PinnedUpdated June 15, 2025, 1:59 a.m. ETIsraeli fighter jets bombarded the Iranian capital of Tehran, setting the sky ablaze with the flames of burning fuel reservoirs, while Iran launched deadly volleys of ballistic missiles at Israel, and many people in both countries rose Sunday after a fearful, sleepless night under attack.The strikes were some of the fiercest and most prolonged attacks in the history of the decades-long enmity between Israel and Iran, raising fears of a wider war that could draw in the United States and other powers.It is far from clear how long this new and deadly phase of their conflict will last. For now, the two countries have dismissed international calls to de-escalate the conflict.Early Sunday, smoke and flame erupted into the skies over Tehran after the Israeli military struck the city’s main gas depot, the Iranian ministry of defense, and sites related to Iran’s nuclear project.Iran’s oil ministry said the Shahran fuel depot, Tehran’s main depot, was hit and set on fire. A resident whose high-rise apartment is directly across from the depot said the force of the explosions felt like an earthquake, and multiple witnesses said the blaze was spreading. The strikes killed more than 70 people in Iran, including six top Iranian security chiefs.It was also the deadliest night in Israel since Israel launched its surprise attack on Iran on Friday, prompting Iran to retaliate. At least eight people, including women and children, were killed during multiple Iranian missile barrages beginning overnight on Saturday. Scores more were injured, some seriously. That brought the total killed in Israel since Friday to at least 11, all identified as civilians.For Israelis accustomed to the protection of some of the world’s most sophisticated aerial defenses, the damage was shocking. Just south of the coastal city of Tel Aviv, a missile tore up much of a multistory residential building, according to images shared by the country’s emergency service.The fighting began when Israel attacked Iran on Friday, targeting Iran’s nuclear program — which Israel has long called an existential threat. The strikes damaged Iran’s main nuclear site at Natanz and killed several of the country’s top security chiefs.Israel has conducted roughly 150 strikes on Iran over two days, while Iranian forces have fired more than 200 ballistic missiles at Israeli territory in addition to scores of drones, according to an Israeli military official.Israel’s attacks had initially focused on Iranian nuclear sites, air defenses and military targets. But on Saturday, it went a step further with the attacks on the fuel depot, according to Iran’s oil ministry. The energy industry underpins much of Iran’s economy. Israeli strikes also appeared to focus on Tehran, taking out the city’s air defenses.Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, the Israeli military’s chief spokesman, said its forces had achieved “freedom of action” in the skies over Tehran, indicating they could strike targets without expecting major interference from Iran.Here’s what else to know:Israeli attack on the Houthis: In an apparent bid to cripple one of Iran’s strongest remaining proxy forces in the region, Israel targeted a meeting of Houthi leadership in Yemen on Saturday night.Nuclear talks scuttled: The salvos of missiles scuttled talks between the United States and Iran on the future of Iran’s nuclear program. The talks had been scheduled to resume in Oman on Sunday, but American and Omani officials said they had been canceled. Read more ›Washington’s view: The United States’ possible role in the spiraling conflict remains unclear. While Israeli officials had hoped the Trump administration would participate in a joint attack, Secretary of State Marco Rubio denied U.S. involvement in the strikes. But President Trump also did not call for Israel to rein in its assault.June 15, 2025, 1:01 a.m. ETPresident Trump said Washington would respond with overwhelming force if Iran responded to the Israeli attacks by attacking the United States “in any way, shape or form.” American officials have worried the escalation could lead Iran or its allies to retaliate against U.S. military bases in the region. Trump said the U.S. was not involved in the Israeli strikes in Iran overnight. He also added that it was possible to “easily get a deal done” between Israel and Iran to end the conflict.June 15, 2025, 1:01 a.m. ETThe death toll in Israel from the Iranian missile barrages on Saturday night and Sunday morning has risen to eight. At least four people, all of them women and children, were killed when a missile landed in northern Israel, according to the police. Another four were killed and scores more wounded just south of the central city of Tel Aviv in Bat Yam, where a blast heavily damaged much of a multistory building, the country’s emergency service said.June 14, 2025, 10:59 p.m. ETAs the sun rose this morning in Israel, some families with young children are waking up up in public shelters, having chosen to spend the night there rather than carry sleeping infants and drowsy kids back and forth. Most, however, returned to bed, hoping not to be woken again by blaring sirens — after what was the most intense wave yet in a second consecutive night of Iranian missile attacks.Credit...Natan Odenheimer/The New York TimesJune 14, 2025, 