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Al Bawaba
14-06-2025
- Politics
- Al Bawaba
Reports circulate alleging evacuation of Iranian leaders families
Published June 14th, 2025 - 06:25 GMT ALBAWABA - As military tensions between Iran and Israel rise, there have been a number of unproven stories on social media and opposition media sources saying that the families of high-ranking Iranian officials are being quietly taken out of the country. Sources in the Iranian resistance say that video has been released that supposedly shows private planes taking families of top regime leaders out of Iran. A fifth plane is said to have recently left Iranian airspace and was flying low between mountains on its way to the Russian border, according to one source. The reasons for these reported evacuations are still not clear, but there is rising talk that some Iranian leaders may be running away because they are afraid of vengeance from Israel or trouble in their own country. People on social media have made symbolic connections to the plane that took Ayatollah Khomeini back to Iran in 1979, saying that these planes are now taking regime supporters out of the country that is in danger. Even though none of these claims have been publicly confirmed by Iranian officials, they have sparked a public discussion about how confident the Iranian government is in the face of growing pressure from outside the country and unrest within it. Iranian opposition media outlets are circulating footage claiming to show families of regime leaders being evacuated from Iran — Michael A. Horowitz (@michaelh992) June 14, 2025 Iran and Israel are still firing missiles and drones at each other, and the whole region is on high watch in case things get worse. — د. مشكك (@Dr__Sceptic) June 14, 2025 On the same day, Israeli Channel 13 reported that the families of several cabinet members and ministers have also been moved to safe places inside Israel in case Iran attacks in response to current military operations. This is happening even though there are still limits on flights and the security situation in the area is generally unstable. © 2000 - 2025 Al Bawaba (
Yahoo
14-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Inter Milan's Mehdi Taremi stuck in Iran and will miss Club World Cup
MILAN (AP) — Inter Milan forward Mehdi Taremi will not be able to join his teammates at the Club World Cup in the United States as he is stuck in Tehran amid the escalating conflict between Iran and Israel. Flights from all Iranian airports have been grounded following an exchange of military strikes between Iran and Israel over the last two days. Advertisement That meant the Iran international was unable to take his scheduled flight on Saturday to join his Inter teammates in Los Angeles. Taremi will miss Inter's opening match against Monterrey on Wednesday and Italian media reports the 32-year-old will not feature in the other matches either regardless of whether Iranian airspace reopens. Taremi joined Inter from Porto last year. ___ AP soccer: The Associated Press
LBCI
13-06-2025
- Politics
- LBCI
Russia advises it citizens against travel to Iran and Israel
Russia's Foreign Ministry on Friday urged Russian citizens to refrain from travelling to Iran or Israel and told those "in the conflict zone" to stay well away from military objects and busy public places. Israel launched a barrage of strikes across Iran on Friday, saying it had attacked nuclear facilities and missile factories and killed a swathe of military commanders in what could be a prolonged operation to prevent Tehran building an atomic weapon. Russia earlier on Friday said that the Israeli strikes were unprovoked and in breach of the United Nations charter, and accused Israel of wrecking diplomatic efforts to reach a deal to allay Western concerns about Tehran's nuclear programme. Reuters
The National
13-06-2025
- Politics
- The National
Israel set to wage methodical destruction of Iran's nuclear facilities
The Middle East can expect days of Israeli attacks on Iran as it conducts a 'brutal and methodical' assault to ensure it sets back the nuclear programme by many years, military experts have told The National. Iranians can't afford to wait a week to respond because they're going to be attrited now at a very high rate Frank Ledwidge After Iran's military leadership has been largely decapitated in surgical air strikes it currently appears toothless in its ability to respond to the unprecedented attack on the six-decade-old theocracy. But if it is to retaliate it needs to do so almost immediately as its military infrastructure was 'being [eliminated] at such rate that there will soon be little left,' said former British military intelligence officer, Frank Ledwidge. A defence source added that the Israelis were going through 'an enormous bank of targets that they've started with the highest level' and would now 'go through them in an orderly fashion'. It is also becoming evident that Iran's apparently strong air defences have proven ineffective and could very soon be wiped out by Israeli attacks. 'We are taking out their aerial defence system so we can operate more freely against their nuclear programme and against their military targets,' the Israeli military official added. 