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IDF Issues Evacuation Order for Tehran Ahead of Possible Strike

IDF Issues Evacuation Order for Tehran Ahead of Possible Strike

IDF spokesman: Israel has “achieved full aerial superiority over Tehran’s skies.” 
Posted by Monday, June 16, 2025 at 10:44am

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), on Monday morning, urged the residents of eastern Tehran to evacuate their neighborhoods ahead of a possibile aerial operation. The evacuation order has been issued for Tehran’s 3rd District, home to regime ministries and military establishment.

“More Israeli air strikes are reported in Tehran, as the Israeli military warns people in parts of the Iranian capital to evacuate,” the BBC reported. “The IDF says people in Tehran’s District 3 should leave as it targets “military infrastructure” in the area.”

While Iran indiscriminately fired ballistic missiles at Israeli towns and cities for the third day third day in a row, the IDF publicized on Persian language evacuation order on social media. “IDF Spokesperson in Arabic, Avichay Adraee, issued an evacuation warning in Persian to the residents of the third district of Tehran in a social media post on Monday,” the Jerusalem Post. “Adraee notified residents that the IDF will strike military infrastructure in the area in the next few hours, as it has done in recent days in Tehran.”

Initial reports suggest regime’s main propaganda broadcaster was also impacted in the strike.

Israeli news website Ynetnews reported:

Unbelievable images came from Tehran Monday evening, where the Iranian state television network, the mouthpiece of the Ayatollahs’ regime, announced that it was under Israeli bombardment. In the live broadcast, the anchor is seen speaking with considerable excitement, until suddenly a loud explosion is heard, blocks of concrete – it seems – fall from the ceiling, and she gets up and runs away.

The Times of Israel reported the details:

The IDF issues an unprecedented evacuation warning for a large section of Iran’s capital, Tehran, ahead of Israeli strikes.

“Dear citizens, for your safety, we ask you to immediately leave the mentioned area in District 3 of Tehran,” says the IDF Persian-language spokesman, Master Sgt. (res.) Kamal Penhasi.

“In the coming hours, the Israeli army will operate in this area, as it has in recent days throughout Tehran, to strike the Iranian regime’s military infrastructure,” the warning adds.

In a vague warning after the military issued the evacuation warning, Defense Minister Israel Katz says, “The Iranian propaganda and incitement mouthpiece is on its way to disappearing.”

“Evacuation of nearby residents has begun,” he adds.

An Iranian state TV presenter on live-stream appears to show the impact of the latest Israeli airstrike:

The building housing the regime’s propaganda arm we shown ablaze after a supposed Israeli strike:

According to unconfirmed reports, the IDF was preparing to take all regime propaganda outlets off air.

The order comes hours after IDF Spokesperson, Brigadier General Effie Defrin, declared that Israel had “achieved full aerial superiority over Tehran’s skies.”

Israel wipes out Iran’s top intel command, including IRGC spy chief

As part of the operation ‘Rising Lion,’ Israel eliminated the top intelligence command of the Iranian regime, including the head of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) spying operations, Mohammad Kazemi and his-second-in-command, Mohammad Hassan Mohaqiq, the Israel Defense Force (IDF) confirmed Monday.

The heads of the IRGC-Quds Force’s Intelligence Directorate, Mohsen Bakri, his deputy, Abu al-Fadl Nikouei, and several other senior Iranian intelligence officials were also reportedly killed when Israeli fighter jets struck Iranian intelligence headquarters in central Tehran. The Quds Force is IRGC’s foreign terrorist arm, which props up and directs terrorist group’s such as Lebanese Hezbollah and Yemen-based Houthis.

On Sunday, “IAF fighter jets, following precise IDF intelligence, struck a structure in Tehran where several senior officials from Iranian intelligence organizations were located,” the Israeli military confirmed in a statement Monday morning.

“In the strike, the Head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Intelligence Organization and his deputy, as well as the Head of the Quds Force Intelligence Department and his deputy, were all eliminated,” the IDF statement added.

“These officials played a central role in shaping Iran’s strategic assessments and planning terrorist attacks against Israel, the West, and countries in the Middle East,” the IDF disclosed.

Particularly, IRGC intelligence chief Kazemi, “was responsible for counterintelligence, espionage, and targeting opponents of the Iranian regime within Iran,” the Israeli military said.

Besides targeting Israel and other Western countries, Kazemi ran an oppressive spying network inside Iran. “In his role, oversaw intelligence gathering for terrorist activities and the monitoring of Iranian citizens to suppress dissent and preserve the Iranian regime.”

Kazemi’s right-hands man, Mohaqiq, oversaw terrorist operations aimed at Israel and other countries. “His deputy, Mohammad Hassan Mohaqiq, previously chaired the Strategic Intelligence Department and played a key role in the regime’s terrorist operations against Israel, the West, and countries in the Middle East,” military informed.

Iran arms, trains and finances a vast web of terrorist organizations beyond the Arab and Muslim world.

