Iranian missiles hit Soroka, central Israel buildings, Katz threatents to topple regime

Brigadier General Mohammad Karami became the new commander of the Ground Forces of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on Thursday, according to the Iranian Student News Agency.

Residents in multiple areas of Israel received false missile alerts on their phones due to a technical malfunction, the IDF said on Thursday morning.

The IDF added that no threat had been identified after looking into the matter and that the incident was now under review. 

The Israeli-linked hacker group known as "Gonjeshke Darande" (Predatory Sparrow) followed through on its Wednesday threat, releasing Nobitex’s source code and internal information from its internal network on Thursday.

Nobitex, Iran’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, deals in digital currencies and cryptocurrency. According to the group, the crypto company assists the regime in funding Iranian terrorism and uses virtual currencies to bypass sanctions.

Time's up - full source code linked below.

ASSETS LEFT IN NOBITEX ARE NOW ENTIRELY OUT IN THE OPEN.
بازمانده دارایی های شما در نوبیتکس هم اکنون در معرض دید و خطر هستند

But before that, lets meet Nobitex from the inside:

Exchange Deployment (1/8) pic.twitter.com/jiMfBpNXwd

— Gonjeshke Darande (@GonjeshkeDarand) June 19, 2025

Israel Police prevented foreign media, including the banned Al Jazeera network, from filming locations of direct hits by Iranian missiles and providing the regime with the location of the hits, the police confirmed on Thursday morning. 

The actions were carried out in line with National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's policy on broadcasting and under the direction of Police Commissioner Danny Levy, with the support of the communications ministry. 

Authorities have repeatedly warned not to share the location of missile interceptions and hits, as it could provide the Islamic regime with information to improve the accuracy of their attacks.

The IDF killed the commander of Hezbollah's anti-tank unit Mohammad Ahmad Khreiss in an overnight strike in southern Lebanon, the military announced on Thursday morning.

Khreiss had advanced numerous attacks against Israel during the Israel-Hamas war, the IDF said.

The IDF added that Khreiss had led the anti-tank missile attack on Mount Dov in April 2024, which resulted in the death of Sharif Suad.

Only the United States has the clout to engage Israel and Iran in negotiations as the two countries continue to trade air attacks, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday.

"Europe alone does not have the necessary influence to bring the parties concerned to the negotiation table. Only the United States can do that. So I think it is up to the President of the United States to decide which path to take," Mitsotakis said in an interview on the sidelines of an energy conference in Athens.

The foreign ministers of Germany, France, and Britain plan to hold nuclear talks with their Iranian counterpart on Friday in Geneva, a German diplomatic source told Reuters.

"We are all very concerned about any factor that will push inflation up and significantly disrupt energy markets," Mitsotakis said.

He said Greece was also very worried about the safety of around 180 Greek-flagged and Greek-owned ships that sailed in the wider Persian Gulf region when Israel first attacked Iran last week.

Defense Minister Israel Katz on Thursday directly threatened to assassinate Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in response to Iranian ballistic missiles striking Beersheba's Soroka Medical Center.

Katz said, "Khamenei will pay for his crimes."

The defense minister added that Israel will now start attacking new kinds of strategic targets in Iran "in order to remove the threats hanging over the State of Israel and to shake the ayatollah's regime."

It was not clear whether this meant the government has now given the order to actually Khamenei, with US President Donald Trump so far wanting to hold off on such a measure to still try to reach some kind of a deal with the regime.

Israel continues to expand its aerial assault on Tehran on the fourth day of its war against Iran, raising speculation about whether the US will join the campaign to help eliminate Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

Since the offensive began Friday, Israel has struck top Iranian military leaders, nuclear scientists, uranium enrichment facilities, and ballistic missile infrastructure.

On Tuesday, US President Donald Trump said he wants to see a “real end” to the conflict, not just a ceasefire. The American president has repeatedly insisted that Iran must not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons or continue enrichment on its soil.

Some 40 Israel Air Force fighter jets struck dozens of military targets and the nuclear reactor of Arak across Iran on Wednesday night, using over 100 munitions, the IDF confirmed in a Thursday morning announcement. 

The strike on the nuclear reactor, including the reactor’s core seal, is a key component in Tehran’s production of plutonium and was targeted as part of Operation Rising Lion’s mission to prevent the Islamic Republic from gaining nuclear weapons.

Preventing the Islamic Republic from acquiring nuclear weapons

As part of the strikes, and as part of the broad effort to prevent the Iranian regime from obtaining a nuclear weapon, the nuclear reactor in the area of Arak in Iran was targeted, including the structure of the reactor's core seal, which is a key component in plutonium production.

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to "extract the full price from the tyrants in Iran" following the Thursday morning Iranian missile barrage, which directly hit various locations in Israel, including the Soroka hospital in Beersheba. 

"This morning, Iran's terrorist tyrants launched missiles at the Soroka Hospital in Beersheba and at a civilian population in the center of the country. We will exact the full price from the tyrants in Tehran," Netanyahu wrote in an X post.