(14 Jun 2025)
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++GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATIONS OVERLAYING PART OF SOUNDBITE 2 ARE FROM SOURCE++
ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES
Tel Aviv – 13 June 2025
++LOGO AT SOURCE++
1. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, Israeli military spokesman:
"The IDF and the State of Israel are ready to defend themselves. We are working in cooperation with a number of partners around the world, different partners, and I cannot add more than that."
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2. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, Israeli military spokesman: ++PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY GRAPHICS FROM SOURCE++
"During the night, the Air Force launched attacks, with the participation of over 70 Israeli fighter jets, against targets in Tehran located in the heart of the country. The road to Tehran was paved. We attacked about 40 targets throughout Tehran, missiles, advanced defense systems of the Air Force, in addition to infrastructure for control systems and additional firing sites. Our fighter jets flew for about two-and-a-half hours in the skies over Tehran alongside drones that fly 24 hours a day, controlling the area and assisting in the attack and with intelligence."
++BLACK FRAMES++
3. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Brig. Gen. Effie Defrin, Israeli military spokesman:
"This is a space where the Air Force aircraft are operating for the first time. This is the deepest point in which we have operated so far in Iran.”
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
An Israeli military spokesman said on Saturday it is cooperating "with a number of partners" as it threatens further attacks on Iran.
Effie Defrin declined to provide further information on which states were supporting Israel’s operations.
Defrin claimed the Israeli Air Force was operating freely over Iranian airspace.
"This is the deepest point in which we have operated so far," he said.
Other Israeli officials warned of more attacks on Iran after Iran’s deadly retaliatory strikes on Israel overnight and into the morning.
Three people were killed and dozens were wounded in Israel, after a series of blistering Israeli attacks on Iran’s nuclear program and its armed forces the previous day.
Israel’s assault on Friday used warplanes, as well as drones smuggled into the country in advance, to assault key facilities and kill top generals and scientists.
Iran’s U.N. ambassador said 78 people were killed and more than 320 wounded in the attacks.
Israel said the barrage was necessary before Iran got any closer to building an atomic weapon, although experts and the U.S. government have assessed that Tehran was not actively working on such a weapon before the strikes.
It also threw talks between the United States and Iran over an atomic accord into disarray days before the two sides were set to meet Sunday.
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