IAF jets bombed Tehranโs main oil depot and defense sites, and warned Iranian civilians to avoid weapons facilities
June 15, 2025 / JNS) The Israeli Air Force overnight Saturday struck Tehran’s main oil depot, according to Hebrew media reports. The reservoir comprised at least 11 storage tanks, according to Israel’s Channel 12 News.
An Iranian oil ministry official confirmed the strike to The New York Times, and international media reports described significant fires and visible damage at the site.
Shortly after midnight, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz tweeted the message: “Tehran is burning.”
Katz had issued a stark warning on Saturday, declaring that “Tehran will burn” if Iran continued to launch missiles at Israeli population centers. At least 10 people were killed overnight Saturday in a wave of Iranian missile attacks on civilian areas across Israel.
Meanwhile, Israel’s military confirmed that it had struck Iranian Defense Ministry headquarters in Tehran, the headquarters of Iran’s Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND) and other targets in the city. The SPND is responsible for the country’s nuclear project.
The targets hit were involved in advancing “the Iranian regime’s efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon and where the Iranian regime hid its nuclear archive,” according to the statement.
On Sunday morning, the IDF said that among the targets hit overnight Saturday were missile launchers, adding that over the past hour, the IAF had completed a series of strikes on storage and missile launch infrastructure sites in western Iran.
For the first time since Israel launched its preemptive operation against Iran early on Friday, the IDF on Sunday morning warned Iranian civilians to immediately distance themselves from weapons production facilities.
“Immediate notice to the entire Iranian population: All individuals who are in or near the country’s weapons production facilities should immediately leave these areas and report to the relevant authorities,” the IDF Arab Media spokesperson Avichay Adraee wrote in Farsi on X, adding in a follow-up post that the warning included “supporting facilities.”
Katz commented following the evacuation warning, saying that the military “will strike the sites and continue to peel the skin off the Iranian snake in Tehran and everywhere, stripping it of nuclear capabilities and weapons systems.” He added: “The Iranian dictator is turning Tehran into Beirut and its residents into hostages for the sake of his regime’s survival.”
The Israel Defense Forces announced on Saturday that it had “established aerial superiority from western Iran to Tehran,” allowing Israeli aircraft to operate freely across a wide swath of territory.
Early on Friday, more than 200 Israeli jets attacked dozens of targets, including military and nuclear sites, in a “preemptive, precise, combined offensive” against the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.
The IDF said the attack was based on “high-quality intelligence” and was “in response to the Iranian regime’s ongoing aggression against Israel.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the operation, dubbed “Rising Lion,” would “continue for as many days as it takes to remove this threat,” vowing to stop “the Iranian threat to Israel’s very survival.”
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