Archiv: 13-06-2025 Israeli attack on Iran / dozens killed / complete failure of Iranian air defense / civil nuclear facilities hit / USA enters war on 22-06-2025 / ceasefire on 24-06-2025 / West Asia War


26.10.2025 - 12:45 [ Times of Israel ]

Far-left candidate who called Israel ‘terrorist state’ elected president of Ireland

“If we in this Dáil can’t recognize that Israel is a terrorist state, then we’re in serious trouble,” she said in a video shared on her campaign’s Facebook page in June, referring to the lower house of the Irish legislature where she served. She went on to criticize Israel’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear program, its military conduct in Gaza, and other Israeli policies.

Connolly, 68, is a long-time critic of the European Union in overwhelmingly pro-EU Ireland. She was backed by the left-dominated opposition, was not a household name, and was underestimated by many at the start of the campaign.

07.10.2025 - 00:23 [ New Yorker ]

Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth, and the “War from Within”

(October 5, 2025)

Peace abroad and war at home? It’s an unusual note to strike in an electoral democracy.

15.09.2025 - 23:49 [ Nachdenkseiten ]

Zum Völkermord gezwungen?

Der Vernichtungskrieg gegen die Hamas und Gaza sei alternativlos und aus Notwehr erfolgt, behauptet Israels Ministerpräsident Netanjahu. Was aber, wenn sich der Terroranschlag vom 7. Oktober 2023 hätte verhindern lassen? Vieles spricht dafür, dass seine rechtsgerichtete Regierung die Dinge hat geschehen lassen. Müsste die Geschichte dann nicht umgeschrieben werden, fragt sich Ralf Wurzbacher.

29.08.2025 - 22:15 [ Reuters ]

Iran‘s Pezeshkian says Iran does not seek war, but Israel, US seek to ‚divide, destroy Iran‘

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Friday that Iran does not seek war but if Israel and the United States attacked, Iran will stand against them „forcefully“.
„America and Israel seek to divide and destroy Iran, but no Iranian wants Iran to be divided“, he said in a pre-recorded TV interview.

29.08.2025 - 22:10 [ Responsible Statecraft ]

Europe just made war with Iran more likely

France, Germany, and the UK (E3) have announced they will trigger snapback sanctions on Iran at the United Nations. This will launch a 30-day process that will likely culminate in the full reinstatement of all U.N. sanctions lifted under the 2015 nuclear deal. The move will carry four major consequences.

First, the U.N. Security Council will formally adopt the demand — pushed by Israel — that Iran cease all uranium enrichment. Israel designed this demand to sabotage nuclear diplomacy and edge the conflict toward war….

08.07.2025 - 17:23 [ Tucker Carlson / Youtube ]

Tucker Carlson Interviews President of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian

7:04 Is Iran Open to Diplomacy?

08.07.2025 - 17:13 [ PressTV.ir ]

Israel must not be allowed to attack Iran again, ignite new war: President Pezeshkian

“We have no problem with negotiation. But the atrocities Israel has committed in the region and against our country, and its war crimes…have caused a crisis,” he said.

The president said that returning to the negotiating table has a prerequisite, which is based on a confidence-building attitude.

“Israel must not be allowed to attack again right in the middle of talks and ignite a new war,” Pezeshkian stated.

The Israeli regime launched a blatant and unprovoked act of aggression against Iran on June 13, assassinating many high-ranking military commanders and nuclear scientists in addition to civilians.

On June 22, the United States officially joined the war against Iran by launching attacks on three nuclear facilities in the country in violation of the United Nations Charter and the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

08.07.2025 - 17:08 [ FirstPost.com ]

Iran’s Pezeshkian under fire for backing renewed talks with US in Tucker Carlson interview

A day after stating he saw “no problem” in resuming indirect talks with the US over Tehran’s nuclear programme, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday faced backlash from critics who accused him of being “too soft” in response to last month’s attacks on the country, according to a report.

07.07.2025 - 17:57 [ TKP.at ]

Tucker Carlson interviewt Irans Präsident Masoud Pezeshkian

Unredigiertes, ins Deutsche übersetztes Transkript:

Tucker [00:00:00] Herr Präsident, vielen Dank, dass Sie sich Zeit genommen haben. Es gibt eine Pause oder zumindest scheint es eine Pause im Krieg zwischen den Vereinigten Staaten und dem Iran zu geben. Wie wird das Ihrer Meinung nach enden? Wie würden Sie sich ein Ende wünschen?

Masoud Pezeshkian [00:00:13] Wir waren die Initiatoren des Krieges. Wir haben diesen Krieg nicht begonnen und wir wollen auf keinen Fall, dass er weitergeht. Von Anfang an war es das Motto meiner Regierung, an dem ich mich immer gehalten habe, die nationale Einheit im Land zu fördern und auch den Frieden und die Ruhe sowie die Freundschaft mit den Nachbarländern und dem Rest der Welt zu stärken.

