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World Middle East
Israel-Iran Conflict Continues
06-14-2025
- Summary
- LATEST DEVELOPMENTS:
- Concerns of wider conflict rise, including at G7 summit
- Iran refuses ceasefire talks amid Israeli attacks, official says
- Trump vetoes Israeli plan to target Iran’s supreme leader
- Oil prices jump as Israel targets Iran’s oil and gas sector
BAT YAM, Israel/DUBAI/WASHINGTON, June 15 – Israel and Iran launched attacks on Sunday, killing and wounding civilians and raising concerns of a broader regional conflict, with both miliaries urging civilians on the opposing side to take precautions against further strikes.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he hoped a meeting of the Group of Seven leaders in Canada on Sunday would reach an agreement to help resolve the conflict and keep it from escalating.
Iran has told mediators Qatar and Oman that it is not open to negotiating a ceasefire with the U.S. while it is under Israeli attack, an official briefed on the communications told Reuters on Sunday.
Israel’s military, which launched the attacks on Friday with the stated aim of wiping out Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, warned Iranians living near weapons facilities to evacuate. Early on Monday, it said Israel’s air force attacked surface-to-surface missile sites in central Iran.
“Iran will pay a heavy price for the murder of civilians, women and children,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said from a balcony overlooking blown-out apartments where six people were killed in Bat Yam, a town south of Tel Aviv.
Iran’s armed forces told residents of Israel to leave the vicinity of “vital areas” as a safety precaution.
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OIL PRICES RISE
Images from Tehran showed the night sky ablaze above a fuel depot after Israel began strikes against Iran’s oil and gas sector.
This of course raises concerns for the global economy and the functioning of the Iranian state.
Brent crude futures were up $2.14, or 2.9%, to $76.37 a barrel by 2225 GMT, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures climbed $2.03, or 2.8%, to $75.01. They surged more than $4 earlier in the session.
An Iranian health ministry spokesperson, Hossein Kermanpour, said the toll since the start of Israeli strikes had risen to 224 dead and more than 1,200 injured, 90% of whom he said were civilians. Those killed included 60 on Saturday, half of them children, in a 14-story apartment block flattened in the Iranian capital.
Explosions rattled Tel Aviv in the afternoon as Iran launched its first daylight missile raid since Israel attacked on Friday. At least 10 people, including children, have been killed so far, according to Israeli authorities.
Hours later, shortly after nightfall, Iran launched a second wave of missiles, which struck a residential street in Haifa, a mixed Jewish-Arab city in northern Israel. The national emergency service reported nine people were injured in the strike, along with two others following a missile impact in the south.
In Bat Yam on Sunday evening, shocked residents surveyed the damage of an overnight strike, while many across Israel braced for another sleepless night, unsure of what may come next.
“It’s dreadful. People are losing their lives and their homes,” said Shem, 29, whose home was shaken overnight when a missile struck a nearby apartment tower.
TRUMP VETOES PLAN TO TARGET SUPREME LEADER, OFFICIALS SAY
In Washington, two U.S. officials told Reuters that U.S. President Donald Trump had vetoed an Israeli plan recently to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader.
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