Hello and welcome to this live blog. Here we keep you informed of the tensions sustained between Israel and Iran.
Daily life in Tehran has stopped. On the photo you can see the closed shops of the Grote Bazaar in the center of the Iranian capital.
Iran accuses Israel of war crime with attack on Iran hospital, Israel accuses that it has attacked a hospital on Monday in the Iranian city of Kermanshah. A spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs speaks of a “violent violation of international law” and a “war crime”. According to international law, hospitals may not be attacked, with a few exceptions.
The Iranian authorities have not reported anything about victims in the hospital. There would be rescue teams at work. Israel has not yet responded to the accusations.
The BBC has determined on the basis of images that the hospital is damaged. But the British broadcaster could not determine whether the hospital was the direct target, or whether there was ancillary damage.
Netanyahu: Israel busy achieving goals in Iran Israel is on track to achieve the set war goals in Iran, says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a visit to an air force base. According to Israel, those two goals are the removal of the nuclear threat from Iran and ensure that Iran cannot perform rocket attacks.
Netanyahu repeated that Israel “checks the entire airspace above Tehran”. Earlier, a spokesperson for the Israeli army said the same.
European Commission: “Russia not credible as a mediator” As far as the European Commission is concerned, Russia is not going to mediate in the conflict between Israel and Iran. “Russia has zero credibility,” says a spokesperson. Russia had offered both Iran and Israel at the end of last week as a mediator. Earlier today, Russia repeated to be willing to do so.
“Russia is constantly violating international law and the UN Charter,” says the European spokesperson. “In that light, Russia cannot be an objective mediator.” The European Commission refers, among other things, to the Russian invasion of Ukraine three years ago and the resulting war.
Returning Dutch people ‘not an issue’ The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is not busy withdrawing Dutch people from Israel or Iran. “That is not the case,” a spokesperson for the ministry told NU.nl. The Dutch did receive information from the embassy on Sunday how they can safely leave Israel.
On Friday, the ministry changed the travel advice for Israel to red. That means that people don’t have to travel to Israel because it is too dangerous. The travel advice for Iran has been red for some time. The ministry does not know how many Dutch people there are in Iran and Israel. “We have no exact figures about that, because there is no registration obligation for Dutch people abroad,” says the spokesperson.
Navigation signals of ships disturbed by Iran ships in the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf suffer from disturbed navigation signals. The signals are disturbed from the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, reports the Joint Maritime Information Center (JMC), an organization that monitors shipping in the area. The JMC advises not only to use GPS when navigating through the seas around Iran. Instead, ships can use the radar or landmarks on the coast.
The shipping sector is already more reluctant with traffic in the region near Iran since the first attacks by Israel on Iran on Friday. As a precaution, some shipping companies no longer offer their oil tankers for transport to and from ports around the Persian Gulf, Reuters reports.
Does Israel have nuclear weapons? Israel has never publicly admitted to own nuclear weapons. But according to the new annual report of Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Israel would also be modernizing his nuclear arsenal. In 2024, the country carried out a test with a rocket drive system that may be related to certain ballistic missiles with core capacity. Israel also seems to modernize a plutonium production reactor in Dimona.
The country has strongly pronounced the nuclear program of Iran. Israel sees – just like the West – the increase in uranium in Iran as a threat. But Israel therefore also seems to be concerned with the development of nuclear weapons.
According to the report, Israel has saved an estimated ninety usable nuclear heads. For comparison: the storage of Russia seems to be the largest with 2,591 core heads.
Tehran seems to be abandoned, only a few people walk on the street. In the city, warnings for attacks sound after Israel had threatened with attacks on the Iranian capital.
Russia also wants to mediate Russia remains willing to act as a mediator in the conflict. The Kremlin also says that the proposal to store Iranian uranium in Russia is still on the table. Why Russia wants to store that uranium remains unclear.
“We remain willing to mediate if necessary,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told Reuters. He also noted that the “random causes” should be tackled for this “escalation in the dams”. Peskov calls the situation seriously and states that action is needed.
Turkey wants to mediate in nuclear conversations, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says that his country is willing to mediate in the conflict between Iran and Israel. During a telephone conversation with his Iranian colleague Masoud Pezeshkian, he said that he wants to take on a mediating role in resuming nuclear negotiations and ending the tensions between the countries. Israel has not yet responded to the ruling.