Tucker [00:00:45] Der amerikanische Präsident Donald Trump hat gesagt, dass die Vereinigten Staaten Ihre Anreicherungsanlagen bombardiert haben, weil die iranische Regierung sich geweigert hat, ihr Atomprogramm aufzugeben, und dass es keinen Frieden geben kann, solange der Iran dieses Atomprogramm nicht aufgibt. Wären Sie bereit, das Atomprogramm im Austausch für Frieden aufzugeben?

Masoud Pezeshkian [00:01:08] Ich möchte Ihnen erzählen, was passiert ist: Seit 1984 hat Netanjahu diese falsche Mentalität geschaffen, dass der Iran eine Atombombe anstrebt, und er hat unterstellt, dass der Iran in der Vergangenheit versucht hat, eine Atombombe zu entwickeln, und er hat dies in den Köpfen aller US-Präsidenten seitdem verankert und sie davon überzeugt, dass wir eine Atombombe haben wollen. Aber die Wahrheit ist, dass… in die Köpfe aller US-Präsidenten seitdem, um sie glauben zu machen, dass wir eine Atombombe haben wollen. Aber die Wahrheit ist, dass… Wir haben nie nach einer Atombombe gestrebt, weder in der Vergangenheit, noch in der Gegenwart oder in der Zukunft, weil dies falsch ist und im Widerspruch zu dem religiösen Dekret oder der Fatwa steht, die von seiner Eminenz, dem Obersten Führer der Islamischen Republik Iran, erlassen wurde. Es ist uns also religiös verboten, eine Atombombe anzustreben, und dies wurde dank unserer Zusammenarbeit mit der IAEO immer bestätigt, da sie immer vor Ort war, um dies zu überprüfen. Und um zu belegen, dass wir nie eine Atombombe wollten. Leider wurde diese Zusammenarbeit durch die rechtswidrigen Angriffe auf unsere Atomanlagen gestört.

03.07.2025 - 20:17 [ Nachdenkseiten ]

Strafanzeige gegen Merz geht in die nächste Runde

Am 20. Juni erstatteten Dieter Hallervorden, Albrecht Müller und zahlreiche weitere Erstunterzeichnende Strafanzeige gegen Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz. Auslöser war Merz’ Aussage, nach der Israels völkerrechtswidriger Angriff auf Iran „die Drecksarbeit [sei], die Israel für uns alle macht“. Sehr viele unserer Leser wollten selbst aktiv werden und die Anzeige unterstützen. Nun legen die Initiatoren mit einem Appell an die Staatsanwaltschaft nach, den Sie tatkräftig unterstützen können.

30.06.2025 - 02:55 [ NDTV / Youtube ]

Anti Netanyahu Protest LIVE | Thousands Take To The Streets Of Tel Aviv In Anti Netanyahu Protest

Streamed live 17 hours ago #TelAviv #AntiNetanyahuProtest #Netanyahu

Mass protests erupted in Tel Aviv‘s Habima Square, with thousands calling for Netanyahu‘s resignation over corruption, judicial issues, and leadership failures.

30.06.2025 - 02:53 [ Middle East Monitor ]

Thousands of Israelis stage nationwide protests to demand release of hostages in Gaza: Report

(June 29, 2025)

Tens of thousands of people rallied across Israel on Saturday, calling for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip, according to local media reports, Anadolu reported.

Demonstrations were held in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities, according to the Haaretz newspaper.

Protests followed a 12‑day conflict between Israel and Iran, which erupted June 13 when Tel Aviv launched airstrikes on Iranian military, nuclear and civilian sites, killing at least 606 victims and injuring 5,332, according to the Iranian Health Ministry.

28.06.2025 - 04:26 [ New York Times ]

Senate Blocks War Powers Resolution to Limit Trump’s Ability to Strike Iran Again

The Senate on Friday blocked a Democratic resolution that would have forced President Trump to go to Congress for approval of further military action against Iran, dealing a blow to efforts to rein in his war powers.

The 53-to-47 vote against bringing up the resolution, mostly along party lines, came nearly a week after the president unilaterally ordered strikes against three Iranian nuclear facilities without consulting the House and Senate. I

23.06.2025 - 19:01 [ Reuters ]

Germany‘s Merz sees no reason to criticise Israeli, US attacks on Iran

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Monday that there was no reason for him to criticise attacks by Israel and the United States on Iran.
„There is no reason for us, or for me personally, to criticise what Israel started a week ago, nor is there any reason to criticise what America did last weekend,“ Merz said at an event organised by the BDI German industrial lobby group.

