Key updates in the Israel and Iran conflict: What you need to know

 

If you're just joining us, the conflict between Israel and Iran shows no signs of abating after Iranian missiles rained down on Israeli cities in a heavy overnight onslaught four days after strikes were launched on Tehran.

Here are the main updates you need to know:

• Israeli authorities say 24 people have been killed as a result of Iranian missiles including 11 since midnight after attacks in the cities of Tel Aviv, Haifa, Bnei Brak and Petah Tikva. Iran says Israeli strikes have killed 224 people.
• US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee revealed the US Embassy suffered 'minor damage' amid the barrage of missiles which rained down on Israel Monday morning.
• The Israeli Air Force has claimed it has established full control of the skies above Tehran and has destroyed a third of Iran's ballistic missile launchers.
• Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has vowed 'we will hold our ground' as he urged people in the country to unite against Israel.
• Videos circulating online appear to show some Iranians in Tehran and Karaj chanting slogans against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the Islamic Republic.
• Iran is preparing to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), an international pact aimed at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons.
• US aircraft carrier USS Nimitz is heading west towards the Middle East after leaving the South China Sea this morning.

How much damage has Israel inflicted on Iran's nuclear program?

Israel's strikes on Iran have targeted several of its nuclear facilities, as  the Islamic republic is seeking to develop nuclear weapons.

Experts told the AFP news agency that while the attacks have caused some damage to Iran's nuclear program, they are unlikely to have delivered a fatal blow.

Here is an update on Iran's nuclear sites as of today:

Trump rushes troops to Middle East as Israel wipes out Iran's leadership in terrifying 'regime change plot'

 

US aircraft carrier USS Nimitz is heading towards the Middle East as the conflict between Israel and Iran spirals into all-out war.

Donald Trump earlier warned that Iran will experience 'the full strength' of the American military if it attacks the US amid the conflict with Israel, despite reports he had vetoed Israel's plans to assassinate Iran's Supreme Leader.

The US President warned Tehran that if 'we are attacked in any way, shape or form by Iran, the full strength and might of the US Armed Forces will come down on you at levels never seen before'. 

Iranian missiles rained down on Israel in the early hours of Monday, damaging the US Embassy as Tehran called for its allies to form an Islamic Army to wage war against Tel Aviv.

At least 24 Israelis were killed and dozens more injured when a barrage of Iranian missiles breached Israel's multi-layered defense systems, hitting both Tel Aviv and the port city of Haifa. 

The strikes destroyed homes and residential buildings, hours after Israel killed three more high-ranking security figures, destroyed Iran's main nuclear facility in Natanz and raised the prospect of a regime change.

Iranians have been filmed shouting anti-regime slogans from windows and rooftops in Tehran and Karaj, according to independent media, with chants said to include 'Death to the dictator' and 'Death to Khamenei'.

More than 220 Iranians have been killed and 1,200 injured, according to authorities, as Israeli strikes have continued to hit the country since Friday.

But Iran has shown no signs of backing down, signaling its intention to involve allies in waging war against its arch-foe by forming an 'Islamic Army' and threatening to leave the Jewish state 'uninhabitable'.

Watch Israeli Mothers keep their Children Calm during a Siren!

 

Khamenei's Nightmare

 

Two and Half Minutes of DemonRats Calling for Violence

 

Two and a half minutes straight of Democrats calling for violence.

The Democratic Party is the party of violence. pic.twitter.com/mCTd0CbCnJ

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) June 15, 2025

An alleged Israeli three-story drone manufacturing workshop has been discovered in Tehran.

 Iranian security forces located a three-story Israeli drone factory inside Iran, the semi-official IRGC-linked Tasnim news agency reports.

According to the report, Tehran believes other sites are present in the country, and security forces are operating against them.

In Israel’s initial strikes on Friday, it used explosive-carrying quadcopter drones, rockets, and other sophisticated equipment located inside Iran for precision attacks on Iranian nuclear scientists, military leaders, anti-aircraft batteries, and surface-to-surface missiles.

The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday that they were smuggled into the country, and not manufactured there.

Keep menace Zohran Mamdani completely off your NYC ballot in the Democratic mayoral primary

 Enrolled Democrats will serve themselves and the entire city well by denying Zohran Mamdani any vote at all in the ranked-choice primary.

