Direct proof of use
Sejjil's documented appearance in the 2025 Israel-Iran Conflict rests on Iranian official claims, Israeli reporting of an interception, and independent summaries of the June 18 missile wave. Press TV reported that an IRGC statement said Iran used two-stage Sejjil ballistic missiles in the twelfth phase of Operation True Promise III on Wednesday evening, June 18, 2025.
The Times of Israel reported the same evening that Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they fired a Sejjil missile at Israel and that the IDF intercepted it, with fragments causing minor vehicle damage. Al Jazeera's June 18 key-events summary also recorded the IRGC claim that long-range Sejjil missiles were used in the twelfth wave of firings at Israel, while noting Israeli reporting that eight missiles were intercepted in that evening salvo.
Sources: Press TV True Promise III Sejjil, Times of Israel Sejjil Liveblog, Al Jazeera June 18 Key Events
Timeline
The Sejjil claim came during the missile-exchange phase of the conflict, after Israel opened Operation Rising Lion on June 13, 2025 and Iran began retaliatory missile and drone attacks. By June 18, Iranian state media framed the Sejjil launch as part of the twelfth phase of Operation True Promise III.
Later Iranian accounts continued to cite Sejjil as one of the missile types first used during the 12-day war. In August 2025, Mehr News Agency reported Iranian defense minister Aziz Nasirzadeh saying Iran used missiles including Fattah, Sejjil, and Kheibar Shekan for the first time during the conflict.
Sources: Press TV True Promise III Sejjil, Times of Israel Sejjil Liveblog, Al Jazeera June 18 Key Events, Mehr Iran New Missiles Statement
Role in the conflict
Within the conflict record, Sejjil is best described as an Iranian long-range ballistic-missile strike weapon used in a retaliatory salvo against Israel. The cited sources describe firing by Iran's Revolutionary Guard or Iranian armed forces; they do not describe transfer, possession-only display, battlefield capture, or use by a non-Iranian side.
The operational significance was tied to Sejjil's range class and solid-fuel, two-stage design. CSIS Missile Threat describes Sejjil as a two-stage, solid-propellant Iranian ballistic missile with an approximately 2,000-kilometer range, while Press TV's later explainer attributed the visible plume and first-stage separation seen over Iran on June 18 to a two-stage Sejjil-2 launch.
Sources: Times of Israel Sejjil Liveblog, CSIS Sejjil Missile Threat, Press TV Sejjil-2 Explainer
Battlefield effect and attribution
The most precise independently reported effect for the June 18 Sejjil incident is defensive rather than offensive: The Times of Israel reported that the missile was intercepted by the IDF and that fragments caused minor damage to a vehicle. Al Jazeera's same-day conflict summary placed the Sejjil claim inside a broader Iranian evening salvo and said Israel reported intercepting eight missiles in that salvo.
Iranian sources described Sejjil use as part of a new-generation missile barrage and made broader claims about air-defense depletion and target impacts. Those target and performance claims remain attributed here to Iranian sources; the available public sources used for this record do not independently assign specific Israeli impact points or damage to a confirmed Sejjil airframe.
Sources: Press TV True Promise III Sejjil, Times of Israel Sejjil Liveblog, Al Jazeera June 18 Key Events
