Residential building in Narmak, E Tehran, after being bombed by Israel now:
Apparently the Netanyahu Gang calls its new war of aggression in Iran "Rising Lion", apparently a reference to the Book of Numbers 23:24, "Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain." (KJV).
"Israel military says 'completed first stage' of strikes against Iranian military, nuclear targets"
https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/middleeastnews/859615/israel-military-says-39completed-first-stage39-of-strikes-against-iranian-military-nuclear-targets/en?src=rss&utm_source=TheWALL360&utm_medium=Rss-articles&utm_campaign=rss&utm_term=Rss
"First stage", indicating as previously stated that they intend to keep going with this war of aggression for a long time. Some Israeli media indicate a matter of weeks being planned at least.
Israel military says 'completed first stage' of strikes against Iranian military, nuclear targets

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'New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said that the Israeli air strikes on Iran was a “really unwelcome development” and that the conflict raised serious concerns for the Middle East'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/13/israel-iran-strikes-defence-minister-tehran-middle-east-live?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-684b7d6f8f08aed1eac7f9a8#block-684b7d6f8f08aed1eac7f9a8
Thanks, Minister of Obvious Affairs.
Israeli military says strikes hit dozens of targets in Iran, including nuclear sites – live

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has addressed the nation, saying Iran’s main enrichment facility has been targeted

the Guardian
Iraq closes airspace, suspends flights at all airports: state media

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Four more videos from various parts of Tehran, showing the destruction the Netanyahu Gang's war of aggression has caused in Tehran now:
Iran's fighter jets are reportedly now flying over Tehran, presumably with the intent of attempting to shoot down drones or long-range missiles from Israel attacking the city, since Iran doesn't have an Iran Dome like Israel has.
Here's one:
There are many reports of various specific high military and academic leaders supposedly having been killed by Israel's war of aggression in Iran tonight, but frankly those are not important in my opinion so that can wait until it's confirmed.
I care about the people, not the oppressors.
More of the destruction Israel's bombing caused so far tonight in Narmak part of Tehran:
Piranshahr in Rojhelat/W Iran, after being bombed by Israel tonight:
"Iran state TV says children are among those killed in the Israeli attack on residential areas in Tehran"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/13/israel-iran-strikes-defence-minister-tehran-middle-east-live?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-684b7fe58f082f571e35a85b#block-684b7fe58f082f571e35a85b
It would be a miracle if that was NOT the case after bombing the... well, you've seen what they bombed.
Israeli military says strikes hit dozens of targets in Iran, including nuclear sites – live

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has addressed the nation, saying Iran’s main enrichment facility has been targeted

the Guardian
Gohardasht, northern part of Karaj, city just NW of Tehran, also bombed by Israel:

Regime media reportedly claims there is no radioactive radiation after Israel's bombing of the nuclear facility at Natanz, central Iran.

I doubt they would say there was, if there was, if they can get away with it.

Patrice Lumumba Street, Tehran:
Second wave of Israel's war of aggression bombardments in Iran has begun according to Israel's Channel 12, reports Aryen TV (Rojhelat/Iran-opposition TV).
Tabriz, NW Iran, was also bombed earlier tonight by Israel. The earlier pictures I saw weren't good enough, but this is better so here's a photo:
"Iranian state media confirms killing of Revolutionary Guards chief in Israeli strike"
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iranian-state-media-confirms-killing-revolutionary-guards-chief-israeli-strike-2025-06-13/
If there is anything like a hell, that's a new resident.
Still does of course NOT justify bombing densely populated areas.
'Jack Reed, the most senior Democrat on the Senate armed services committee, has condemned Israel’s strikes on Iran, describing them as “alarming” and “reckless”'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/13/israel-iran-strikes-defence-minister-tehran-middle-east-live?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-684b87658f08aed1eac7f9f0#block-684b87658f08aed1eac7f9f0
Israeli military says strikes hit dozens of targets in Iran, including nuclear sites – live

Iranian state media says Revolutionary Guards commander Hossein Salami killed; Netanyahu says Iran’s main enrichment facility has been targeted

the Guardian
Kermanshah, Rojhelat/W Iran, just now, Israel's bombing continues:
More from Kermanshah, Rojhelat/W Iran, after being bombed by Israel just now:
Reportedly at the counter-revolutionary and imperialist expeditionary military force IRGC's base in Kermanshah, Rojhelat/W Iran, on fire after the bombing by Israel.
I'd guess that's what you can see burning for a brief moment.
The city Qasr-e Shirin in Rojhelat/W Iran, bordering Iraq, after being bombed by Israel now:
"A massive explosion occurred at the Natanz nuclear facility" reported Aryen TV just now (translated).
Natanz nuclear facility after the new major explosion, following being bombed by Israel:
Ilam, W Iran, after bombing by Israel:
So far Israel has carried out 250 attacks in Iran using warships, submarines and aircraft, reports Israeli media via Aryen TV.
"Iran vowed a "strong response" to deadly Israeli air strikes that hit multiple areas across the country on Friday, including nuclear facilities"
AFP: https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/middleeastnews/859673/iran-armed-forces-vow-39strong-response39-to-israeli-attack/en?src=rss&utm_source=TheWALL360&utm_medium=Rss-articles&utm_campaign=rss&utm_term=Rss
Of course.
Remember that when the rulers war for dominance, it's the regular people who get crushed to death in between them, always and everywhere.
Iran armed forces vow 'strong response' to Israeli attack

