Smoke rises after an explosion in Tehran, Iran, Friday, June 13, 2025.
Vahid Salemi | AP
Dubai, united Arab Emirates – Iran started more than 100 drones towards Israeli territory on Friday morning, after the Israel strike had killed at least three of its high -ranking military leaders overnight.
“We can now confirm that the chief of staff of the Iranian armed forces, commander of the IRGC and the commander of the Iranian emergency command were eliminated throughout Iran in the Israeli strikes,” said Effie Defrin, spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces.
“Iran launched about 100 UAVs in the direction of the Israeli territory that we intercept.”
Raketensirens sounded in Northern Jordan when Jordan's state media reported that the country had intercepted several Iranian drones in its airspace.
The attack of Israel on Iran, which was aimed at aligning itself with nuclear enrichment facilities, came just a few days before the USA and the Iranian officials were to take part in a sixth round of nuclear agreements. It was the greatest attack on the Islamic Republic since the Iran Irak War of the 1980s.
The Iranian news agency Tasnim reported on Friday afternoon local time of a new Welle Israeli strike at a military airport in the northwestern city of Tabriz. At about the same time, US President Donald Trump made his first comments on the attacks in one post about the social truth and asked Iran to achieve a deal “before it is too late”.
“I gave Iran the opportunity to make a deal. I told you to the strongest words: 'Just do it.' But no matter how much they tried and how close they came, they just couldn't do it, ”wrote Trump.
He added: “Now everyone is dead and it is only getting worse, but there is still time to stop this slaughter – before the next attacks that are expected to be even more brutal. Iran has to reach a deal.
The news of the strikes increased oil prices up to 13% before the profits dropped. The global benchmark Brent Rohrochte exceeded 78 US dollars per barrel at a point.
Asia and European stocks fell when investors stormed in Safe in the middle of a major war in a region that makes up a third of the world's oil supply. The Dow Futures went back around 500 points at 6:35 a.m.
Brent crude oil the last trade was $ 75.38 per barrel at 6:35 a.m. ET of 8.5%, with the US -WTWI -WTI at 74.11 USD per barrel and about 9%.
In television speech on Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the opening attacks on dozens of Iranian locations as “very successful”.
He also made it clear that his country continues to “attack” until the threat will be eliminated, and said that Israelis may have to “spend much longer periods in animal shelters than we were used to”.
All eyes are now on the next steps of Iran and the United States, especially whether the United States will be involved in this conflict. The US State Department has declared that it was not involved in Israel's overnight strikes against Iran. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio unilaterally asked for the actions and asked Iran not to avert the US interests or personnel in the region.
Tehran doesn't see it that way. The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs warned that Washington would be responsible for the consequences of Israel's actions.
It is expected that Trump will participate in a meeting of the National Security Council for 11 a.m. Eastern Time.
What happens next?
According to regional analysts, the strikes on Friday and the Iranian reaction are probably only the beginning of a quick escalation cycle.
“My feeling is how we can say in this early hour – and the assessment of the damage has to tackle for days – that this is probably still the opening salvo,” Firas Maksad, managing director of the Middle East practice and North Africa in the Eurasien Group, told CNBC.
A new round of the nuclear negotiations of US Iran nuclear agreements was planned for Sunday in Oman. The Iranian officials were quoted by state media that they will not participate.
“If Iran does not return to the negotiating table, as the United States has already asked it … then I think, and I fear that Israel has to take successive measures to get what is left of the Iranian nuclear program,” said Maksad.
The strikes found a decision just one day after the IAEO board of governors – the United Nations nuclear guardian – for the first time in almost 20 years in which Iran was declared in non -compliance with the Nuclear Conservation.
In posts on the social media platform X, the Iranian top guide Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has sworn a difficult reaction to the attacks of Israel.
“The [Zionist] The regime should predict serious punishment. The mighty arm of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic does not leave them unpunished through God's grace. “
He wrote in a separate contribution: “In the enemy's attacks, several commanders and scientists were matted. God wants that their successors and colleagues will continue their duties immediately.”
It is not yet known how and to what extent Iran can use its arsenal of ballistic rockets and the network of regional armed deputies.
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