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Iranian - Israeli War News roundup for June 16th,2025
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. All from regnum.ru.

IRGC: Eight Iranian Soldiers Killed in Israeli Attack on Khomein
At least eight soldiers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, elite units of the Iranian Armed Forces) were killed in an Israeli attack on the Iranian city of Khomein, the IRGC said in a statement.

"As a result of the Zionist regime's attacks and actions that provoke instability, six IRGC soldiers and two Basij fighters who defended Khomein were martyred on the morning of June 16 while carrying out their mission to protect the Islamic Revolution and defend dear Iran," the ISNA agency quotes the statement as saying.

Earlier on June 16, YJC reported that 10 soldiers from the IRGC air defense forces were killed in northwestern Iran while repelling an Israeli air attack. On the same day, Tehran announced that it would continue the operation against Israel until the complete destruction of this state in its current form.

IRGC says Iran intends to strike Israel until early morning
Iran plans to launch continuous strikes on Israel until the early morning of June 17. This was reported by the Tasnim agency.

"A little earlier, we launched the ninth wave of the combined operation "True Promise - 3" using missiles and drones. This operation will last continuously until early morning," journalists clarified, citing the official representative of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC, part of the Iranian Armed Forces) Ali Mohammad Naini.

Earlier, the IRGC leadership noted Iran's readiness for a full-scale and protracted war with Israel.

Iran Destroys Israel's Long-Range Air Defense System - Media
Iran destroyed a long-range air defense system during strikes on Israel. This was reported on June 16 by the Fars agency, citing a source.

“An Iranian drone destroyed an Israeli long-range air defense system,” the journalists clarified.

It is noted that the operation was planned in advance. It involved Iranian stealth drones. The attack was carried out in central Israel, the source explained.

In total, since the beginning of Operation True Promise 3, Iranian forces have carried out about 550 drone strikes on Israel, the authors noted.
Lots of drone strikes, sadly with minimal effect.

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IAEA: All 15,000 centrifuges at Iran’s main enrichment plant likely ‘severely damaged or destroyed’
[IsraelTimes] Damage at Natanz believed to be result of airstrike on the facility’s power supply, leading to an outage, which in turn harmed fragile machines that spin at extremely high speed.

International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Rafael Grossi told the board no damage was seen at the separate Fordo enrichment plant dug deep into a mountain, later telling the BBC: “There is very limited, if any, damage registered [there].”

While the IAEA has not been able to carry out inspections since the attacks, it makes extensive use of satellite imagery.

Grossi elaborated on the damage to four buildings at the Isfahan nuclear complex, including a uranium-conversion facility that turns “yellowcake” uranium into uranium hexafluoride, the feedstock for centrifuges, so it can be enriched to higher fissile purity.

“Four buildings were damaged in Friday’s attack: the central chemical laboratory, a uranium conversion plant, the Tehran reactor fuel manufacturing plant, and the UF4 [uranium tetrafluoride] to EU [enriched uranium] metal processing facility, which was under construction,” he said.

IDF says a third of Iran’s missile launchers destroyed, urges parts of Tehran to evacuate
[IsraelTimes] Military says Iranians unable to fire the large number of rockets they want to, claims full aerial superiority over capital; multiple sites in Israel hit overnight.

Iran’s barrages have consisted of some 30-60 missiles each, according to the IDF. Military officials said that Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
has sought to fire hundreds at a time, but IAF strikes on ballistic missile launchers in Iran are disrupting their attacks.

According to Defrin, 65 ballistic missiles and dozens of drones were launched at Israel in two barrages Sunday night and Monday morning, most of which were intercepted, though three impacts killed eight people and maimed nearly 300. Iran wanted to launch at least twice as many ballistic missiles at Israel overnight, he said. However,
corruption finds a dozen alibis for its evil deeds...
 20 missiles were simultaneously targeted by the IAF in Iran before they could be launched.

The IDF said that some 50 fighter jets and drones also identified and struck missile storage sites and command centers where Iranian soldiers were gathered to launch the missiles, as well as launch cells on the ground.

"We are targeting Iranian cells in real time as they launch missiles toward the State of Israel and our aircraft. The aerial capabilities we previously saw in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
, Leb
...home of the original Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade....
, and Judea and Samaria [West Bank] are now operational in Iran," Defrin said.

Since the start of the conflict, the IDF said, it had destroyed over 120 Iranian ballistic missile launchers, which it said is a third of what Iran had.

