{"id":154391,"date":"2025-06-23T10:10:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T10:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/israel-iran-live-israel-attacks-irans-fordow-nuclear-site-as-tehran-vows-revenge-against-us-sky-news\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T10:10:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T10:10:34","slug":"israel-iran-live-israel-attacks-irans-fordow-nuclear-site-as-tehran-vows-revenge-against-us-sky-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/israel-iran-live-israel-attacks-irans-fordow-nuclear-site-as-tehran-vows-revenge-against-us-sky-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel-Iran live: Israel 'attacks Iran's Fordow nuclear site' – as Tehran vows revenge against US – Sky News"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Israeli military has targeted Iran’s Fordow nuclear site a day after the US bombed the facility. Iran has vowed revenge against the US, while Donald Trump has hailed the “bullseye” strike. Follow the latest and listen to The World podcast as you scroll.
Monday 23 June 2025 11:09, UK
International affairs editor Dominic Waghorn<\/a> and chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay<\/a> will be answering your questions in a live Q&A at 4.45pm today. 
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The entrance to Iran’s notorious Evin prison in Tehran has been hit by an Israeli strike.
Israeli foreign minister Gideon Saar posted “long live freedom” in Spanish alongside a video of the attack on X.
“We warned Iran time and again: stop targeting civilians!
“They continued, including this morning. Our response: Viva la libertad, carajo!”
By Helen-Ann Smith<\/a>, Asia correspondent<\/b>
The Chinese have “strongly condemned” US strikes against Iran and have repeatedly called for de-escalation.
But be in no doubt, China will be working fervently behind the scenes to protect its own interests and, if pushed, would certainly come down on the side of the Iranians.
In this matter, China’s voice will be a powerful one.
Iran would count China amongst its most important allies.
Indeed, it is one of the largest providers of foreign direct investment in Iran and it buys 90% of its oil exports.
Any follow-through on the threatened closure to the Strait of Hormuz would hit China hard; it is likely using its considerable diplomatic weight to ensure that doesn’t happen.
And while the relationship between the two countries is primarily an economic one, politically, there is a narrative to be pushed here that will be useful.
Indeed, it plays nicely into the worldview being promoted in the Global South that the US is not a good global actor – that if countries want to ally themselves with a stable superpower, they should be looking East.
By Michael Drummond<\/a>, foreign news reporter<\/b>
A quick look at ship tracking around the Iranian port of Tombak shows something quite odd.
Dozens of vessels appear to be all arranged in a circle… on land. And it’s a similar story a little way along the coast.
So what’s going on?
For obvious reasons, these ships probably aren’t all on land in a neat circle, but something is interfering with the AIS tracking signals they submit that is making it look like they are.
This appears to be the shadowy practice of GPS interference – an issue that has rocketed in recent years as warfare changes.
What is GPS jamming?<\/b>
There are two main types of GPS interference – “jamming” and “spoofing”. 
Jamming overwhelms navigation systems and stops them working properly, while spoofing is more serious and involves sending false GPS signals that make planes and ships look hundreds of miles away from where they actually are.  
Why does GPS jamming happen?<\/b>
Increasingly GPS interference is being used as part of air defence systems to try and stop missiles and drones from reaching their intended targets.
Some militaries also seek to obscure the location of navy vessels or other potential targets by interfering with GPS signals.
If it is indeed GPS jamming in this area, it’s not certain who is behind it.
However there has been mass interference since the start of the conflict between Israel and Iran, affecting nearly 1,000 ships in the Gulf, shipping analysis firm Windward said earlier this month.
Iran’s nuclear facility of Fordow has been hit again, this time by an Israeli attack, according to reports.
The site, built into a mountain, was the target of US bunker-busting bombs.
A spokesperson for Qom Province’s Crisis Management Headquarters told Tasnim news agency that Fordow has been hit once more.
Israeli media has reported the military attacked an access road to the nuclear facility.
The US strike over the weekend was expected to have caused “very significant damage” to the site, given the vibration-sensitive nature of its centrifuges, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Rafael Grossi, said earlier today.
He added that no one can yet say how bad the damage is underground.
This map shows the three sites struck by the US early on Sunday.
As missiles are exchanged between Israel and Iran, this image shows the moment of impact beside a road in Ashdod, south of Tel Aviv.
We’ll have video of the moment soon.
Iran’s foreign minister has taken a letter from Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to hand to Vladimir Putin on his visit to Moscow today.
The letter seeks Putin’s support, a senior source told Reuters.
Iran has not been impressed with Russia’s support so far and the country wants Putin to do more to back it against Israel and the United States, Iranian sources said.
The sources did not elaborate on what assistance Tehran wanted.
Russia, a longstanding ally of Tehran, plays a role in Iran’s nuclear negotiations with the West as a veto-wielding UN Security Council member and a signatory to an earlier nuclear deal Trump abandoned during his first term in 2018.
Putin has offered to mediate between the United States and Iran.
The Israeli Defence Forces has said more missiles have been launched from Iran towards Israel.
Further Israeli attacks are being reported by Iranian media.
Several large explosions have been heard in the Iranian capital, Tehran, according to Nour News.
Meanwhile, the city of Karaj, northern Iran, has been targeted by Israeli missiles, Fars News reports.
“The air force has now begun a wave of attacks against military targets in Tehran,” said the Israeli Air Force.
We’ve heard from several Iranian sources this morning as the nation reacts to US attacks on its nuclear sites. Here’s a recap of the key remarks…
Condemnation:<\/b> Iran’s UN envoy Amir-Saeid Iravani condemned “blatant US aggression” and said all American allegations against Iran were “unfounded, with no legal basis and politically motivated”.
Uranium saved:<\/b> Most of the highly enriched uranium at the Fordow nuclear plant was moved before the US attacked it, a senior Iranian source told Reuters.
Retaliation: <\/b>Army General Hatami threatened the US with a “decisive response”. Iranian armed forces spokesperson Ebrahim Zolfaqari said the US should expect “heavy” consequences, adding: “Mr Trump, the gambler, you may start this war, but we will be the ones to end it.”
Sleeper-cell threat: <\/b>Ahead of the strikes, Iran sent Donald Trump a message via an intermediary at the G7 threatening to unleash sleeper-cell attacks on US soil if the attack went ahead, sources said.
Supreme leader: <\/b>Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has released just one statement since the strikes, writing on X: “The Zionist enemy has made a grave mistake, committed a great crime; it must be punished and is being punished; it is being punished right now.”
Putin meeting: <\/b>Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araqchi is to meet with Vladimir Putin today. The two nations signed a strategic partnership in January.
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