The spiral of violence continues, the assessment increases – liberation

No de -escalation in sight. Four days after the launch of a major military offensive by the Israeli army on Iran, the two rivals continue to trade in fire despite the 2,000 kilometers that separate them. Israeli, massive and repeated strikes, continue to inflict on the Islamic Republic of heavy and strategic losses. In addition to the beheading of part of the Iranian military hierarchy, TSAhal tirelessly targets nuclear installations, fuel deposits, official buildings and even police stations. This Monday, June 16, 2025, Tehran accused the Israeli army of having touched a hospital in the city of Kermanshah, in the west of Iran, accusing it of « War crime ».

The power and speed of this offensive are notably made possible by the vulnerability of Iranian anti -aircraft defense systems, which are struggling to intercept enemy strikes. Tsahal spokesperson, Effie Defrin, welcomed this Monday to have acquired a « Total air superiority in the sky of Tehran », Specifying also having destroyed more than 120 soil-to-ground missile launchers in the center of the country, a third of the Iranian arsenal. The human assessment is also increasing day by day. The strikes have already killed more than 240 people and 1,200 injured, according to official figures, a statement that several observers consider largely underestimated. According to the organization Human Rights Watch Activists, based in Washington, the actual number of victims would exceed 400 dead, of which almost half are civilians.

Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu, is particularly confident: his country is already « On the path of victory », he promise. On Monday evening, he said that killing Ayatollah Khamenei « Would end the conflict ». But Iran, who said this weekend that he would stop his attacks if Israel did the same, resists somehow. Despite the weakening of its regional supports, in particular the Lebanese Hezbollah, the Islamic Republic, already confronted in the past with long conflicts, still has an important ballistic arsenal. For the first time, she also used a haj qassem missile on Sunday (named after the powerful general Qassem Soleimani, Killed in 2020 during an American raid in Baghdad), one of the most recent and more powerful in the Iranian program, once again putting the Israeli iron dome, however renowned as an insurmountable.

During the night of Sunday to Monday, a new Salve of Iranian missiles affected several cities in the country, bringing the number of Israeli deaths to 24 and more than 500 that of the wounded since Friday. In three days, Iran would have drawn more than 370 missiles and hundreds of drones. And promised the pursuit of strikes « More powerful, more severe, more precise and more devastating » that the previous ones if the United States refuses to intervene to stop Israel. A warning that remained a dead letter. Monday afternoon, while Tsahal called part of the inhabitants of Tehran to evacuate before new bombings, the Iranian media announced that the Islamic Republic would be preparing « The widest and most intense missile attack in history on Israeli soil ».

Updated this Monday, June 16 With the latest statements by Benyamin Netanyahu.