Israel launched strikes across western and central Iran after Iranian missile barrages toward Israel, marking the first reported Israeli attacks in Iran since an April 7 ceasefire. The Israeli military described the operation as retaliation and said dozens of aircraft participated.
Israeli and Iranian reporting placed attacks or explosions in Tehran, Isfahan, Tabriz, Karaj and other western locations. Iran's official news agency said flights at Tehran's Mehrabad airport were suspended. One report said the airport was targeted, while another cited a drone-storage facility in Tehran. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps acknowledged an Israeli attack and claimed air-launched ballistic missiles were used.
The Israeli military said its targets included strategic air-defense systems that Iran had rebuilt after earlier fighting. It argued that degrading radars and related infrastructure would increase the air force's freedom of action if hostilities continued. Israel also said it struck infrastructure at a petrochemical complex near Mahshahr used to make specialized material important to Iran's ballistic-missile program. Iranian reporting said the area was evacuated.
The operation followed several Iranian missile barrages toward northern Israel, the Sharon region and Samaria. Israel said it intercepted the launches. Medical responders treated people injured while moving toward shelters, and interception debris caused fires in open areas and minor vehicle damage. The supplied evidence did not report fatalities from those barrages.
Diplomacy continued alongside the exchanges. US President Donald Trump had spoken with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and urged restraint, according to reports citing Axios and Israeli media. Trump said negotiations with Iran were close to a possible agreement and warned that another retaliation could prolong the cycle. Iran's Foreign Ministry blamed the United States for ceasefire breaches and said the developments would harm diplomacy.
Accounts of individual targets and weapons came largely from parties to the conflict and affiliated media, so some details could not be independently confirmed from the packet. What the two sources supported was a broad Israeli operation, Iranian acknowledgment of strikes, activity across several locations and the retaliatory context. Whether the exchange would remain limited or reopen sustained fighting was unresolved on the event date.
