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Four civilians were killed and between 15 to 20 others were injured by a declared Israeli airstrike on the the Seda o Sima building which houses Iran’s state-run broadcaster, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB), in the later afternoon (around 6.35 p.m.) of Monday, June 16, 2025, during a live broadcast. Among those killed were three employees of the station and a driver of someone featured on the station.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reported on Masoumeh Azimi, an administrative employee at IRIB, who was critically injured in an airstrike on their headquarters. Colleagues and local sources further stated that Azimi died from her injuries the following day, June 17th, at Shohadaye Tajrish Hospital in Tehran. Another IRIB employee, 50-year-old news editor Nima Rajabpour, was also gravely injured and died of his injuries on June 17th, according to CPJ. Tehran Times further reported that technical staff member Reza Javadipour also suffered severe injuries in the attack and died days later. The International Federation of Journalists condemned the attack on journalists and detailed that Nima was the editor-in-chief of Iran’s State TV news channel Khabar and Tehran Times. It also specified that Reza was an engineer who worked in the IT department of IRIB.
Akharin Khabar News spoke with a witness who was in the IRIB building after the strike, specifically “in between the conference centre and the glass building,” and found Nima bleeding out in a stairwell leading to the second floor. The witness can be seen walking the source through the scene of the strike and pointing out what he saw, such as “here was completely [on] fire, we could no longer get out from here. From there we brought him to here, the emergency (services) came and took him to the hospital. His body, from the side of his stomach was bleeding and I felt it was from his inner thigh.” The witness also specified that Nima worked on the fourth floor, where Channel 2 News was located, and had been trying to secure the antenna “until the very last moment.” A video posted on Aparat also described Nima’s death as occurring on the 4th floor, adding that “the structures have completely fallen in on the 4th floor and on this left side that we see has been completely destroyed.”
Colleague Farshid Ebadi posted on Instagram images from the memorial service for Nima and Masoumeh, and described Nima as “one of the best news editors on TV; always calm; smiling, committed to his work, and happy.” Another friend Mohammad Hossein Ranjbaran described knowing Nima “for more than two decades; he was an honorable, religious, calm, professional, and committed person. Whenever I encountered him, his humility was pleasant and respectful to me” and included a selfie image of Nima wearing a hood and standing in a forested area. The Lahijan Channel memorialized Nima on Instagram, pointing out that he had been born in the Agha Seyyed Hossein neighborhood of Lahijan.
Multiple accounts associated with the city of Taleghan mourned Masoumeh who was from Taleghan. Instagram account “Beautiful Taleghan” posted an image of Masoumeh posing on a snowy mountain in a winter jacket.
According to the witness, Masoumeh had been hit by shrapnel near the conference centre building. Akharin Khabar News also included recordings of family members of he victims expressing the pain at their loss, such as Masoumeh’s husband, Nima’s daughter – who is heard saying ” I’m still waiting for dad to come back and I’m still waiting for him to come home,” Nima’s wife, and their colleagues.
The Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) identified Salehadin (Reza) Buslik, an employee of the General Department of Transportation (driver) of Manan Raisi, a member of the Islamic Consultative Assembly (parliament) from Qom, as among those killed. Salehadin had been driving the parliament member to the IRIB building to participate in an evening broadcast when he was killed. The Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly released a statement, quoted by ISNA, that described Salehadin as “a loyal and dedicated employee of the Parliament’s transportation department, who, despite the sensitive and dangerous situation that has exposed our country to the cowardly attacks of the cruel and brutal regime of Israel, considered himself obliged to fulfill his duties with responsibility and sincerity.”
Khabar Online spoke with Younes Shadlou, an employee who had been on the 1st floor of the IRIB building when the strike occurred. He told Khabar Online that he suffered injuries from glass to his hands and “my knee was injured” but that his injuries were not critical.
Another employee of the IRIB, Hosseini, was also injured in the attack on the broadcaster and posted an image on his Twitter/X account @smhhosseini of himself holding the peace sign from a hospital bed, and an image of himself with his colleague Nima who had been killed.
