Israel blitzes Iran suburb where Ayatollah is 'hiding in bunker' as Trump warns 'no one knows what I will do' as he considers joining war
- Jun 18, 2025
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Source: Daily Mail
Date: June 18, 2025
Israel has launched new attacks across Tehran near to where Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is hiding in an underground bunker.
The Israeli air force has attacked several targets in the Iranian capital and has destroyed Iran's internal security headquarters.
Many blasts were heard in Lavizan, a northeastern neighbourhood in Tehran where Khamenei was moved to on Friday after Israel launched its first airstrikes against Iran.
Earlier today Khamenei said in a televised address that Iran would 'never surrender' after U.S. president Donald Trump demanded an 'unconditional' exit from the conflict, now in its sixth day.
Meanwhile Russia warned the United States against even thinking about supporting Israel 's bombing campaign.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said direct U.S. military assistance is a step 'that would radically destabilise the entire situation' in the Middle East.
Donald Trump said that he 'can't say' whether he'll authorize U.S. military strikes on Iran and revealed that the nation is seeking a way out of the escalating conflict with Israel.
President Donald Trump said he was considering whether the United States will join Israeli strikes on Iran Wednesday, as he said that Tehran had reached out to seek negotiations.
Speaking as he watched installation of a new flagpole at the White House, Trump added that his patience 'had already run out' with Iran and repeated his call for the Islamic Republic's 'unconditional surrender.'
'I may do it, I may not do it. I mean, nobody knows what I'm going to do,' Trump told reporters on the South Lawn when asked if he had decided whether to launch US air strikes.
'I can tell you this, that Iran's got a lot of trouble, and they want to negotiate.'
Trump said Iran had even suggested sending officials to the White House to negotiate on Tehran's nuclear program to end Israel's air assault, but added that it was 'very late'.
'I said it's very late to be talking. We may meet. There's a big difference between now and a week ago, right? Big difference,' Trump added.
'They've suggested that they come to the White House. That's, you know, courageous, but it's, like, not easy for them to do.'
Asked what he meant when he called in a social media post on Tuesday for Iran's 'UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!', Trump again suggested that his patience had run out with Iran.
'It's very simple - unconditional surrender. That means I've had it, okay? I've had it. I give up, no more, we go and blow up all the nuclear stuff that's all over the place,' Trump said.
The Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant (FEP), buried deep beneath the mountains near the holy city of Qom, is one of Iran's most secretive and heavily fortified nuclear facilities.
Built in defiance of international pressure and revealed to the world only after Western intelligence agencies exposed its existence in 2009, the site was deliberately constructed far underground to shield it from aerial bombardment.
Enrichment centrifuges housed within its fortified chambers are capable of producing uranium at near-weapons-grade levels.
Access to the site is tightly controlled by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and inspections by international observers have long been a flashpoint in negotiations.
So far, Israel has targeted multiple Iranian nuclear sites and has damaged the Natanz FEP. But Israeli security officials confirmed on Tuesday that the air force has not targeted Iran's underground Fordow nuclear facility.
