Iran FM Warns U.S of ‘Very Dangerous’ Involvement as Israel Strikes Commanders

By Faith Barbara N Ruhinda Updated at 2037 EAT on Saturday 21 June 2025

Iranian media reported that an Israeli strike targeted an emergency centre in the city of Hoveyzeh, located in Khuzestan province, earlier today.

Statements from the province’s emergency services and Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences confirmed the incident. According to the university, the 115 Hoveyzeh emergency centre was “completely” destroyed in the attack, though no casualties or injuries were reported.

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement has warned the United States that it will target American ships in the Red Sea if the U.S. military launches strikes against Iran, according to a report by AFP.

This comes despite a ceasefire agreement reached in May between the U.S. and the Houthis, aimed at halting attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea. The Houthis had previously claimed their attacks were in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

In response to earlier Houthi aggression, the U.S. launched a series of air strikes. These began under President Joe Biden and intensified during the Trump administration.

Israel has struck an Iranian nuclear facility in the city of Isfahan, the UN’s nuclear watchdog confirmed on Friday.

According to Rafael Grossi, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the target was a centrifuge workshop used to manufacture machines for uranium enrichment.

“We know this facility well. There was no nuclear material at this site and therefore the attack on it will have no radiological consequences,” Grossi said.

The IAEA noted this is the third Iranian nuclear-related site targeted by Israel since fighting began on June 13. The other two strikes reportedly hit the Tehran Research Centre and a workshop in the city of Karaj.

Speaking to the UN Security Council, Grossi warned that the attacks have led to a “sharp degradation in nuclear safety and security” in Iran. While no radiological release affecting the public has occurred so far, he cautioned, “there is a danger this could occur.”

Iranian media have confirmed the death of another nuclear scientist in recent Israeli strikes, bringing the official death toll to 10.

The latest victim, identified as Isar Tabatabei Ghomsheh, was first reported by the alumni newsletter of Tehran’s Sharif University, where he studied. The newsletter stated that Ghomsheh was killed “late last week in his home,” along with his wife, Mansoureh Hajisalem.

Iran had previously acknowledged the deaths of nine other nuclear scientists, including prominent figures.

Meanwhile, Israel’s Channel 12 has reported that the targeted killings were part of a coordinated operation dubbed “Operation Narnia.” According to the report, nine of the scientists were killed simultaneously, with the tenth killed shortly afterward.

More than 400 people have been killed in Iran by Israeli strikes since hostilities began on June 13, according to a new update from the Iranian health ministry.

Hossein Kermanpour, a spokesperson for the ministry, wrote on X that 3,056 people have been injured in the strikes. Among the dead, he said, are 54 women and children and five healthcare workers. Kermanpour added that the majority of both the dead and injured “have been civilians.”

This marks the first official death toll update since June 15, when authorities reported 224 people killed and over 1,200 injured.

Earlier, the semi-official Nour News Agency cited the health ministry in reporting that at least 430 people had died and 3,500 had been injured over the past nine days of attacks.

Poll Shows Broad Support Among Jewish Israelis for Strikes on Iran

A new poll from the Israel Democracy Institute, released on Thursday, shows overwhelming support among Jewish Israelis for the recent military campaign against Iran.

According to the survey, 82% of Jewish Israelis back the decision to strike, including 57% of respondents who identify as left-wing. In contrast, only 11% of Arab Israelis support the attacks, while 65% oppose them.

The figures come as little surprise in a country where concerns over Iran’s nuclear program have dominated national security discourse for decades.

At the center of that rhetoric has been Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel’s longest-serving leader. From his 1995 book Fighting Terrorism to his dramatic 2012 presentation at the United Nations—where he displayed a cartoon-style bomb to illustrate Iran’s progress toward nuclear weapons—Netanyahu has consistently framed Iran as an existential threat.

Israel says the current strikes are aimed at crippling Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, which officials claim is approaching the “point of no return” in developing a nuclear weapon. Iran, however, maintains that its nuclear program is strictly for peaceful, civilian use.

In recent weeks, though, Israeli rhetoric appears to be shifting. Some officials have begun to suggest a broader objective beyond nuclear deterrence: regime change.

The hope, according to multiple public statements and leaks, is that sustained strikes could spark unrest leading to the downfall of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Islamic Republic itself.

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