23.06.2025 - 01:29 [ Tehran Times ]

US officially enters war, Iran vows: ‚You will pay‘

Iran and the U.S. were participating in indirect nuclear negotiations before the war broke out. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, speaking at an OIC meeting in Ankara, stated clearly that what the U.S. obliterated with its Sunday strikes – and earlier ones it helped Israel carry out – wasn‘t Iran‘s nuclear facilities, „but rather diplomacy.“ During the ongoing aerial campaign against Iran, at least 400 civilians have been killed and 2,000 injured according to the latest Health Ministry figures.

23.06.2025 - 01:25 [ Reuters ]

Trump asks why there would not be ‚regime change‘ in Iran

„It’s not politically correct to use the term, “Regime Change,” but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!“ Trump wrote on his social media platform.

22.06.2025 - 21:51 [ Daniel Neun / Radio Utopie ]

Any government in the world could expel the rogue state of Israel from the United Nations. None does.

(May 14, 2025)

It‘s not the world order that has failed the Palestinians. It‘s the world.

22.06.2025 - 20:54 [ mouthpiecengr.com ]

Iran Foreign Minister, Aragchi, Says He Will Meet Putin In Moscow On Monday

(today)

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi plans to travel to Moscow on Monday, June 23, for talks with Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin. This was reported by NBC News journalist Andrea Mitchell, who spoke with the Iranian Foreign Minister, according to UNN.

22.06.2025 - 20:24 [ theDefensePost.com ]

Netanyahu’s Diplomacy With Putin Ensured IDF’s Successful Attack on Iran

(November 10, 2024)

Days later, Netanyahu and Putin — who have a long and, until recently, close friendship — discussed the S-400 sale as well as Russia’s involvement in Syria. The S-400 sale didn’t materialize, neither in 2020 nor to date, despite Iran’s pleadings over the subsequent years and Russia’s dependence on Iran for drones for its war with Ukraine.

Had Iran persuaded Russia to sell it the S-400, the Israel Air Force could have been hard-pressed to achieve mastery over Iran’s skies.

“A fly can’t buzz above Syria without Russian consent nowadays,” an Israeli defense official told the International Crisis Group after Russia installed and manned the S-400 in Syria, a long-standing Russian ally that Russia defends.

22.06.2025 - 19:34 [ MIRROR NOW / Youtube ]

Iran Strikes Tel Aviv LIVE: Sirens Sound, Ballistic Missiles Fly Across Skies In Israel | Netanyahu

Streamed live 10 hours ago #live #iranisraelwar #sorokahospital
Iran Strikes Tel Aviv LIVE: Sirens Sound, Ballistic Missiles Fly Across Skies In Israel | Netanyahu

22.06.2025 - 19:01 [ Umair Malik / Twitter ]

this is the biggest blunder in American history. Mark my words

(December 9, 2023)

22.06.2025 - 18:47 [ Caitlin Johnstone ]

Trump Has Bombed Iran. What Happens Next Is His Fault.

Again, Iran explicitly warned it would attack the US military if the US military did the thing it just did. If and when these retaliatory strikes come, the warmongers will try to argue that this is a valid reason to escalate this war. They will be lying. They chose to make this happen.

Whatever transpires from this point on is the fault of Donald Trump and the unelected thugs he listens to. If US troops are killed, the war sluts in Washington and the Pentagon propagandists in the press will list their names and bandy about their photos and demand that their deaths be avenged with further acts of war — but it will not be Iran’s fault that they died.

It will be Trump’s fault. It will be the fault of everyone whose decisions led up to bombs being dropped on Iranian energy infrastructure, and the fault of everyone who put those soldiers in harm’s way.

None of this needed to happen. Iran was at the negotiating table. The Iran deal was working fine before Trump shredded it to put us on this terrible trajectory. The warmongers artificially manufactured this situation and knowingly inflicted this horror upon our world.

22.06.2025 - 18:40 [ Caitlin Johnstone ]

Israel Supporters Will Be Despised For The Rest of Their Lives

Everyone’s always going to remember what they did. Their grandchildren will be disgusted by them. Their families will carry their shame for generations.

22.06.2025 - 18:19 [ Consortium News ]

Michael Brenner: Over the Brink

Potential consequences are catastrophic. This action is in violation of the explicit Constitutional provision that Congress alone has the power to declare war. That fundamental fact gets barely mentioned in whatever public discourse has taken place.

The termination point of this reckless path to war will find the U.S. despised in the world — whatever the immediate military outcome. At home, the nation will demonstrate once again that it has become incapable of shame, and that whatever self-respect survives will be in the form of that confected adulation that egoists apply to themselves.

22.06.2025 - 17:57 [ Tehran Times ]

Trump-Netanyahu-Grossi evil triangle plus Merz’s delight

Now, there is little doubt that Grossi is an agent of the CIA. It is for this reason that Mike Pompeo, the CIA chief and secretary of state in Trump’s first administration, backed Grossi as the director general of the IAEA against his rival, Cornel Feruta from Romania.

