Conflict Israel-Iran: List of key events, June 20, 2025 | News Israel-Iran Conflict

Here are the key events on the eighth day of the Israel-Iran conflict.

Here is where things are FridayJune 20:

Struggle

• Israel said on Friday that he had achieved dozens of military objectives in Iran overnight, including the organization of Tehran of defensive innovation and research, missile production sites and military facilities in the west and center of Iran.
• The Israeli army said it had struck air -surface missile batteries in western Iran, killing a team of Iranian soldiers in motion during the operation, including a commander of a Guard Revolutionary Islamic Corps base (IRGC).
• The Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz said that he had asked the soldiers to intensify the attacks on “regime symbols” and “oppression mechanisms” in the Iranian capital, Tehran, aimed at destabilizing it.
• According to the Young Journalists Club, quoted by the country’s state diffuser, air defense systems in southern Iran, the location of the country’s operating nuclear power plant.
• The Iranian IRGC said that it had shot its 17th wave of missiles in Israeli military installations, including the Névatim and Hatzerim bases.
• Iran fired missiles on Beersheba in southern Israel, the first Israeli media reports also pointing to missile impacts in Tel Aviv, Negev and Haifa. Iran said that “specific success” have demonstrated “our power of offensive missiles increases”.
• The Fars news agency cited an Iranian military spokesman saying that missile and teheran drone attacks had used long-range and ultra-heavy missiles against Israeli military sites, defense industries and command and control centers.

Victims and disruptions

• Israel’s attack on the organization of Tehran of innovation and defensive research, which, according to her, is involved in the development of alleged Iranian nuclear weapons, has killed a nuclear scientist, according to Israeli media.
• The Iranian media indicated that an industrial factory involved in the production of carbon fibers in northern Iran had been damaged in an attack.
• The Iranian Ministry of Health said that a third hospital in Tehran was struck by Israeli bombs, according to the Irna press agency.
• At least five people were injured when Israel struck a five -story building in Tehran housing a bakery and a hairdresser, the Fars news agency reported.
• The Iranian media Asriran said that a drone attacked an apartment in a residential building in the Gisha central district of the Iranian capital.
• The news agency for human rights activists, an American human rights organization based in the United States following Iran, said that Israeli air attacks killed 639 people in the country. Israeli authorities had previously declared that 24 civilians had been killed in Iranian attacks.
• Magen David Adom Service of Israel said that his teams provided treatment for 17 people, three in serious condition, after Iran strikes.
• The heads of Israeli railways told local media that, due to the Iranian missile strike on Beersheba, the northern city station was temporarily closed.
• The Minister of Agriculture of Afghanistan said that his country was in discussion with Russia to import certain foodstuffs as a conflict between Israel and Iran, one of its largest trade partners, risked cutting supplies.

Demonstrations

• Tens of thousands of people attended anti-Israeli marches in Tehran, as well as other major Iranian cities, including Isfahan, Shiraz, Mashhad and Qom.
• Demonstrators in the south of Beirut, Lebanon, organized a pro-Iran rally after Friday prayers.
• Thousands of Iraqis gathered for Friday prayers in the city of Baghdad, a suburb with a large Shiite population, singing against the United States and Israel in the midst of attacks against Iran.
• Pro-Palestinian activists in the United Kingdom broke into the Royal Air Force Brize Norton Base in Oxfordshire and damaged two planes.

