Israel-Iran live: Israeli hospital hit by missile - Israel bombs nuclear reactor after warning Iranians to flee area
Tit-for-tat strikes between Israel and Iran continued, with fighting now entering a seventh day. This morning, there have been explosions reported over Tel Aviv and Jerusalem as missiles were fired from Iran. Meanwhile, Israel has bombed a heavy water nuclear reactor in Iran.
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BBC News
26 minutes ago
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Chris Mason: The UK's position on Iran is clear but will the US listen?
The prime minister has spoken to President Trump in the aftermath of America's attacks on in the end, the call beforehand demanding a yes or no answer didn't is not to say it might not in the days and weeks to British government is making it known that while it was told in advance what Washington was about to do, it didn't take part and wasn't asked so there wasn't a call from President Trump asking the prime minister whether the UK would be involved, for instance via authorising US warplanes to use the UK military base at on Diego Garcia in the Indian repeatedly pressed publicly for "de-escalation" as Sir Keir Starmer puts it, and questions seemingly being raised privately within government about the legality of getting involved, saying yes to a request for help from the White House might have been saying no would have been difficult too, after months of assiduous effort put into developing a good relationship with President acting alone and choosing to send its planes direct from America meant that massive, binary decision from Sir Keir wasn't depending if, how and when Iran chooses to retaliate, some of these trade-offs could soon return. For now, though, how should the UK's approach be assessed?In short, the government wills the ends America is pursuing, but is conspicuously not endorsing the other words, it doesn't want a nuclear armed neither is it saying it supports Washington's means of trying to remove that outcome - bombing Tehran's nuclear Conservatives see this as equivocation and "moral cowardice".On Friday, the Foreign Secretary David Lammy, alongside France, Germany and the European Union, met Iran's Foreign Minister in Geneva, Switzerland - but President Trump was publicly dismissive of these efforts.A day or so later, and the attacks they did, the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke to Lammy by had met a few days earlier in foreign secretary has again spoken to his Iranian opposite number Abbas UK is encouraging Iran to talk directly to the has been making it clear for days that it won't talk to America while it is being hit by the Lammy has also spoken to the Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar, pressing the case for a diplomatic solution and to the foreign ministers of Egypt and Cyprus - and then spoke again to UK position, for now at least, is clear - the government believes a diplomatic solution from here on in is the best way to secure an Iran free of nuclear weapons into the long America chose not to listen to this argument from London, Paris, Berlin and elsewhere before its air question is whether it will now they have can expect a minister, probably the foreign secretary, to face questions on all this in the Commons on Monday on Tuesday the prime minister, President Trump and plenty of other Western leaders will gather in the Netherlands for the annual summit of the Nato military alliance. They will have plenty to discuss. Sign up for our Politics Essential newsletter to read top political analysis, gain insight from across the UK and stay up to speed with the big moments. It'll be delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
Daily Mail
36 minutes ago
- Daily Mail
Iran 'threatened Trump with sleeper-cell revenge terrorist attacks inside US' days before nuclear strikes
Iran reportedly sent a threat to Donald Trump just days before he 'obliterated' three of their nuclear sites, warning it would unleash sleeper cell terrorists inside the US if the country was attacked. Trump received a communiqué from Iran just days before the US military strikes on its nuclear facilities threatening to activate sleeper-cell terror inside the United States if it were attacked, sources told NBC News. The official message was delivered to Trump through an intermediary at the G7 summit in Canada last week. The president left early June 16 to consider his options amid the conflict between Israel and Iran, according to the sources. Following his departure from the G7 summit, Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One he planned to hold 'early' meetings with his security team in the White House Situation Room after issuing a stunning call for people to 'evacuate' Tehran amid Israeli bomb attacks there. The Department of Homeland Security issued a national terrorism bulletin Sunday warning of possible cyber attacks and violence, including antisemitic hate crimes, following the strikes. 'The ongoing Iran conflict is causing a heightened threat environment in the United States,' the bulletin said. Although there are 'no specific credible threats,' the department warned that low-level cyber attacks against US networks are likely. 'Iran also has a long-standing commitment to target US Government officials it views as responsible for the death of an Iranian military commander killed in January 2020,' DHS said. 'The likelihood of violent extremists in the Homeland independently mobilizing to violence in response to the conflict would likely increase if Iranian leadership issued a religious ruling calling for retaliatory violence against targets in the Homeland.'
Times
an hour ago
- Times
Iran has the most to risk if it declares war on the world
Even if its nuclear programme has been crippled for now, Iran still has a formidable weapon at the ready: geography. On Sunday, hours after the attack on its nuclear sites, Iran was disrupting GPS signals on the Strait of Hormuz. The strait is an energy chokepoint, as narrow as the eye of a needle: barely 24 miles wide, it is the route through which 25 per cent of the world's oil and 30 per cent of its liquefied natural gas travels. There has already been talk of Iranian submarines planting mines along the way. A crude way of turning what started as a war between Israel and Iran, which mutated into the US and Israel versus Tehran, into Iran versus the world. The move, though passed by Iran 's rubber-stamp parliament, is still subject to approval by the top leadership. Its effects would be potentially devastating for developed economies everywhere with oil prices storming beyond $100 a barrel, pushing up household bills, fuel prices and food prices. What could the embattled Iranian regime hope to achieve by doing that? The supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, may not much care as he hides in his bunker. At 86, with his political authority seeping away, he may believe that posing as a global disruptor is at least historically consistent for someone who rose to power in the 1979 toppling of the pro-western Shah. If he can't blow up the region (and the verdict is still out on how much damage was done to Iran's nuclear plants in the US raid), then he can at least give the Great Satan a bloody nose. Strangely, though, the blocking of Hormuz might turn out to be even more suicidal for the regime than accelerating its nuclear programme. Iran depends on the income it gets from selling oil to its ally and customer China and the well-disposed (if officially neutral) India. If the strait closed, that revenue would stop and the pressure for regime change within Iran would only grow. Saudi Arabia, Iran's arch rival, would fortify its position as a regional and broadly western-aligned leader. The only rational political argument for Iran closing the strait is to nudge China into playing a more active role as a mediator with the US — and that doesn't look like happening. The manner of the US attack — a one-off strike rather than a precursor for a wider war — has the approval of Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Israel. In that sense it resembles Trump's order during his first term to assassinate the Iranian Quds force commander Qasem Soleimani: an act of controlled state violence that is supposed to close a chapter rather than signal a new phase in a forever war. The White House will have calculated that any possible Iranian response — attacking US bases in the region or a mass drone attack by Iran's Houthi allies on Saudi oil facilities — will merely deepen the isolation of the Tehran regime. Iran, once a proud member of the Crinks club of autocrats (China, Russia, North Korea), now finds itself shunned. Apart from the Houthis in Yemen, who said on Sunday that they were preparing to attack US vessels in the Red Sea, Iran's proxy armies are exhausted and certainly not up for a fight against America. It could be that North Korea lends a hand in rebuilding Iran's nuclear programme, but Russia's offer to control the enrichment of uranium is almost certainly off the table. It only ever made sense if Vladimir Putin could present Moscow as a diplomatic equal of Washington. Trump's bombing raid has wrong-footed the Kremlin and may force it to re-think its whole alignment with Iran. Has the weekend attack made the world safer? Many political decision-makers will be conducting a thought experiment over the next few days. An angry Iran is threatening to close down global trade. How much worse would that be if it were a nuclear-armed power making that same threat? Iran may now withdraw from the nuclear proliferation treaty. Again, will that lead to a more dangerous or a safer world? So far, at least, most of Iran's neighbours may be sleeping better at night.
