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What Matters Most On Saturday, June 21, 2025

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A handout picture provided by the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's office on March 21, 2025, shows him addressing the crowd during his annual Nowruz speech, in Tehran, Iran. (KHAMENEI.IR / AFP)

Chain of command still functioning; cellphone use banned

Iran’s Khamenei said to pick three potential successors as he hides in bunker

Supreme leader, 86, communicates via trusted aide, sources tell NYT; also selects replacements for any more military commanders killed by Israel; top brass told to stay underground

In this photo released by US Air National Guard, a US Air Force B-2 Spirit stealth bomber takes off from a Royal Australian Air Force base in Amberley, Australia, Sept. 11, 2024 (Staff Sgt. Whitney Erhart/US Air National Guard via AP)

US moves B-2 stealth bombers toward Guam, amid uncertainty over possible strike on Iran

By Reuters and ToI Staff

A crashed Hermes 900 drone in Iran, June 18, 2025. (IRIB screenshot)

Live updates (closed)

June 21: IDF says it destroyed 950 Iranian drones before they could be launched at Israel

Iran’s missile launching capacities heavily degraded by strikes over past week, army says * GHF: Gazans ‘desperately need more aid’ * Israeli airlines to offer limited seats on outgoing flights

11:58 pm

In first since start of conflict, 24 hours pass without Iranian missile fire at Israel
9:22 pm

Iran's Revolutionary Guards say 'vast wave' of drones launched at Israel
8:24 pm

Iranian media reports Israeli strikes in southern city of Shiraz

Footage released by the IDF on June 21, 2025, shows the aftermath of Israeli strikes on Iran's Isfahan nuclear facility. (Israel Defense Forces)

IDF hits Isfahan nuclear site for 2nd time; Iran fires 5 missiles in overnight barrage

By Emanuel Fabian

Military says strikes intended to cause further damage to Iran’s nuclear program; Iranian media says no hazmat leak; debris from intercepted ballistic missile sparks central Israel fire

An injured man is evacuated from a site struck by an Iranian missile in Haifa, Israel, June 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner)

At least 23 wounded by Iranian missile in Haifa; woman dies of heart attack in Karmiel

By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at a plenary session of the St. Petersburg International Econimic Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 20, 2025. (Vyacheslav Viktorov/ Roscongress Foundation via AP)

Putin: Peace offers shared with Israel and Iran; Moscow hasn’t abandoned Tehran

By AP and ToI Staff

PM visits science institute hit by missile from 'evil regime'

IDF chief warns Israelis must brace for ‘prolonged campaign’ against Iran

By Emanuel Fabian and Lazar Berman

Eyal Zamir says Iran had 2,500 missiles at start of campaign, was set to reach 8,000 in two years; military sources indicate Israel not running low on interceptors

IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir issues a video statement from an airbase, June 20, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)

Israeli air defenses fire intercept missiles during an Iranian attack over Tel Aviv, early June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Denying reports, IDF indicates that it’s not running low on missile interceptors

By Emanuel Fabian

Israeli soldiers and first responders check the damage caused to a building from an Iranian strike in Beit She'an on June 21, 2025. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)

ToI podcastDaily Briefing June 21: Day 624 – IDF head cautions no quick win in ongoing Israel-Iran war

By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press upon arrival at Morristown Municipal Airport in Morristown, New Jersey, on June 20, 2025. Trump is heading to his Bedminster golf resort for a MAGA Inc. fundraising dinner. (Photo by Mandel NGAN / AFP)

'Israel doing well, in terms of war. Iran doing less well'

Trump indicates he’s disinclined to restrain Israel ‘when it’s winning’ against Iran

US president dismisses European effort to initiate talks, rejects his intel director’s assessment on nuclear breakout time, suggests Israel lacks the means to take out Fordo alone

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar speaks to Germany's Bild newspaper in Jerusalem, in an interview published June 20, 2025. (Screen capture: Bild)