Poland is going to evacuate citizens from Israel Poland evacuates about two hundred citizens who are in Israel. They are brought back home via the Jordanian capital Amman, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs says at Reuters news agency. It is about tourists and people who would stay there briefly.
Hardly any freedom of the press in Iran Developments on Iran’s side are difficult to follow. The country is very low on the freedom of the press: namely in 176 of the 180. This makes independent media be silenced. Getting independent figures and information about victims and attacks is therefore very difficult.
The press agencies that do write about it are almost all affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRG) and are checked for what they write. This makes a critical noise on Islam or the government.
Iranian media: Israeli attacks in West Iran Israel has carried out an attack on a fire brigade building in the municipality of Musiyan, at the border with Iraq. This is reported by the Tasnim news agency, which is affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRG). Drones would also have been shot. Media report that a hospital has also been hit. It is not known whether there have been victims.
A large cloud of smoke can be seen with an oil depot in northwestern Iran. The infrastructure is more often the target of Israeli attacks.
Defense minister reverses pronunciation: “Iranian citizens don’t hurt” Israel does not intend to deliberately hurt the inhabitants of Tehran, says Israeli defense minister Israel Katz. With that he returns to his earlier statements, in which he threatened with an attack on citizens in the Iranian capital.
“I want to make it obvious: it is not the intention to physically harm the inhabitants of Tehran’s murderous dictator the inhabitants of Israel,” says Katz. But he does state that the citizens have to pay the “price for the dictatorship” and leave their houses in areas where “attacks on government goals and infrastructure are needed”.
Atomic agency sees no major damage to nuclear power stations Rafael Grossi, head of the International Atomer Energy Agency (IAEA), says that there are no signs of further damage to the nuclear power stations in Iran by Israeli attacks. He emphasized that the IAEA continues to do safety inspections in Iran as soon as safety permits. That is a requirement within the non-proliferation agreement (NPV), where Iran threatens to get out.
Israel claims control over airspace Tehran The Israeli army says it has the “complete control over Tehran” from the air. “We have destroyed a third of the rocket launch platforms of the Iranian regime,” says a spokesperson for the IDF. The army announced that the attacks against the “threatening Iran” continue.
Iran threatens to step out of the treaty against nuclear weapons and thus further focuses on the geopolitical tensions. Read more about the threat here.
Iran wants to leave Convention against Nuclear Weapons The Iranian Parliament is preparing a bill to leave the so-called Non-Profileneration Convention (NPV). That is a treaty in which it has been agreed not to distribute nuclear weapons. A spokesperson for the Iranian foreign ministery said this. He does claim that Tehran is against the development of nuclear weapons.
A synagogue has been hit with Iranian attacks in southern Israel. The things that are still intact are taken to another location.
Atomic agency holds emergency meeting The International Atomer Energy Agency (IAEA) is today holding an emergency meeting to discuss the consequences of Israeli attacks on the Iranian nuclear installations.
Iran wants the attacks to be convicted and called for it at the IAEA council. But according to BBC News, chances are not that that idea will be supported.
Although the IAEA has expressed his concerns about the attacks, there are no indications of irreversible damage to nuclear facilities or a lack of safety of those installations.
Iranian missiles have also destroyed a residential area in Haifa. At least three people were killed. The death toll due to the nocturnal attacks of Iran has therefore risen to eight.
Hundreds of injured in Israeli hospital The Israeli Ministry of Health reports that 287 people were admitted to the hospital last night. One person is in a serious condition, most victims are slightly injured, writes The Times of Israel.
Iran denies the development of nuclear weapons Iran denies that it is working on the development of nuclear weapons. “Iran is not planning to develop nuclear weapons,” says President Masoud Pezeshkian. He emphasizes that Iran has the right to continue to investigate nuclear energy. With his statements he repeats that of the Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Iran would work on a nuclear program. The country would now have almost enough uranium to produce atomic weapons. Israel and other Western countries see that as a threat. Trump therefore tried to close a deal about the atomic program, but that has not been possible to date.
Israeli defense minister threatens with attack on citizens The Israeli defense minister Israel Katz threatens with an attack on Tehran. According to him, Iran consciously focuses his attacks on citizens to prevent the IDF from increasing attacks. “The residents of Tehran will soon pay the price,” writes Katz on X.
That seems like a threat to the Iranian citizens. He said nothing about details of a possible attack. The threat comes after the attacks, among others, Haifa and Tel Aviv, where at least five people died.
