Overview

• Ongoing airstrikes and missile exchanges have killed at least 585 people in Iran—including hundreds of civilians—and 24 in Israel, with more than 1,300 wounded across both countries.
• President Trump has held emergency National Security Council meetings and deployed warships, aircraft and Marines to the Middle East while withholding a final decision on direct US strikes.
• Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei have warned that American military involvement would trigger an all-out regional war and pledged to retaliate against any US actions.
• Israel claims to have achieved air superiority over Tehran, has eased restrictions on civilian activities and begun repatriation flights after strengthening missile defenses.
• International leaders—including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan—have offered to mediate and urged both sides to halt hostilities to prevent broader regional destabilization.