We know, it’s a dismal field; some will be tempted to rank Mamdani at least fifth to prevent one of the other horribles from triumphing, or as a sign of displeasure with the party establishment that’s failed so badly in offering any good alternatives.

But the fact remains: Mamdani is a uniquely awful menace, an utter guarantee of disaster for New York.

His stated plans on taxes and spending, policing and public safety, housing and education — on every aspect of city government — would drag Gotham down for everyone, perhaps most of all for those he pretends he’d benefit.

His free buses, free child care, city-run grocery stores and city-financed housing-construction promises alone would bankrupt City Hall. (He certainly has no secret vision for slashing other spending, except perhaps the NYPD.)

His marquee vow of zero rent hikes would devastate the city’s housing stock, pushing already-overstressed smaller landlords spiraling into bankruptcy and bringing a citywide version of the 1970s “The Bronx is burning” nightmare.

And his “vision” for 200,000 new units of public housing defies even the lightest sniff test: New York still can’t figure out how to save its existing public-housing stock from falling down.

Even if he could somehow get the Legislature to pass $10 billion in tax hikes and not grab most of the windfall for itself, it wouldn’t remotely cover his spending plans — but would give NYC the highest corporate and individual rates in the nation.

That would provide “an $18,000 bonus for every millionaire earner who decamps for the ‘burbs,” calculates to the Manhattan Institute’s Ken Girardin — an even greater incentive to decamp to Palm Beach.

On the public safety front, Mamdani backed the “defund the police” movement and now proposes taking $1.1 billion from the NYPD for a new Department of Community Safety staffed by social workers, mental-heath specialists and gun violence interrupters.

That’s Bill de Blasio’s dreams, on steroids, but then Blas is Zohran’s favorite mayor.

Mamdani’s latest fit of genius, his vow to pull police out of high-crime areas, is a clear giveaway of what side he’s truly on.

As is his landmark hatred of Israel and romanticizing of Hamas and other terrorists.

None of Mamdani’s rivals is as atrocious, even those now playing footsie with him; even if you detest one of the others even more, it’s easy enough to not rank either of them.

Note, too, that this year’s Democratic primary isn’t at all a guarantee of victory in November: Mamdani is likely to fight on as the Working Parties Family nominee if he falters now; Andrew Cuomo has already arranged his own line for the fall — and Mayor Eric Adams will make the ballot as an independant along with Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa.

Ten days of early voting began Saturday, June 14; primary day is June 24: Registered Democrats have a duty to reject extremism and keep Zohran Mamdani entirely off their ballots.

This is the MAGA foreign policy

 

by Mark Levin

 So tired of the isolationists barking about the old and failed foreign policy of the past and insisting that they’ve uncovered the secret, new way forward—isolationism.

There’s nothing new or good about isolationism, which, in a word, is appeasement. It’s old and promotes war, such as World War II. Even worse, these knuckleheads can’t even coherently explain what they mean. Have you watched them on TV?

They’re too self-righteous in their ignorance to realize how absurd they sound. They don’t agree among themselves what the hell they’re talking about.

In fact, they’re so blind and self-important that they don’t see the new foreign policy taking place in real time, right in front of their eyes! That’s the mindset of ideological fanatics.

We are witnesses to a foreign policy unlike any since Reagan-Thatcher-John Paul II defeated the Soviet Union. It’s nothing like the recent failed policies we’ve seen in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are together demonstrating how to deal with a genocidal terrorist regime, how to use diplomacy and military power, how to use Intel and special forces, how to use the media and public statements and more, to defeat the biggest terror-supporting regime on the planet.

It is and has been brilliant, and if all goes well, it will result in a transformed Middle East, an expansion of the Abraham Accords, and a world free of a nuclear terror regime. Together, they are achieving what 47 years of prior policies have not. This is a very big deal! This is a real peace plan.

Yet, the isolationists, such as “Chatsworth Qatarlson” (Tucker Carlson), are now turning on our president, as they’ve spent months demeaning Netanyahu. They prefer the likes of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who apparently is more MAGA (Make America Great Again) than Trump!

They wind up turning themselves into pretzels, actually characterizing the Iranian regime as oppressed and victimized! These reprobates have never been MAGA.

They have sought to hijack a movement they never created, claim to be its leaders and influencers and redefine it to accommodate their own perverse ideological views, to the extent they can rationally explain them.