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Ahvaz, SW Iran, also bombed by Israel now:
Reports of Israel also bombing at Sanandaj and Urmia in Rojhelat/NW Iran now.

Attacks so far by Israel on various locations in Iran, a summary from the counter-revolutionary and imperialist expeditionary military force IRGC's website, via the Free Trade Union of Iran, in a rough translation:
• Central Tehran
• Qitariyeh, Tehran
• Niavaran, Tehran
• West Tehran and Chitgar
• East Tehran
• Mehrabad, Tehran
• Multiple attacks on Mahallati residential area, Tehran
• Shahid Chamran residential area, Nobeinyad, Tehran
• A building in Kamrani'eh, Tehran
• Narmek, Tehran
• Saadat Abad, Tehran
• Andarzgu, Tehran
• Erkeideh complex at Star Khan, Tehran
• Shahid Daghaghi residential area (extensive attacks), Tehran
• Farahzadi, Tehran
• Headquarters of the General Staff of the Armed Forces
• Azghal, Tehran
• Residence of Ali Shamkhani
• Shahrara, Tehran
• Esatid complex in Saadat Abad Book Market
• Garmdareh
• Marzdaran, Tehran

Other cities and sensitive locations:
• Multiple attacks on Natanz nuclear site
• Parchin facilities
• Several military bases in Tehran
• Natanz nuclear reactor
• Structures near the Natanz nuclear facility
• Khondab
• Arak heavy water reactor
• Borujerd
• Khorramabad
• Hamadan
• Parchin
• Qasr-e Shirin
• Tabriz
• Piranshahr, West Azerbaijan
• Kermanshah
• Ilam
• Araak

Video showing the smoke billowing from Natanz nuclear facility in central Iran, after Israel's bombing:
Probably the actual target of the Netanyahu Gang bombing in Iran now is to drag the people in Israel into another and more intense war, for the purpose of eliminating both domestic dissent and even more so the growing demands now also from various major States that Israel must stop its atrocities against the Palestinian People, also seeking to pull those into by extension supporting their aggressions in Syria and Lebanon, while using as pretext the alleged ambition of Iran to acquire nukes just as Israel already has nukes.
None of that will make any of the peoples anymore safe, but very many people dead, to keep Netanyahu in power instead of at The Hague.

'Iran warned it has a "legal and legitimate right" to respond to Israel's deadly attacks Friday [...]'
AFP: https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/middleeastnews/859717/iran-says-has-39legitimate-right39-to-respond-to-israel-attacks/en?src=rss&utm_source=TheWALL360&utm_medium=Rss-articles&utm_campaign=rss&utm_term=Rss
Actually, no, that is factually incorrect. A State has the right to defend against an attack from another State's territory until that particular instance of attack has ended.
There does not exist any right to "retaliate", nor any right to "preemptive attack".
Both of those are simply acts of war of aggression.

If a State has been attacked from another's territory and they don't resolve it diplomatically, the attacked's right is to bring the matter to the UN Security Council, which then is to consider potential sanctions which may be of many types including economic and even deciding that the attacked State is given the right to go to war against the attacker, for example if the attacks keep reoccurring. In the latter case the attacked State does then have a legal right to go to war without it being a war of aggression, crime against peace.
Both Israel and Iran keep claiming fictional rights to "retaliate" or "preempt" as justifications for war, but those do not exist, for any State equally.

Not my opinion or wish. It's the States' system as they have designed it and all States agree to by declaring themselves States, is a part of the UN Charter and similar.