10:21 p.m. ETAt least three people, including a 10-year-old boy, were killed and about 100 injured after a wave of Iranian missiles struck cities along Israel’s central coast near Tel Aviv, according to Magen David Adom, the country’s national emergency service. Three people died in an earlier barrage in Tamra, in northern Israel, bringing the total number of people killed in the overnight strikes to six.June 14, 2025, 9:51 p.m. ETA research center at the Weizmann Institute of Science, a prominent Israeli university in Rehovot, in central Israel, sustained severe damage and caught fire after an Iranian strike.June 14, 2025, 9:51 p.m. ETAlan Monziani, a 31-year-old Ph.D. student from Italy living in a dorm at the institute, said he was shaken by the destruction he saw when he stepped out of a shelter. “One side of the cancer research center was missing most of its walls — it was hard to tell whether it took a direct hit or was struck by shrapnel, because it was engulfed in flames,” he said. He added that the blast’s shockwaves shattered windows in nearby buildings.Credit...Alan MonzianiJune 14, 2025, 9:34 p.m. ETAt least one woman in her sixties died after an Iranian missile struck a building in Bat Yam, a city near Tel Aviv, in the latest wave of attacks on Israel, according to Magen David Adom, the country’s national emergency service. This brings the total of people killed overnight in the strikes to four. The three others earlier were in Tamra, an Arab town in northern Israel.Credit...Avishag Shaar-Yashuv for The New York TimesJune 14, 2025, 8:58 p.m. ETThe Weizmann Institute for Science, a prominent Israeli research center, has sustained damage in Iran’s latest missile barrage,with a fire in at least one building containing laboratories, according to images shared with The Times.June 14, 2025, 8:15 p.m. ETMissiles fired from Iran in the sky over Jerusalem, on Saturday.Credit...Menahem Kahana/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has said that the sweeping attacks on Iran that began early Friday are essential to cripple what he describes as not one, but two “existential” threats to his country.Alongside Iran’s nuclear program, which Mr. Netanyahu has warned about for decades, he cites a newer menace: Iran’s ballistic missiles, more than 200 of which have been launched against Israel in waves of retaliatory barrages this weekend.Even as Israel has pummeled Iran with its own sophisticated missiles, setting oil facilities in Tehran ablaze, it still fears Iran’s capacity for fierce retaliation.In a video statement on Friday night, Mr. Netanyahu said Iran had accelerated production and aimed to manufacture 300 ballistic missiles a month, which would amount to 20,000 missiles within six years. He said each one was like “a bus-full of explosives” primed to land on Israeli cities.How many missiles has Iran fired, and how many of them hit Israel?Iran has launched about 200 missiles at Israel since Friday night, in addition to scores of explosive drones, according to the Israeli authorities.The Israeli military has so far not released data about the number of missiles it has intercepted or how many have evaded its air defenses, saying such details could aid the enemy. But the Israeli prime minister’s office said on Saturday afternoon that 17 sites had been identified where missiles made impact. Some have hit Tel Aviv and its suburbs of Ramat Gan and Rishon LeZion, in central Israel’s coastal plain. On Saturday night, a barrage was aimed at the northern city of Haifa and its surroundings.Missile strikes on Friday night and Saturday have killed at least seven Israeli civilians and injured more than 200 people, including seven soldiers, according to the authorities.Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, Israel’s chief military spokesman, said on Saturday that Israel’s air defenses were “among the best in the world” but were “not hermetic.”Rescue workers scanning an Iranian missile impact site in Rishon LeZion, Israel.Credit...Amit Elkayam for The New York TimesWhat have the Iranians been trying to hit?Many of the sites struck by Iranian missiles appear to be inside Israeli cities. Israel has accused Iran of intentionally aiming at civilian areas.It is unclear whether any sensitive military or infrastructure sites have been hit. Officials do not disclose such information, saying it would aid the enemy.But Israel is a relatively small country — only slightly larger than New Jersey. Most of its population lives in the crowded coastal plain. And the military maintains bases and camps in many populated areas, as well as in more remote parts of the country.A residential tower block that suffered a direct hit early Saturday is part of a popular entertainment district, filled with cafes and restaurants. It is also close to the main military and government headquarters in Tel Aviv, which was most likely the intended target.Later on Saturday, missiles were aimed at the port city of Haifa. Israel’s largest oil refinery is in the Haifa Bay area.How many missiles does Iran have left?The Israeli military has been striking Iran’s stocks of ballistic missiles and missile launchers, reducing the number it has left to launch at Israel.Military officials and experts say Iran still has hundreds of missiles — perhaps up to 2,000 — with ranges that can reach Israel. If Iran