Sa’ar claims Iran op added 2-3 years to time it would take Tehran to get nuclear bomb

By ToI Staff and AFP

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy (R) and Germany's Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul (2nd R) greet Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (L) prior to a meeting on Tehran's nuclear program, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva, Switzerland, June 20, 2025. (Handout / German Federal Foreign Office / AFP)

Top European diplomats meet Iranian FM, test waters for new nuclear deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Saeed Izadi, head of the Palestine Corps in the IRGC Quds Force, in an undated photo. (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

Zamir: 'A key moment that makes entire Middle East safer'

IRGC Palestinian division chief, an architect of Oct. 7, killed in overnight strike in Iran

By Emanuel Fabian

IDF: Saeed Izadi funded and armed Hamas before massacre; separate strikes kill Quds Force official in charge of supplying weapons to proxies, drone unit commander

An Iranian carries a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during an anti-Israeli rally in Tehran on June 20, 2025. (AFP)

Thousands protest in Tehran and the region against Israel’s war on Iran

By AFP and ToI Staff

A man walks in the damaged headquarters of Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, Iranian state television, in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran’s internet blackout leaves public in dark, creates uneven picture of war with Israel

By Farnoush Amiri

What the missiles that hit Weizman could not destroy

It’s not the absence of tragedy that distinguishes Israel, but the relentless insistence on rebuilding anyway

Living between pride and guilt

Moving to Israel was my dream, but my heart breaks for my daughter, who clings to us and won’t stay in a room alone ’in case the siren comes’

Israel is set to start outbound flights Monday as more than 50,000 citizens return home

By Sharon Wrobel

Diplomats, tourists, youth and sports groups stuck are poised to depart on half-full planes; thousands of Israelis return home via air, sea and land border crossings

An El Al flight takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport, outside of Tel Aviv, June 19, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Interview

Herzog to ToI: Iran wages ‘war against the Jews,’ while Israel is ‘defending the West’

Returning from Soroka Medical Center after Thursday’s missile attack, the president offers a stark perspective on a situation he describes as shared by Israelis and Diaspora Jews alike

President Isaac Herzog visits the site of an Iranian missile strike in Petah Tikva on June 16, 2025. (Haim Zach / GPO)

Illustrative: A man flashes a victory sign while riding his motorbike past an anti-Israeli banner depicting Iranian soldiers heading to attack Israeli territory, at Islamic Revolution Square in Tehran, Iran, June 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

A UK woman tried to call her mother in Iran. A robotic voice answered the phone

By AP and ToI Staff

Nine Iranian expats say desperate calls to loved ones amid internet blackout were redirected to apparently low-fi AI bot that analysts say may be an Iranian anti-hacker measure

The opening ceremony of the 20th Maccabiah Games, the world's largest Jewish athletic competition, March 5, 2017. (Flash90)

Postponing Maccabiah due to war, organizers want 2026 games to be ‘bigger than Olympics’

Delay of ‘Jewish Olympics’ that brings 8,000 competitors from 55 countries to Israel prompts sadness and pragmatic optimism: ‘We just hope the war is over quickly’

Preparing hot food for displaced Gazans living in tents at the Mesk Layan camp in Muwasi, southern Gaza, May 22, 2025. (Jumpstarting Hope in Gaza)

Inside story

Palestinians and Israelis partner to feed thousands of Gazans as food aid fluctuates

Arava Institute and Damour buy food from Gazan suppliers, with prices set to rise; organizations set sights on providing water and sewage system components too

Palestinians carry sacks and boxes of humanitarian aid that was unloaded from a UN convoy heading to Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip, June 16, 2025. (AP/Jehad Alshrafi)

EU report finds ‘indications’ that Israeli actions in Gaza violate cooperation deal

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Israeli soldiers and medics at the scene of a fatal terror stabbing next to the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank, on September 16, 2018. (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

