Saturday June 14, 2025|

By Idorenyin UMOREN
With Agency reports

Israel’s ongoing attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, generals and scientists killed 78 people and wounded more than 320 on Friday, June 13, Iran’s Ambassador told the United Nations, UN, Security Council, but he said “the overwhelming majority” of victims were civilians.

The ambassador spoke shortly after Iran retaliated with a barrage of long-range missiles targeting Israel’s commercial capital, Tel Aviv, wounding at least 34 people, Israel’s paramedic service said.


Iran says it will intensify its attacks on Israel and target the regional bases of any country that tries to defend it.

Also, Iran plans to carry out even more devastating and intense strikes on military facilities in Israel in the next wave of attacks, according to Iranian media report.

Russian TASS Agency reports that the Iranian strikes hit more than 150 targets, including Israeli airbases housing F-35, F-16, and F-15 fighter jets.

The new commander of the IRGC, Major General Ahmad Vahidi, has announced the targets that have been struck so far by Iranian missiles as:

Nevatim Airbase
F-35, F-16, and F-15 fighter jets
Heavy fuel tankers
Command and control centers
Electronic warfare centers
Ministry of Defence 
Military industrial centers

Israeli army prohibited recording videos or taking photos of damage at military bases.


Israel launched the attacks on Iran amid simmering tensions over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program. For years, Israel had threatened such a strike and successive American administrations had sought to prevent it, fearing it would ignite a wider conflict across the Middle East and possibly be ineffective at destroying Iran’s dispersed and hardened nuclear program.

As Iranian projectiles and Israeli interceptor rockets left trails of smoke and flame across the night sky, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed not to let Israel “escape safely from this great crime.”

Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv said it has treated seven people hurt by the second Iranian barrage; six had light injuries and the seventh was moderately wounded.

McCoy Pitt, the senior official in the US State Department Bureau of International Organization Affairs told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council Friday that “the consequences for Iran would be dire.”

“Let me be crystal clear,” he said, “no government, proxy, or independent actor should target American citizens, American bases, or other American infrastructure in the region.”

He said Trump wants an end to violence and for Iran to reach a nuclear deal.

“The United States will continue to seek a diplomatic resolution that ensures Iran will never acquire a nuclear weapon or post a threat to stability in the Middle East,” he said. “Iran’s leadership would be wise to negotiate at this time.”