Israel-Iran Conflict Live Updates: Trump presides over national security meeting on Iran at White House
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called the current global tensions a "defining moment" for peace, warning that the path taken now could shape the fate of nations and our shared future. Addressing the UN Security Council, he highlighted Iran's nuclear programme as a key concern and urged a return to serious negotiations to reach a credible and verifiable solution.
All sides agreed to keep talking, France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot says, after European foreign ministers met their Iranian counterparts for talks in Geneva.
Speaking to reporters, Barrot also said there could be no purely military solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program.
(with inputs from Reuters)
Ireland will temporarily relocate embassy personnel from Tehran, the Irish foreign minister said on Friday.
"In light of the deteriorating situation, following consultation with my officials and in close consultation and coordination with EU partners, I have decided to temporarily relocate our personnel from Tehran," Simon Harris said in a statement.
Arrangements had been made for the embassy to continue its operations from Dublin, he said.
Earlier on Friday, Britain said it was temporarily withdrawing British staff from its embassy in Iran.
(with inputs from Reuters)
Iraq's representative to the United Nations said 50 Israeli warplanes violated Iraqi airspace shortly before a UN meeting on the Israel-Iran conflict on Friday.
Abbas Kadhom Obaid Al-Fatlawi, charge d'affaires of Iraq's UN mission, told the UN Security Council the aircraft came from the Syrian-Jordanian border areas.
"Twenty airplanes started, followed by 30 airplanes heading to the south of Iraq, and they flew over Basra, Najaf and Karbala cities," he said.
(with inputs from Reuters)
President Donald Trump presided over a national security meeting about Iran with top aides at the White House on Friday, a US official said.
The official also said US special envoy Steve Witkoff is in regular contact with the Iranians, both directly and indirectly, with Qatar acting as an intermediator.
(with inputs from Reuters)
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