continues launching missiles at its current rate, it could most likely sustain the pace of fire for a few more days.How powerful are the missiles hitting Israel?Mr. Netanyahu said each Iranian missile carried a ton, or 2,000 pounds, of explosives, although military officials and experts say the weight can vary.Tal Inbar, an Israeli space and missile expert, said Iran’s ballistic missiles carried from 300 to 700 kilograms, or about 660 to 1,540 pounds, of explosives and that the total weight of the warhead could be up to 2,200 pounds.What has Israel learned about Iran’s missile capabilities?Mr. Inbar, the space and missiles expert, said that Israel was not surprised by Iran’s missile capabilities, having already been the target of large barrages of similar projectiles in April 2024 and October 2024, when Iran retaliated for Israeli strikes on its territory and interests.The Houthi militia, an Iran-backed group based in Yemen, has also been firing ballistic missiles at Israel, saying it is acting in solidarity with the Palestinians in Gaza.But the Houthis tend to fire a single missile in a day, and most of them have been intercepted by Israeli and American air defense systems.The difference this time, Mr. Inbar said, was the quantity of missiles that Iran fired simultaneously, in an effort to overwhelm air defenses, and the fact that some impact sites have been in densely populated areas, where just the shock waves cause extensive damage.He said some footage released by the Israeli military on Saturday showed at least one type of missile that Iran had not fired at Israel before. Named the “Shahed Haj Qassem,” it has a range of nearly 1,000 miles.It is a solid propellant missile that does not need to be refueled before launching, Mr. Inbar said, meaning that it can sit underground for years and become operational within minutes.June 14, 2025, 8:01 p.m. ETIn the latest wave of attacks on Iran, Israel’s military says it has struck the Iranian Defense Ministry and another site related to nuclear development. It’s unclear what or who was targeted in each attack.June 14, 2025, 7:46 p.m. ETCredit...Arash Khamooshi for The New York TimesIsrael’s latest wave of attacks on Iran took out Tehran’s main gas depot and its central oil refinery in separate parts of the capital, engulfing its sky in smoke and flame early Sunday.The Shahran fuel and gasoline depot, which has at least 11 storage tanks, was hit and set afire during the Israeli attack that began on Saturday night, Iran’s oil ministry said in a statement. Shahran is in an affluent neighborhood of luxury high rises.“The fire is terrifying, it’s massive; there is a lot of commotion here,” said Mostafa Shams, a resident of the area. “It’s the gasoline depots that are exploding one after another, it’s loud and scary.”Separately in the city’s south, Shahr Rey, one of the country’s largest oil refineries, was also struck, according to Iranian state news media. Emergency crews were trying to contain the fire, and a resident of Tehran, Reza Salehi, said he could see the flames from miles away.Israel’s targeting of Iran’s energy facilities, a crucial source of export cash for the country as well as of domestic energy, represented a significant escalation in its military campaign against Tehran.Earlier on Saturday, Israel had struck two key Iranian energy sites, including a section of the South Pars Gas Field, which is one of the world’s largest and critical to Iran’s energy production.VideoCreditCredit...WANA, via Reuters“We have entered the second phase of the war, which is extremely dangerous and destructive,” Abdollah Babakhani, an expert on Iran’s energy sector based in Germany, said on Saturday.But the multiple massive explosions targeting energy and fuel targets in and around the capital spread fear among residents.Israeli warplanes also struck sites in Tehran related to Iran’s nuclear program, including experimental laboratories, according to two Israeli defense officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share sensitive operational details.A woman named Shirin, who lives near the gasoline depot in northern Tehran and asked that only her first name be used out of fear for her safety, said neighbors were frantically calling each other asking what to do. She said the explosion was so loud that her mother fainted. Shirin’s husband was worried about fuel and gasoline shortage following the attack.“Israel is attacking left and right; it’s not just military targets, this is our livelihood and our lives,” Shirin said in a phone interview from Tehran. She was also angry at the government in Iran, she said, for not providing any guidance or shelter for civilians caught in the crossfire.Hamid Hosseini, a member of the energy committee of Iran’s Chamber of Commerce, said Iran’s municipality had been discussing moving the Shahran fuel depot from the residential area in northern Tehran for years, fearing an attack or an accident could be catastrophic.The attack on the depot set off massive explosions, according to an official at the oil ministry, who said the depots were exploding one after another and threatened to significantly damage residential neighborhoods in the area.The depot has about 8 million liters per day of gasoline entering its storage tanks and has a capacity to hold about three full days of fuel needs for Tehran, according