by Iranian media: 'Our next missile strikes will be 20 times more powerful than our previous attacks and will include 2,000 missiles' against Israel
Since early hours on Friday, June 13, 2025, Israel has launched hundreds of missiles against Iran, especially the nuclear facilities. Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) announced in a statement that The Israeli attack on the Natanz facility in Isfahan, central Iran. Also, Israeli launched strikes against Isfahan nuclear facilities several times but no increase in off-site radiation levels has been reported so far according to the United Nation nuclear watchdog 'the Interntaional Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)'.
Mehr News Agency reported that Israeli airstrikes targeted Tabriz city in Iran on Saturday, while Iran launched four waves of retaliatory attacks on Israel.
