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What Matters Most On Tuesday, June 17, 2025

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US President Donald Trump speaks with reporters while flying aboard Air Force One en route from Calgary, Canada, to Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Trump demands Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender,’ says US won’t kill Khamenei ‘for now’

By Jacob Magid, Lazar Berman and Agencies

US president indicates he’s leaning toward joining Israel in war, says he’s no longer in mood for further negotiations and ‘we’ have control over Iran’s skies

Vehicles wait in traffic as people get out of Tehran through an artery in the city's west on June 15, 2025. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Trump urges ‘everyone’ to flee Tehran, sparking speculation of widening conflict

By Jacob Magid and AFP

Leaders pose for a photo during the G7 Summit, in Kananaskis, Alberta, Monday, June 16, 2025. (Suzanne Plunkett/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump, G7 heads call for ‘de-escalation’ in Iran, but US president denies ceasefire bid

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Smoke billows in the distance from an oil refinery following an Israeli strike on the Iranian capital Tehran on June 17, 2025. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)

Live updates (closed)

June 17: Iran said readying missiles for potential strikes on US bases in Middle East

By Joshua Davidovich and ToI Staff

Trump: US knows where Khamenei ‘is hiding,’ won’t assassinate him ‘for now’ * Houthi official says Yemen rebel group will intervene to support Iran against Israel

11:23 pm

Iran's Khamenei threatens Israel: 'The battle begins'
10:49 pm

Iran missile attack sparks fire in parking lot; no injuries
10:48 pm

IDF says civilians can leave protected areas after latest missile attack

Damage is seen after an Iranian missile strike in central Israel, June 17, 2025. (Eli Katzoff/Times of Israel)

Iran fires several small missile barrages throughout the day, causing minor injuries

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

Unlike previous days, attacks do not cause significant damage in urban areas; IDF believes Tehran’s capabilities being degraded by ongoing Israeli strikes

Mourners carry the flag-draped coffins of five men, whose names were not immediately available, killed in Israeli strikes, during their funeral in the city of Khorramabad, Iran, on June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Aziz Babanezhad/Tasnim News Agency)

ExplainerHow Iran could further retaliate for Israel’s offensive

By AP

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid stands in his granddaughter's bedroom, which was damaged in an Iranian missile strike, June 16, 2025. (Screenshot)

Homes of Likud MK, opposition leader’s son damaged in Iran missile strike

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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 said to seek ceasefire via Gulf states as Trump urges deal ‘before it’s too late’

By Nava Freiberg, Lazar Berman and Reuters

Tehran reportedly offers flexibility in nuclear talks if attacks halted, though Israel signals campaign will continue; Oman drafts proposal for limited enrichment freeze

Handout image of Israeli fighter jet lifting off to strike Iran, June 17, 2025. (IDF)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 17: Day 620 – Israel rules Tehran skies. Is greater turbulence on the horizon?

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Lazar Berman

Illustrative: A US Navy officer walks past fighter jets parked on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham during a media tour in Port Klang, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur, on November 26, 2024. (FAZRY ISMAIL / POOL / AFP)

US bolsters forces in region, as Trump says Iran should talk ‘before it’s too late’

This handout picture released by the Iranian Red Crescent on June 17, 2025, shows members of rescue teams searching the debris inside a building in Tehran targeted by Israeli strikes (Iranian Red Crescent / AFP)

Air defenses said activated in Natanz, home of nuclear site

Israel kills Iran’s new war chief days after taking out predecessor, as strikes continue

By Emanuel Fabian, Agencies and ToI Staff

Maj. Gen. Ali Shadmani was considered closest surviving adviser to Khamenei; Katz vows ‘significant strikes’ in store for Tehran, as IAF attacks reported in the capital and elsewhere

As the Israeli Air Force bombs the offices of Iran’s state broadcaster IRIB in Tehran on June 16, 2025, the anchor is seen fleeing the studio. (X screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the copyright law)

IDF bombs Iran state broadcaster after issuing major evacuation warning for Tehran

By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies

A man withdraws money from an ATM at Sepah Bank in the Iranian capital of Tehran, on June 15, 2022. (Atta Kenare/AFP)

Israel-linked group claims cyberattack on Iranian bank

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Netanyahu says Israel won’t rule out killing Khamenei: It would ‘end the conflict’

By Lazar Berman, Jacob Magid and ToI Staff

PM makes case for Americans to support offensive, likening Tehran’s nuclear program to a ‘cancer’; says Iran state broadcaster hit because it’s a propaganda tool, hiding truth from the people

