You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.
Noam Chomsky
🇮🇷New high-resolution imagery, captured on June 21, 2025, suggests Iran was preparing the Fordow nuclear facility for a strike. The facility's entrance tunnels were observed being filled with earth by trucks and diggers.🤔
Developments after the US strike on Iran's nuclear facilities | June 22, 2025
- Iranian General Staff spokesman: Any transfer of military equipment or radars to Israel - by air or sea - will be considered participation in aggression and will be a legitimate target for Iran.
Mehdi Mohammadi, adviser to the speaker of parliament: Iran expected a strike on Fordow, the facility was evacuated in advance, no serious damage was recorded;
National Nuclear Safety Center: No signs of radioactive contamination were recorded in the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan areas. There is no threat to the population.
IRGC: 20th wave of Operation True Promise 3 launched, 40 liquid and solid fuel missiles, first use of Heybarshekan ballistic missiles with multiple warheads
Full statement here.
- Trump and Netanyahu spoke after the attack. Netanyahu thanked Trump.
🔹 New York Times: US uses six B-2 strategic bombers;
🔹 Iranian media: Only Fordow entrances damaged; main infrastructure not damaged;
🔹 State TV: All three nuclear facilities were evacuated in advance;
🔹 Scott Ritter, former US officer: Fordow was not injured, IR6 and IR8 centrifuges were removed in advance;
🔹 Sabrin News: Iran attacks strategic oil refineries in Israel.
- Chile, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Qatar condemned the US strike on Iran.
🔹 Iraq: Attack undermines regional stability, calls for immediate return to diplomacy;
🔹 Hamas: US aggression is a dangerous escalation and blind following of Israeli policy;
🔹 Ansar Allah (Yemen): US and Israel are jointly responsible for war crimes. Yemen supports Iran fully;
🔹 Islamic Jihad (Palestine): The strike is a direct declaration of war. The US is the sponsor of Israeli terrorism.
- An Iranian missile hit a bomb shelter in the south of Tel Aviv, dozens of people are under the rubble.
- Israel Hayom: Entire neighborhoods were destroyed, the effectiveness of the missile defense was extremely low.
Israir Airlines suspended all flights due to security concerns.
- Israeli authorities: Israeli airspace is completely closed, only the crossings through Sinai and Jordan are open.
- Strikes were recorded on the Palmachim base, the biological laboratory in Ness Ziona and the nuclear center in Sorek.
- Thomas Keith, military analyst: "If Fordow had been destroyed, there would have been geophysical signs. In reality, only a tweet.
X users post US flags with Israeli symbols in condemnation.
- Analysts: Direct US intervention means recognition of Israel's failure as a regional proxy.
- Iranian media: the population has nothing to worry about - all facilities are protected, the country is ready for further action.
- The evacuation of American diplomats from the embassy in Baghdad has already begun.
🔹 CNN: US steps up evacuation of personnel from Iraq; emergency flights depart overnight;
🔹 Al Jazeera: Pentagon braces for Iran's inevitable response. Major US cities put on full alert. Iranian channels urge citizens to stay away from US bases - response is inevitable.
- Official position: Before responding to the US, Iran will "finish off the hyenas in occupied Palestine";
Conclusion: Iran was very keen to avoid the scenario that has now been imposed on it. The Iranians wanted negotiations, and were holding behind-the-scenes talks with the US even while they were bombing each other with Israel. Clearly, the US/Israel plans did not envisage a peaceful resolution to the situation that Israel had created by attacking Iran on June 13.
While it cannot yet be said that Tehran was caught off guard by the US strike, Tehran has once again been put in a difficult position where it cannot help but respond.
Fordow Nuclear Facility:
According to satellite images, more than 15 trucks were seen at the entrance on June 19-20, possibly transporting nuclear assets and other equipment.
Iran already knew about US plans to strike nuclear facilities.
🔴 The headquarters of the Ministry of Defense, the General Staff of the Israeli Army, and the Command and Control (C4I) Center were hit by fire from the Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.