The State Department is authorizing the “voluntary departure of family members and some non-emergency U.S. government employees” from Israel amid the country’s escalating conflict with Iran, officials said on Sunday.
The U.S. embassy’s shelter-in-place order for U.S. personnel in Israel remains in effect “until further notice” as a result of the conflict between Israel and Iran, the State Department said in a notice.
“U.S. citizens who wish to depart should not delay in taking advantage of commercial transportation options,” the notice said.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told a meeting of ambassadors in Tehran on Sunday that Israel’s ongoing attacks on the country could not have happened “without the agreement and support of the United States.”
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi gives a statement in Beirut, Lebanon,
“We have received messages from the U.S. through various channels over the past two days stating that the U.S. had no involvement and will have no involvement in this attack,” he said during the meeting, which was broadcast by state media. “As I said, we don’t believe the U.S.’s claim.”
Araghchi also called on the international community to condemn Israel’s attacks on nuclear facilities.
“This is perhaps the last red line of international law that the Israeli regime has crossed, and if the international community is indifferent to these red lines, it will certainly have consequences for all other countries,” he said.
Araghchi said he had called for a meeting on Monday with the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency over attacks on the Natanz nuclear facilities.
Of Iran’s own retaliatory strikes on Israel, the foreign minister said the attacks were “legitimate self-defense.” He added, “If the aggression stops, naturally our reactions will also stop.” Araghchi confirmed that Iran struck “economic” targets in Israel on Saturday night.
Araghchi also said Israel is responsible for the breakdown in nuclear negotiations with the U.S., its attack having scuppered planned talks in Oman on Sunday.
“It is perfectly clear that the Israeli regime does not want any agreement on the nuclear issue; it does not want negotiations; it does not want diplomacy; and the attack on Iran amid nuclear negotiations demonstrates the Israeli regime’s opposition to any negotiations,” he said.
Israeli jets flying nonstop over Iran for 50 hours, official says
An Israeli military official told ABC News that the country’s warplanes have been flying over Iran for 50 hours nonstop since the beginning of Israel’s strikes on the country on Friday.
The Israel Defense Forces are still searching for missile sites and other targets as strikes expand, the official said. They did not say how long attacks are expected to continue.
A plume of heavy smoke and fire rises over an oil refinery in southern Tehran, after it was hit in an overnight Israeli strike,
Among those targets hit so far are Iran’s Defense Ministry in Tehran, plus gas and oil sites near Bandar Abbas, which the official said were “dual-use” sites — meaning for both civilian and military use.
The official confirmed that Israel has not hit the Fordow nuclear site, which is buried deep underground.
Before the operation started, Israel believed Iran had about 2,000 ballistic missiles, the official said. They did not say how many are believed to be remaining.
When asked if Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — the country’s supreme leader — is a target, the official refused to answer.
Trump says US has ‘nothing to do’ with latest Iran strikes
President Donald Trump said in a post to Truth Social early Sunday morning that the “U.S. had nothing to do with the attack on Iran, tonight.”
President Donald Trump is pictured during celebrations for the U.S. Army’s 250th Birthday Parade in Washington,
“If we are attacked in any way, shape or form by Iran, the full strength and might of the U.S. Armed Forces will come down on you at levels never seen before,” the president added. “However, we can easily get a deal done between Iran and Israel, and end this bloody conflict!!!”
13 killed in Israel by 2 nights of Iranian strikes, prime minister says
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said on Sunday that at least 13 people have been killed since Friday in Israel by Iranian strikes, as Tehran retaliates to Israel’s ongoing attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, military sites and leaders.
Rescue teams clear rubble in a neighbourhood in the northern Israeli village of Tamra, following an overnigh missile attack from Iran on June 15, 2025, where four people, including a child, were reported killed.
Two consecutive nights of Iranian attacks saw around 200 ballistic missiles fired into the country, the prime minister’s office said, with 22 places in Israel hit either directly or by falling missile debris.
At least 380 people have been injured, the prime minister’s office said, nine seriously.
8 killed, hundreds injured in overnight Iranian strikes, Israel says
Iranian aerial strikes targeting Israel killed eight people and injured more than 200 others overnight, Israel’s Foreign Ministry said on Sunday morning.
Israeli security forces inspect a destroyed building that was hit by a missile fired from Iran, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday,
Four of the dead were children, the ministry said in a social media post, which accused Iran of “deliberately targeted Israeli civilians as they slept.” Another 35 people were missing, the statement said.
Responders work amid building rubble following a strike by an Iranian missile in the Israeli city of Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv, early on June 15, 2025. Air raid sirens and booms rang out in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv early on June 15, AFP journalists said, as Israel and Iran exchanged fire for a third day.
The Israeli Police said there had been “multiple confirmed fatalities” and injuries in the central area of the Tel Aviv District, where a rocket struck.
“Iran targets innocents,” the ministry said. “Israel targets nuclear and military sites — to stop the world’s most dangerous terror regime from acquiring the world’s most dangerous weapons. We will do whatever it takes to defend our people. Israel is doing what must be done.”
At least 14 injured as fire crews respond to incidents in coastal, northern Israel
At least 14 people were injured in Western Galilee as Israeli fire crews responded to a reported missile fall, among reports of damage in coastal and northern districts of Israel, emergency services said in a statement Saturday evening local time.
Missiles launched from Iran towards Israel are intercepted, as seen from Ashkelon, Israeli,
Israeli firefighters were working at the scene after a missile fell in Galilee, an Israel Fire and Rescue Spokesperson said in a statement, originally in Hebrew.
“At this stage, firefighters are working at the scene of a building collapse in the Galilee, and firefighter teams are searching for trapped people,” the Israeli Fire and Rescue Spokesperson said in the statement.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now in a political-security cabinet meeting, the prime minister’s office said in a release.
