Iranian war and violence news

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WTF would be needed to destroy these bunkers?

Tactical nuke? Elite special forces?

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Israel accuses Iran of violating ceasefire, orders new strikes

The Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Tuesday that Iran violated the ceasefire agreement announced by President Trump and ordered the military to strike Tehran

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Israel vows forceful response, says Iran violates Trump ceasefire

Israel said that Iran had committed a ''severe violation" of the Trump-announced ceasefire, and vowed to respond with force, only hours after Iran signaled it was willing to abide by the deal.Defense Minister Israel Katz said Israel had detected Iranian missile launches and ordered "high-intensity operations" targeting Iran. Iranian media reported that the country has denied a ceasefire violation.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/is ... r-AA1HeVFt

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-israe ... -fighting/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualtie ... Israel_war

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The U.S. Strike on Iran’s Nuclear Sites: Preliminary Thoughts on the Outcomes
By Herbert Lin
June 24, 2025

Conclusion:

(Bulletin of Atomic Scientists) In the short term, assuming the attacks were militarily successful, the Iran nuclear program has clearly been set back by amounts of time ranging from several months to several years, depending on the assumptions made about how far along Iran had been in its progress towards building a nuclear weapon.

But whether the Iranian nuclear program has been permanently crippled is a different question, the answer to which involves a most important uncertainty: Will there be regime change in Iran? If there is no regime change, it’s hard to believe that the current rulers of Iran will accept this setback as establishing a permanent (new) status quo, and in the future, it’s hard to see what incentive Iran has in accepting a diplomatic constraint on its nuclear ambitions. That is: Future political or diplomatic arrangements with Iran on its nuclear program will be most unlikely. Thus, without regime change, the US attack last week is likely to be just the first of many such attacks in the future—a periodic mowing of Iran’s nuclear lawn, so to speak.

Finally, how will Iran respond to this attack by the United States on its nuclear program? On Monday, June 22, Iran launched a number of short-range and medium-range ballistic missiles against al Udeid Air Base, a US air base in Qatar. Going forward, no one knows what Iran will do next or when they will do it, but it’s hard to imagine that US citizens around the world are safer today than they were a week ago.

The US strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities are a watershed moment in the ongoing struggle over Iran’s nuclear ambitions. While the attacks have likely inflicted significant damage on critical nuclear facilities in the short term, their ultimate success in halting Iran’s nuclear program is far from assured. The technical challenges of destroying deeply buried sites, the possibility of relocated materials, the impossibility of destroying Iranian knowledge and expertise about uranium enrichment and weapons design and production, and the resilience of the Iranian regime all suggest that this may be only a temporary setback, and any long-term solution will not lie in a military-only approach.

Read more here: https://thebulletin.org/2025/06/the-us ... -heading

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Iran turns to internal crackdown in wake of 12-day war

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-ea ... 025-06-25/

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Iran will likely be able to produce enriched uranium 'in a matter of months', IAEA chief says

The UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi says Iran likely will be able to begin to produce enriched uranium “in a matter of months”, despite damage to several nuclear facilities from US and Israeli attacks, CBS News said on Saturday.

Israel launched a bombing campaign on Iranian nuclear and military sites on 13 June, saying it was aimed at keeping Iran from developing a nuclear weapon – an ambition the Islamic republic has consistently denied.

The US subsequently bombed three key facilities used for Tehran’s atomic program.

Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, says the extent of the damage to the nuclear sites is “serious”, but the details are unknown. Donald Trump insisted Iran’s nuclear program had been set back “decades”.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/ ... chief-says

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935 people killed in Israeli strikes on Iran, official says

Source: Reuters

By Reuters
June 30, 20257:37 AM CDTUpdated 1 hour ago

DUBAI, June 30 (Reuters) - Some 935 people were killed in Iran during the 12-day air war with Israel, based on the latest forensic data, a spokesperson for the Iranian judiciary said on Monday, according to state media.

Among the dead were 38 children and 132 women, the spokesperson, Asghar Jahangir, said.

The death toll was a sharp increase from a previous Iranian health ministry tally of 610 killed in Iran before a ceasefire went into effect on Tuesday last week.

Jahangir also revised the number of people killed in an Israeli strike on Tehran's Evin Prison to 79, up from 71.

Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-ea ... 025-06-30/

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The Madmen Behind the Israel/US-Iran War
By Sasan Fayazmanesh
July 4, 2025

Introduction:

(Counterpunch) It has now been more than 30 years since the butcher of Auschwitz Gaza, Benjamin Netanyahu, warned the world that Iran would soon acquire nuclear weapons. In 1992, in an address to the Israeli Knesset, he stated: “Within three to five years, we can assume that Iran will become autonomous in its ability to develop and produce a nuclear bomb.” He repeated the warning and whispered the need to invade Iran in the ears of every US president ever since. The warnings became louder after Al Qaeda attacked the US. The Jerusalem Post reported on September 12, 2001, that “Netanyahu warned last night that the attack could be a harbinger of worse tragedies that could kill millions of people once Iran or Iraq acquires nuclear weapons.”

Additional extract:

Netanyahu could not convince Obama that bombing Iran was necessary. Instead, Obama signed a deal with Iran in 2015 called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). In exchange for some sanctions relief, the JCPOA placed a 15-year limit on Iran’s enrichment of uranium to a maximum level of 3.67%, limited the stockpile of enriched uranium to 300 kilograms, and put a 10-year limit on the number of centrifuges Iran could operate. Netanyahu did everything in his power to sabotage the enactment of the JCPOA. He even appeared before a joint session of the US Congress in 2015 to challenge the US president and overturn the deal. He received standing ovations, but the JCPOA continued to hold despite much opposition to it in the US Congress.

But why was Netanyahu crying wolf for all those years and trying to defeat an agreement that assured peaceful nature of Iran’s nuclear program? The answer is that Netanyahu never believed that Iran is building a nuclear bomb. Like the case of Iraq, Netanyahu, as I had argued for many years in my books and articles, used the issue of a nuclear bomb as a ruse to bring about the so-called regime change in Iran. Why a regime change? Because Iran, similar to Saddam Hussein, supported militant groups that stood in the way of total annexation of Palestinian lands.

Read more here: https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/0 ... an-war/

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Nearly half a million Afghans forced out of Iran since June, UN agency says

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/2 ... june-1-iom

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Rips Trump’s Iran Threat as ‘Everything We Voted Against in ’24’
By Alex Griffing
January 2, 2025

Introduction:

(Mediaite) Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) attacked President Donald Trump on Friday over his message of solidarity with the pro-democracy protests gripping Iran.

Trump posted to his Truth Social account in the early morning hours, “If Iran shots [sic] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go.”

Greene shared a screenshot of the post and added, “An Israeli cybersecurity billionaire demanding to take away Americans guaranteed First Amendment Free Speech and President Trump threatening war and sending in troops to Iran is everything we voted against in ‘24.”

Read more here: https://www.mediaite.com/politics/marj ... t-in-24/

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Trump Says Iran Will 'Get Hit Very Hard' If Protesters Killed

https://www.barrons.com/news/trump-says ... d-fc18f83a

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I haven't been able to find any independent, reliable sources for this claim. Even if it were true, it doesn't mean that the regime is falling, as protestors did seize a city in 2022, only for the regime to quickly recapture it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63021113