Successive attacks between the two countries last a week. See where and how
Israel’s unprecedented attacks on nuclear facilities and other Iranian military places have triggered an exchange of missile attacks between the two countries that already last several days.
At least 224 people have been killed in Iran since the start of hostilities, last week, according to the country’s Ministry of Health last Sunday, quoted by the Iranian state media. Meanwhile, 24 people were killed in Israel until Monday morning, according to the Israeli Prime Minister’s office.
The Israeli operation against Iran is expected to last “weeks, not days” and is moving forward with the implicit approval of the US, according to White House and Israelite sources. US President Donald Trump said his country “had nothing to do” with Israelite attacks, but acknowledged that “it is possible that we get involved.”
CNN is following the places where the attacks are occurring and which Iranian nuclear facilities targeted the attacks.
Places in Iran hit by Israelite attacks since June 13
Note: Data from June 18, 2025, at 11:00 am (Lisbon time, GMT).
Sources: Institute for the study of war with the project critical threats from AEI, analysis of social networks CNN, international graphic energy agency: Renée Rigdon, Lou Robinson, Soph Warnes E Annette Choi, CNN
Places around the Iranian capital, Tehran, hit by Israelite attacks since June 13
NOTE: Data from June 18, 2025, at 6:30 pm, Lisbon time, GMT
Source: Institute for the Study of War with the project critical threats from AEI, International Atomic Energy Agency. Chart: Lou Robinson, Amy O’Kruk and Annette Choi, CNN
After Israel’s initial attack, Iran launched a wave of retaliation attacks, aiming at various locations in Israel. CNN journalists at the site heard explosions in Telavive and Jerusalem, and videos showed smoke climbing from both cities.
Iran fired more than 400 ballistic missiles and hundreds of drones against Israel since Friday of last week, the Israeli Prime Minister’s office said on Wednesday. The projectiles, he added, hit 40 places in Israel.
Places in Israel and the West Bank hit by Iranian attacks since June 13
Notes: Data from June 20, 2025, at 11:00 am, Lisbon time, GMT. The attacks that hit Sa’ir and Jaffa originated in Yemen, according to Israel’s Armed Forces and the Iémen Armed Forces.
Sources: Reuters, CNN Analysis of Graphic Social Networks: Annette Choi, Renée Rigdon, Soph Warnes, Amy O’Kruk and Lou Robinson, CNN
The missiles have reached targets throughout the Israeli territory, reaching Telavive, as well as residential neighborhoods in the city of Bat Yam, in the center of Israel, and in the Palestinian-Israeli city of Tamra, in the north of the country.
Although Iran will claim that its nuclear program has peaceful purposes, Israel has long considered it a threat. The Israelite attacks hit three nuclear facilities of Iran – Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow. Few damages are visible in Fordow satellite images.
Iran has a well -developed nuclear program
The Israelite attacks have reached three nuclear facilities in Iran – and the damage caused are not yet clear. Iran has been developing its nuclear infrastructure since the 1960s, often secret, having some installations buried underground. The country is able to perform most of the stages of uranium production, from mining to enrichment, and insists that its program is peaceful.
2 – Natanz enrichment complex. An Israeli attack has reached the largest uranium enrichment place in Iran, Natanz, which contains 14,000 centrifugers located in the underground, capable of enriching up to 60%.
3 – ISFAHAN Nuclear Technology Center. It houses several facilities that convert “yellow uranium” into uranium hexafluoride, produce fuel for reactors and manufacture metallic uranium for nuclear weapons.
4 – Bushehr Nuclear Center: Single Nuclear Center in operation in Iran, generates electricity using fuel supplied by Russia.
Sources: Explore Nuclear, Wisconsin Project on Nuclear Arms Control’s Iran Watch, The Institute for the Study of War with AEI’s Critical Threats Project, International Atomic Energy Agency Graphic Energy: Lou Robinson, CNN
Nuclear Natanz installation is the largest uranium enrichment installation of Iran and “the heart of Iran’s ballistic missile program,” according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Several Natanz structures suffered significant damage.
Damage in Nuclear Installation of Natanz
CNN obtained satellite images from a space image company, Max’s Technologies, which showed that several areas of the installation were damaged in the attacks.
Source: Maxer Technologies Graphic: Amy O’Kruk, CNN
Four Critical Buildings in the Nuclear Installation of Isfahan were damaged, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (AIEA).
Although damage to three buildings were visible through satellite images taken on June 14, the damage in a fourth building was not immediately evident. A spokesman for Iran’s atomic energy organization stated that damage on site was limited.
Damage to Nuclear Installation of Isfahan
CNN got satellite images from a space -image company, Max’s Technologies, which show that several areas of the installation were damaged in the attacks.
Source: Maxer Technologies Graphic: Renée Rigdon, CNN
Fordow’s facilities, near Qom, south of Tehran, seem intact in the images captured after the beginning of Israel’s attacks. The center is deeply buried in the subsoil and hostel centrifugers used to enrich uranium to high degrees of purity. Analysts told CNN that it is likely that only the US will have the weapons necessary to cause serious damage there.
Fordow fuel enrichment factory in Iran
A satellite image of the Maxar Technologies spacecraft company, captured on June 14, does not show visible damage to Fordow facilities, one of the three nuclear facilities targets the attacks from Israel to Iran.
2 – cmountainous oberture of the centrifugation rooms.
3 – pile of rocks from tunnel excavation.
4 – Control point.
Sources: Maxer Technologies, CNN Analysis of Graphic Satellite Images: Thomas Bordeaux and Acosta Rose, CNN
The affected infrastructures also include missile installations in Kermanshah, Shiraz and Bid Kaneh, according to the Maxa Satellites company – all in different areas of Iran. Satellite images show destroyed or damaged buildings and tunnels for kermanshah vehicles, but no building seems to have been destroyed in Shiiraz.
Damage to the installation of missiles of Kermanshah, in Iran
Damage to at least 15 buildings and other areas of the Kermanshah missile installation can be seen in satellite images of 16 June 2025, after repeated Israeli attacks
Sources: Maxer Technologies, CNN analysis of satellite images. Chart: Acosta and Thomas Bordeaux Pink, CNN
Sources: Maxer Technologies, CNN satellite image analysis. Graphic :: Pink Acosta and Thomas Bordeaux, CNN
The Israelite attacks also killed several prominent personalities, including the highest rank of Iran’s highest patent.
Will replace high -patent bosses murdered
Israel’s attacks on Iran resulted in the death of several Iranian commanders, including Major General Mohammad Bagheri, Iran’s highest patent military officer, and Major General Hossein Salami, who was the head of Islamic Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), an elite wing of the Iranian Armed Forces.
Sources: Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iranian state television, Israel’s defense forces. Chart: Rachel Wilson and Soph Warnes, CNN
Kylie Atwood, CNN Alayna and Kevin Liptak contributed to this article.
