As Iran and the US move closer to a deal, Tehran remembers another recent bloody war US-Israel War on Iran News

Tehran, Iran The anniversary of the 12-day war between Iran and Israel in June 2025 is being marked this week in Tehran, as American and Iranian officials are discussing last-minute talks to end the latest conflict between the two sides.

Tehran and Washington have signed a 60-day transition agreement to a peace deal and a deal is imminent.

But amid the ongoing uncertainty about the outcome of the negotiations – especially the ability of Israel to attack – Iranian cities are commemorating many military officers who were killed between 13 and 24 June 2025.

Some of those killed in the 12-day war, known in Israel as Operation Rising Lionincluding Mohammad Bagherithe army chief, Hossein Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), and Ali Akbar Hajizadeh, the long-time head of the air force.

Government messages and posters have shown that these officials are apocalyptic and “end-time friends” of Husayn ibn Ali, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) whose death more than 1,300 years ago has become an important point in Shia Islam emphasizing “martyrdom” and resistance to injustice.

Universities will also hold public celebrations of nuclear scientists and physicists who were killed in last year’s war, such as Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi.

More than 1,000 Iranians have been killed in the 12-day US-Israeli war, including several hundred civilians and many children, while at least 3,468 people have been killed, nearly half of them civilians, in Iran’s war with the US and Israel, according to official figures.

Among those killed on February 28, the first day of the recent war, was Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who, it was announced on Saturday, will be buried at the Shia shrine in Mashhad at the end of six days of trials in the second week of July.

It has been a bloody and costly 12 months for Iran, but one that the government has portrayed as a necessary struggle to end foreign rule.

Speaking to television on Friday night, Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, explained how the country refused to comply with US demands. The 12 day war – such as zero nuclear weapons that are being carried out on the soil of Iran – and the sure way to maintain the sovereignty of the country must continue.

“The negotiations did not lead to war, the resistance led to war.” “Our enemies had demands that they tried to reach during negotiations, we refused, they turned to war,” said Araghchi.

But despite the damage and destruction, the government believes it is in a much higher position compared to last year.

It survived two wars against the US and Israel and successfully controlled the Strait of Hormuz – through which, before the war, about a fifth of the world’s oil passed – disrupting energy markets around the world.

Iran’s chief justice, Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei, said that the US leaders did not understand the mentality and patience of the divine establishment in Tehran, which is ready to make many sacrifices.

The Islamic month of Muharram begins on June 16 and includes the Day of Ashura, which commemorates the death of Husayn and is an important day in the Iranian calendar. Mohseni-Ejei said that it is “the month of victory of blood on the sword” and that the Iranian army was ready to continue fighting the “evil” of the US.

IRGC Brigadier General Ali Fadavi appeared to agree, telling television at a commemoration ceremony on Thursday that Iran’s military action against Israel last year he “broke the empty power of the enemy”.

Ali Abdollahi, head of the IRGC’s Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, also claimed that Iran had won in its latest conflict. “With the grace of God, the world will soon hear the great victory of Iran and the Iranian people, and the victory of the opposition to the enemy and the terrorist enemy,” the official wrote in a statement on Saturday.

Like Prime Minister of Pakistan Shebaz Sharif He said on Saturday afternoon that the long-term agreement with US President Donald Trump could end in the next 24 hours, while the Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said that the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding could take place “in the coming days”.

Members of the ultra-hardline group Paydari shot down the terms of the agreement that is spreading in the local and international media, but which has not yet been officially confirmed.

Among the points of contention are whether Iran will receive foreign aid, the status of the Strait of Hormuz, and the future of Iran’s nuclear program.

Some Iranian stalwarts are comparing what they say is a leak The 2015 nuclear deal, signed by US President Barack Obama, who stopped the nuclear program in order to lift the sanctions, which they saw as a “loss” for Iran. They are insisting that the government must push for a strong demand to declare “victory” after the war.

One of the members of this bloc, Mahmoud Nabavian, a senior pastor and member of the parliament, warned on Saturday that Iran is about to do more than what was done in the past and that the new agreement looks “more destructive compared to the previous two types”.

A state television spokesman criticized Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei during a telephone interview on Friday night, comparing the US to a “snake” that is always ready to disrupt negotiations.

“I think you show a lot of interest in your books. The question is, do we want results when we go into the diplomatic process or not?” Baghaei replied.

However, even Iran’s most conservative outlets have indicated that a long-term deal is now on the horizon, and some see the talks as a necessary evil to prevent the country from collapsing.

“Even if the obstacles are successful in negotiations, the cost of not testing will prove more than testing,” a Javanese newspaper affiliated with the IRGC published on Saturday.