Iran fires two overnight missile barrages at Israel; Supreme Leader Khamenei declares, ‘The battle begins’

It is the view of many globally that the whole world went silent while Israel committed and continued it’s genocidal attacks killing women, children and the defencessless in Gaza but are now quick to call for compliance to ethics in the case of retaliatory Iran attacks again same “genocide” agent.

Iran fired a pair of ballistic missile barrages at Israel early Wednesday, as Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared that “the battle begins” and called for showing “no mercy” toward Israelis.

This was coming a day after United States of America’s President Donald Trump’s claim that “We exactly where the so called Supreme Leader is hiding. He is an easy target”. Trump, however, may have admitted the Supreme Leader is would not be as small fry as he thinks by his adjoining statement that “we are not going to take him out (kill) now”.

The Israeli Air Force, meanwhile, carried out a wave of airstrikes in Tehran, targeting an Iranian centrifuge production site and several weapon-production facilities, according to the military.

AccordibgbThe Times of Israel, in Wednesday June 18, 2025, Iran’s first salvo, which triggered sirens across a large swath of Israel shortly after 12:40 a.m., comprised some 15 projectiles.

The next barrage of approximately five missiles began around 40 minutes later and triggered alerts in central Israeli communities and a number of West Bank settlements.

Several minutes before the attacks, the Israel Defense Forces issued alerts warning residents of the missile fire and instructing them to seek shelter. Following each salvo, the IDF informed Israelis it was then safe to leave the bomb shelters.

Most of the missiles were intercepted by air defenses, according to the military.

Exact impact and casualties of Iran’s retaliatory attacks on Israel may not be correctly available to the world as Benjamin Netanyau’s government had issued an order to the media not to report same in the course of the war.

However, footages through some social media and stronger international media show that Tel Aviv may be suffering serous damages in pretext.

This was as official report coming out from there failed to disclose injuries in the Iran’s launched successive attacks, but a fire was sparked at a parking lot in central Israel, damaging 20 cars, the Fire and Rescue Service said.

Israel, however, admitted the attacks on its territory were successful but that the blaze was apparently caused by falling debris from an interception, not a direct impact.

Many globally have taken to X saying the whole world went silent while Israel committed and continued it’s genocidal attacks killing women, children and the defencessless in Gaza but are now quick to call for compliance to ethics in the case of retaliatory Iran attacks again same “genocide” agent.

The Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed to have used hypersonic missiles, which Israel denies Iran possesses.

“The 11th wave of the proud Operation Honest Promise 3 using Fattah-1 missiles” was carried out, the IRGC said in a statement carried by state television, claiming that Iranian forces “have gained complete control over the skies of the occupied territories.”

Warning sirens were also activated overnight around the Dead Sea due to a suspected drone infiltration, shortly before 6 a.m. in numerous northern communities, and just after 9 a.m. in the Golan Heights.

The military later confirmed that it had shot down six drones launched from Iran — two over the Dead Sea, one over the north, and three over the Golan.

The overnight missile launches followed several smaller salvos throughout Tuesday, with the IDF saying it believed the attacks were decreasing in scope as Iran’s capabilities had been degraded by Israeli strikes.

“We must give a strong response to the terrorist Zionist regime,” Khamenei wrote on his English-language X account after the second missile barrage early Wednesday. “We will show the Zionists no mercy.”

He issued a similar tweet in Hebrew as well as a Shia-themed post in Persian stating “the battle begins” and claiming a return to Khaybar, referring to a town whose Jewish inhabitants were conquered by Muslim forces in the 7th century.

Meanwhile, the IDF issued an evacuation warning Wednesday urging residents of District 18 in Tehran to leave the area, saying that Israel was going to take action in the area targeting military infrastructure. Shortly afterward, the military announced that the Israeli Air Force had embarked on a new wave of strikes in the Iranian capital.

The military later confirmed that over 50 IAF fighter jets carried out strikes on some 20 targets in Tehran, including an Iranian centrifuge production site and several weapon-production facilities.

The centrifuge production site in Tehran was used by Iran to expand the scope and rate of its uranium enrichment for the purpose of developing nuclear weapons, the IDF said.

The military said that the weapon-production factories hit included a site for the production of raw materials and components for the assembly of the surface-to-surface missiles that the Iranian regime has been firing at Israel, as well as facilities for making systems and components for surface-to-air missiles designed to hit aircraft.

Iranian news sites reported that Israel struck a university linked to the IRGC in eastern Tehran, and also reported explosions at the Khojir missile production facility near the capital and in the city of Karaj, where Israel has previously targeted a centrifuge factory.