IDF illustration of military targets the Israeli military struck in Isfahan, June 17, 2025. (credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit) By JERUSALEM POST STAFF JUNE 17, 2025 21:57 See more

Israel Defense Forces spokesman Effie Defrin provides updates on Israel’s mission, their elimination of Iran’s wartime chief and current Hamas hostages on ‘America Reports.’

The ongoing conflict has destabilized the Middle East and raised the stakes of a broader regional conflict drawing in wider geopolitical actors that could include the United States, Israel's main ally and Iran's longtime foe.

Fordow is the most important Iranian nuclear facility, which the IDF has not yet touched, but it poses unique challenges, being that it lies underneath a mountain.

IDF spokesman Brigadier General Efi Defrin delivers a statement on the IDF's continued attacks on Iran and the thwarting of Iran's missile launches at Israel.

Israel’s military headquarters were struck after Iran’s Islamic Republic unleashed a barrage of missiles on central Tel Aviv late Friday night, causing “significant damage” to the Jewish state’s equivalent of the Pentagon.

Iran's Tasnim News Agency has reported that IRGC eliminated several top Israeli officials in its attack on IDF's intelligence headquarters and Mossad centre in Tel Aviv. A video viral on social media,

The Israeli military's intelligence preparation allowed the air force to gain supremacy over the skies of Tehran in the first 24 hours of Operation Rising Lion.