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Welcome to a detailed timeline of events between Israel, Lebanon and Iran, that started on the evening of June 7 and finished on the morning of June 8, followed by a swift ceasefire ordered by President Donald Trump.
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⚡️ Timeline – Israel/Iran
🔹 22:00: First Wave: Iranian missile launches detected towards northern Israel
🔹 22:04: Iranian channels report at least two missiles launched from Kermanshah
🔹 22:06: Violent explosions heard in Haifa, northern Israel
🔹 22:07: Israeli Army Radio: 4 missiles launched from Iran towards Israel
🔹 22:08: Footage appears online of interceptors in action above northern Israel
🔹 22:10: Initial reports of a ballistic missile impact in Haifa
🔹 22:10: Reports of shrapnel landing in Tiberias, northern Israel
🔹 22:10: Video published of Iranian’s in Kermanshah cheering missile launches
🔹 22:12: Israeli Army Radio: Officials say no such thing as ‘contained event’ – Israel will respond
🔹 22:12: Channel 14: Senior political sauce says: “As we promised, we will respond”
🔹 22:12: IDF said two ballistic missiles successfully intercepted by air defences in northern Israel
🔹 22:12: Jerusalem Post said: “Iran will now be hit hard”
🔹 22:15: Channel 12: Senior official said Iran wanted to create a new equation of limited & measured fire
🔹 22:15: Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir: “Tonight Tehran must burn!”
🔹 22:15: Reports of preparations to close Ben Gurion International Airport and lockdown Israeli airspace
🔹 22:15: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi shares image of merged Iranian and Lebanese flags
🔹 22:18: Second Wave: Up to 5 missiles launched from Kermanshah and Tabriz
🔹 22:20: i24News: Senior official said: “There will be a response!”
🔹 22:21: Third Wave: Iran launches more missiles towards northern Israel from Urmia
🔹 22:22: Khatam al-Anbiya HQ Spox: “Zionist army must stop attacks on Lebanon and Diaheh!”
🔹 22:24: Fourth Wave: Further missiles have been launched from Tabriz to northern Israel
🔹 22:24: Numerous explosions reported above southern Syria, the Golan Heights and Galilee due to interception attempts by Israeli defences
🔹 22:25: Multiple US aerial refuelers take off from Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv
🔹 22:25: At least 10 missiles in the fourth wave
🔹 22:26: Axios: “President Trump briefed on the escalation”
🔹 22:28: Israeli shelters open amid attacks
🔹 22:28: Fifth wave of ballistic missiles launched towards Israel form Iran
🔹 22:30: Military Advisor to Khamenei, Mohsen Rezaee, said Iran will not tolerate aggression against Lebanon
🔹 22:31: Axios: Israeli official said Israel will retaliate against Iranian attack
🔹 22:31: Large amount of traffic attempts to leave Tehran as they expect Israeli response
🔹 22:32: Kan News: Israel is preparing a response to the Iranian attack
🔹 22:32: “ISRAEL WILL RETALIATE” wrote Axios, citing Israeli officials
🔹 22:34: Walla: Israel seeking green light to target Iranian energy facilities; Israel in constant contact with US throughout attacks
🔹 22:35: Karaj, Iran
🔹 22:35: Ballistic missile launch from Karaj & Qom, Iran
🔹 22:37: IDF claims to have intercepted all missiles so far
🔹 22:37: Siren alerts in Amman, Jordan
🔹 22:40: Confirmation of at least one ballistic missile strike in northern Israel
🔹 22:40: Iranian government began internet restrictions across the country
🔹 22:41: Air defence activity in Kermanshah and Tabriz, Iran
🔹 22:41: Visual confirmation of an impact in northern Israel, thanks to IntelCams.
🔹 22:42: Iran launched at least 4 missiles from Kermanshah, 6 from Tabriz, 3 from Urmia, as well as Karaj, Isfahan and Qom.
🔹 22:43: IRGC Aerospace Force Commander, Brigadier General Majid Mousavi: “The promise is fulfilled.”
