{"id":256,"date":"2025-06-20T21:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T21:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256\/"},"modified":"2025-06-20T21:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T21:28:11","slug":"iran-plans-retaliatory-strikes-on-israeli-news-channels-posts-evacuation-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/256\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran plans retaliatory strikes on Israeli news channels, posts evacuation warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran has issued evacuation warnings to two Israeli news channels as it prepares retaliatory strikes following an attack on its own state broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s national broadcaster on Thursday said Israel\u2019s Channel 12 and Channel 14 will be targeted with missile strikes in the coming days, according to a screenshot shared by Press TV, an Iranian state-backed broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>In its statement, Iran accused right-wing Channel 14 of being a \u201cterror network\u201d for its support of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.81818182;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36298460\" width=\"760\" height=\"418\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/building-struck-israeli-attack-june-106607731.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of Iranian news broadcast showing smoke-filled newsroom after Israeli attack.\" class=\"wp-image-36298460\"  \/>An Iranian broadcast newsroom can be seen filled with smoke following an Israeli attack. IRINN\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis order comes in response to the hostile attack of the Zionist enemy against the Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s broadcasting service,\u201d Iranian state TV said.<\/p>\n<p>Channel 14 broadcasts from Tel Aviv, which has been hit by Iranian missiles in the past week. Channel 12 is headquartered in Jerusalem.<\/p>\n<p>The warning follows an Israeli strike on Iran\u2019s national broadcaster on Monday that <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/16\/world-news\/iranian-tv-anchor-forced-to-flee-live-broadcast-after-israel-strikes-state-run-network-hq-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forced a news anchor to flee during live coverage<\/a>, as seen in shocking camera footage.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz had vowed that the \u201cIranian propaganda and incitement mouthpiece is on its way to disappearing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Video footage showed a female anchor sprinting from the studio as explosions were heard after Israeli forces bombed the headquarters of Iran\u2019s state broadcasting network.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how many employees were injured or killed in the attacks. Iranian media reported that at least one worker was killed.<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli Defense Forces had urged residents living near headquarters to evacuate ahead of the bombing.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.47763348;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36298465\" width=\"872\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/iron-dome-israeli-air-defense-106693290_aebe6d.jpg\" alt=\"Missile streaks over Tel Aviv during an attack.\" class=\"wp-image-36298465\"  \/>Missile streaks over Tel Aviv, Israel on Tuesday. ABIR SULTAN\/EPA-EFE\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>The two nations on Friday continued to trade airstrikes, one week after Israel launched on a preemptive strike to take out Iranian nuclear and military targets.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump has signaled the US is still weighing whether or not to join Israel in the strikes.<\/p>\n<p>He said Thursday that he would decide whether or not to attack Iran <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/06\/19\/us-news\/trump-to-make-final-decision-within-the-next-two-weeks-on-us-taking-military-action-against-iran\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cwithin the next two weeks.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Israel\u2019s public broadcaster, Netanyahu on Thursday said Israel is capable of reaching its goals targeting Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities with or without Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday warned the US that intervention would result in \u201cirreparable damage to them\u201d and that \u201cthe Iranian nation is not one to surrender.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Iran has issued evacuation warnings to two Israeli news channels as it prepares retaliatory strikes following an attack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[396,397,64,71,398,50,399,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-256","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-bombings","9":"tag-broadcast-journalism","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-israel-iran-conflict","12":"tag-media","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-television","15":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114717819274509690","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}