US Supreme Court unanimously rules that American terror victims can sue PA and PLO

By Reuters and ToI Staff

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Illustrative: Smoke billows for the second day from the Shahran oil depot, northwest of Tehran, on June 16, 2025. (AFP)

Hundreds of US citizens have left Iran since IDF strikes began – US diplomatic cable

State Department document says ‘numerous’ American citizens have faced ‘delays and harassment’ while trying to leave the Islamic Republic, with at least two reported detained

An Iranian carries a portrait of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as others wave the national flag and chant slogans during an anti-Israeli rally in Tehran on June 20, 2025. (Photo by AFP)

UK, Germany join other nations in pulling embassy staff from Iran

By AFP

This handout photograph taken and released by Turkish Presidency Press Office on June 19, 2025, shows Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) and Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev (L) greeting supporters during the ceremony of the 250 thousand's post-quake houses in Kahramanmaras. (Photo by Handout / Turkish Presidency Press Office / AFP)

Erdogan says Israel-Iran war near ‘point of no return,’ vows to boost missile production

By Agencies and ToI Staff

A delegation of Israelis traveled to Tamra to console the Arab families mourning there after a deadly missile strike in June 2025. (Courtesy Haviva Ner-David via JTA)

'The missile makes no distinction between Jews and Arabs'

Deadly Iran strike on Tamra sparked anti-Arab racism. A tidal wave of solidarity followed

By Deborah Danan

After a viral video showed some extremist Jewish Israelis celebrating attack that killed 4 women in the Muslim-majority city, many Jews showed up to hug the mourners

Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, center, speaks after his release from US federal immigration detention in Jena, Louisiana, June 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Matthew Hinton)

Anti-Israel activist Mahmoud Khalil released from US custody as he still may face deportation

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Wearing a keffiyeh outside detention center, former Columbia student rails at Trump after he was held three months ‘for actually protesting a genocide’

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters march outside Columbia University in New York, April 18, 2024. (Kena Betancur/AFP)

Nearly two-thirds of Jewish students at Columbia felt unaccepted after Oct. 7 – survey

By JTA and ToI Staff

Rowers paddle down the Charles River near the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 7, 2017. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Judge blocks Trump’s ban on foreign students at Harvard as he says ‘deal’ in the works

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A member of Palestine Action sprays red paint on a plane at RAF Brize Norton on June 20, 2025 (Screen grab)

UK set to ban anti-Israel group Palestine Action after break-in, vandalism at air base

By ToI Staff and Agencies

The entrance to the Barshop Jewish Community Center in San Antonio, Texas, is seen in a local news report on an alleged planned mass shooting at center, aired June 19, 2025. (Screen capture: KSAT12)

Suspect arrested for planning mass shooting at Texas Jewish community center

By Grace Gilson

Illustrative: Thousands of Hasidic men converge for the funeral of Rachmastrivka Rebbe in Borough Park, Brooklyn, on August 16, 2023. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)

Board of Haredi news site preaching openness quits after founder renounces mission

By Asaf Elia-Shalev

Republican US Rep. Max Miller of Ohio speaks at an annual leadership meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas, Nevada, October 28, 2023. (AP Photo/David Becker)

Ohio man arrested for allegedly yelling ‘Dirty Jew’ at lawmaker, running him off road

By Grace Gilson

Illustrative: Members of the Lev Tahor Jewish community remain outside the Alida Espana de Arana special education school where where rescued children were being housed in Guatemala City on December 22, 2024. (Johan ORDÓÑEZ / AFP)

El Salvador extradites members of Jewish cult Lev Tahor accused of child sex abuse

By AFP and Luke Tress

Police officers stand guard at the gates of the Royal Air Force Akrotiri base, a British overseas territory near the Cypriot coastal city of Limassol on January 14, 2024. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou / AFP)

Alleged member of Iran’s IRGC arrested in Cyprus over plot to attack military bases

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