The Israeli military said on Monday that it is continuing to strike the Iranian capital of Tehran, focusing on the headquarters of the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Defrin said that Israeli jets are currently “deepening the damage in the Tehran area, with an emphasis on the IRGC headquarters.”

Since Israel attacked Iran on June 13, it has killed several senior IRGC members in Iran, as well as targeting the country’s nuclear facilities.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has started talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, according to footage of their meeting released by the Kremlin on Monday.

Their meeting comes as Iran weighs how to respond to the US strikes on its nuclear facilities. Araghchi on Sunday called for UN Secretary-General António Guterres to condemn the US government in the “strongest possible terms” for carrying out the strikes.

US strikes on Iran’s nuclear sites have created another source of economic uncertainty, threatening the prospects of large economies, including the United States itself, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Monday.

The weekend strikes amplified what Kristalina Georgieva called an already “highly uncertain environment.” The IMF is watching for further upward impact on oil and natural gas prices and for any disruption to global energy supplies from the conflict in the oil-rich Middle East, she told Bloomberg TV.

But beyond those two main risks, “there could be secondary and tertiary impact,” Georgieva said. “Let’s say there is more turbulence that goes into hitting growth prospects of large economies, and then you have a trigger impact in a downward revision of prospects for global growth.”

Those large economies include the US where the IMF sees a nearly 40% chance risk of recession this year, based on its latest forecasts, released in April. This estimate is gloomier than the fund’s previous projection, published in October, before dramatic tariff increases announced by the Trump administration.

“The more there is uncertainty, the more there is volatility, the worse it is for business. When there is uncertainty, what happens? Investors don’t invest, consumers don’t consume and that holds growth prospects down,” she added.

Iran’s Fordow nuclear plant has been targeted again, several Iranian state-linked news outlets reported Monday, citing the spokesperson for Qom province, where the site is located.

Semi-official Tasnim news agency attributed the attack to Israel.

“There will be no danger or threat to citizens,” the Qom province spokesperson said, according to ISNA.

The US launched strikes against three of the Iranian regime’s key nuclear sites, including Fordow, on Saturday night.

The facilities is one of Iran’s most important nuclear locations, buried deep inside a mountain to guard it from attacks.

Israel launched strikes at “the heart of Tehran” on Monday, its defense minister said, as Iranian state media and eyewitnesses reported impacts across the Iranian capital.

Huge clouds of smoke shrouded parts of the city, one resident told CNN. The strikes also hit Jordan Street, a densely populated, affluent neighborhood north of the capital, they said.

“It looks like they hit a commercial center really heavily, I saw at least eight different impact clouds,” the resident added. “Jordan Street was heavily hit.”

The Israeli military is “striking regime targets” in the “heart of Tehran, with unprecedented force,” Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz said in a statement earlier Monday.

“For any fire aimed at the Israeli home front – the Iranian dictator will be severely punished and the strikes will continue will full force,” Katz added.

The prestigious Shahid Beheshti University, in northern Tehran, was also struck, according to the state-affiliated Mehr News Agency.

The US bombing likely caused “very significant damage” to the underground parts of Iran’s Fordow nuclear site buried deep in a mountain, according to the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog.

However, he cautioned that no group, including the IAEA, is currently able to fully assess the underground damage at Fordow.

The US struck the site early Sunday morning, using six B-2 bombers to drop 12 “bunker-buster” bombs on Fordow, each weighing around 30,000 pounds.

A wave of Iranian missiles disrupted the electricity supply to “several communities” in southern Israel on Monday, according to Israel’s electricity company.

It came after strikes hit “adjacent to a strategic infrastructure facility,” the Israel Electric Company said in a statement.

Israel’s energy minister said that 8,000 houses do not have power currently, but it is expected to be restored within three hours.

The electric company said that teams are heading to the area to repair infrastructure and remove hazards, working in coordination with security forces.

Israel has identified additional missiles launched from Iran toward the country’s north, the Israel Defense Forces said Monday, adding that it is working to intercept them.

The military asked the public to enter shelters and remain there until further notice.

Sirens sounded in northern Israel.

Israeli authorities have allowed residents to “leave protected spaces” in several neighborhoods after Iran fired more missiles on Monday.

Emergency services were deployed to numerous locations across Israel, where they reported “fallen projectiles,” according to a statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

Police officers and bomb disposal units were called to the scene, a spokesperson said, adding that there are currently no reports of injuries or damage.

They urged members of the public to “stay away from all these areas.”