Policy

• US President Donald Trump told journalists on Friday that his national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard was wrong to suggest that Iran build a nuclear weapon. “Well, my intelligence community is wrong,” he replied when he asked him about Gabbard’s position. Trump also said that although he could “support” a cease-fire contract between Israel and Iran, “Israel is doing well in terms of war, and I think you would say that Iran is doing less well”.
• Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said the only way to put an end to the conflict was from Israel to stop his air attacks, warning that “the fact of not doing it would cause a much more energetic and regrettable response of Iran”.
• Russian President Vladimir Putin told Saint Petersburg that Moscow shared ideas with “our Israeli and Iranian friends” on how to end the bloodshed and said he believed that there was a diplomatic solution.
• US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced new sanctions related to Iran to disrupt Tehran’s efforts to “get technology, sensitive and double-use components and machines and underlies the regime’s ballistic missile missile programs, unmanned air vehicles and asymmetrical weapons”.
• Prime Minister Qatari Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said in a telephone conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Espen Barth Eide, Israel targeting economic facilities in Iran could lead to catastrophic regional and international repercussions.
• French President Emmanuel Macron said that there were “no justification” to strikes on civilians and civil infrastructure in the one -week conflict, adding that Tehran should show his desire to return to the negotiation table concerning his nuclear program.
• Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that in the comments brought by TASS State news agency, the potential use of tactical nuclear weapons by the United States in Iran would be catastrophic development.
• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan discussed the current conflict between Israel and Iran for a telephone call, a spokesman for the German government said.
• British Foreign Minister David Lammy said his country is working with the Israeli authorities to organize charter flights for British nationals from Tel Aviv when Ben Gurion International Airport will Rouvri.

Diplomacy

• The United Nations Security Council met at its registered office in New York to discuss the situation between Iran and Israel.
• Rafael GrossiDirector of the International Atomic Energy Agency, warned against attacks against nuclear installations at the meeting, saying that a strike at the Bushehr nuclear power plant could cause “radioactive versions with great consequences” beyond the borders of Iran. He called for a “maximum restraint”.
• UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said at the meeting that the expansion of the Israeli-Iranian conflict could “trigger a fire that no one can control”, calling on both sides to “give peace a chance”.
• Iran’s ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani urged the Security Council to take measures, saying that the country was “alarmed by the reporter (s) that the United States … could join this war”.
• Israel’s ambassador Danny Danon has committed to the CSNU that there would be no lip in attacks against Iran. “Not before Iran’s nuclear threat was dismantled, it is only when its war machine is not disarmed, not before our employees and yours are safe,” he said.
• Russian envoy Vassily Nebenzia stressed that Israel had attacked Iran on the eve of a series of nuclear talks and accused Israel of having shown a blatant contempt for attempts to find a diplomatic solution to end the conflict.
• Iraq representative at the UN, Abbas Kadhom Obaid al-Fatlawi, said that 50 Israeli war aircraft in the Syrian-Jordanian border areas violated Iraqi airspace shortly before the meeting of the Security Council.
• Iranian Minister for Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi Attended a meeting in Geneva with France, the United Kingdom, Germany and the head of the European Union foreign policy, which seemed no breakthrough.
• Araghchi told journalists in Geneva that Iran would be ready to consider diplomacy “once the attack has been arrested and the attacker is held responsible for the crimes committed”. Earlier, he accused Israel of a “betrayal of diplomacy” in a speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council.
• The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noel Barrot, told journalists after the Geneva spoke that Araghchi had pointed out “his desire to continue these discussions on the nuclear program and, more broadly, on all questions”.
• British Foreign Minister David Lammy said that European Ministers in Geneva have clearly indicated that “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon”.
• The German Defense Ministry said that it had traveled 64 people from Israel, describing thefts as a “diplomatic collection” and not as a military evacuation mission, which would have required parliamentary approval.
• Irish Foreign Minister Simon Harris announced that his country would temporarily move the staff of the Tehran Embassy “in the light of the deterioration situation”.
• The United Kingdom said that it temporarily withdraws the staff of its embassy in Iran, saying that the embassy continued to “operate at a distance”.
• The Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Switzerland said that he had decided to temporarily close his embassy in Iran, citing intense military operations there.
• Australia also said that they have suspended operations at its embassy in Iran. Foreign Minister Penny Wong said that a “crisis intervention team” was sent to a neighboring Azerbaijan to support the Australians who are triggered by Iran by road.
• Slovakia and the Czech Republic also announced the temporary closure of their embassies in Tehran.
• British police arrested eight men on Friday, including seven suspected of serious bodily lesions, following altercation reports involving professional and anti-Iranian demonstrators in a place close to the Iranian Embassy in London.