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Iran-Israel war: latest developments Jerusalem, June 22 (AFP) Jun 22, 2025 President Donald Trump said that the US military had carried out strikes Sunday on three Iranian nuclear sites and that Tehran "must now agree to end this war", following days of speculation over whether the United States would join its ally Israel's bombing campaign. As the Iran-Israel war entered its second week, here are the latest developments:
"We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan," Trump said in a post on his Truth Social platform. "A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow," he said, adding that the planes were safely out of Iranian airspace and on the way home. The president said that after the strikes, Iran "must now agree to end this war", insisting that under no circumstances should Iran possess a nuclear weapon. Iranian media said part of the Fordo uranium enrichment facility as well as the Isfahan and Natanz nuclear sites were attacked. Israel raised its alert level after the strikes, permitting only essential activities until further notice, the military announced.
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 Macron, said Iran had long been willing "to provide guarantees and build confidence in its peaceful nuclear activities", and that its right to a nuclear programme "cannot be taken away from them by threats or war". The Arak heavy water reactor, which Israel struck earlier this week, was carrying out work related to "health and medicine", Iran's atomic agency chief said.
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.
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. burs-csp/ami/smw/ceb
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