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What Matters Most On Sunday, June 15, 2025

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Vehicles jam a highway as a fire blazes nearby in the oil depots of Shahran, northwest of Tehran, Iran, on June 15, 2025. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

June 15: IDF conducts ‘extensive’ wave of strikes on weapons sites across Iran; IRGC intel chief killed

Deputy chief, another intel officer killed in same strike * Iranian reports say foreign ministry building in Tehran damaged * Iranian missile attacks killed 11 Israelis in past day

9:24 pm

Khamenei in bunker in northeastern Tehran; Israel didn't kill him Friday to give him chance to yield -- report
9:14 pm

Rights group says woman killed in western Syria, likely by Iranian drone
8:48 pm

Report: Iran tells Qatar, Oman it won't negotiate with US 'while under attack'

A plume of heavy smoke rises over an oil refinery in southern of Tehran, after it was hit in an overnight Israeli strike, on June 15, 2025. (Photo by Atta KENARE / AFP)

Katz warns Iran leaders turning Tehran into battered Beirut

Extensive strikes in Tehran after IDF warns Iranians near arms plants to evacuate

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

5 car bombs said to detonate in Iran’s capital, more nuclear scientists killed; IDF says it is hunting ballistic missile launchers aimed at Israel, and striking nuclear targets

Fire at Iran's Shahran oil depot, early on June 14, 2025 (X screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Israeli jets strike Tehran, oil fields as PM vows to ‘hit every target’ in Iran’s regime

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman, Agencies and ToI Staff

Motorists wait at a petrol station in Tehran, Iran, on June 15, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Tehran roads reportedly gridlocked as some seek to flee to rural north

By ToI Staff and Reuters

Responders work in a damaged building following a strike by an Iranian missile in the city of Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv, early on June 15, 2025. (Jack Guez / AFP)

'I have never seen anything like this in my life'

9 dead, including 3 children, in Iranian missile strike on Bat Yam apartment building

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Nearly 200 hurt, one still missing, with mayor saying 61 buildings damaged in attack; at least 42 injured in Rehovot, including mother and toddler

Rescue teams work to recover missing persons in a destroyed Bat Yam building following a deadly Iranian missile attack, June 15, 2025. (Stav Levaton/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebookIn a race against time, amid grief and dust, Bat Yam searches for survivors of Iran strike

By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff

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4 women – mother, 2 daughters and a sister-in-law – killed by Iranian missile near Haifa

By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies

10 injured in salvo from Islamic Republic on northern Arab city of Tamra, where residents have warned about lack of bomb shelters

Fatalities in an Iranian missile attack on Tamra, northern Israel, June 14, 2025, all of whom are from the Khatib family: Top left: Manar Khatib; top right: Shada Khatib, 20; bottom left: Manar Khatib (Shada's mother); bottom right: Hala Khatib, 13 (Shada's sister). (Pictures from X; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Reporter's notebookDeadly Iranian missile ‘brought out the hatred’ inside Israel, Tamra residents say

By Diana Bletter

Iranian missile attacks damage Haifa oil refinery and Rehovot university buildings

Bazan says pipelines and transmission lines at sensitive industrial site struck, but work continuing; no injuries reported as Weizmann Institute hit, causing fire

Ballistic missile damage seen in Rehovot, on June 15, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Explainer

Devastation grows as Iran targets Israel’s civilian areas, despite interceptors and shelters

IDF says rate of interception similar to 2024 attacks, denies Tehran has maneuverable missiles; missiles carry 1,100-lb warheads; US assisting with defense

The scene of an apartment building destroyed by an Iranian ballistic missile impact, in Bat Yam, June 15, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Israelis take cover in a public shelter in Jerusalem, during a ballistic missile attack fired from Iran into Israel on June 13, 2025. (Noam Revkin Fenton/FLASH90)

Home Front issuing warnings 15-30 minutes before missiles hit; bomb shelters, safe rooms proving effective

By Emanuel Fabian

An El Al plane parked at Ben Gurion Airport, May 7, 2025. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Stranded Israelis told not to go to Larnaca, Athens; not to use Egypt, Jordan land crossings

By Sharon Wrobel

With airspace closed amid conflict with Iran, authorities say it will take weeks before the tens of thousands of Israelis stuck abroad will get home; El Al works on rescue flight plan

Activist Caitlyn Jenner, who came to Israel to be the guest of honor at Tel Aviv's Gay Pride parade on June 13, 2025, in Kibbutz Be'eri on June 12, 2025 (Courtesy)

Caitlyn Jenner leaves Israel via Jordan as war rages with Iran

Avner Netanyahu and fiance Amit Yardeni (Instagram)

Monday’s wedding of PM’s son postponed amid conflict with Iran

ToI podcast

Amanda Borschel-Dan and Haviv Rettig Gur

What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: The existential Israel-Iran War

