Israel warned that Tehran residents would “pay the price” after Iranian missiles struck Israel’s Tel Aviv and the port city of Haifa before dawn on Monday, June 16, 2025.
The missiles killed about eight people and destroyed homes.
At least 100 people were wounded in Israel in the overnight blitz, part of a wave of attacks by Tehran in retaliation for Israel’s strikes targeting the nuclear and ballistic missile programmes of sworn enemy Iran.
Iran said its parliament was preparing a bill to leave the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), adding that Tehran remains opposed to developing weapons of mass destruction.
Passing the bill could take several weeks.
Israel is presumed to have a sizable nuclear arsenal, but neither confirms nor denies it. It is the only Middle East state that has not signed the NPT.
Israel’s military, which has gutted Iran’s nuclear and military leadership with airstrikes, said on Monday it had killed four senior intelligence officials, including the head of the Revolutionary Guards’ intelligence unit.
Iran: We won’t negotiate ceasefire while under Israeli attack
Israeli authorities said a total of seven missiles of the fewer than 100 fired by Iran overnight had landed in Israel, Reuters reported.
A military spokesman also said Israel had achieved aerial superiority over Iran and had destroyed more than a third of Iran’s surface-to-surface missile launchers.
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said in a statement: “The arrogant dictator of Tehran has become a cowardly murderer who targets the civilian home front in Israel to deter the IDF from continuing the attack that is collapsing his capabilities.”
“The residents of Tehran will pay the price, and soon.”
Katz later issued a separate statement saying that Israel had no intention of deliberately harming Tehran’s residents.
At least 100 people were wounded in Israel in the overnight blitz, part of a wave of attacks by Tehran in retaliation for Israel’s strikes targeting the nuclear and ballistic missile programmes of sworn enemy Iran.
Iran, facing its worst security breach since the 1979 Islamic revolution, said dozens of alleged saboteurs and “spies” linked to Israel had been arrested since the start of the conflict.
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