In Israel there is still a warning to look for coverage in shelters. As a result, metro stations, bunkers and parking garages are full of Israelis who await the attacks.
American embassy in Tel Aviv damaged the American embassy in Tel Aviv is “slightly damaged” by an Iranian rocket attack. The staff must hide, so that the embassy remains closed today. Ambassador Mike Huckabee emphasizes X that the American staff was not injured.
On this satellite photo you could see the damage to a complex of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRG) in Tehran. With the precision attack, the Israeli army wants to weaken the IRG.
Death toll due to attack at Tel Aviv runs on the number of people who died in an Iranian attack near Tel Aviv has risen to five. Rescue workers have taken a fifth body from under the rubble, writes The Times of Israel. Other victims and possible survivors are still being sought.
IDF falls Iranian command centers to the IDF carries attacks on command social centers of the Quds troops of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRG) and the army. According to the army, attacks were carried out on Israel from those centers.
A residential area in Tel Aviv was hit by an Iranian rocket attack. Dozens of people were injured. Rescue workers absorb the damage.
Von der Leyen: ‘Iran may not have a nuclear weapon’ Chairman of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen believes that long -term diplomacy is the best approach for Iran. Yet Israel does not call for an immediate ceasefire. In a telephone conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, she emphasizes that “Iran should have absolutely no nuclear weapon”.
Von der Leyen states that Israel has the right to defend itself and Iran calls the “most important source of regional instability”. During the G7 summit in Canada, she said that “this threat must also be tackled”.
With an attack on Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, the damage becomes clear in the morning. Multiple buildings have been destroyed.
Brand breaks out at the power plant in Haifa after rocketing impacts according to the British maritime safety company Ambrey Brak broke fire at an power plant near the Israeli port in Haifa. The company says it has verified video footage from two hypersonic missiles that struck.
Haifa is strategically important because of an oil refinery, a seaport and a naval base. According to The Times of Israel, the police have refused international media to record the damage.
Three deaths reported in nocturnal attack on Israel Iran last night performed a new rocket attack on Israel. Explosions have been reported in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa. At least three people died in the impacts, reports Ambulance Service David Adom.
In addition, 67 wounded were taken to the hospital. They are mostly slightly injured or in shock. Among them is also a thirty -year -old woman who is seriously ready.
Israel carries out attacks on rocket installations in Iran The Israeli army reported attacks last night on rocket installations in Central Iran. This is the fourth day of the Israeli offensive against the country.
“Our armed forces are currently taking attacks on rocket installations in Central Iran. We respond to this threat from both Israeli and Iranian airspace,” says a spokesperson for the Israeli army around midnight.
Iranian media report that the area around Parchin has been hit. The Mehr news agency published a video showing how air defense systems respond to the attacks there.
The IDF has stimulated Israeli citizens in different areas to stay close to their shelters. The chance that Iran will fire new rockets is high, says the army. Those attacks are not yet on the agenda, but the threat is great.
Iranian Ministry of Health has reported 224 deaths since the start of attacks The Iranian Ministry of Health reports that at least 224 people have been killed since the attacks of Israel started on Friday. More than a thousand people would also have been injured. More than ninety percent of them would be citizens. Furthermore, high -ranking soldiers and nuclear scientists would have been killed.
Several Iranian authorities have announced dead numbers, but it is unclear which figures overlap each other.
Israel kills head of intelligence service Iranian revolutionary guard in one of the Israeli attacks on Iran, General Mohammed Kazemi died. He is a high -ranking leader in the Iranian revolutionary guard (IRG), also known as the Islamic revolutionary guard. That is the Iranian military elite corps and is separate from the army. Here you can read more about the IRG.
Two other generals of the guard were also killed, reports the Iranian state news agency Irna. Earlier today, Netanyahu already told Fox News that Israel had killed the man.
Rescuers are on site in Haifa. There would have been several injured people, including a woman of 72, Times of Israel reports.
Israel is said to have hit Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs with one of the Israeli attacks on Tehran would have been the building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. An Iranian minister reports this tonight on X. According to the man, several citizens were injured, including a few people who work at the ministry itself.
Haifa hit new rocket attacks on Israel The Israeli coastal town of Haifa was hit by an Iranian air raid. In addition, buildings were damaged.
Rockets also just came to Jerusalem, a BBC reporter reports on the spot. She suspects that they have been brought down by the immune system.
Iran confirms the attack. Israël reports that it will also perform air strikes on Iran on Sunday evening.
