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Iran-Israel war: latest developments Jerusalem, June 21 (AFP) Jun 21, 2025 Iran on Saturday maintained that its right to a civilian nuclear programme could not be taken away by force as Israel pressed its bombing campaign, killing Iranian commanders and striking the Isfahan nuclear site. As the Iran-Israel war wore on into its second week, here are the latest developments:
Israeli strikes on Iran have killed more than 400 people since they began last week, the Islamic republic's health ministry said. A US-based NGO, the Human Rights Activists News Agency, said on Friday that based on its sources and media reports, at least 657 people have been killed in Iran, including 263 civilians. AFP journalists reported hearing explosions in Tehran on Saturday evening, after Israeli strikes on Ahvaz, in Iran's southwest. Iranian media also reported an Israeli strike on an "evacuated" military base south of Tehran that wounded one person, while Israel reported it was attacking drone "storage facilities and a weapons facility" in southwestern Iran's Bandar Abbas region.
Iran's Fars news agency reported Saturday evening that "five army officers were killed and nine others were wounded" in an Israeli strike in the western city of Sumar.
Iran's strikes since June 13 have killed at least 25 people in Israel, according to official figures.
The UN's nuclear watchdog, the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency, confirmed a centrifuge manufacturing workshop at the site had been hit in the strike. Pezeshkian, during his call with his French counterpart, said his country had long been willing "to provide guarantees and build confidence in its peaceful nuclear activities". Iran had the right to "peaceful nuclear activities within the framework of international law", Pezehskian said, and that "cannot be taken away from them by threats or war".
Multiple B-2 bomber aircraft left a base in the central United States overnight, The New York Times and specialist plane tracking sites reported. The B-2 is capable of carrying America's heaviest payloads, including the bunker-busting GBU-57 -- the only weapon capable of destroying Iran's deeply buried nuclear facility in Fordo.
After the start of the war in Gaza in late 2023, the Huthis, saying they were acting in solidarity with the Palestinians, began firing at vessels in the Red Sea that they accused of ties to Israel and the United States. The group agreed to a ceasefire with the United States last month after an intense bombing campaign by Washington, but it has not stopped firing missiles at Israel. Iran's armed forces meanwhile threatened to strike "any military or radar equipment by boat or aircraft from any country to assist the Zionist regime". burs-csp/smw/ami
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