Regime-run Iranian media admitted the killing of senior intelligence officials, The Times of Israel reported Sunday night:

Iranian state media officially confirms that the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ intelligence chief, Brig. Gen. Mohammad Kazemi and his deputy Hassan Mohaqiq were killed in an Israeli strike today.

State media also says a third IRGC intelligence officer, Mohsen Bagheri, was also killed in the strike in Tehran.

The Israeli news website Ynetnews described the Sunday’s strike on the Iranian intelligence headquarters as “one of the most significant blows to Iran’s internal security apparatus since the beginning of Israel’s preemptive Operation Rising Lion.” It is worth noting that the Israeli Air Force nearly wiped out the entire command structure of the IRGC, Iranian army and air forces, as well as top nuclear weapons experts since the preemptive aerial operation began three days ago.

The slain Quds Forces’ intelligence chief and his deputy “were primarily responsible for operational and intelligence support to members of the Iran’s Axis of Terror, including Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and militias in Iraq,” the military observed.

“The elimination of these senior figures follows the elimination of the Head of the Intelligence Directorate in the Iranian Armed Forces General Staff, who was struck last Friday. This marks a significant blow to the Iranian regime’s intelligence apparatus and its ability to carry out terrorist attacks against the State of Israel,” the IDF statement concluded.

Day 4 of Operation Rising Lion: Israeli fighter jets destroy 120 ballistic missile launchers

With Iran indiscriminately firing missiles at Israeli towns and cities, the Iron Dome and other air defense systems were successful in intercepting most of them.”The IDF on Monday provided its first statistics of the war on its shoot down success against Iran’s ballistic missiles, setting it at 80-90%, with only about 5-10% of ballistic missiles hitting actual residential areas,” the Jerusalem Post reported.

Overnight, a “total of 65 missiles and dozens of UAVs were launched, most of which were intercepted by our aerial and naval defense systems,” the IDF said in a statement Monday.

At least eight civilians were killed and several others injured in nighttime Iranian strikes. Despite the high-rate of interception by the Israeli air defense systems, Iranian missiles impacted at “four different areas in northern and central Israel. Regrettably, eight civilians were killed, and dozens were injured,” the IDF informed Monday morning.

Meanwhile, Israeli fighter jets carry out large-scale strikes aimed at dismantling regime’s ability to fire ballistic missiles at Israel. “Over fifty fighter jets and aircraft took part, striking and destroying over 120 surface-to-surface missile launchers, amounting to one-third of the launchers in the hands of the Iranian regime,” IDF Spokesperson, Brigadier General Effie Defrin, said Monday.

“These are large launchers, some mounted on trucks and deployed across Iran. Each launcher was ready to fire dozens of missiles at Israel’s home front and strategic assets. These strikes caused the regime to launch only half of the missiles it had planned in last night’s barrage,” he explained.

 

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Paula | June 16, 2025 at 10:53 am

Those nuclear sites in Iran need to be eliminated, not just degraded.

If you can fight fire with fire, why can’t Israel fight nuclear with nuclear?

    DaveGinOly in reply to Paula. | June 16, 2025 at 11:27 am

    Because nobody (except crazy people) want to be the first to use nuclear weapons.

      The Gentle Grizzly in reply to DaveGinOly. | June 16, 2025 at 12:49 pm

      We did.

        GWB in reply to The Gentle Grizzly. | June 16, 2025 at 1:31 pm

        And we are crazy. The whole rest of the world says so.

          BobM in reply to GWB. | June 16, 2025 at 3:51 pm

          Crazy like a fox.
          By modern standards the initial nukes were fire crackers – the Hiroshima blast killed 70k – which was less than the 200k killed in ONE fire bombing raid on Tokyo,

          Even after the shock of our bluff of escalation to “one bomb – one city” it wasn’t a given that Japanese Honor would let them surrender to save Japanese lives – the Emperor was initially being sequestered by no-surrender guards – and his taped “endure the unendurable” broadcast tape barely escaped destruction before it could be broadcast.

          The surrender arguably saved millions of lives on both sides.
          And revisionist theories that Japan was unwilling to die with honor rather than surrender in ignominious defeat before the shock of 2 nukes gave them an out – are fanciful BS.

        alaskabob in reply to The Gentle Grizzly. | June 16, 2025 at 1:38 pm

        Successfully. I’d ask the “anti-nuke” crowd which was worse…. 16 square miles of Tokyo fire bombed and everyone burned to death plus those surviving who die of infection…or most vaporized in a millisecond from the nukes? Total killed in Tokyo probable upwards of 200,000 although official number a little less. It took the one bomber/one bomb and the fear of communist takeover that ended WWII. Totally destruction of Japan’s heritage was in the balance. Iran wants total destruction of the world to usher in the 13th Imam as he jumps out of the well ready for action after centuries.

          ztakddot in reply to alaskabob. | June 16, 2025 at 2:15 pm

          The revisionist thinking by the anti-nuke crowd regarding the nukes dropped to end WW2 is obscene, Japan wasn’t going to surrender on our terms unless we invaded or did something else. Invasion would have cost at least 1M allied casualties and multiple million Japanese casualties including civilians who were being urged to fight to the death. I forget the exact estimates. Dropping the nukes was the something else and it saved many many lives.