🔹 22:43: Unidentified drones spotted in several areas over western Tehran
🔹 22:44: Explosions north of Tabriz airport, Azerbaijan Province, Iran, related to air defences
🔹 22:47: MDA reports no impacts or casualties while searching impact scenes in Israel, but two were injured while making way to protected areas and were receiving treatment
🔹 22:48: Reuters: Israel officials said they will respond to Iran
🔹 22:49: Iran’s IRGC says “Tonight’s operation was merely a warning”
🔹 22:49: Air defence activity reported in Tehran
🔹 22:50: President Trump told Fox News he’d tell Iran: “You shot your missiles, that’s enough, get back to the table and make a deal.”
🔹 22:53: Iran launched more than 10 missiles at northern Israel in an hour – all were intercepted or struck ‘open areas’ according to IDF reports
🔹 22:53: Iraqi militias ordered to fire on US and Israel if the United States intervenes
🔹 22:57: Iraq issues a NOTAM closing its airspace citing operational reasons
🔹 22:59: CNN: Two sources said Israel will deliver a ‘powerful’ response to Iranian ballistic missile fire
🔹 22:59: President Trump told Fox the strikes in Dahieh not coordinated with us; was not happy about it’ close to an agreement which could be signed by mid-week and now this takes place
11PM-Midnight
🔹 23:03: Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar trolls Araghchi with an Iranian and Hezbollah flag merged
🔹 23:04: Iran’s Civil Aviation Organisation closes airspace in western Iran
🔹 23:05: Fox News: Iranian officials believe Trump is determined to end the war at almost any cost
🔹 23:05: Iraq and Syria both close airspace temporarily
🔹 23:08: Trump tells Axios: “I am calling Netanyahu right now and telling him not to attack Iran in retaliation”
🔹 23:11: Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said: “The shaky Zionist regime’s breath has run out”
🔹 23:14: Iranian Red Cross Society places operational forces on full alert nationwide
🔹 23:16: Channel 12: Trump said no one was hurt, if Netanyahu responds it will continue: “We are very close to a deal to end the war, and it will be a good deal,” he said, adding he didn’t want this to derail the agreement
🔹 23:17: Kan News: Trump said: “I think Israel has responded enough, there doesn’t need to be any more”
🔹 23:18: Reuters was told by a senior Iranian source that US Bases in Middle East would be legitimate targets if Israel attacked Iran
🔹 23:21: IRGC published footage showing fighters launching missiles at Ramat David Airbase, northern Israel
🔹 23:23: Iran’s FM, Araghchi, spoke with Foreign Ministers of Turkey and UK, as well as Pakistan’s Army Chief Asim Munir, along with the French and Qatari Foreign Ministers
🔹 23:27: IDF spokesperson said: “We are prepared for the possibility of further fire towards us. Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir is conducting assessments and approving plans. Iranian regime made a serious mistake”
🔹 23:37: Footage showed remnants of Iranian missile in town of Tafs, western countryside of Daraa, southern Syria
🔹 23:39: Netanyahu’s political opponents would exploit the current situation, but Netanyahu can’t afford to reach such a situation months before elections, reported Israeli Channel 12
🔹 23:40: Image showed firefighters operating at several ‘open-area fire’ sites in the Galilee and Golan Heights
🔹 23:40: IDF Farsi X account says Iran were trying to create a new equation and impose new rules by firing at Israeli territory
🔹 23:43: Video footage showed direct impacts in northern Israel earlier in the evening
🔹 23:49: President Trump-PM Netanyahu call started
🔹 23:50: Unidentified drone (US or Israeli) shot down in Karbala Governorate, central Iraq, around the same time as Iran’s ballistic missile attack
🔹 23:52: Naftali Bennet said this is a moment of truth and asked is Israel a sovereign state capable of defending itself?
🔹 23:55: i24NEWS said a cabinet meeting with Katz and the security leadership will take place after President Trump’s call to Netanyahu
🔹 23:57: Iran issues a NOTAM closing airspace in western Tehran to all civilian traffic until June 8
🔹 23:57: Netanyahu must respond to the bombing, even at the cost of a confrontation with Trump, Channel 13 reported.
🔹 23:59: Tasnim told by military source Iran’s missiles are ready to be immediately launched toward a broader list of targets; if Israel responds, the next round will be bigger; Iran is ready to start a widespread battle and Israel should heed the warning
Midnight-1AM
🔹 00:01: Israeli war planes carry out strikes across southern Lebanon
🔹 00:02: Opposition leader Avigdor Lieberman, head of the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu Party, called for an immediate response to Iran’s attacks.