Rumors circulated that Hossein Taeb, a close associate of Mojtaba Khamenei (the second eldest son of Ayatollah Khamenei), was killed while walking out of the IRIB building after finishing the speech but as @Sonofthebeach22 and other sources pointed out, this news was immediately deleted or taken down by those that announced it. Other sources pointed out that Khabar Online news agency and Tasnim both disavowed the news as false and Hossein was considered to be alive as of the beginning of March 2026. Therefore, he has not been included in the list of casualties and death toll.
According to Tehran Times, 11 missiles struck the IRIB’s Glass Building complex in Tehran’s District 3 during a live news broadcast. Videos posted by local sources showed an anchor on air while the bombing occured. Tehran Times spoke with anchor Sahar Emami who continued her broadcast even as the bombing occurred, saying, “I was reciting a statement live when the first explosion happened. I didn’t stop because I understood I must not plant concern in viewers’ hearts.” Anchor Sahar also noted that the station had received evacuation warnings, but chose to stay.
Etemad Newspaper spoke with journalists from IRIB that said that 30 people had remained in the station after the evacuation 30 minutes earlier to ensure that the news remained live. Hanieh Jalilnejad told Etemad that “half an hour before this happened, the organization’s managers forcefully removed us from the building. We left through the back door of the building and then we heard three or four explosions. The glass building has about 2,000 employees and journalists who work in shifts. If the managers had not taken timely action to evacuate us, the number of martyrs would have increased. This attack resulted in three martyrs and 15 wounded, most of whom suffered injuries due to the blast wave and are hospitalized in two hospitals.” In mid July 2025, weeks after the attack, Peyman Jebali, the head of the IRIB, told Tasnin News (quoted by Alef), that 20 injuries had occurred and “were not in serious condition and thank God their medical treatment is going well. Some of them needed surgery, which has been done.”
In a video by Shahrara News posted on Aparat, a correspondent spoke with five different men who worked for the broadcast studio and had been injured in the attack and were being treated in the hospital.
A video posted by @holy_katsumoto on Twitter/X showed the control room filled with computers and TV screens with one man continuing to work until an explosion can be heard and the building shakes, and the employee named Hooman is ushered out through dust and debris. In a video posted by @AzadeMokhtari and taken by IRIB employees in the aftermath of the attack, debris litter the street as burning papers fly through the air. Another video posted on Aparat and taken the day after the strike inside of the building included a description of the damage, that “all of the plastic structures have been completely melted, the glass that was on the first floor” and ” the graphics section of the news agency, science and technology, sports radio, the sports section, and other sections where our colleagues were working until the last moment but of what’s left … is one chair, totally burned.”
that the restoration of the glass building was ongoing and would hopefully be completed in “little more than a year” and that part of it would become a museum. According to Jebali, they had originally thought that seven missiles had hit the “vertical building” and that three had hit the second floor on the southern side (above the news network studio) but had recently found an 11th explosion site where a missile penetrated the basement of the building.
The Israeli Defense Forces confirmed to CPJ and on its public social media channels that it had carried out the attack on the broadcaster, acknowledging “a precise strike based on intelligence provided by the Intelligence Directorate, targeting a communications center used for military purposes by the Iranian Armed Forces. The building was being used by the Iranian Armed Forces under the cover of civilian activity, concealing the military use of its infrastructure and assets. The strike directly impacted the military capabilities of the Iranian Armed Forces. Prior to the strike, the IDF provided an effective advanced warning to the civilian population, including phone calls, and conducted the strike in a precise manner in order to mitigate harm to civilians as far as feasible.” The IDF published similar information on their social media channels in both English and Persian.
In a press conference, spokesperson Efi Dufferin provided a different justification, stating “we struck the building of the Iranian Broadcasting Authority, which for decades has served as a platform for anti-Israel propaganda and called for genocide. It is part of the Iranian regime’s campaign to annihilate the State of Israel, and we targeted it just as we target every component of the Iranian terror regime.”
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Reports of the incident mention the Iranian Broadcasting Organization (سازمان صداوسیما) in Tehran (تِهران). Analysing audio-visual material from sources, we have narrowed the location down to the following exact coordinates: 35.786305, 51.408957.

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