A CNN crew in Iran’s capital witnessed a major Israeli aerial bombing on the north of the city today.

The crew heard several jets pass overhead before a series of strong explosions rocked the building they were in.

It is unclear what the target of the bombing was, but the northwestern area of Tehran was covered in thick black smoke in the immediate aftermath.

China has called for greater international effort to de-escalate the Israel-Iran conflict to prevent further impact on the global economy, as calls grow within Iran for closing the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for US strikes on its nuclear sites.

Asked about the Iranian parliament’s support for closing the critical shipping lane, a spokesperson for China’s Foreign Ministry said the Persian Gulf and its surrounding waters are vital channels for the international trade in goods and energy.

Connecting the oil-rich Persian Gulf to the open ocean, the Strait of Hormuz is one of the most critical oil checkpoints in the world. Some 20 million barrels per day of crude oil, or 20% of the global consumption, flowed through the narrow strait between Iran and Oman last year, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

For China, the world’s largest importer of oil and the biggest buyer of crude from Iran, the Strait of Hormuz is even more important.

China imported 5.4 million barrels of crude every day through the strait in the first three months of 2025, according to the EIA’s estimates. That’s equivalent to about half of China’s daily average crude imports in the first quarter of the year, according to CNN’s calculation based on Chinese customs data.

On Sunday, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on China to dissuade Iran from closing the Strait of Hormuz.

Israel’s emergency response agency Magen David Adom said it has dispatched crews to reported impact sites following the latest barrage of missiles fired from Iran.

People were instructed to enter shelters across the country in the last hour, and Israel’s Defense Forces has recently warned more missiles have been detected.

As the dust settles on US military strikes against key Iranian nuclear sites, the conflict between Israel and Iran enters its 11th day.

The two countries launched a fresh wave of strikes on each other overnight as Tehran’s top armed forces commander said the country “will never back down,” in a stark warning for the United States.

Iran’s foreign minister is also in Moscow today and said he will discuss Iran and Russia’s “common threats” in an upcoming meeting with President Vladimir Putin, according to Iranian state media.

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Spain’s foreign minister said on Monday that he would ask the European Union to suspend a landmark cooperation agreement with Israel and impose a weapons embargo on the country, saying Europe “must show courage.”

“The times of words and declarations is behind. We had enough time,” José Manuel Albares told reporters, speaking in Brussels.

“What I’m going to ask for is concrete action from the European Union… to ensure that diplomacy, not war, is the priority. Or to ensure that everything related to the Iranian nuclear portfolio is handled through negotiation, and action in the case of Israel to stop this war. Everything is connected. Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria, Iran—everything in the Middle East is connected,” Albares said.

The EU-Israel Association Agreement, which Albares said he’d ask to suspend “immediately,” covers various forms of cooperation between the two parties, including political dialogue, the free movement of goods, and scientific collaboration.

In May, under pressure from member nations, the EU said it would review its association agreement with Israel due to its blockade of humanitarian aid into Gaza. A majority of EU members had voted to review Article Two of the document in particular, which outlines that “relations between the parties… shall be based on respect for human rights and democratic principles.”

Air raid sirens have been activated across northern and central Israel, including in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, after missiles were detected incoming from Iran, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Monday, warning residents to take shelter.

The Israeli Air Force “is operating to intercept and strike where necessary to eliminate the threat,” the IDF said.

US President Donald Trump’s decision to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities puts the Middle East in a volatile position, with all eyes now on Tehran’s next move.

Speaking in Istanbul, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said on Sunday his country has “a variety of options” when deciding how to respond to the US attacks.

From striking US bases in the region, to possibly closing a key waterway to global shipping, Iran is likely mulling its next moves. All carry inherent risks for the Islamic Republic, Israel and the United States.

The US maintains a presence at 19 sites in total across the region, with eight of those considered by analysts to have a permanent US presence, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) says. As of June 13, the CFR estimated some 40,000 US troops were in the Middle East.

The Iranians have said “several times” that if the US “joins this war and attacks their nuclear facilities, they will retaliate against US forces in the region, against US interests, and there are a lot of those,” CNN political and global affairs analyst Barak Ravid said.

Direct US involvement in the conflict could also see Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) activate what remains of its proxies across Iraq, Yemen and Syria, groups which have previously launched attacks on American assets in the region.

While Iran’s strongest ally in the region was once Lebanon’s Hezbollah, that group has been significantly weakened by Israeli attacks.