🔹 00:08 Clait Health Services announce Israel’s largest healthcare provider is moving hospital operations underground
🔹 00:08: IRGC launch drones towards Israel with the slogan: “We will not abandon Israel”
🔹 00:12: Footage surfaces of celebrations in Ferdowsi Square and Revolution Square in Tehran following missile launches toward Israel
🔹 00:13: US Embassy in Jerusalem instruct government personal and family members to shelter in place and prepare to move to protected shelters if a red alert
🔹 00:15: Iran’s Foreign Ministry said Iranian forces carried out defensive strikes against Israeli military targets in northern Israel, citing repeated violations of the April 10 ceasefire, due to attacks against Lebanon and Iran
🔹 00:16: US official tells Axios: “We’re not part of this,” but is unclear whether Trump will order US not to assist Israel against Iran, especially when it comes to air refuelling and military coordination
🔹 00:20: Ynet said the US urged Israel to wait several days to determine whether a diplomatic deal could be reached, arguing that if talks failed, Washington and Israel could proceed with joint action
🔹 00:21: President Trump’s call with Netanyahu ended
🔹 00:24: ISNA reports flights to and from Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran have been suspended until future notice
🔹 00:28: Walla told by Senior Israeli official the expected response to Iran would be severe and wide-ranging
🔹 00:30: Yediot Ahronot said Netanyahu informed Trump of an intention for a powerful attack during the call, but the US President clarified the US would not take part in an attack if carried out
🔹 00:32: Iran sent Israel a message through mediators saying the attacks had been completed, and there wouldn’t be any more unless Israel retaliated, according to Israeli Channel 11.
🔹 00:41: Netanyahu chairs security cabinet meeting on Iran
🔹 00:43: Israel fears that preventing a response could undermine deterrence capability and send a message its nolonger able to act in self-defence, reported Ynet
1AM-2AM
🔹 01.32: IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir held two conversations with CENTCOM Chief Admiral Brad Cooper over a 24 hour period, reported Kan News
🔹 01:33: Arab official told Kan News that everything is being done to prevent a severe war breaking out
🔹 01:35: IRGC launched drones at Iranian-Kurdish opposition groups in the Sulaymaniyah area of Iraqi Kurdistan
🔹 01:37: Israel halts humanitarian aid to Gaza until further notice
🔹 01:37 Kan News said Israel considering not responding to Iran immediately
🔹 01:40: Israeli official tells Israeli Hayom: “We will respond to the attack, even it doesn’t happen in the immediate timeframe
🔹 01:47: UK Foreign Secretary said resumption of conflict in no one’s interest, both sides should show restraint and de-escalate immediately
🔹 01:54: Senior US official told Axios that the White House didn’t give the green light on Beirut
2AM-3AM
🔹 02:12: US crude futures rose by $2.57 per barrel to $93.11, Brent crude gained $2.67 to $95.76
🔹 02:15: IRGC confirms fighters carried out attacks on headquarters of Iranian-Kurdish opposition groups in Sulaymaniyah, Iraqi Kurdistan
3AM-4AM
🔹 03:03: US official tells Axios Trump is adamant the US is close to a deal, and didn’t think anything was imminent in terms of an Israeli strike
4AM-5AM
🔹 04:16: Initial reports of explosions in Tehran
🔹 04:17: Projectiles seen flying over Beirut, fired from Israeli naval forces at sea
🔹 04:18: Initial reports of explosions in Tabriz and Isfahan
🔹 04:19: Two new explosions heard in western Tehran
🔹 04:21: Sonic booms heard over Baghdad as Israeli jets prepared to fire towards Iran
🔹 04:21: Channel 14 confirms Israeli warplanes attacking Iran
🔹 04:22: Explosions reported in Karaj, northern Iran
🔹 04:23: Israeli Channel 14 confirms the start of Israeli retaliatory strikes against Iran
🔹 04:24: Israeli planes conducting launch manoeuvres from Iraqi airspace
🔹 04:25: Confirmation that cruise missiles launched by the Israeli Navy in the eastern Mediterranean towards Iran
🔹 04:27: IDF claims to have struck military targets belonging to Iran in western and central Iran
🔹 04:29: Airstrikes also carried airstrikes on Kermanshah, Isfahan and Urmia
🔹 04:32: Several Israeli airstrikes targeted the Tabriz missile site, northwestern Iran (TabzLive)
