{"id":310339,"date":"2025-06-13T11:37:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T11:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=310339"},"modified":"2025-06-14T06:41:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T06:41:52","slug":"israeli-strikes-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=310339","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Strikes on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">A residential building in Tehran that was struck by Israeli warplanes early on Friday<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>News Brief \u2013 June 13, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Israel launched a wave of air strikes across Iran early on Friday morning with over 200 Israeli warplanes.<\/p>\n<p>Around one hundred sites linked to Iran\u2019s military or its nuclear program were targeted<\/p>\n<p>At least six Iranian nuclear scientists have been killed, as well as a number of senior military commanders.<\/p>\n<p>At around 3.00 am Israeli jets struck several residential buildings in Tehran that were home to senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commanders, as well as the homes of senior Iranian nuclear scientists.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Aftermath of Israeli strike on a residential building in Tehran<\/p>\n<p>Follow Press TV on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LWoNSpkJSh\">https:\/\/t.co\/LWoNSpkJSh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HRFbXnhOLT\">pic.twitter.com\/HRFbXnhOLT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Press TV \uf53b (@PressTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressTV\/status\/1933349804400390451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri and\u00a0commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)\u00a0Major General Hossein Salami were both killed in the pre-dawn strikes.<\/p>\n<p>Videos circulating on social media reportedly show widespread destruction in residential areas of Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has denounced the strikes as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/News\/middle-east\/2025\/06\/13\/iran-says-israel-attack-declaration-of-war-\">declaration of war<\/a>\u201d and senior Iranian military commanders are reportedly preparing to launch retaliatory counter strikes against Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2025\/jun\/13\/israel-iran-strikes-defence-minister-tehran-middle-east-live?CMP=share_btn_url&amp;page=with%3Ablock-684bf9928f08d7fb8602e0c7#block-684bf9928f08d7fb8602e0c7\">President Trump has warned<\/a> of even more brutal attacks to come if Iran didn\u2019t agree to a deal over its nuclear program.<\/p>\n<p>However, Trump\u2019s warning will only underline suspicions that the U.S.president had prior knowledge of the Israeli strikes and that the U.S. may even have helped Israel logistically to carry out the attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli warplanes also struck Iran\u2019s Natanz nuclear facility, although the Iranian authorities claim that the damage was limited to buildings on the surface. Iran\u2019s more sensitive nuclear equipment is housed in bunkers deep underground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>200 Israeli fighter strike multiple sites across Iran killing senior military commanders and nuclear scientists <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":310342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Iran","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310339"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310348,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310339\/revisions\/310348"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/310342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}