(WBAP/KLIF) — UPDATE 6/13 2:32 PM: (AP)
Iran retaliated by unleashing scores of ballistic missiles on Israel late Friday, with explosions flaring in the skies over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and shaking buildings below.
“Don’t think that they hit and it’s over. No. They started the work and started the war,” Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a recorded message. “We will not allow them to escape safely from this great crime they committed.”
An Associated Press reporter saw smoke rising in Tel Aviv after an apparent missile strike. Israeli paramedics reported a handful of injuries in the Tel Aviv area.
Israel’s ongoing airstrikes and intelligence operation and Iran’s retaliation raised fears of all-out war between the countries and propelled the region, already on edge, into even greater upheaval.
UPDATE 06/13 1:49 PM: Iran now attacking Central Israel with ballistic missiles; a total of 9 sites may have been hit so far, according to correspondent Trey Yingst, currently reporting from Tel Aviv. Isreali television telling citizens to remain inside and not to report or publish online photographs of scenes indicating where hits are. No word of injuries; many of the missiles appear to have been taken out of action ahead of hits by Israeli Defense systems.
UPDATE 06/13 11:10 AM: ASSOCIATED PRESS – The United States is shifting military resources in the Middle East in response to Israel’s strikes on Iran and a possible retaliatory attack by Tehran. That’s according to two U.S. officials on Friday. The Navy has directed the destroyer USS Thomas Hudner to begin sailing from the western Mediterranean Sea toward the eastern Mediterranean and has directed a second destroyer to begin moving forward so it can be available if requested by the White House. President Donald Trump is meeting with his National Security Council principals Friday to discuss the situation. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity to provide details not yet made public.
(WBAP/KLIF) — FOXNEWS.com — Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have launched a sweeping strike on Iran following months of attempted, and seemingly failed, nuclear negotiations between the Trump administration and Tehran, but according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the U.S. was not involved in the strikes.
“Tonight, Israel took unilateral action against Iran,” Rubio said in a statement Thursday night. “We are not involved in strikes against Iran and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region.
“Israel advised us that they believe this action was necessary for its self-defense,” he added.
Strike in Tehran
Smoke rises up after an explosion in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
In remarks following the strike, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed, “We targeted Iran’s leading nuclear scientists working on the Iranian bomb, we also struck the heart of Iran’s ballistic missile program.
“Our fight is not with the people of Iran, our fight is with the Iran’s dictatorship,” he added.
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According to an IDF spokesman the strike has been dubbed “Operation Rising Lion” and came after Jerusalem had collected “high-quality intel” that suggested “Iran is closer than ever to developing a nuke.”
An IDF spokesman told reporters, “We have no choice but to act against these existential threats to the State of Israel.”
Fox News’ Trey Yingst reported that Israel carried out strikes in Iran, adding that explosions were heard in the capital of Tehran.
A state of emergency has been declared across Israel as the country braces for an Iranian response.
The strikes came after Israel first threatened to go after Iran’s nuclear facilities in early November following a series of back-and-forth missile attacks between April and October last year.
JERUSALEM (AP) — Iranian state television says the head of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard is feared dead after an Israeli attack. The report offered few other details about what happened to Gen. Hossein Salami of the Guard. The report on air added that one other top Guard officials, as well as two nuclear scientists were also feared dead. State television also reported the attack set the headquarters of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard ablaze.
Multiple sites in the capital had been hit in the attack, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said targeted both nuclear and military sites and officials leading Iran’s nuclear program and its ballistic missile arsenal. Israel attacked Iran’s capital early Friday, with explosions booming across Tehran. An Israeli military official said that the Israeli Air Force targeted Iranian nuclear and military sites, without identifying them.
The attack comes as tensions have reached new heights over Tehran’s rapidly advancing nuclear program. Israel for years has warned it will not allow Iran to build a nuclear weapon, something Tehran insists it doesn’t want — though officials there have repeatedly warned it could.
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