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) waves to the crowd in a meeting in Tehran, Iran, October 27, 2024. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP); Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a ceremony marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, in Jerusalem, October 27, 2024. (Gil Cohen-Magen/Pool Photo via AP)

AnalysisWhy the UK, Germany and France harshly criticize Israel on Gaza but support it on Iran

A handout picture provided by the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's office shows him addressing the nation on the first anniversary of the death of Iran's president Ebrahim Raisi, May 20, 2025. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

ExplainerHow Iran’s Khamenei, at first dismissed, achieved an iron grip as supreme leader

By Reuters and ToI Staff

I’m Iranian – Israel’s attacks give me hope

I truly hope these targeted operations will lead to regime change and rid us of the murderous fanatics running the Islamic Republic

Israel’s war against Iran is America’s war, too

This is not theoretical: Iran and its proxies have targeted American water and energy systems, hit global shipping and plotted attacks in New York

Centrifuges line a hall at the Uranium Enrichment Facility in Natanz, Iran, in a still image from a video aired by the Islamic Republic Iran Broadcasting company on April 17, 2021, six days after the hall had been damaged in a mysterious attack. (IRIB via AP)

IAEA: All 15,000 centrifuges at Iran’s main enrichment plant likely ‘severely damaged’

By Agencies and ToI Staff

In this photo released by the US Air Force on May 2, 2023, airmen look at a GBU-57, or the Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb, at Whiteman Air Base in Missouri. (US Air Force via AP, File)

ExplainerThe US bunker-buster bomb that could destroy Iran’s Fordo nuclear facility

By David Rising

This handout satellite image released by Maxar Technologies shows the Natanz nuclear facilities near Ahmadabad, Iran after IDF airstrikes on June 15, 2025. (Handout / Satellite image ©2025 Maxar Technologies / AFP)

UN nuclear agency warns of contamination inside Iran’s Natanz site after IDF strikes

By AP and ToI Staff

Inside story

Missile that hit Haifa oil refinery brings renewed urgency to plant’s closure plan

Environmental activists, who support long-term government plan to close Bazan plant for good and import and store products, warn writing is on the wall

Damage at the Bazan Group's oil refinery in Haifa Bay, northern Israel, after it was hit by an Iranian missile between June 15-16, 2025. (Used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

Damage at the Bazan Group's oil refinery in Haifa Bay, northern Israel, after it was hit by an Iranian missile between June 15-16, 2025. (Used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)

All facilities at Haifa oil refinery shut down after deadly Iran missile strike

Iranians arrive to cross into Turkey at the Gurbulak Bazargan border post on the Iran-Turkey border, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Kadir Cesur)

Bumper-to-bumper traffic on roads out of Tehran as residents flee Israeli strikes

Some head for Turkish border with the hope of staying there until conflict dies down, while others make the long drive to a quieter province further north

Shops are seen seen shuttered in Tehran's historic Grand Bazaar on Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP/Vahid Salemi)

With ‘mixed feelings,’ Iranian diaspora worries for loved ones back home

By AFP and ToI Staff

The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and other warships crosses the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf on November 26, 2023. (Information Technician Second Class Ruskin Naval/US Navy via AP)

Shipping disruption surges around Hormuz amid Israel-Iran war, naval agencies say

By Reuters and ToI Staff

Analysis

Deadly Iranian missile barrages likely flout key principles of laws of war

Casualties from Iran’s missile attacks have been almost exclusively civilian; many of Tehran’s missiles are highly inaccurate yet are fired at residential neighborhoods

Israeli air defense system fires to intercept Iranian missiles over Tel Aviv, June 13, 2025. (AP/Leo Correa)

Smoke billows from the site of a missile hit in the northern city of Haifa on June 16, 2025, where three people were killed in an Iranian strike on the Bazan oil refinery complex. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)

Three people killed in overnight missile strike on Haifa were at Bazan oil refinery

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

L to R: Michael Nahum; Belina Ashkenazi; Meir Vaknin; Efrat Saranga, killed when an Iranian ballistic missile hit a Bat Yam apartment building on June 15, 2025. (Social media, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Two more victims of Bat Yam missile impact named, one thought to still be under rubble

By ToI Staff, Charlie Summers and Emanuel Fabian

Reporter's notebook

Lacking private safe areas, Israelis find community and chaos in public shelters

With 56% of country’s homes unprotected, ballistic missile attacks from Iran are forcing many to seek safety in schools, train stations and public areas

Residents shelter in a Jerusalem school during a missile attack, June 16, 2025.(Zev Stub/Times of Israel)