On June 18 new German chancellor Friedrich Merz also tried to show his servitude to Israel by praising Israel’s attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites, saying, “I can only say I have the greatest respect for the fact that the Israeli army and the Israeli government had the courage to do this.”

It is astonishingly surprising that strikes on nuclear sites, which are a war crime under international law, and are being lauded by the German leader.

22.06.2025 - 17:41 [ Middle East Eye ]

EU says Iran must not have ‚nuclear weapon‘ after US strikes

EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas, has warned that Iran must not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon, calling it a threat to international security.

22.06.2025 - 17:37 [ Tehran Times ]

Iran condemns U.S. strike on nuclear facilities as ‚criminal act of aggression‘

“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran condemns in the strongest possible terms the United States’ brutal military aggression against Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities—a grave and unprecedented violation of the fundamental principles of the Charter of the United Nations and international law,” the statement began.

The Iranian government squarely placed responsibility on Washington for their “heinous crime” and warned of “dangerous consequences and far-reaching implications.”

22.06.2025 - 17:33 [ Middle East Eye ]

Donald Trump says US has struck Iranian nuclear sites

22 June 2025 01:25 BST

Donald Trump has announced in a social media post that the US has „completed our very successful attack“ on three nuclear sites in Iran.

„We have completed our very successful attack on the three Nuclear sites in Iran, including Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan,“ Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday evening.

„All planes are now outside of Iran air space. A full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow,“ he said.

„All planes are safely on their way home. Congratulations to our great American Warriors. There is not another military in the World that could have done this. NOW IS THE TIME FOR PEACE!

18.06.2025 - 22:32 [ Amnesty International ]

Urgent need to protect civilians amid unprecedented escalation in hostilities between Israel and Iran

“Instead of cheering on one party to the conflict over another as if civilian suffering is a mere sideshow, states must ensure the protection of civilians. Preventing further suffering must be the priority – not the pursuit of military or geopolitical goals.

“Both Israeli and Iranian authorities have time and again demonstrated their utter disregard for international human rights and humanitarian law, committing grave international crimes with impunity.

“The world must not allow Israel to use this military escalation to divert attention away from its ongoing genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, its illegal occupation of the whole Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) and its system of apartheid against Palestinians.

“Likewise, the international community must not ignore the suffering that decades of crimes under international law by the Iranian authorities have inflicted upon people inside Iran, that is now being compounded by relentless bombardment.”

16.06.2025 - 20:03 [ Daniel Neun / Radio Utopie ]

Any government in the world could expel the rogue state of Israel from the United Nations. None does.

(May 14, 2025)

It‘s not the world order that has failed the Palestinians. It‘s the world.

16.06.2025 - 19:48 [ Jerusalem Post ]

Public condemnation, private interest: Arab world response to Israel‘s Iran strikes – opinion

Therefore, although it is still too early to disclose the full extent of Arab involvement, there are indications that Israel operated over the airspace of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Syria – the latter likely without its knowledge or consent.

Jordanian fighter jets intercepted Iranian drones over Jordanian territory.

It is also reasonable to assume that the regional air system, established following the Abraham Accords and Israel’s inclusion in the US Central Command (CENTCOM) – known as the Middle East Air Defense – was activated to intercept Iranian drones, as it was during Iran’s two previous attacks in April and October 2024.

16.06.2025 - 19:39 [ Shafaq.com ]

Baghdad rejects accusations of Israeli attacks from Iraqi soil

Committee member Yasser Watout told Shafaq News the accusations—made Saturday by Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi—were “baseless and unsupported by evidence.”

“We’ve consulted with all relevant security and air force authorities, and there’s no indication of any Israeli launch or transit from Iraq,” Watout stated, stressing that Iraq prohibits the use of its territory for attacks on neighboring countries.

16.06.2025 - 18:29 [ Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) ]

Araghchi bezeichnet den Angriff Israels auf nukleare Einrichtungen als großes Verbrechen gegen das Völkerrecht

Der iranische Außenminister wies in diesem Telefongespräch auf die eklatante Verletzung der Prinzipien der Charta der Vereinten Nationen und des Völkerrechts durch das zionistische Regime während des Verhandlungsprozesses zwischen Iran und den USA hin und sagte: Das zionistische Regime hat nur zwei Tage vor der sechsten Verhandlungsrunde in Muscat mit der Verletzung der Souveränität und territorialen Integrität Irans die nuklearen Einrichtungen und Wohngebiete im Iran angegriffen. Es ist offensichtlich, dass das Hauptziel dieses Übergriffs des Regimes darin besteht, die diplomatischen Prozesse zu stören und andere in einen ungerechten Krieg zu verwickeln.