ToI’s senior analyst weighs in on the prime minister’s courage for taking on Iran before it achieves a nuclear bomb and his hope that the Iranian people will overthrow the regime

US President Donald Trump (left) speaks, as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on March 6, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong/Getty Images/AFP); Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei attends a meeting with a group of defense officials, in Tehran, February 12, 2025. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Iran cancels next round of nuclear talks with US after Israeli strikes

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Illustrative: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, second left, and the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran chief Mohammad Eslami, second right, are seen during the 'National Day of Nuclear Technology,' in Tehran, Iran, April 9, 2025. (Iranian Presidency / AFP)

Israel found Iran carried out key tests for nuke design ahead of strikes — report

By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian

Israel said to believe Tehran decided to build bomb after Oct. 7 massacre; intel officials told politicians Iran could be even further along in process than previously thought

Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, speaks during the first meeting of national security secretaries in the Iranian capital Tehran, September 26, 2018. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Top Khamenei adviser among senior Iranian officials killed in Israeli strikes

Cyprus' President Nikos Christodoulides addresses the opening session of the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), at the Centre des Expositions conference centre in the French riviera city of Nice, on June 9, 2025. (Ludovic MARIN / AFP)

Cyprus says it was asked by Iran to convey messages to Israel; Tehran denies it

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Screenshot from footage released by the Mossad showing strikes carried out by commandos of the Israeli spy agency on Iranian air defenses in Iran, June 13, 2025. (Mossad screenshot)

Ships, trucks, and suitcases: How Israel reportedly got its attack drones into Iran

Deliveries were made via commercial deals with partners who were unaware that sophisticated weapons were being transported, sources tell Wall Street Journal

The Iranian regime's security chain of command that has been eliminated by Israeli strikes, June 14, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Iran’s miscalculation enabled Israel to eliminate top officials, report shows

US President Donald Trump speaks during the Army 250th Anniversary Parade from the Ellipse in Washington, DC, on June 14, 2025. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)

Germany, France, Britain ready to hold talks with Iran

Trump: Iran will face American might ‘at levels never seen before’ if it attacks US

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US president says he and Putin agree war ‘should end’; Iranian FM says ‘solid proof’ US supported Israel campaign; Russian leader says he backs proposals to ease tension

US President Donald Trump, left, shakes hands with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as he leaves the West Wing of the White House, April 7, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Mark Schiefelbein)

Netanyahu wishes Trump happy birthday, appreciates help ‘against criminal regime in Iran’

An Iranian drone, apparently en route to Israel, is seen over Iraq on June 13, 2025 (Screen grab used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Iran threatens to target US, UK, French bases if they help stop strikes on Israel

By Agencies and ToI Staff

US is involved in stopping Iranian missile and drone fire; the UK and France are not known to participate, but have signaled they could

Illustrative: US President Donald Trump gets out of a THAAD missile truck at the White House in Washington, DC, on July 15, 2019. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 15: Day 618 – How involved is the US in the Israel-Iran war – so far?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

IDF Sgt. First Class (res.) Noam Shemesh (Israel Defense Force)

IDF soldier killed in Gaza fighting, bringing toll in military offensive to 430

By Emanuel Fabian

Sgt. First Class (res.) Noam Shemesh, 21, from Jerusalem, killed in RPG attack; another soldier lightly injured in same incident

Palestinians evacuate a wounded man amid lines for receiving humanitrian aid in the southern Gaza city of Rafah on June 15, 2025. (AFP)

Gaza medics says 12 killed in fresh violence

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Smoke rises following an Israeli bombardment in southern Gaza, as seen from a humanitarian aid distribution center operated by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation on Thursday, May 29, 2025. (AP/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Gazans say 35 killed in Israeli strikes, including near aid site; 2 rockets launched at Israel

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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Supporters of the Iran-backed Houthi group in Yemen attend a weekly anti-US and anti-Israel rally in the rebel-held capital Sanaa, on May 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Osamah Abdulrahman)

Israeli officials say Houthi military chief targeted in Yemen strike

By Emanuel Fabian

This combination of pictures created on June 14, 2025 shows Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman (left) and Minnesota State Senator John Hoffman.(Minnesota Senate photographer's office and Paul Battaglia / Minnesota State Legislature / AFP)

Minnesota state Democrat shot dead, another hurt in apparent assassination

By Ulysse Bellier

Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar announces that he will step down from his position on June 15, in an address at a memorial event for fallen Shin Bet personnel, April 28, 2025 (Screenshot)

As Ronen Bar’s term comes to an end, deputy Shin Bet chief to take over temporarily

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, Ukraine, May 20, 2025. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/AFP)

Zelensky calls for aid to Ukraine not to decrease in wake of Israel-Iran war

By AFP

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