🔹 04:32: Scenes from Tehran, assumed that Mehrabad International Airport was targeted by at least one Israeli strike
🔹 04:34: Israeli strikes reportedly targeted the Abdanan air defence site in western Iran
🔹 04:38: Footage from Isfahan showed smoke rising from a drone production warehouse following Israeli strike
🔹 04:55: Israeli strikes ended for now – more than 20 Iranian sites, including Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport and missile sites, have been struck by Israel
5AM-6AM
🔹 05:11: IRNA spoke to Tehran’s fire department, who confirms no hits at Mehrabad airport or urban sites
🔹 05:15: US official described Israeli strikes to Axios as relatively limited in scope
🔹 05:34: Early warning alerts at Al-Kharj, home to the Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia
🔹 05:38: Two explosions reported in the area of the Prince Sultan Air Base
🔹 05:39: Saudi Arabia reports the danger to Al-Kharj Governorate has passed
6AM-7AM
🔹 06:10: Israeli Ambassador to US, Yechiel Leiter, said Iran fired 11 missiles at Israel and claimed no self-respecting country would tolerate it, so Israel was targeting back at Iranian surface-to-surface launch sites, as well as infrastructure unrelated to the energy sector, adding that everyone has had enough of this ‘maniacal Iranian regime.’
🔹 06:14: Image published of IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir commanding the recent strikes from the Israeli Air Force Command Centre.
🔹 06:35: Knowledgeable military official told IRIB the Iranian forces didn’t launch towards Saudi Arabia, claiming it was most likely the Houthis
7AM-8AM
🔹 07:10: Interceptions recorded over Jerusalem and occupied West Bank, sirens in Beersheba, southern Israel simultaneously
🔹 07:15: Visual confirmation of Iranian impacts targeting IDF military positions near Jerusalem
🔹 07:19: Renewed sirens in Beersheba following launches reported towards Negev
🔹 07:21: More footage of interceptions
🔹 07.23: Booster from an intercepted ballistic missile fell in Jericho, Occupied West Bank
🔹 07:26: Israeli security cabinet meeting summoned for 11am local time, reported Channel 12
🔹 07:31: Iranian missile struck 3 houses in an Israeli settlement of the Occupied West Bank, causing damage
🔹 07:39: Israel carried out strike on Karun Petrochemical Company in Mahshahr, reported Fars, citing Khuzestan Province’s security deputy
🔹 07:42: Iranian missile launched towards Israel likely fell on route
🔹 07:43: Home front Command issued a directive it was possible to leave protected areas
🔹 07:47: Senator Chris Murphy said the war had been humiliating for Trump and American power generally
🔹 07:48: The Iranian missile on route to Israel was intercepted by a THAAD over Jordan
🔹 07:51: Israeli senior official confirmed to Channel 14 that the IAF attacked the petrochemical facility in Mahshahr
🔹 07:59: IAF said “a short while ago, the Israeli Air Force struck several targets at the petrochemical complex in Mahshahr, guided by Military Intelligence
8AM-9AM
🔹 08:01: IAF carried out strikes on 20 Iranian targets, according to Israeli Channel 13
🔹 08:13: Pakistan Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi departed Tehran at dawn, reported Al-Arabia
🔹 08:17: IRGC claims to have targeted Nevatim and Tel Nof air bases in response to Israeli attacks on several radar sites at three locations inside Iran
🔹 08:42: Reports of air defences activated in Kermanshah following detection of ‘hostile targets’
9AM-10AM
🔹 09:05: Yemen’s Houthis issued a statement saying that in response to the attack, the Red Sea is closed to Israeli-linked vessels, and will also intensify military operations in participation in the axis of jihad and resistance, adding that their attack targeted ‘sensitive sites’ in Tel Aviv, claiming the strike achieved objectives
🔹 09:13: Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has now spoken to US Central Command chief Admiral Cooper three times since the attacks started
🔹 09:19: Mehrabad International Airport officially closed for all flights
🔹 09:25: The Mahshahr Petrochemical complex had to be shut down and evacuated while the damage was being evacuated
🔹 09:29: Ichilov Medical Centre in Tel Aviv began transferring emergency units to underground departments
🔹 09:33: Wave of 4 ballistic missiles heading towards Haifa, and 2 heading towards Gush Dan.
