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JERUSALEM, June  21, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Israel's military said Saturday that 
it had killed three Iranian commanders and struck the Isfahan nuclear site for 
a second time, as its war against the Islamic republic wore on into its second 
week.
 Here are the latest developments:

       - Iran says more than 400 killed - 
     
 Israeli strikes on Iran have killed more than 400 people since they began 
last week, the Islamic republic's health ministry said in an updated toll.

"As of this morning, Israeli attacks have claimed the lives of over 400 
defenceless Iranians and left 3,056 others wounded by missiles and drones," 
health ministry spokesman Hossein Kermanpour said in a post on X Saturday.

 A US-based NGO, the Human Rights Activists News Agency, said on Friday that 
based on its sources and media reports, at least 657 people have been killed in 
Iran, including 263 civilians.

       
       - Strikes in southwest Iran, northern Israel -
       
 Several "powerful explosions" were heard in the afternoon in southwestern 
Iran's Ahvaz, the daily Shargh reported, as Israel's military said it was 
conducting strikes on "military infrastructure" in the area.
       
Ahvaz is the capital of Khuzestan province, which lies on the Iraqi border 
and is Iran's main oil-producing region. 
      
 AFP journalists also reported hearing explosions in north and central 
Tehran on Saturday evening.
      
 Earlier, Israeli rescue services said an Iranian "drone strike hit a 
two-storey residential building in northern Israel" following a wave of attacks 
reported by the military.
      
 Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian warned his country's "response to the 
continued aggression of the Zionist regime will be more devastating" during a 
phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, according to the official 
IRNA news agency.

       
       - Israel says killed 3 Iranian commanders - 
       
      
 Israel's military said it had killed a top Iranian official in charge of 
military coordination with the Palestinian militant group Hamas, as well as two 
other Iranian commanders overnight.
      
 Israeli "fighter jets struck and eliminated in the area of Qom the 
commander of the Palestine Corps of the Quds Force, and the key coordinator 
between the Iranian regime and the Hamas terrorist organisation, Saeed Izadi", 
the military said in a statement.
      
 The Quds Force is the foreign operations arm of Iran's powerful Islamic 
Revolutionary Guard Corps.
     
  A military official also told reporters that Israel had killed two other 
Iranian commanders overnight, Behnam Shahriyari and Aminpour Judaki.
      
 Iran's Fars news agency reported Saturday evening that "five army officers 
were killed and nine others were wounded" in an Israeli strike in the western 
city of Sumar.

       
       - Israel hits Isfahan nuclear site -
       
      
 Israel targeted "two centrifuge production sites" at Iran's Isfahan nuclear 
facility overnight in a second wave of strikes on the location, "advancing the 
damage to the facility", a military official said.
      
 The repeated raids have "dealt a severe blow to Iran's centrifuge 
production capabilities", the official added.
      
 The UN's nuclear watchdog, the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy 
Agency, confirmed a centrifuge manufacturing workshop at the site had been hit 
in the strike.
      
 Pezeshkian, during his call with his French counterpart, said his country 
had long been willing "to provide guarantees and build confidence in its 
peaceful nuclear activities".
     
  "However, we do not agree to reduce nuclear activities to zero under any 
circumstances," he added.
       
       - Huthi threat -    
       
      
 Yemen's Tehran-backed Huthi rebels said they would restart their attacks on 
US-linked vessels and warships in the Red Sea if Washington got "involved in... 
aggression against Iran with the Israeli enemy", the group's military spokesman 
Yahya Saree said.
      
 After the start of the war in Gaza in late 2023, the Yemeni rebels began 
firing at military and civilian vessels in the Red Sea that they accused of 
ties to Israel and the United States, saying they were acting in solidarity 
with the Palestinians.
      
 The group agreed to a ceasefire with the United States last month after an 
intense bombing campaign by Washington, but it has not stopped firing missiles 
at Israel.