A resurgence of attacks from Yemen against US assets is already on the table. Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels previously vowed to attack American ships in the Red Sea should the US join Israel’s conflict with Iran. A prominent Houthi official said in a social media post early Sunday that “Trump must bear the consequences” of the US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

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Looking at the skyline as he drove through the streets of Iran’s capital Tehran, Indian student Sheikh Mohammad Azhan wasn’t admiring the view — instead, he was scanning for missiles.

“We would watch the sky, hoping no projectile would come our way,” the 22-year-old medical student told CNN. “We could see smoke all around the roads. We could see the city getting attacked.”

Sheikh, who is in his third year at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences in Tehran, is among more than 1,700 Indian nationals evacuated from Iran since conflict erupted between the Islamic Republic and Israel. Iran has long been a popular university destination for Muslim Indian students — drawn to the country by both affordability, and shared religious ties.

With Iran’s airspace closed, they embarked on a precarious journey by road and air, facing long waits and uncertainty as the Indian government worked to bring them home. Sheikh described feeling overcome with fear.

“We had very disturbing thoughts in our minds — what will happen to our degree? What will happen to our future? And most importantly, what will happen to our lives?” he said.

Sheikh’s journey out of Iran, which began last Monday, took about six days. He first boarded a bus arranged by the Indian embassy from the Iranian capital to the city of Qom, about 150 kilometers south. It’s a trip that normally takes about two hours, but took Sheikh nearly four.

Two days after arriving in Qom, students were asked to move again – this time nearly 1,000 kilometers east to the city of Mashhad, where they had planned to cross into Turkmenistan to continue their journey toward New Delhi. But uncertainty struck again.

“There was some kind of issue near the border, like visas. So we cannot go to Turkmenistan,” Sheikh said.

Two days later, they were told they would take a plane from Mashhad itself, on a “special flight” arranged by the Indian government. As they walked onto the plane, anxiety persisted as they were worried the plane could get attacked. “We were scared. What if they attack us too?” he said.

The flight from Mashhad to New Delhi took just over two hours. Students cheered and clapped as they landed in the Indian capital, video shared with CNN shows.

While out of the crosshairs, Sheikh – like many students evacuated - now faces uncertainty about his future as he still has two years of studying left and worries what could happen if the situation in Iran doesn’t stabilize.

“If I migrate from one country to another during my degree, it won’t be valid in India,” he said. “I’ll have to start from scratch. Three, four years of studying — and now we don’t even know what’s next.”

The top commander of Iran’s Armed Forces has issued a strong warning that the United States has opened the door to retaliation, saying “we will never back down,” in a statement reported by state-run media.

Maj. Gen. Abdolrahim Mousavi, the Armed Forces’ Chief of Staff, said “criminal America” had “opened the doors to the warriors of Islam in the armed forces for any action against its interests and army, and we will never back down in this regard”.

Mousavi said the US had “directly entered the war by violating the sovereignty of Islamic Iran and encroaching on the sacred soil of our country.”

His message is the latest in a raft of strong statements by top military commanders on Monday. However there has yet to be a comment since the US strike from Iran’s most powerful figure, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei.

A spokesperson for the armed forces’ central command, Ibrahim Zolfaqari, warned that it would respond with “powerful and targeted operations that will inflict heavy, regretful, and unpredictable consequences,” in a video shared by state-run news outlets.

Zolfaqari decried the US strikes and warned of Iran’s potential response.

“Not only was (the attack) futile, but it will also broaden the scope of legitimate and diverse targets for (Iran’s military) and lay the groundwork for the expansion of war across the region,” he said in the video, shared by both the state-affiliated Fars and Mehr news agencies on Monday.

Then, switching to speak in English, he said: “Gambler Trump, you can start this war, but we will be the ones who end it.”

At a closed-door meeting on Sunday, Israel’s National Security Advisor Tzachi Hanegbi reportedly told parliament members that a significant number of Iran’s ballistic missiles could be unusable and trapped under debris, according to a source with direct knowledge of the situation.

Speaking to the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, Hanegbi reportedly said that Iran had possessed 2,500 ballistic missiles at the start of the conflict; since then, more than 500 have been fired at Israel, while as many as 800 could now be buried in tunnel systems that were damaged by Israeli airstrikes, the source said.

Western military sources tell CNN it’s still too early to fully assess the damage wrought by the US’s strikes on the three key Iranian nuclear facilities.

Officials at the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, the IAEA, say they are uncertain of the whereabouts of the nuclear material Iran has already manufactured, including the large amounts of uranium-235 enriched to 60%, which is very close to weapons-grade levels.