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Netanyahu asks Tehran’s residents to flee
Updated on June 16, 2025 – 4:01 p.m.Reading time: 65 min.
The residents of Tehrans face new attacks. The Federal Foreign Office calls Germans to be entered in a list. All developments in the news blog.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls the Tehran population to leave the Iranian capital. Israel has now taken over the sovereignty over Tehran’s airspace, followed by further actions, says Netanyahu. Israel is in the process of achieving its two most important goals: to eliminate the nuclear threat and threat from rockets. “We are on the way to victory.”
Netanyahu also said: “If we master airspace via Tehran, we will hit these goals – goals of the regime.” He accused Iran of attacking civilians in Israel. “We tell the citizens of Tehrans:” Leave the area! ” – and we act.” Tehran has more than 15 million inhabitants. Many civilians have already died in Iran attacks.
Iran wants to terminate the contract for non -distribution for nuclear weapons. The country had joined the pact in 1968. Compliance with the agreement was controversial until the end. Read more about this here.
The Federal Ministry of Defense has rejected speculation about the possible participation of the Bundeswehr in Israeli attacks on Iran. Reports that a German Airbus A400M was traveling in the region during the attacks led to corresponding assumptions. A spokesman for the ministry said on Monday in Berlin that there was “no refueling of Israeli fighter planes through aircraft from the German Air Force”.
In fact, a Bundeswehr tank aircraft is stationed in Jordan as part of international work against the terrorist organization of Islamic State. There it regularly refrained from fighter jets from partnerships such as the USA, Great Britain or France. French rafale machines have been refueled in the past few weeks.
The spokesman emphasized that it was part of the mandate of the armed forces used to protect themselves. It could therefore not be ruled out that pilots were doing self -defense against threats as part of this use – which is covered by the mandate.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan warned in a phone call to US President Donald Trump about regional expansion of the conflict between Israel and Iran. In the telephone conversation on Sunday, Erdoğan emphasized that “urgent action” was necessary to “prevent a disaster that could flare up the entire region,” said the Turkish Presidential Office.
The “spiral of violence”, which was started on Friday by the attacks by Israel on Iran, “caused irreparable economic and civilian damage on both sides,” said Erdoğan. It is urgently needed to “stop this dangerous escalation”. It was already the second phone call from Erdoğan and Trump within 24 hours.
Israel’s Air Force flew further attacks on defense systems during the night to prevent further rocket attacks on your own country. In Tehran, many people try to leave the city. Read more about this here.
According to the Israeli air raids in the west of Iran, a clinic has also been hit. As Iranian media reported, a hospital in the city hit Kermannschah. A video of the newspaper “Shargh” showed a damaged intensive care unit and a blood -covered bed. An Israeli army spokesman said that the reports were checked.