Iran says has 'legitimate right' to respond to Israel attacks

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At Kermanshah, W Iran, bombed by Israel:
Moment of another of Israel's bombs hitting at Kermanshah, W Iran:
Tehran Oil Refinery:
One of Iran's hundreds of kamikaze-drones sent to bomb Israel because Israel bombed Iran because Iran allegedly is creating nukes which Israel already has because... and so on and so on.
Another view at another of Iran's kamikaze-drones sent to bomb Israel now because Israel bombed Iran tonight, because... ∞
One of the several times Israel bombed the Natanz nuclear facility in central Iran night to today and this morning.
It's some special kind of crazy to bombard a nuclear reactor. Some Putin kind of crazy.
Iran official announced on domestic TV that the talks negotiating a new agreement to keep Iran from developing nukes, which were being held between USA and Iran after Trump broke the previous agreement at the end of Trump's previous term,
now has been canceled due to recent developments: Iran being bombed by Israel for allegedly getting nukes,
so that bombing against acquisition of nukes thereby prevented the diplomatic agreement which would have kept Iran from getting nukes.
Good job, Bibi, you... *gaah*

Israel: We must attack them to stop them from getting nukes.
Iran: We must get nukes now because they attacked us.

Or, actually literally:
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“One should not speak to such a predatory regime except in the language of power,” the Iranian government said in a statement.

“The world now better understands Iran’s insistence on the right to enrichment, nuclear technology, and missile power.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/jun/13/israel-iran-strikes-defence-minister-tehran-middle-east-live?CMP=share_btn_url&page=with%3Ablock-684bbd468f08fa293877a35c#block-684bbd468f08fa293877a35c
Anyone could and should have predicted that result of the attacks.

Israeli military strikes Iran nuclear targets; IDF says Iran has launched 100 drones towards Israel – live

Netanyahu says Iran’s main enrichment facility targeted; Iran state media says five dead in Tehran; IDF reports 100 drones launched toward Israel from Iran

the Guardian
Now Iran's kamikaze-drones are flying over Syria, on the way to hit Israel for having hit Iran, etc, etc,
so should start impacts in Iran within a matter of minutes.
Iran reportedly called for a meeting of the UN Security Council now.
OK, fine. Good even, but you know what you should have done?
You should have done that INSTEAD of sending the kamikaze-drones in "retaliation".
Then you would have had a much stronger case AT THAT UNSC MEETING.
Sigh.
Jordan's sirens go off now,
as Iran and Israel fight across it again,
this time Iran's drones being shot down by Israel inside Jordan.

"Iran says Israel attack 'declaration of war'"
https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/middleeastnews/859888/iran-says-israel-attack-39declaration-of-war39/en?src=rss&utm_source=TheWALL360&utm_medium=Rss-articles&utm_campaign=rss&utm_term=Rss
Almost true. Israel's bombings were acts of war of aggression, initiating a war without right to war (jus ad bellum), which is not just a violation of international law but also as often quoted from the precedents setting Nuremberg Tribunal "the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole",
but it was not a "declaration" of war, it was launching a war without a declaration, which technically is also a separate (and lesser) violation.

What they may have meant was to say that due to Israel's bombings there is now a de facto and de jure state of war, an international armed conflict, which is true, as technically the moment one bullet (or equivalent or more) crosses from one State's territory into another's those States are in a state of war until they resolve it diplomatically (or remain unaware of it/ignore it away).

Iran says Israel attack 'declaration of war'

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Trumps on Israel's war of aggression attacks bombing Iran: "I think it's been excellent."
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/trump-israel-attack-iran-excellent-more-come-abc-interview-2025-06-13/
Well, I think you're a jingoistic moron, a danger to everyone on earth and actually the underlying root cause for these attacks since it was YOU personally who broke the previous agreement with Iran which was effectively keeping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. So there's that.

Oh, whoops.
I now noticed that I accidentally broke my toots-thread dedicated to Israel's war of aggression bombings of Iran (and related) during the night to today.

My first thread accidentally ended here https://todon.eu/@b9AcE/114673285586626180 while it should have continued with everything in this thread.

b9AcE (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 video More of the results of Israel bombing Tehran:

Todon.eu
Tabriz, NW Iran, attacked by Israel again, ~¾h ago:
Unofficial numbers for only the war of aggression attacks on Tehran by Israel so far since during the night to today is 78 dead and 329 injured,
in addition to whatever the numbers may be outside Tehran too.
Four more videos of the latest war of aggression bombing at Tabriz, NW Iran, by the Netanyahu Gang:
'Iran imposes internet restrictions after Israel attack [...] "will be lifted once normalcy returns."'
AFP: https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/middleeastnews/859954/iran-imposes-internet-restrictions-after-israel-attack/en?src=rss&utm_source=TheWALL360&utm_medium=Rss-articles&utm_campaign=rss&utm_term=Rss
So that explains the decrease in reports.
Also, what do you mean by "normalcy"? Will the Mullahs regime resign and let the people have a normal political life? (─←sarcasm)
Iran imposes internet restrictions after Israel attack

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Erdoğan commented Israel's war of aggression attacks in Iran during night to today and onwards.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday warned Israel was seeking to drag the world into "disaster" after strikes on Iran, urging the international community to stop what he called Israel's "banditry."