Patrons of a cafe whose windows were shattered by a nearby missile impact sit next to piles of broken glass, Tel Aviv, June 16, 2025. (Niv Elis/ JTA)

Reporter's notebookFor Israelis under Iranian barrage, deadly nights give way to days brimming with life

By Deborah Danan

Hamas officials claim IDF killed at least 50 people near aid site; army checking

By Agencies, Nurit Yohanan and Emanuel Fabian

Rescuers allege tank fired at crowd; unclear which Khan Younis aid center involved; IDF says it is aware of incident in which troops opened fire, is probing reports

Palestinians transport a man who was allegedly injured by Israeli fire while waiting near a food aid center into Khan Younis' Nasser Hospital in the southern Gaza Strip on June 17, 2025. (AFP)

Cpt. Tal Movshovitz (L) and Staff Sgt. Naveh Leshem (Israel Defense Forces)

2 soldiers killed in Gaza; another mass casualty incident reported near GHF aid site

By Emanuel Fabian, Lazar Berman and Agencies

Cpt. Tal Movshovitz, killed by explosive in building, Staff Sgt. Naveh Leshem killed in attack on APC; Hamas-linked authorities say 34 Gazans killed trying to reach distribution site

El Al airplanes on the tarmac at Israel's Ben-Gurion International Airport, October 4, 2022. (Moshe Shai/ Flash90/ File)

Israel embarks on plan to bring more than 100,000 Israelis stuck abroad safely home

By Sharon Wrobel

El Al opens registration for stranded passengers to map return flights; Arkia creates flight schedule for Israelis to return from Athens, Larnaca, Rome, Paris and New York

Transportation Minister Miri Regev holds a press conference ahead of Israel's 77th Independence Day Ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, on April 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israelis stranded abroad should ‘enjoy’ extra away time, transport minister says

By Sharon Wrobel and ToI Staff

Birthright participants doing a nature activity in the Negev after their visits were indefinitely extended due to Israel's war with Iran, June 2025. (Birthright Israel)

Inside Story'We feel safe, but we really want to go home'

All part of the birthright? Tour groups stranded in Israel hunker down amid missile fire

With skies closed since start of conflict with Iran, participants in Birthright and other trips struggle with nervous families and unknown timelines while sheltering from rocket attacks

Illustrative: Clutching bags of essentials, Petah Tikva residents evacuate homes shattered by Iranian missile strike, June 16, 2025. (Stav Levaton/Times of Israel)

'I hope this war will close the Oct. 7 chapter'

Oct. 7 evacuees from Kibbutz Re’im are fleeing back home amid Iranian missile fire

Back in their protected rooms, survivors of the onslaught face renewed trauma as successes in the war with Iran cause them to ask where the military was during the 2023 massacre

Trauma therapists Jaclyn Wolfman, left, and Miri Bar-Halpern are co-authors of a paper about the ways Jewish fears of antisemitism or distress over the October 7, 2023, Hamas atrocities have been dismissed or downplayed. (Courtesy via JTA)

Interview

These Boston therapists put a name to the dismissal of Jewish distress after Oct. 7

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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Supporters of Iraqi pro-Iran groups wheel a screen displaying Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, during a protest in Baghdad near the green zone, the ultra-secured neighborhood hosting the US embassy, on June 16, 2025, (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP)

AnalysisIraq treads a tightrope to avoid being drawn into Israel-Iran conflict

The sparsely attended Knesset session amid conflict with Iran, in Jerusalem on June 16, 2025. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)

Pared-down Knesset convenes in conference room for wartime session amid Iran strikes

Smoke rises from an oil storage facility after it appeared to have been struck by an Israeli strike in Tehran, Iran, on Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Oil prices up, US futures down after warnings to residents of Tehran to flee

By AP and ToI Staff

L to R: Former prime minister Naftali Bennett at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on May 26, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Opposition Leader MK Yair Lapid at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 9, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90); National Unity Party leader MK Benny Gantz leads a faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on June 9, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Opposition rallies around Iran campaign, despite long opposing PM’s leadership

By AP and Sam Sokol

Screenshot from a video shows violence on the streets of Amsterdam in which Israelis were attacked by anti-Israel gangs on November 8, 2024. (X screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Coordinated anti-Israel riots in Amsterdam were fueled by social-media, probes find

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Under Leonard Lauder's leadership, Estée Lauder Companies would grow into a global empire with a portfolio that includes Clinique, La Mer, The Ordinary, MAC Cosmetics and Bobbi Brown Cosmetics. (Estee Lauder Companies)

Leonard Lauder, who expanded family’s business into cosmetics empire, dies at 92

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

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