🔹 09:34: Interceptor missile debris fell in several locations of central Israel, reported Channel 13
🔹 09:35: Interceptions over Gush Dan
🔹 09:38: Drones from Yemen heading towards Israel
🔹 09:38: Sirens sounded in Amman, Jordan
🔹 09:42: Reports of a possible impact in Krayot, northern Israel
🔹 09:44: During latest attack, passengers removed from a flight preparing to depart from Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv
🔹 09:48: Image from Kiryat Ata, near Haifa, showed where a missile had fallen into the sea
10AM-11AM
🔹 10:20: Kermanshah International cancels all flights until further notice
🔹 10:22: Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is due to propose that instead of focusing attacks on Iran, Israel should destroy ‘dozens of buildings in Dahieh for each missile that Iran fires’
🔹 10:24: Iran Foreign Ministry holds the US directly responsible for ceasefire breaches, linking action to Washington, adding: “The actions of the Zionist entity within the region cannot be looked at in isolation from the United States.”
🔹 10:28: No casualties reported following the strikes at Karun petrochemical plant in Mahshahr, Mehr News reported, noting two strikes hit the facility and damage was being assessed
🔹 10:43: US bears direct responsibility for the violations, it is impossible to separate Israel’s actions from Washington’s policy,” the Iranian Foreign Ministry said.
🔹 10:46: Approximately 31 missiles launched at Israel overnight, with 30 from Iran and one from Yemen
🔹 10:51: IRGC announce Israeli aggression against the petrochemical industry has been answered, claiming to have struck similar facilities in Haifa
11AM-Midday
🔹 11:10: Reports of explosions in Tehran
🔹 11:10: Image from Warfront Witness shows impact of Iranian missile booster in southern Israel
🔹 11:12: Reports of explosions in Isfahan and Kerhamshaah
🔹 11:18: Multiple explosions across Iran, including Air and Space University in Iran, linked to the IRGC
🔹 11:20: Image from Eslamshahr in Tehran province showed smoke rising above the city
🔹 11:22: Israeli airstrike against a Basij checkpoint in Kabudarahang, Hamadan Province, Western Iran
🔹 11:22: Mehr News said a hostile drone of the ‘US-Zionist enemy’ was targeted and destroyed by air defences over Tehran
🔹 11:24: Repeated explosions in Bidkaneh, a town south of Karaj, northern Iran
🔹 11:32: Kan News reports that the IDF are constructing strikes on Iran
🔹 11:33: No explosions heard in Isfahan, reported Mehr, but an explosion was heard in Najafabad
🔹 11:36: Local media reported of an airstrike on Shamsabad, Iran
🔹 11:37: In this wave by Israel, targets included Eastern and Southwestern Tehran, Northern Karaj, Bidkaneh south of Karaj, the northern countryside of Isfahan, and Kabudarahang in Hamadan
🔹 11:39: Indian Embassy in Tehran calls on citizens to depart Iran immediately
🔹 11:45: Tehran’s municipality spokesperson said the opening of its subways and underground parking lots have been completed for use as air shelters
🔹 11:50: Confirmed – the strike in the Isfahan countryside hit a drone assembly factory just outside Najafabad, the attack on Karaj struck the Sayed-e-Shohada headquarters, one of the central units of the IRGC in the Tehran region, the strike on Kabudarahang struck a Basij checkpoint, near the Shahrokhi Airbase.
🔹 11:57: Reports of Shiraz Airport being among the confirmed targets hit, however, Mehr News and Far News later dismissed the reports as false
Sources: Kan News, Israel Channel 12, Israel Channel 13, Israel Channel 14, Yediot Ahronot, Tasnim News, IRIB News, Fars News, Mehr News, Reuters, CNN, IDF, IRGC, official social media accounts.
