Jordan reopens airspace on Saturday, aviation commission says
Jordan reopened its airspace at 7:30 a.m. (0530 GMT), the civil aviation commission said, a day after it suspended flights amid Iran–Israel tensions.
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Israel Says Campaign on Iran to Intensify as Tehran Pledges 'Destructive' Attacks
Israel pounded Iran for a second day on Saturday and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said its campaign would intensify, while Tehran stated that "heavy and destructive" attacks by Iran against Israel were expected within the coming hours. Netanyahu said Israel's strikes had set back Iran's nuclear program possibly by years and rejected international calls for restraint. "We will hit every site and every target of the Ayatollahs' regime, and what they have felt so far is nothing compared with what they will be handed in the coming days," he said in a video message. In Tehran, Iranian authorities said around 60 people, including 29 children, were killed in an attack on a housing complex, with more strikes reported across the country. Israel said it had attacked more than 150 targets. Iran had launched its own retaliatory missile volley on Friday night, killing at least three people in Israel. Air raid sirens sent Israelis into shelters as waves of missiles streaked across the sky and interceptors rose to meet them. In the first apparent attack to hit Iran's energy infrastructure, Iranian media reported a fire on Saturday after Israel bombed the South Pars gas field in southern Bushehr province. The semi-official Tasnim news agency said some gas production there was suspended following the attack. "If (Supreme Leader Ali) Khamenei continues to fire missiles at the Israeli home front, Tehran will burn," Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said. Iran said 78 people were killed on the first day and scores more on the second, including 60 when a missile brought down a 14-storey apartment block in Tehran, where 29 of the dead were children. A military official on Saturday said Israel had caused significant damage to Iran's nuclear facilities at Natanz and Isfahan, but had not so far taken on another uranium enrichment site, Fordow, dug into a mountain. The official said Israel had "eliminated the highest commanders of their military leadership" and had killed nine nuclear scientists who were "main sources of knowledge, main forces driving forward the (nuclear) program.'
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Israel Kills 3 More Iranian Nuclear Scientists, Raising Total to 9
Israel has killed three more Iranian nuclear scientists, raising the total number of scientists slain to nine, according to Gulf News. Eliminating Nuclear Scientists The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) wrote on its X account, 'ELIMINATED: 9 senior scientists and experts responsible for advancing the Iranian regime's nuclear weapons program.' In a video accompanied by the message, the IDF shared the names of dead scientists, as follows: Mansour Asgari Saeed Barji Mohammad Mahdi Tehranshi Fereydoun Abbasi Akbar Motalebi Zadeh Ali Bakhouei Katirimi Ahmad Reza Zolfaghari Daryani Abd al-Hamid Minoushehr Amir Hassan Fakhahi 'All of the eliminated scientists and experts, eliminated based on intelligence, were key factors in the development of Iranian nuclear weapons,' the IDF said. Importantly, Israel stated that eliminating Iranian scientists and experts represents a major setback to Iranian regime that was trying to acquire nuclear weapons. 'Their elimination is a significant blow to the regime's ability to acquire weapons of mass destruction,' the IDF added. Operation Rising Lion On June 13, Israel launched a wave of airstrikes on Iran under the name of Operation Rising Lion. The military campaign targeted Iran's nuclear facilities and killed top military commanders and nuclear scientists. As a response, Iran launched a retaliatory wave of missiles against Israel and targeted Tel Aviv. Related Topics: Iran Halts 'Meaningless' Nuclear Talks with US After Israeli Strikes Iran-Israel Escalation: Tehran Retaliates with Missile Waves US Denies Involvement in Israeli Strikes on Iran Short link : Post Views: 7 Related Stories
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Kremlin: Putin and Trump Discussed Middle East Tensions, Ukraine Talks
Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump held a 50-minute phone call Saturday to discuss the escalating situation in the Middle East and Ukraine peace talks, Putin foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said. During the conversation, Putin briefed Trump on his recent talks with the leaders of Iran and Israel and reiterated Russia's proposal to seek mutually acceptable solutions on the Iranian nuclear issue. 'The dangerous escalation of the situation in the Middle East was naturally at the center of the exchange of opinions,' Ushakov told journalists following the conversation between Putin and Trump. 'Vladimir Putin, having condemned the military operation against Iran, expressed serious concern about the possible escalation of the conflict,' he said, warning of 'unpredictable consequences for the entire situation in the Middle East.' Putin also emphasized Russia's readiness to carry out possible mediation efforts, and noted that Russia had proposed steps 'aimed at finding mutually acceptable agreements' during US-Iran negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program. 'Russia's principled approach and interest in the settlement remain unchanged,' Ushakov said. Trump described the regional situation as 'very alarming,' Ushakov said, but acknowledged the 'effectiveness' of Israel's strikes on targets in Iran. The leaders did not rule out a possible return to negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program, according to Ushakov. According to Ushakov, Putin told Trump about the implementation of the agreements during peace talks in Istanbul between Russian and Ukrainian delegations, including the exchange of prisoners of war. 'Our president noted that an exchange of prisoners of war is taking place, including seriously wounded and prisoners of war under 25 years of age,' Ushakov said, along with expressing readiness to continue negotiations with the Ukrainians. Trump, he said, 'noted his interest in a speedy end to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.' Putin also congratulated Trump on his 79th birthday.
