Second Night of Strikes Sees Fresh Assaults on Iran, Israel – DW – 06/15/2025

Three people have been killed in Tamra, a town east of Haifa in in northern Israel, Israeli media report. 

The dead include a woman in her 20s who was killed after a two-story home was directly hit by an Iranian missile launched late on Saturday. 

More than a dozen others were wounded in the Arab Israeli town. 

Rescue workers are still searching for people trapped in the rubble. 

Tamra residents have long warned of the town’s lack of bomb shelters, according to the Times of Israel, and that almost no homes have a safe room attached.

Three people were killed by the first day of Iranian retaliatory strikes, bringing the death toll to six.

Israeli airstrikes have hit two fuel depots, Iranian media said on Sunday. 

According to the oil ministry, the Shahran oil and gasoline depot northwest of Tehran and another reservoir south of the city were hit. 

The situation at Shahran is “fully under control,” Iran’s oil ministry’s SHANA news agency reported.

Iran International English reposted a video it said was from Iran’s official news agency, INSA. It shows a massive fire at the Shahran depot.

An AFP journalist also saw the depot at Shahran on fire, the news agency reported.

With 11 tanks, the Shahran depot is a major oil and gasoline distribution hub for Tehran and regions to its west. 

Videos from Iranian media reportedly show burning oil tanks and billowing thick smoke at the reservoir south of Tehran.

Israeli strikes also targeted Iran’s defense ministry building in Tehran.

The strikes caused minor damage, Iran’s Tasnim news agency said on Sunday.

Iran and Israel continued to trade rounds of strikes on Saturday, while world leaders, including Germany and France, called for a de-escalation to avoid an all-out war. 

The United Kingdom said that it was deploying more jets to the Middle East after Iran threatened to target British, French and US bases if they help stop Iranian strikes on Israel.

Neighboring Iraq asked Iran not to strike US targets in Iraq, where some 2,500 US troops are stationed as part of an anti-jihadist coalition.

Talks between Iran and the United States on Iran’s nuclear program scheduled for this weekend were cancelled, said Oman, who has been mediation between the two countries. 

Meanwhile, Israel continued to target key Iranian infrastructure, hitting the South Pars gas field on Saturday. The world’s largest natural gas field, South Pars is crucial to Iran’s gas production. 

Iran said that at least 80 people were killed and more than 320 injured, including women and children, following Israeli strikes which started late Friday and continued on Saturday. 

Among the dead are reportedly nine nuclear scientists. 

As for Israel, it reported at least three casualties from Saturday’s strikes and more than 200 injured.

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