"These are large launchers, some mounted on trucks and deployed across Iran. Each launcher was ready to fire dozens of missiles at Israel’s home front and strategic assets. These strikes caused the regime to launch only half of the missiles it had planned in last night’s barrage," Defrin said.

"The Israeli Air Force is pushing eastward," he said. "We will reach more targets, conduct further strikes, and continue to act in pursuit of the operation’s objective, to neutralize the existential threat from Iran, from its nuclear project to the regime’s missile array."

On Monday afternoon, the IDF issued an unprecedented evacuation warning for a large section of Tehran, ahead of Israeli strikes.

Defrin said that "in addition to the launchers, we also struck missile storage and production sites" in the overnight strikes. IAF fighter jets also attacked over 20 command centers belonging to the Quds Force and the Iranian military in Tehran, relying on precise intelligence, the military said.

The Quds Force is a powerful branch within the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps that sends fighters abroad and directs and funds foreign terror groups like Lebanon’s Hezbollah.

The IDF said the centers it struck were used by the Quds Force "to plan terror attacks against Israel via the Iranian regime’s proxies in the Middle East."

He said the "headquarters were deliberately placed in civilian buildings and high-rises."

"The regime’s leaders believed that doing so would hide them and keep them immune. They were mistaken. The Intelligence Directorate located them, and the Israeli Air Force struck them with precision and accuracy," he said.

Additionally, the military said the IAF conducted waves of strikes in Isfahan, central Iran, overnight, hitting over 100 targets.

In the morning, the military said the IAF identified several trucks, carrying surface-to-air missile launchers and other weapons, moving from western Iran toward Tehran "in an attempt to escape IDF strikes."

The strikes continued on Monday afternoon, with a military official telling The Times of Israel that the IAF had begun a new wave of Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM!...
s in central Iran.

The Tasnim news agency also claimed Israel bombed a fire department building in Musiyan in the western province of Ilam, publishing a video of smoke rising from the site.

The semi-official news outlet, which is closely linked to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, said a separate strike took place in the central region city of Kermanshah. It claimed a hospital was damaged in the attack, carrying a video showing shattered glass, collapsed ceilings, and extensive damage in patient rooms.

The Mehr News Agency
...And if you can't believe Mehr News Agency who can you believe?...
 reported that Israel hit sites in Parchin. The Iranian outlet posted a video showing air defense systems activating in the area in response to strikes.

SPY CHIEF KILLED
The IDF confirmed Monday that four Iranian intelligence officials, including the chief of the Intelligence Organization of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, were killed in an IAF strike in Tehran the day before.

The IDF said the strike carried out by fighter jets hit a building in the Iranian capital where several Iranian intelligence officials were gathered.

The strike killed IRGC intelligence chief Brig. Gen. Mohammad Kazemi, his deputy Hassan Mohaqiq, and the intelligence chief of the IRGC Quds Force and his deputy, the military said.

On Sunday, Iran confirmed the deaths of Kazemi, Mohaqiq, and another intelligence official.

"These bigwigs played a central role in formulating the situation assessment in Iran and in planning terror activities against Israel, the West, and countries in the region," the IDF said.

350 MISSILES IN THREE DAYS
While Israel has been attacking Iran, the Islamic Theocratic Republic has launched some 350 ballistic missiles at Israel since Friday, the vast majority of which were intercepted, according to fresh IDF statistics.

Some 40 missiles were fired in the latest barrage at around 4 a.m. Monday, which struck central Israel and the Haifa area. There were three major impact sites in the overnight attack, which killed eight people and maimed 95. Four were killed in Petah Tikva, three were killed in Haifa, and one was killed in Bnei Brak. In all, 24 people have been killed in Iran’s ballistic missile attacks since Friday.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards claimed its latest attack employed a new method that caused Israel’s multi-layered defense systems to target each other, but Israel has long acknowledged that its air defense array is not hermetic, with 5-10% of the missiles "leaking" through and impacting Israel, officials said.

The total includes missiles that the IDF says it did not try to shoot down "according to protocol," allowing them to strike open areas without causing damage to any critical infrastructure, as well as missiles it failed to intercept that hit urban areas and caused casualties and damage.

Most of Iran’s ballistic missile fire has been aimed at Tel Aviv and Haifa — which are densely populated — and to a lesser degree, the Beersheba area. Thus, the few missiles that are not intercepted are likely to cause harm.
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