{"id":645,"date":"2025-06-16T16:29:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T16:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/?p=645"},"modified":"2025-06-17T11:05:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T11:05:24","slug":"tehran-residents-warned-to-evacuate-ahead-of-israeli-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/tehran-residents-warned-to-evacuate-ahead-of-israeli-strikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Tehran residents warned to evacuate ahead of Israeli strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli officials urged hundreds of thousands of people in Tehran, Iran, to immediately evacuate Monday ahead of new strikes in its <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5348959-israel-iran-military-operation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">escalating military campaign<\/a> against Iran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the coming hours, the IDF will operate in the area, as it has done in recent days around Tehran, to attack military structures belonging to the Iranian regime,&#8221; Israeli military spokesperson for Arab media Avichay Adraee <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AvichayAdraee\/status\/1934604047299797054\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote in a post<\/a> on the social platform X. &#8220;Citizens of Iran, for your safety and security, please evacuate the area.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The warning, written in Farsi, included a map of a targeted central area of Tehran deemed &#8220;District 3,&#8221; where Iranian state media and law enforcement are headquartered.<\/p>\n<p>Israel on Monday declared it had eliminated defensive threats to its strikes in the area, essentially seizing control of the airspace over Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The IAF controls the skies of Tehran; that changes the entire campaign,&#8221; Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news\/410109\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said Monday<\/a> referring to Israel&#8217;s air force. &#8220;With God&#8217;s help, we will succeed and continue until victory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to The Associated Press, the Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-iran-missile-attacks-nuclear-news-06-16-2025-c98074e62ce5afd4c3f6d33edaffa069?user_email=f9bf81df39f40a052002c0d4ee27f87c07282729b792702577f31544487dc4e5&amp;utm_medium=APNews_Alerts&amp;utm_source=Sailthru_AP&amp;utm_campaign=NewsAlert_Jun16_2025_09:54AM&amp;utm_term=AP%20News%20Alerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">warning affected<\/a> about 330,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu, <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5352386-israel-prime-minister-netanyahu-iran-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">speaking at an air force base<\/a> near Tel Aviv, Israel, told soldiers that Iran doesn&#8217;t warn Israeli civilians before it attacks, but Israel would continue to issue alerts to residents of Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we control the skies of Tehran, we hit these targets, the enemy&#8217;s targets \u2014 in contrast to the criminal Iranian regime, which targets our civilians and comes to kill our children and women \u2014 we tell the civilians in Tehran: &#8216;Evacuate&#8217; and we are taking action,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli officials urged hundreds of thousands of people in Tehran, Iran, to immediately evacuate Monday ahead of new strikes in its escalating military campaign against Iran. &#8220;In the coming hours,<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/tehran-residents-warned-to-evacuate-ahead-of-israeli-strikes\/\" class=\"readmore\">Continue reading<svg class=\"icon icon-arrow-right\" aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"img\"> <use href=\"#icon-arrow-right\" xlink:href=\"#icon-arrow-right\"><\/use> <\/svg><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tehran residents warned to evacuate ahead of Israeli strikes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.logicalware.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}