    BobM in reply to Paula. | June 16, 2025 at 12:49 pm

    They already do.
    Israel publicly says “no comment” when asked about their nuclear capability – but it’s been an open secret for 50+ years they have some. Unlike the mullahs, they apparently didn’t plan to use them immediately – seeing them as a deterrent instead of a first strike.

    However they’re a small country hence a small target – just a few nukes would fulfill the mullah’s wet dreams of “death to Israel”. Since historically Saudi and other Muslim Oil Money finances every attack on Israel they supposedly privately let it be known to the Saudi’s et Alia that if they are attacked with nukes before they all die from the radiation that (at the least) Mecca and Medina will cease to exist as well. Doesn’t matter which Muslim nation does the dirty deed, the Saudis get it, Good luck taking the religiously mandated Hajj to glow in the dark bomb craters after that.

      ztakddot in reply to BobM. | June 16, 2025 at 2:18 pm

      Israel almost used their nukes during the Yom Kippur war. For a time it was going very badly and they were preparing to. However, seasoned reservists turned things around along with some luck in the Golan heights and Nixon resupply of Isreal. so of course they didn’t use them.

mailman | June 16, 2025 at 10:54 am

I hear rumblings on the intraweb that the leadership caste have already started to abandon the sinking moolah ship for mother russia.

    Paula in reply to mailman. | June 16, 2025 at 11:11 am

    A note was found in Oval Office desk:

    Thank you so much Obama and Biden.

    It took a lot of money to fund all of our nuclear sites, but you came through for us when we needed the cash. We couldn’t have done it without you.

    Love,
    Ayatollah

    Paula in reply to mailman. | June 16, 2025 at 11:13 am

    Russia has prepared a nice house for the Ayatollah to live in. Right next to Asaad’s house.

MDP | June 16, 2025 at 10:55 am

II Kings 6:11-12

Tom M | June 16, 2025 at 12:45 pm

I would like to understand what the announcers are saying. Can anyone here interpret Fartsy?

    GWB in reply to gonzotx. | June 16, 2025 at 1:37 pm

    BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!
    They claim to have a B-2 now? And some of the controls look like they’re out of science fiction (particularly the slider one). And that B-2 is going to drop a laser-guided munition? That Iran got from … where? (You’d think we would have seen those in use over in Iraq, you know?)

    That video is almost as good as the one showing F-35s and missiles and an aircraft carrier (in the basement) of some Tel Aviv condos.

Lucifer Morningstar | June 16, 2025 at 1:32 pm

And yet Trump is still pushing Netanyahu to negotiate with the Iranian theocracy. Just how fecking stupid is that. Iran has had decades to negotiate with Israel for a workable peace and has consistently refused to do so. They aren’t likely to do so now that the missiles are flying. And even if they did negotiate it would only be to gain more time to replace their expended weaponry and not a real attempt at peace. But there you go and here we are.

    GWB in reply to Lucifer Morningstar. | June 16, 2025 at 1:39 pm

    He’s playing Good Cop-Bad Cop. He’s giving the Iranians an alternative to outright destruction, and all they have to do is surrender to him instead of the Israelis.

      Lucifer Morningstar in reply to GWB. | June 16, 2025 at 3:16 pm

      Please, just stop excusing Trump’s idiotic moves. Now that the missiles are flying and Iran is backed into a corner there’s no way the Ayatollah is ever going to sanction negotiations with the West. And as for surrendering to Trump? You seem to forget that the Ayatollah hates Trump and the United States just as much as he hates Israel and Netanyahu so surrendering to the United States isn’t an option. His own people would skin him alive if he even tried to negotiate surrender terms. They’ve got nothing to lose at this point.

    ztakddot in reply to Lucifer Morningstar. | June 16, 2025 at 2:20 pm

    He wants to make deals. He’s a businessman. THat’s what he thinks about. He should let nature take its course for now, but he won’t.

scooterjay | June 16, 2025 at 1:35 pm

Watch for some head-fakery and keep an eye on the Fakir with a rug, for theirs is a society of deceit.

geronl | June 16, 2025 at 2:12 pm

Iran: We are going to nuke you, soon!

Israel bombs them

Iran: We are victims!

geronl | June 16, 2025 at 2:18 pm

What happened to Iran’s air force? I’ve heard nothing about it

Petrushka | June 16, 2025 at 2:21 pm

I can’t help thinking, “Anyone else wanna negotiate?”

mailman | June 16, 2025 at 3:47 pm

I hear whispers the moolahs are trying to find a way out but the juices are here to play for real and aren’t interested in peace with them 😂 They had their chance 😂

destroycommunism | June 16, 2025 at 4:42 pm

looks like the un peacekeepers are as inefficient as the american educational system

hopefully iran will surrender to israel and the plo can have a place all to themselves there

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