Keir Starmer calls on Iran to ‘return to negotiating table' as he issues response to US bombing nuclear sites
SIR Keir Starmer has said the US took action to 'alleviate' Iran's nuclear threat.
The Prime Minister urged the Tehran 'to return to the negotiating table and reach a diplomatic solution to end this crisis' as he responded to Trump's blitz.
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In a statement, the Labour party leader said: "Iran's nuclear programme is a grave threat to international security.
"Iran can never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon and the US has taken action to alleviate that threat.
"The situation in the Middle East remains volatile and stability in the region is a priority.
"We call on Iran to return to the negotiating table and reach a diplomatic solution to end this crisis."
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This comes after the US military bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities in an historic strike against the Islamic Republic.
Iran has since threatened "everlasting consequences" as Houthis vowed to target US forces.
In a statement posted on X, Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi wrote: "The United States, a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, has committed a grave violation of the UN Charter, international law and the NPT by attacking Iran's peaceful nuclear installations.
"The events this morning are outrageous and will have everlasting consequences. Each and every member of the UN must be alarmed over this extremely dangerous, lawless and criminal behavior.
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"In accordance with the UN Charter and its provisions allowing a legitimate response in self-defense, Iran reserves all options to defend its sovereignty, interest, and people."
Iran has lashed out with two rounds of missiles into Israel in the wake of America's strikes.
The IDF announced about an hour ago that the second wave was on its way, and urged all Israelis to obey the instruction of the Home Front Command.
Citizens were also instructed not to share information about locations or casualties.
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At least 16 people are reported to have been injured.
Meanwhile Yemen's Houthi's warned they will target US ships in the Red Sea if they are involved in any potential attack on Iran, the group announced on Saturday.
The group's military spokesperson Yahya Saree said: 'We will target US ships and battleships in the Red Sea if Washington participates in the
Saree added how they consider any potential Israeli attack on Iran to be aimed at 'removing Tehran as an obstacle to an Israeli plan to dominate the region'.
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In Washington, Trump said the
The president added that Iran must now make peace or "we will go after" other targets in Iran after the US strikes.
Trump said in a nationally televised speech at the White House: "Tonight I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success.
"Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated."
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But the president also said that if Iran didn't cut a peace deal now it would continue to face American military power.
He said: 'Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks will be far greater and a lot easier."
"There will be either peace or there will be tragedy for Iran far greater than we have witnessed over the last eight days."
'Remember there are many targets left. Tonight's was the most difficult of them all, by far, and perhaps the most lethal.
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'But if peace does not come quickly we will go after those other targets with precision, speed and skill.
'Most of them can be taken out in a matter of minutes. There's no military in the world that could have done what we did tonight."
America has now directly joined Israel's campaign of bombing Iran as they both seek to obliterate Tehran's nuclear program.
A response from Iran, or from the Ayatollah in hiding, has not yet come.
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Ali Khamenei is believed to be cowering away in the secret lair as Israeli missile attacks rain down nearby.
Two informed sources inside the country told Iran International the country's
ageing
dictator is
holed up in the bunker
in Lavizan, a neighbourhood in Tehran.
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Posting on Truth Social, President Donald Trump said
He said a full payload of BOMBS was dropped on the primary site, Fordow.
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