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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 643

Amir Hatami

People gather in a underground shelter in Tel Aviv on June 23, 2025, after sirens sounded across the country as missiles were fired from Iran (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
June 23, 2025, 12:58 pm
Iran fires 6-7 missiles at Israel over 40 minutes; IDF targets Tehran with ‘unprecedented’ strikes
Israel Electric Corporation says missile impact near ‘strategic infrastructure facility’ in south caused temporary power disruptions; Israeli drone shot down over Iran
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
File: Amir Hatami listens during the Conference on International Security in Moscow, Russia, April 4, 2018. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)
March 16, 2021, 6:08 pm
Iran’s defense minister says country must ready for nuclear, chemical attacks
Amir Hatami warns ‘enemies of humanity’ will use any means to achieve war goals, including biological warfare
By ToI Staff and Agencies
File: Amir Hatami listens during the Conference on International Security in Moscow, Russia, April 4, 2018. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP)
March 7, 2021, 2:10 pm
If Israel attacks, we’ll raze Tel Aviv and Haifa, warns Iranian defense minister
Amir Hatami says ‘Zionist regime out of desperation’ threatens Islamic Republic but knows the consequences; Rouhani urges Europe not to exert pressure over 2015 nuclear deal
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Iranian mourners attend the burial ceremony of slain nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh at Imamzadeh Saleh shrine in northern Tehran, on November 30, 2020. (HAMED MALEKPOUR / TASNIM NEWS / AFP)
November 30, 2020, 6:40 pm
Iran accuses exiled dissident group of helping Israel kill top nuclear scientist
Paris-based MEK denies involvement, says top official making accusation is spreading ‘rage, rancor and lies’ after assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
By AFP and ToI Staff
Military personnel stand near the flag-draped coffin of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, during a funeral ceremony in Tehran, Iran, on November 30, 2020. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)
November 30, 2020, 10:54 am
At nuke chief’s funeral, Iran defense minister vows vengeance, nuclear progress
Hatami says ‘the enemy made a mistake’ with Fakhrizadeh assassination; ceremony attended by Revolutionary Guards, Quds Force chiefs
By ToI Staff
People and rescue teams amid bodies and debris after a Ukrainian plane carrying 176 passengers crashed near Imam Khomeini airport in the Iranian capital Tehran, killing everyone on board, January 8, 2020. (Rouhollah Vahdati/ISNA/AFP)
February 19, 2020, 1:28 pm
Iran: Flight recorder of downed Ukrainian jetliner ‘considerably damaged’
Maintaining refusal to hand over black box device, Iranian defense minister says his country will repair it and then attempt to read information stored on it
By ToI Staff
In this Nov. 5, 2016 photo, Gen. Esmail Ghaani speaks in a meeting in Tehran, Iran. A new Iranian general has stepped out of the shadows to lead the country's expeditionary Quds Force, becoming responsible for Tehran's proxies across the Mideast as the Islamic Republic threatens the US with "harsh revenge" for killing its previous head, Qassem Soleimani. (Mohammad Ali Marizad/Tasnim News Agency via AP)
January 21, 2020, 9:19 am
Iran warns that ‘freedom-seekers’ worldwide want to avenge Soleimani’s killing
New commander of IRGC’s expeditionary Quds Force says Tehran’s enemy ‘understands no language but force’
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami speaks at the Conference on International Security in Moscow, Russia, April 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
January 18, 2020, 8:04 pm
Iran to US: Don’t test us; missile attack on base in Iraq was just a ‘warning’
Defense minister says Tehran prepared to respond forcefully to US ‘adventurism’ following drone strike that killed Soleimani
By ToI Staff and AP
In this picture released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on August 13, 2018, Defense Minister Gen. Amir Hatami walks past a Fateh-e Mobin (Bright Conqueror) missile during inauguration of its production line at an undisclosed location, Iran. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)
September 25, 2019, 6:53 pm
Iran’s defense minister rejects any deal on missile program
Hatami says any arrangement with the US would damage his country’s capabilities; Guards chief says Tehran showing ‘restraint’ but will respond to ‘troublemakers’
By AP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, third right, and US Ambassador David Friedman, third left, aboard the US Navy's guided-missile destroyer USS Ross, docked at Ashdod Port on October 11, 2018. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool/Flash90)
August 8, 2019, 4:26 pm
Iran says Israeli involvement in Gulf naval mission would be ‘disastrous’
Defense chief slams Israel’s willingness to assist US-led efforts as ‘highly provocative’; IRGC chief warns Hamas and Hezbollah will cause Jewish state’s ‘collapse’ in next war
By AFP and ToI Staff
Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami speaks at the Conference on International Security in Moscow, Russia, April 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
August 6, 2019, 1:21 pm
Iran unveils three new precision-guided missiles
Defense Minister Hatami says weapons meant to counter ‘viciousness and conspiracies of the Great Satan America and its mercenaries’
By AFP
Maj. Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi, head of the Iranian Army. (Screen capture)
July 8, 2019, 10:27 am
Iran not looking for war, says commander of country’s armed forces
Defense minister calls Britain’s seizing of oil tanker off Gibraltar ‘piracy,’ contrary to international regulations and nuclear deal commitments
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami speaks at the Conference on International Security in Moscow, Russia, April 4, 2018. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)
June 19, 2019, 2:35 pm
Iran ‘categorically rejects’ US tanker attack allegations
Tehran dismisses ‘unsubstantiated’ video evidence provided by Washington that allegedly shows Iranians removing unexploded mine
By AFP
This photo released by the official website of the Iranian Defense Ministry on Sunday, June 9, 2019, shows the Khordad 15, a new surface-to-air missile battery at an undisclosed location in Iran. The system uses locally made missiles that resemble the HAWK missiles that the US once sold to the shah and later delivered to the Islamic Republic in the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)
June 9, 2019, 6:53 pm
Iran unveils new advanced missile defense system it says can destroy enemy jets
Islamic Republic’s defense minister says the Khordad 15 can trace targets 150 km away, intercept them at a range of 120 km and can destroy six objects at once
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to journalists during a visit to inspect a naval Iron Dome defense system in the northern port of Haifa on February 12, 2019. (Jack Guez/Pool/AFP)
May 15, 2019, 9:19 pm
PM said to tell his defense chiefs to keep Israel out of Iran-US tensions
Netanyahu convenes security heads to discuss potential escalation, speaks to Pompeo, TV report says; assessment is reportedly that Israel unlikely to be targeted
By ToI Staff
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