"The international community must put an end to Israeli banditry that targets global and regional stability," said Erdogan.
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AFP: https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/middleeastnews/859965/erdogan-slams-israel39s-39banditry39-after-iran-strikes/en?src=rss&utm_source=TheWALL360&utm_medium=Rss-articles&utm_campaign=rss&utm_term=Rss

I mean... everyone should protest Israel's war of aggression bombings, anyone's war of aggression anything, but... maybe not Erdoğan, specifically.
At one point I counted that douche being in a total of FIVE wars of aggression on two continents, on the aggressor side, at least,
and is currently in two wars of aggression launched by Erdoğan.
You are exactly the same as Netanyahu. In genocidalism, expansionist aggression, oppressive rule and in being a threat to everyone on earth.

Erdogan slams Israel's 'banditry' after Iran strikes

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"Iraq accuses Israel of using its airspace to attack Iran"
https://www.lbcgroup.tv/news/middleeastnews/859999/iraq-accuses-israel-of-using-its-airspace-to-attack-iran/en?src=rss&utm_source=TheWALL360&utm_medium=Rss-articles&utm_campaign=rss&utm_term=Rss
Technically, according to the rules for States agreed to by every State by declaring itself a State, that does mean there is or was a state of war between Israel and Iraq too, although it seems probable Iraq won't push the matter very hard more than demanding the UNSC act and then probably letting it go, is my guess.
Iraq is kinda busy at the moment, e.g. by being occupied by Turkey.
Iraq accuses Israel of using its airspace to attack Iran

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Now the mature people made a statement too on Israel's war of aggression bombings in Iran.
@KCK_Kurdistan_ Executive Council Co-Chairpersons in a rough translation:
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Following midnight last night, Israel conducted extensive airstrikes against Iran. This attack has further deepened the war that escalated on Oct 7, 2023, causing significant harm to peoples in all respects and leading to destruction and great suffering. Wars developed by States for the sake of power, authority, and hegemony have not only failed to resolve problems but also caused immense harm to peoples. […] The history of the Middle East, adorned with continuous warfare for a century, has sufficiently shown that no problem can be solved through war; it leads to pain, loss, and destruction, further complicating issues and making them insurmountable. We condemn and criticize this war that brings losses to peoples, leads to destruction, and causes harm.
[…]
We reiterate once again that problems in the Middle East can only be solved through democratic modernity and a democratic understanding of nations. The capitalist modernist understanding of a single Nation-State, with its lust for power, authority, and hegemony, has sufficiently proven that through it, it is impossible to establish peaceful life in the Middle East […]
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Ah, now the statement of the @KCK_Kurdistan_  has been published as an official English language text too:
https://mastodon.social/@KCK_Kurdistan_/114676827361146870
More bombing by Israel at Tehran now:
Also more bombing now by Israel at Hamadan, W Iran:
Multiple blasts heard in and around Tehran, Iran

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More Israel bombing reported now at Tehran, Qom, Tabriz, Qazvin, Malard and Khavarshahr (at least).

More bombing by Israel at Tehran now (video).

Also report of bombing in the city Isfahan, central Iran.

@KCK_Kurdistan_ , thank you for being a voice of reason in this world.  

I suggest people very much to educate themselves about Rojava and the model of democratic confederalism. This really gives hope in these dark times.

@b9AcE

@b9AcE very well put
@AbortedOrange Thank you!
I'm not in a smiley mood today, but otherwise there would have probable been one or more of those here...

@b9AcE

I absolutely take your point and you'll see I boosted your OP about there being no "self-defence" once the attack is over. Having said that, Israel itself said something about this having been the first round or something to that effect, so we don't strictly ‧know‧ that the Iranian drones are retaliatory as opposed to targeting facilities from which another attack is ‧imminent‧ (and yes, that is the absolutely crucial condition)?

@bifouba Well, yes, but... "responding to" was the phrase they used, not "defending against".
The article 51 of the UN Chartera that they invoked is about "individual or collective self-defence".
I'm pretty sure that if John Doe punches someone and at court says "I did it to respond to being hit" then Doe would get convicted for that, whilst if John doe instead says "I did it do defend myself from the previous attack reasonably being believed to continuing" and proves it to be reasonable then Doe would be acquitted (unless it was excessive).
If they would not have said that it was "responding to" before launching, but instead "defending against" openly announced continuing waves of attack or even just kept quiet, then I would have considered them to probably fulfill the criteria at that point for being able to claim it being self-defense, depending on what they target, etc.

@b9AcE

A secretive nuclear power not subject to the IAEA which devastated the life of Vanunu demands that another state has no nuclear capacity.

@b9AcE
A ver qué siempre a favor de bombardear Israel, pero ¿Podemos evitar entrar en otra guerra?
@PrincipeLu I did not endorse it.
Read the rest of the thread.