'Dozens of radars and surface to air missile launchers have been destroyed.' Nuclear dark ages The key focus of attack will be Iran's nuclear facilities with Israeli intelligence stating that Tehran now had enough enriched uranium to rapidly make 15 nuclear bombs. While Israel does not have America's GBU-57 13,600kg bunker buster bombs it does possess large but smaller GBU-28 1,800kg bombs thought to have been used in the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in September. With his command bunker buried deep below a Beirut apartment block, Israel deployed a number of the large bombs creating geometric patterns to penetrate deep. Without US bombers, that could be the tactic Israel uses against Iran's key nuclear sites such as Natanz and Fordow in order to eradicate its nuclear bomb making capability. That will be the bombing campaign's priority, said Richard Pater, director of the Anglo-Israeli Bicom think tank. 'The key question is that now embarked on this campaign, how many years are you going to be set be setting back Iran's nuclear programme back as it had better be a long time,' he said. 'Everyone understands that the Iranian desire for revenge is going to be peaked so Israel had better do this thoroughly.' Israel remains silent about whether its action will result in regime change but it is likely that it will want to remove the leadership that has sacrificed so much in search of its nuclear goal. Retaliation options Following Israel's 18 months of fighting since October 7 attacks, Iran's biggest deterrent against a backlash, Hezbollah, has been severely depleted and on Friday was only able to issue a benign statement that made no reference to military action. Other proxies are unlikely to mount serious attacks, although there are concerns that that Houthis in Yemen might be able to up their near daily rocket attack with ballistic missiles, one of which came close to hitting Ben Gurion airport last month. It now will take a few days for Iran to re-establish command and control over its armed forces after senior commanders were killed and once achieved, they may well have a limited revenge arsenal. While 100 drones were fired towards Israel soon after Friday's operation began, it appears that few made the eight or nine hour journey to their destination with most shot down. That is because Israel now has a triple-layered air defence system that can take out drones, cruise as well as ballistic missiles. Iran's massed missile and drone attack last October only managed to kill a single Palestinian and damage an airfield. That leaves the regime's only other option of asymmetric warfare of using specialist teams such as Unit 840 to conduct terror attacks at Israeli establishments overseas. But that will require direction and planning from the top, and Iran's leadership appears under the unprecedented stress of having many of its generals removed from the battlefield. Ineffectual Iran? Defence analysts believe the air campaign could continue for a week, perhaps two to 'degrade every aspect of the Iranian military command, control and executive function,' said Mr Ledwidge. 'Today is just a start.' 'But the Iranians can't afford to wait a week to respond because they're going to be attrited now at a very high rate,' he added. Subsequently Iran's internal communications have been seriously disrupted with the deaths the equivalent of Britain's PJHQ (permanent joint headquarters), Ministry of Defence and head of military all being wiped out on one day, he said. 'Our mission is very clear, to remove an existential threat,' an Israeli military official told The National. With Iran possessing a considerable stock of ballistic missiles – although their effectiveness is in question – Israel has made a point of attacking its launchers, including inserting a Mossad team, that was potentially local recruited, into Iran for direct strikes. 'We know they have hundreds of ballistic missiles ready to fire towards Israel,' the military official said. 'We were able to in our actions this morning to weaken their chain of command, and carry out pre-emptive strikes against ballistic missiles.' Ultimately the bombing campaign could see a 'new Middle East' in the long term, said Dr Efrat Sopher, an Iranian foreign policy analyst. 'The immediate future is very worrying with the Iranian regime causing so much instability with all its tentacles but now removing the head of the octopus I believe will bring about a more a more stable international system and peace through prosperity,' she added.
Yahoo
12-06-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
General Staff: Russia has lost 1,000,340 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
Russia has lost 1,000,340 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported on June 12. The number includes 1,140 casualties that Russian forces suffered just over the past day. It marks the first time since the outbreak of the full-scale war that Russia's reported casualties crossed 1 million. According to the report, Russia has also lost 10,933 tanks, 22,786 armored fighting vehicles, 51,579 vehicles and fuel tanks, 29,063 artillery systems, 1,413 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,184 air defense systems, 416 airplanes, 337 helicopters, 40,435 drones, 3,337 cruise missiles, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine. Read also: Ukraine bracing for 'painful' reduction in US military aid after Hegseth announces cuts We've been working hard to bring you independent, locally-sourced news from Ukraine. Consider supporting the Kyiv Independent.
