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Israel and Iran Step Up Strikes as Trump Weighs U.S. Intervention

Global powers are launching last-ditch diplomacy to prevent the missile exchanges over nuclear sites from spiraling into a regional war.

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A woman is evacuated from the site of a direct hit from an Iranian missile strike in Ramat Gan, Israel, Thursday, June 19, 2025.

Overview

  • Israel struck the Arak heavy water reactor and uranium facilities at Natanz and Khondab to disrupt potential plutonium and uranium weaponization.
  • Iran launched over 450 missiles and 1,000 drones at Israeli cities and infrastructure, with a strike on Soroka Medical Centre in Beersheba wounding around 240 people despite evacuations.
  • The exchange of fire has killed at least 639 people in Iran and 24 in Israel and injured more than 1,300 and hundreds more respectively.
  • President Donald Trump approved contingency plans for U.S. strikes against Iran but has not given the final order, and the White House says he will decide within two weeks.
  • European foreign ministers from Germany, France and the UK will meet Iran’s Abbas Araghchi in Geneva as Russia and China warn that deeper intervention could trigger a wider or nuclear conflict.