to the ministry official.Israel did not immediately respond to request for comment on the strike.June 14, 2025, 7:37 p.m. ETA second wave of ballistic missiles has been launched from Iran toward Israel, according to a statement from the Israeli military.June 14, 2025, 7:31 p.m. ETThree women were killed and 20 others injured in a rocket strike on a residential building in the Galilee, a region in northern Israel, late Saturday night, Magen David Adom, Israel’s national emergency service, said in a statement. Paramedics pulled two women from the rubble with no signs of life and evacuated a third in critical condition, who later died at the hospital. Most of the injured were treated for minor wounds or anxiety and taken to hospitals across the north.June 14, 2025, 7:30 p.m. ETDrowsy Israelis are heading to shelters for the second time tonight after the Home Front Command — the Israeli military unit responsible for civilian safety — instructed the public to stay near protected areas, signaling a potential second barrage of missiles from Iran.Credit...Avishag Shaar-Yashuv for The New York TimesJune 14, 2025, 6:30 p.m. ETIsraeli warplanes struck several sites in Tehran related to Iran’s nuclear program, including experimental laboratories, according to two Israeli defense officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to share sensitive operational details.June 14, 2025, 3:43 p.m. ETJohnatan ReissThe reporter visited impact sites in Tel Aviv and its suburbs that were hit in Iranian missile attacks on Friday night and Saturday morning.Missiles fired by Iran destroyed residential buildings in central Tel Aviv and in its suburb of Rishon LeZion on Saturday, leaving two people dead and several wounded.A chorus of alarms from damaged cars and buildings wailed on Saturday afternoon through the empty streets of central Tel Aviv. Iran’s missile attack the night before had left a gaping hole in one high-rise and had blown out windows for a block around.Six miles south, residents of the quiet suburb of Rishon LeZion were piling up shattered roof tiles and glass along the sidewalks after a projectile killed two of their neighbors in a two-story home on Saturday morning. Those who lived close to the impact site were busy gathering their belongings to evacuate to temporary housing.The Israeli government said 17 missile impact sites had been identified across the country after Iran launched hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel between Friday evening and Saturday morning. The strikes were in retaliation for Israeli attacks earlier in the day. Three civilians in Israel were killed and over 170 wounded, including seven soldiers, the authorities said.It was not immediately clear whether the damage and deaths had been caused by the missiles themselves or interceptors sent to shoot them down, or falling fragments of both. The Israeli military said both missiles and interceptors had hit areas in Israel but declined to give details.The damaged high-rise in central Tel Aviv was near a government quarter and the military’s headquarters. Residents who had evacuated from their high-rise complex after it was struck on Friday lined up to speak with a municipal official at a makeshift checkpoint near the impact site. Many appeared shaken.Amit Tzur-Amrani, 26, said she and her husband were huddled in a fortified room in their apartment on Friday when the air-raid alarms went off after 9 p.m. Then there was a loud blast and smoke poured into their shelter.“We covered our faces with towels to escape,” she said. “I was afraid I’d die in the shelter.”Struggling to see in the dark, they ran through a hallway and found their entire floor was wrecked. “You couldn’t recognize anything,” she said. “There’s no more house.”Like dozens of residents in the area, she will be housed in a hotel until the building can be made habitable again. Because her building was directly hit, Ms. Tzur-Amrani will not be allowed to enter it to retrieve belongings for at least a week, the municipal office said.People from the Rishon LeZion suburb — and some curious visitors — came out to inspect the damage of a strike that had killed two people in a two-story home, one of hundreds of houses in the dense neighborhood of palm-lined streets, cul-de-sacs and alleys.Shards of glass and plastic littered the street for at least 100 yards. Cars had shattered windshields, and many houses were missing roof tiles.The sight was not entirely unfamiliar to residents. Rishon LeZion, like other cities in central and southern Israel, has previously been hit by some of the thousands of rockets launched from Gaza since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that ignited the war there.“We are already practiced,” said Tzabari Malachi, 65, who lives near the destroyed home. On Saturday, he watched the tumult on the street from his balcony.Still, he said, the effect of the recent strikes in his neighborhood is different, both materially and emotionally.Mr. Malachi said he was at home with his wife, sons and two of his small grandchildren when the missile hit, around 5 a.m. on Saturday. The impact shook his house and blew open the door to his fortified room. After a few minutes, he emerged onto the street to see ambulances and bloodied people rushing for help.“It’s harrowing, beyond explanation,” Mr. Malachi said.