Israel’s military said it had struck “dozens of military targets, including nuclear targets in different areas of Iran” as part of Operation Rising Lion.
Iran launched about 100 drones towards Israeli territory in retaliation.
Buildings in residential areas across Tehran were damaged (Photo by Fatemeh Bahrami/Anadolu via Getty Images)Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “We are at a decisive moment in Israel’s history.
A firefighter calls out his colleagues at the scene of an explosion in a residence compound in northern Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that Israel had “unleashed its wicked and bloody” hand in a crime against Iran and that it would receive “a bitter fate for itself”.
Here, The i Paper takes a look at what happened and the sites that were hit in Iran.
Israel attacked military bases around Tehran, including Parchin, and residential homes at two highly secure complexes for military commanders, according to the New York Times.
Among the locations hit in Tehran were upscale northern neighborhoods such as Qeytariyeh, Niavaran, Nobonyad, Mahallati, Kamraniyeh, Saadatabad, and Andarzgoo, according to Anadolu news agency. Other areas struck included Mehrabad, Narmak, Sattarkhan, Farahzadi, and additional districts across the capital.
At least two nuclear scientists – Fereydoun Abbasi and Mohammad Mehdi – were killed in the capital. A total of six nuclear scientists were killed in the strikes, Iranian state media reported.
The unit said its top commander, Hossein Salami, was killed. was also reportedly killed.
Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz was hit by Israeli strikes (Photo: Maxar Technologies/Reuters)
Natanz
Hours after the initial strikes, explosions were reported at the country’s main uranian enrichment facility Natanz in Isfahan, according to Iranian media and witnesses.
The Israel Defence Forces claimed they caused “significant damage” to Natanz, the core of the country’s nuclear programme.
Smoke billowing from explosions in what appears to be Natanz after Israel announced it had carried out strikes on Iranian nuclear and military sites in the Islamic republic (Photo: IRINN / AFP)
Iranian state TV aired a report from the facility, where black smoke can be seen rising from the site.
The IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said the country’s nuclear facilities at Isfahan and Fordow had not been hit by Israel’s strikes.
The Israeli military said it had been forced to act by new intelligence information showing that Iran was “approaching the point of no return” in the development of a nuclear weapon.
Iran argues that its nuclear programme is for civilian purposes only, but the IAEA and other countries have cast doubt on these claims.
The IAEA’s Board of Governors on Thursday declared Iran in breach of its non-proliferation obligations for the first time in almost 20 years.
A list of nuclear facilities in Iran” created in Istanbul, Turkiye (Photo: Ufuk Celal Guzel/Anadolu via Getty Images)Tabriz has an underground missile silo and is one of Iran’s launch sites, according to the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a Washington think tank.
The launch sites in the west of Iran appear to have been targeted and are key as they are closer to Israel and therefore pose a bigger threat.
Kermanshah
Multiple videos circulated online have shown plumes of smoke rising from an area close to an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base in Kermanshah province, the BBC reported.
Qasr-e Shirin, a city in Kermanshah, was reportedly targeted.
Missiles are also reportedly produced at the complex.
Other sites
The Parchin nuclear facility was also reportedly targeted.
The country’s oil refining and storage facilities did not sustain damages and their activities are ongoing, according to the National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company.
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