Fresh
wave of strikes hits Tabriz, Shiraz and Iran's main nuclear site
Key Points:
- Trump says Iran 'perhaps' could have second chance
- Israel shutters embassies in several countries including US, UK
- Iranian president vows 'powerful and legitimate' response
Iran says Israel attack
'declaration of war'
26 minutes ago
Iran called Israel's wave of air
strikes on Friday a declaration of war, while US President Donald Trump warned
Tehran of "even more brutal" attacks if it does not make a deal on
its nuclear programme, AFP reported.
Israel said its air strikes had
killed several top Iranian generals, including most of the senior leadership of
the Revolutionary Guard air force, while hitting about 100 targets, including
nuclear facilities.
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei, warned Israel it faced a "bitter and painful" fate over
the attacks, while Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi described the attack as a
"declaration of war" and President Masoud Pezeshkian said, "Iran
will make the enemy regret its foolish act".
The Israeli military said Iran
launched around 100 drones in response, with air defences intercepting them
outside Israeli territory, while neighbouring Jordan said it targeted drones
and missiles that violated its airspace.
UN nuclear watchdog says
radiation outside Natanz site 'remains unchanged'
43 minutes ago
The head of the United Nations
nuclear watchdog said on Friday that radiation levels outside Iran's Natanz
uranium enrichment site following Israeli air strikes "remained
unchanged", reported AFP.
"The type of radioactive
contamination present inside the facility, mainly alpha particles, can be
managed with appropriate protective measures," International Atomic Energy
Agency chief Rafael Grossi wrote on X.
Iranian foreign minister decries
Israel’s ‘illegal and cowardly’ attack
46 minutes ago
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas
Araghchi has condemned Israel’s “cowardly” overnight attack on his country, in
a phone call with his Kuwaiti counterpart, according to multiple media sources.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran,
with full determination, will take action to defend its sovereignty, people and
national security, and will respond decisively to the Zionist regime’s illegal
and cowardly aggression,” Araghchi told Kuwait’s Abdullah Ali al-Yahya,
according to a statement from the Iranian foreign ministry.
Iran's new Guard's chief warns
'gates of hell' will open on Israel
1 hour ago
Mohammad Pakpour, the newly
appointed commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has warned that
"the gates of hell" will open on Israel in "retribution for the
blood of our fallen commanders, scientists and citizens," according to
state news agency IRNA.
Pakpour was named the successor
to Hossein Salami, who was killed in today's attacks.
Israel says its deploying
reservists across 'all combat arenas'
1 hour ago
Israel says it is deploying
reservists across "all combat arenas" nationwide following its deadly
strikes on Iran.
- Reporting by AFP
Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation
reports contamination at Natanz
1 hour ago
The Atomic Energy Organisation of
Iran (AEOI) has reported that contamination has been detected inside the Natanz
nuclear site, which was twice targeted by a barrage of Israeli strikes on
Friday.
The AEOI did not clarify whether
the leakage was chemical or radioactive, but said that it was only detected
inside the complex and that there was no cause for concern outside the site.
“As far as we know, the damage is
limited to surface-level areas,” Mohammad Islami, the AEOI head, said, adding
that no casualties were reported.
Turkey ministers discuss Israeli
attacks on Iran
1 hour ago
Turkey's top ministers have held
a closed-door meeting on Friday in Ankara to discuss the "possible
repercussions" of Israel's attacks on Iran, AFP is reporting, citing a
foreign ministry source.
According to the source, foreign
and defence ministers, the chief of staff and the intelligence chief attended
the meeting.
Following the attacks, Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday warned that Israel was seeking to drag
the world into "disaster" and urged the international community to
stop what he called Israel's "banditry".
UN Security Council schedules
emergency meeting to discuss Iran
1 hour ago
The UN Security Council has
scheduled an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in Iran.
- Reporting by AFP
Iran summons envoy representing
US in Tehran: State media
1 hour ago
Iran's foreign ministry summoned
the Swiss ambassador, which represents US interests in Tehran, state media is
reporting.
The official news agency IRNA
reported that during the meeting, Iran "conveyed its deep outrage and
strong protest over this act of aggression by Israel and the support extended
to it by the United States".
International Atomic Energy
Agency to convene extraordinary meeting
1 hour ago
The International Atomic Energy
Agency (IAEA) will convene an extraordinary meeting of its Board of Governors
next week at Iran’s request, following Israeli strikes on the country,
diplomats told AFP on Friday.
Reporting by AFP
US Secretary of State: Washington
provided 'exquisite intel' to Israel
1 hour ago
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio
said Washington provided Israel with "exquisite intel" ahead of its
deadly barrage of strikes on Iran, ABC News is reporting, citing a source
familiar with the situation.
Rubio added that the US would
defend Israel if needed.
The source confirmed that
Washington had advance warning of the attack and said that the strikes would
continue and intensify over the next few days.
Iran's foreign minister tells
UNSC 'Israel crossed every red line'
1 hour ago
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas
Araghchi has written to the United Nations Security Council ahead of a meeting
set to take place later today, saying that Israel "has now crossed every
red line, and the international community must not allow these crimes to go
unpunished".
He added that Iran
"reaffirms its inherent right to self-defence as enshrined in Article 51
of the UN Charter and will respond decisively and proportionately to these
unlawful and cowardly acts".
Article 51 of the UN Charter
covers the individual or collective right of states to self-defense against
armed attack.
He further called on the UN
Security Council and the secretery-general to condemn the aggression and take
"immediate and unequivocal action".
"Failure to respond will
only embolden the aggressor, reward impunity, and fuel further chaos in an
already fragile region," he warned.
Trump says US knew of Israel's
plans to attack Iran
2 hours ago
US President Donald Trump told
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that he was aware of Israel's plans to launch an
attack on Tehran.
When asked by the WSJ whether the
US had received a “heads-up” before the attack, Trump replied: "Heads-up?
It wasn’t a heads-up. It was, we know what's going on."
He described the attack as
"very successful… to put it mildly".
Israeli media reports at least
one drone intercepted
2 hours ago
Israel's Channel 12 is reporting
that the Israeli military has intercepted two drones in northern Israel, adding
that a fire erupted in the occupied Golan Heights as fragments struck the area.
Meanwhile, Israeli newspaper
Haaretz and Israeli Army Radio report that a single drone was intercepted.
Eight killed in Israeli strike on
Tabriz: Reports
2 hours ago
Iranian media is reporting that
eight people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Tabriz.
Following a barrage of deadly
strikes on Friday morning, Israel later launched fresh strikes targeting
Tabriz, Shiraz and a renewed attack on Natanz nuclear site.
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