USA would have been the plan of Israel to kill Iranian Opper Leader, Trump would have been in place in recent days an Israeli plan to kill the highest Iranian leader Ali Kamhanei. Two anonymous American sources report this to Reuters news agency. AP News news agency also received that from “an American officer who is familiar with the case”.
Israel is said to have made a plan to kill Ayatollah Khamenei, and have informed Trump about it. He would have pronounced his veto, the sources say. Netanyahu was interviewed today on Fox News . He didn’t want to respond to the messages there. “But I can tell you that we will do what we should do. And I think the United States knows what is good for the United States,” he said.
Five Ukrainian citizens were killed in the attacks on Israel, reports the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Among them would also be three children.
According to Kyiv, an Iranian rocket landed on a residential building in the Israeli city of Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv. The Ukrainians were in the building when the rocket struck.
The Dutch who are still in Israel and who want to leave because of the rocket attacks, must do so by land. Through Egypt or Jordan they can continue the journey to Europe by plane. The airspace is closed in Israel, reports the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
In recent days, the ministry received various phone calls from Dutch people whose flight had been canceled and who want to leave there. The travel advice for Israel was adjusted to red on Thursday, as you can see on the card. A red travel advice means that people don’t have to travel to Israel because it is too dangerous.
American embassy in Iraq warns of violence on American citizens in Iraq’s advantage of avoiding large meetings, warns the USDAD embassy in Baghdad. According to the embassy, there is “a chance of violence or attacks by foreign terrorist organizations against American companies and locations that are visited by American citizens.” Iraq is a neighboring country of Iran. On Thursday, the embassy in Iraq already evacuated staff in preparation for the attack of Israel.
On X you can see images of the fire created by the attack at the airport. Iranian state media report that there is no damage due to the attack.
Israel attacks a tank plane at Iranian Airport Mashhad Israel has bombed a tank plane at Mashhad airport in northeastern Iran. That is about 2,300 kilometers from the border of Israel. According to the Israeli army, it has been the furthest attack since the start of the operation. “The Air Force strives to get air predominance throughout Iran.”
Trump sees a role for Putin as a mediator According to Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin can mediate between Israel and Iran, he tells ABC News . “He’s ready. He called me about it. We talked about it for a long time,” says Trump.
According to the president, the US may also become involved in the conflict. But he does not say in which circumstances that would happen. The US is not currently involved in the military action, he emphasizes.
Israeli army: “We attack so that Iran cannot destroy us,” Israel attacks Iran because it wants to eliminate the possibilities that Iran can “destroy us,” reports a spokesperson for the army. “The attack does not have the goal of bringing the Iranian regime a fall,” he says.
Israel has carried out several attacks on, among other things, military targets. Iran reports that dozens of civilian deaths have already fallen, including children.
Iranian Ministry of Health reports 128 dead The Iranian Ministry of Health reports that since the first Israeli attack, 128 people have been killed and 900 people have been injured. Several Iranian authorities have announced dead numbers, but it is unclear which figures overlap each other.
The Iranian state television reported on Saturday that sixty people died in a rocket impact on a building in Tehran. There would be twenty children among the wounded. A spokesperson for the Iranian government states that at least thirty women and children have died in the last three days. In addition, several nuclear scientists have been killed.
Five car bombs explode in Tehran There are five car bombs exploded in the capital Tehran, reports the Iranian medium Irna . It is unknown whether there are victims. Iran accuses Israel of the explosions.
No report of rocketing impacts, citizens are allowed out of shelters. There are no signals that the rockets have caused devastations, reports Israeli authorities. A witness to Reuters has heard explosions in Tel Aviv.
The rocket attack seems to be over. The Israeli army has just reported that people can leave “safe places” throughout the country.
Air alarm in central and northern Israel in both the middle and north of Israel is currently the air alarm. Citizens are instructed to go to the shelters. The Israeli army reports that it is trying to bring down the rockets.
Iran fires new Golf rockets on Israel Iran has fired a new Golf rockets in several places in Israel. The air alarm is currently going in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Iran reports that it has fired ballistic rockets.
Coalition led by the US, Iranian drones, shoots two Iranian drones that went to Israel in the night from Saturday to Sunday above Iraq. Two Iraqi military officials report this. The drones were brought down by an international coalition led by the US, which fights against the Islamic State (IS).
