--- title: Iran Fires Back after Israel Launched “Preemptive” Strikes: What to Know | TIME description: Explosions were reported over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv Friday evening as Iran launched a broad retaliatory strike against Israel, marking a significant escalation in an already volatile regional conflict. Iran warned Israel that it would pay a “heavy price” for a series of strikes targeting military leaders, civilian officials, and nuclear sites across the country. Iran's state-run news agency IRNA claimed that the country's air defense systems had shot down at least two Israeli fighter jets, though the report could not be independently verified. The fate of the pilots remains unknown. canonical: https://time.com/video/mRHZc9m5/ og:title: Iran Fires Back after Israel Launched “Preemptive” Strikes: What to Know og:description: Explosions were reported over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv Friday evening as Iran launched a broad retaliatory strike against Israel, marking a significant escalation in an already volatile regional conflict. Iran warned Israel that it would pay a “heavy price” for a series of strikes targeting military leaders, civilian officials, and nuclear sites across the country. Iran's state-run news agency IRNA claimed that the country's air defense systems had shot down at least two Israeli fighter jets, though the report could not be independently verified. The fate of the pilots remains unknown. og:url: https://time.com/video/mRHZc9m5/ og:image: https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/mRHZc9m5/poster.jpg?width=720 og:type: video.other twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Iran Fires Back after Israel Launched “Preemptive” Strikes: What to Know twitter:description: Explosions were reported over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv Friday evening as Iran launched a broad retaliatory strike against Israel, marking a significant escalation in an already volatile regional conflict. Iran warned Israel that it would pay a “heavy price” for a series of strikes targeting military leaders, civilian officials, and nuclear sites across the country. Iran's state-run news agency IRNA claimed that the country's air defense systems had shot down at least two Israeli fighter jets, though the report could not be independently verified. 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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: Iran Fires Back after Israel Launched “Preemptive” Strikes: What to Know [Watch (HLS stream): Iran Fires Back after Israel Launched “Preemptive” Strikes: What to Know](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/mRHZc9m5.m3u8) (1:48)  _Published 2025-06-13. Explosions were reported over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv Friday evening as Iran launched a broad retaliatory strike against Israel, marking a significant escalation in an already volatile regional conflict. Iran warned Israel that it would pay a “heavy price” for a series of strikes targeting military leaders, civilian officials, and nuclear sites across the country. Iran's state-run news agency IRNA claimed that the country's air defense systems had shot down at least two Israeli fighter jets, though the report could not be independently verified. 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Now, as of right now, the Iranians are still trying to dig through the rubble of these attacks, and they're trying to reconstitute their military command. The chief of Army Staff, as well as the head of Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard and the general who oversaw the Guard's ballistic missile arsenal, all have been killed by the Israelis. The Israelis say that the Mossad intelligence agency, as well as the Israeli Air Force, were involved in these attacks that are still going on even now targeting sites in Iran. And the Israelis are signaling they could go on for some time to come. Now, the Iranians already have launched several hundred drones at Israel, and the Israelis engaged in dogfights with those drones, likely over Jordan. The whole region is really tense right now, and there's some concern that the Iranians could expand their target list. Already, some are trying to link this attack back to America. The US has a broad military footprint in the region that includes the US Navy's fifth Fleet in Bahrain, as well as other assets in the region, like the aircraft carrier Charles Vinson, which has been in the area earlier fighting Yemen's Iranian backed Houthi rebels. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Iran Fires Back after Israel Launched “Preemptive” Strikes: What to Know","description":"Explosions were reported over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv Friday evening as Iran launched a broad retaliatory strike against Israel, marking a significant escalation in an already volatile regional conflict.\n\nIran warned Israel that it would pay a “heavy price” for a series of strikes targeting military leaders, civilian officials, and nuclear sites across the country. Iran's state-run news agency IRNA claimed that the country's air defense systems had shot down at least two Israeli fighter jets, though the report could not be independently verified. 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