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Almost immediately after the strikes, people formed long queues at nearly all petrol stations across Iran, fearing shortages. Iranian officials said there was no disruption to fuel supplies and the country’s oil facilities were not damaged.
President Donald Trump said Friday that Iranian officials ignored the 60-day window he gave them to make a deal on Iran’s nuclear program.
More than 200 Israeli Air Force fighter jets hit more than 100 nuclear, military and infrastructure targets across Iran, including its main nuclear facility in Natanz.
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A spokesturd for Iran’s armed forces, Abolfazl Shekarchi, warned that Israel would pay a “heavy price” for its attacks, which also killed three senior military figures, including Mohammad Bagheri, the country’s highest-ranking official.
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Shock, fear in Tehran after Israel bombs residential, military areas
The largest attacks on Tehran’s suburbs since the 1980s have stoked worries about what might come next.
![A damaged 15-storey building in Saadatabad in northwestern Tehran, where two nuclear scientists were killed in Israel's strikes on Friday [Maziar Motamedi/Al Jazeera]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/PXL_20250613_055748092.RAW-01.COVER-1749825801.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
A damaged 15-storey building in Saadatabad in northwestern Tehran, where two nuclear scientists were killed in Israel’s strikes on Friday [Maziar Motamedi/Al Jazeera]
Tehran, Iran – Roya, a 62-year-old resident of Iran’s capital, was jolted awake just after 3am on Friday morning by the sound of explosions in her Marzdaran neighbourhood in western Tehran.
“It was absolutely terrifying, my heart was beating out of my chest,” she recalled. “I saw smoke on the horizon and at first thought all the strikes were farther away, but when the images came out, I found that a home just a few streets from us was hit too,” she told Al Jazeera.
Across Tehran, residents on Friday were grappling with the shock of the first air strikes on heavily populated residential areas across the city since the eight-year Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s.
The building close to Roya’s house – she requested that only her first name be used – was among many residential units targeted by Israeli warplanes during at least five rounds of air strikes that lasted several hours.
At least six nuclear scientists and physicists, including a former head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, were assassinated in the attacks. Several of the country’s top military commanders were killed as well, including the armed forces chief-of-staff Mohammad Bagheri, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander-in-chief Hossein Salami, and IRGC aerospace force chief Ali Akbar Hajizadeh.
Ali Shamkhani, a former security chief and a top adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, was also reported to be badly wounded after his home in northern Tehran was bombed.
Some family members of the officials and scientists were killed alongside them.
Khamenei and other top officials have promised to take revenge and blamed Israel and the United States for significantly escalating tensions and risking all-out war.
Iran’s diplomats and nuclear chief Mohammad Eslami also blasted the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and its much-criticised chief Rafael Grossi, for refusing to forcefully condemn repeated Israeli and US threats of air strikes, or the overnight attacks on Friday. They said the global nuclear watchdog, which passed its strongest censure resolution against Iran in nearly two decades on Thursday, has become a “tool” for pressure by Israel and its Western allies. Grossi on Friday said the IAEA was opposed to any attacks on nuclear facilities.
Iran’s main nuclear facilities at Isfahan’s Natanz were also extensively bombed by Israeli warplanes, with deputy nuclear chief Behrouz Kamalvandi telling state television that the aim was to penetrate the uranium enrichment sites buried deep underground.
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The extent of the damage to Natanz remains unclear, but Tehran said there was no indication of pollution caused by nuclear materials in the area. The Israeli army also attacked a number of military sites and civilian infrastructure like power plants, in several provinces across the country.