US-Israel-Iran conflict: List of key events, June 23, 2025
Fighting
Iran has fired ballistic missiles at the Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, the United States' largest military installation in the Middle East. Doha said the attack was intercepted and there were no casualties.
Fellow Gulf countries Bahrain and Kuwait – which also host US facilities – joined Qatar in closing their airspace, then reopened them.
Earlier, Israel had struck Tehran's Evin Prison, notorious for holding political activists. Iranian state television shared surveillance footage of the strike, which reportedly blew the facility's gate open.
Explosions were heard on the western outskirts of the southwestern Iranian city of Ahvaz, capital of oil-rich Khuzestan province, the Fars news agency reported.
Tasnim news agency reported a strike at an electricity feeder station in the Evin neighbourhood in north Tehran.
Earlier, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said his country had attacked 'regime targets and government repression bodies in the heart of Tehran', including Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) command centres.
Israel also carried out a strike on the Fordow enrichment facility, a day after the US hit the underground site south of Tehran with so-called 'bunker buster' bombs.
The Israeli military issued an evacuation threat to residents of Tehran, telling them to stay away from weapons production centres and military bases.
Iranian state television said on Monday that the country had targeted the Israeli cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv. It claimed the majority of its projectiles fired since the early hours of the day had successfully reached their targets.
Sirens sounded across Israel before noon on Monday, with a large number of impacts recorded in several areas, including the Ashdod area in southern Israel and the Lachish area, south of Jerusalem.
Casualties and disruptions
Eleven days into the conflict, large numbers of Tehran's 10 million population have reportedly fled.
After Israel's strike on Evin Prison, Iran's IRIB state broadcaster released video showing rescue workers combing the flattened wreckage of a building at the prison, carrying a wounded man on a stretcher.
Iranian power company Tavanir said there were power cuts in the Iranian capital, Tehran.
In Qatar, prior to Iran's attack on Al Udeid, the US and the United Kingdom had urged their citizens in the country to 'shelter in place'.
Britain said on Monday that a Royal Air Force flight carrying 63 British nationals and their dependents out of Israel had left Tel Aviv.
A number of airlines, including Kuwait Airways, Finnair and Singapore Airlines, have suspended operations in the Middle East. Air India said it was not only halting operations to the region, but also stopping flights to and from the US east coast and Europe.
Politics and diplomacy
After Iran's attack on Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, US President Donald Trump thanked Tehran for giving him 'early notice' of the attack, with he described as a 'very weak response' to the US attack on Iranian nuclear facilities. In a separate post, he thanked the Emir of Qatar for his peace efforts.
A spokesperson for the Qatari Foreign Ministry said that the country considered the Iranian attack to be a 'surprise', announcing the situation in the country was safe.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei posted on his Farsi-language X account: 'We have not violated anyone's rights, nor will we ever accept anyone violating ours, and we will not surrender to anyone's violation; this is the logic of the Iranian nation.'
Earlier in the day, Ali Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had said bases used by US forces 'in the region or elsewhere' could be attacked – that evening, Iran targeted Al Udeid in Qatar.
Abdolrahim Mousavi, Iran's armed forces chief of staff, pledged that the country would take 'firm action' in response to US strikes on key nuclear sites the day before. 'This crime and desecration will not go unanswered,' he said on state television.
Ebrahim Zolfaqari, spokesperson for Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya central military headquarters, addressed US intervention in the war in a video statement, saying: 'Mr Trump, the gambler, you may start this war, but we will be the ones to end it.'
Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency said a parliamentary committee had approved a general plan to suspend cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
Iran's mission to the United Nations said the US, the UK, France, Israel and IAEA chief Rafael Grossi were responsible for the deaths of innocent civilians and the destruction of infrastructure.
Russian President Vladimir Putin slammed attacks on Iran as 'unprovoked' and 'unjustified' in a Moscow meeting with Tehran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said, 'Our strategic partnership with Iran is unbreakable,' but was not drawn on the question of whether Iran had requested military help – or whether any help would be forthcoming.
After Israel's attack on Tehran's Evin Prison, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar wrote 'Viva la libertad!', Spanish for 'long live liberty', on X.
French Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said that the Israeli strike on Tehran's Evin Prison, which holds some French prisoners, was unacceptable.
China's UN ambassador, Fu Cong, said US credibility was 'damaged' after its bombing of Iran's nuclear sites, warning the conflict could 'go out of control', according to the state broadcaster.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said of Sunday's US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites: 'Yes, it is not without risk, but leaving it as it was wasn't an option either.'
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said his country stood ready to 'defend our personnel, our assets and those of our allies and partners'.
NATO chief Mark Rutte said alliance members had 'long agreed that Iran must not develop a nuclear weapon' and called an Iranian atomic bomb his 'greatest fear'.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on China to help deter Iran from closing the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint for one-fifth of the world's oil supply and a potential lever for retaliatory action.
The European Union's foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, said closing the strait would be 'extremely dangerous'.
US President Trump posted an online message on oil production to the US Department of Energy, encouraging it to 'drill, baby, drill', and saying, 'I mean now.'
Reza Pahlavi, the long-exiled son of Iran's toppled shah, but not seen as a player with any real influence in Iran itself, warned the US and Europe not to throw a 'lifeline' to Iran's current leadership. 'This is our Berlin Wall moment,' he said in an interview with the AFP news agency.
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