“The international coalition on Ain al-Asad has shot two Iranian drones that were on its way to Israel,” one of the two officials reports. Ain al-Asad is an air force base in West Iraq where foreign troops are stationed.
Israel and Iran change threats from Iran warns Israel that it will act “even more decisively and fiercer” if Israel continues to attack. According to Staatsmedia, President Masoud Pezeshkian says that Iran has responded to now “powerful and appropriate” and that it will further increase the attacks if necessary.
Almost at the same time, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again said that Iran “will pay a very tough price” for the death of Israeli citizens. According to Netanyahu, Israel cannot help but attack Iran, because that country “threatens the existence of Israel”.
It is no longer possible with dozens of rockets at the same time, but Israel and Iran continue to bombard each other today. The Iranian state medium Tasnim now again reports two explosions in the center of the Iranian capital Tehran. According to the broadcaster, the explosions were caused by “rocket -like projectiles”.
Iranian newspapers unpack with the rocket attacks on Israel. The media in Iran are strictly controlled by the regime, which wants to present the attacks as a success.
Iran reports another six killed top soldiers The Islamic revolutionary guard announced that another six generals were killed by Israeli attacks. According to Iran, the total number of senior officers who died by the Israeli military campaign in Iran in recent days comes to fourteen.
Among the dead are prominent figures, such as the commander -in -chief of the revolutionary guard, Hussein Salami, and staff chef Mohammed Bagheri. Salami died in the first wave of Israeli attacks earlier this week.
The Iranian state firm agency Tasnim, which is closely linked to the revolutionary guard, reports that Salami, Bagheri and other killed commanders will be buried on Tuesday.
Israeli army officer: “Long list of targets in Iran” “Israel still has a long list of targets in Iran,” reports an Israeli army officer. The officer did not want to tell how much air strikes the country still wants to carry out. The military source states that Israel attacked eighty goals in the Iranian capital Tehran on Saturday evening.
France wants diplomacy to prevent escalation The nuclear program of Tehran is a threat to the safety of Israel and Europe, says French foreign minister Jean-Noël Barrot. “Diplomacy is the only way to prevent an escalation of the conflict between Israel and Iran.” The country has joined the statements of Germany. “We have always said that the best way to prevent and curb this threat is diplomacy.”
Iran also calls on citizens to look for coverage The Iranian authorities are now also calling for coverage. People can go to mosques, schools and metro stations.
Israeli oil refinery target of Iranian attack An Israeli oil refinery in Haifa is damaged after Iran rocket attacks. Although the damage has yet to be drawn up, the organization says that the refineries have remained operational. Some activities were stopped. There are no messages about victims.
Where does the hostility between Israel and Iran come from? Their bad relationship goes back to the late 1970s. At that time there was a Prwesterse Shah in power in Iran. The leader wanted to belong to the West and therefore wanted to work with Israel.
The Iranian population thought differently, partly because of the Israeli oppression of Palestinians. The population turned against the Shah and an Iranian revolution broke out.
The revolution led to the exclamation of the Islamic Republic of Iran, which was given anti-wests and anti-imperialist character. That led to resistance in Israel.
Footballer Mehdi Taremi seems to have to miss the World Cup for clubs by missing the attacks. The Internazionale striker does not get away from his native Iran as a result of the conflict with Israel, report Reuters and various Italian media. Read on here.
Israel calls on Iranians for evacuation The Israeli army calls on Iranians, who live in the neighborhood of weapon factories, to evacuate directly. “All people who are currently present or are expected to be present in or around military weapon production facilities and supporting institutions must immediately leave these areas and not return to further notice,” writes a spokesperson for the IDF on X.
The call follows an earlier announcement of a series of attacks on Iranian arms depots and infrastructure.
Iran is not looking for a broader conflict Iran calls the attacks on Israel self -defense. The Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi states that the Israeli attack would not have happened if the country had not received any support from the US. The minister accuses Israel of wanting to thwart the discussions about the nuclear program.
Araghchi emphasizes that Iran is not after a broader conflict, “unless they have no other choice”. Experts previously said to Nu.nl that Iran is not able to do little now and there is chaos in the country. “A significant part of their army top is eliminated and they have limited resources for a counterattack.”
Israeli airspace remains closed The Israeli airspace remains closed for landings and ascending at Ben Gurion airport. The aviation authority cooperates with airlines and the Ministry of Transport and Road Safety to retrieve stranded Israelis abroad.
“All crews and planes are ready