They have clung to a movement they do not support. Hence, their hesitation in supporting our ally Israel, or outright opposition to it, in its righteous war of survival against the Iranian terrorist regime, which benefits the entire West.

It is a regime that has killed and maimed Americans, sought to assassinate the American president, threatens Israel with nuclear annihilation, seeks to slaughter millions of Israelis, has spread death and mayhem in Lebanon, Yemen, Gaza and Iraq and has aligned itself with Communist China, North Korea and Russia.

The isolationists tell us that to oppose this is to be a warmonger and anti-MAGA. Just close your eyes and cover your ears. They also don’t seem to care that they attract Marxists, Islamists and antisemites.

Some even openly promote and celebrate them. That’s not MAGA either. President Trump is a proud American patriot. He despises bigots. And he has done more than any president ever to fight antisemitism and anti-Americanism in our country. No, they’re not MAGA. But we’ve seen their likes before.

Five dead in Iranian missile barrage in central Israel

 Two women and a man about 70 years of age, and a man of about 80, were killed early Monday morning in central Israel in a barrage of dozens of missiles launched from Iran toward Israeli territory shortly before 4:00 a.m.

Four people were found dead at the site of an Iranian missile strike in Petah Tikva, while the fifth, a man of around 80, was killed in Bnei Brak.

Magen David Adom teams have so far evacuated 74 injured individuals. Among them is a woman around 30 years old in serious condition with facial injuries, five people in moderate condition, and 68 in light condition. Rescue and search operations for additional casualties are ongoing at two of the four sites.

MDA paramedic Yissachar Weiss said: “When we arrived at the impact site, we saw extensive destruction on the street that was hit. Injured people began emerging from the rubble. There was a large fire, and many vehicles were in flames. We began gathering the wounded at triage points, and with a large number of ambulances and mobile intensive care units arriving at the scene, we started providing initial medical treatment on-site. MDA teams continued treating the injured until they were transported to hospitals.”

MDA EMT Yoel Rosenthal said: "We saw significant destruction on the street, and many injured people came out to us from the buildings and the rubble. Together with Home Front Command forces, we began rescuing trapped casualties. We used a megaphone to call on additional injured to come to the casualty assembly point, where we provided initial medical care. From there, those needing further treatment were evacuated to hospitals by MDA intensive care units and ambulances. At this stage, MDA teams are present at all locations where there is a likelihood of additional casualties and are ready to receive and treat more wounded."

In the Haifa area, two people were lightly injured at two impact sites. Rescue teams are attempting to reach three individuals who are trapped.

According to Israel Fire and Rescue Services, two high-rise residential buildings in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area sustained direct hits in the Iranian missile barrage. Eight rescue teams were dispatched to extract people trapped under the rubble.

Search and rescue operations are currently underway at all impact sites to locate additional casualties. Meanwhile, reports indicate that unmanned aerial vehicles were intercepted near Eilat and near Rosh Hanikra.

The Home Front Command has issued guidance permitting residents in certain areas to leave protected spaces. Rescue and emergency forces are operating at several locations across the country where missile impacts have been reported.

"You are urged to continue following the instructions of the Home Front Command and all official updates issued to you." The IDF also called on civilians not to publish and share the locations and footage of hits. “The enemy monitors this footage to improve its impact capabilities. Be responsible - Do not share locations online!”

The IDF said earlier that it is striking surface-to-surface missile sites in central Iran.

On Sunday evening, a woman was moderately injured and six others sustained light injuries when a missile struck between two buildings in Haifa. Two additional people were lightly injured in a moshav in the Lachish region.

In the most recent barrage targeting Israel, 30 missiles were launched from Iranian territory.

Tucker Carlson Blasted as ‘Phony’ Over Flip-Flopping Iran Stance — Trump Fires Back

 

I’ve known Tucker for 25 years, when he co-hosted an MSNBC show with Paul Begala.

Tucker doesn’t have a consistent thought in his head, except self-promotion. He’s a phony.

Watch him here advocate to destroy Iran. Now he says that’s a warmonger.

He’s a modern carnival barker. https://t.co/pm16yDV1W4

— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) June 15, 2025

 Tucker Carlson is under fire from both political figures and pundits, accused of opportunism and inconsistency over his sharply shifting stance on U.S. policy toward Iran and Israel — a position that has even drawn a rebuttal from President Donald Trump.