Israel-Iran live: Trump says Iran 'wants to talk' as Israel strikes TV station on air
In pictures: Satellite image shows damage to Iran's nuclear and missile sites
A number of new satellite images reveal damage to Iranian nuclear and missile sites.
Smoke can be seen rising, or blackened marks across the facilities.
We've reported throughout the day on Israel's decision to target Iran's nuclear capabilities - fearing Tehran wielding a nuclear bomb.
Meanwhile, Iran has warned it is preparing to withdraw from a key nuclear non-proliferation treaty - see our 10.15 post.
The map below shows where many of Iran's nuclear and missile sites were hit, along with other targets.
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Sky News
27 minutes ago
- Sky News
Israel-Iran live: Iran vows to attack Israel 'continuously until morning'; Netanyahu won't rule out assassinating supreme leader
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"As I've been saying, I think a deal will be signed, or something will happen, but a deal will be signed, and I think Iran is foolish not to sign." Rescue workers killed by Israeli strike on Tehran, Red Crescent says Two rescue workers were killed by an Israeli attack in Tehran, the Iranian Red Crescent says. The humanitarian organisation posted pictures of a charred vehicle they said was an ambulance that took a direct hit in the capital city. "The attack took place while the rescue forces were carrying out their humanitarian duty and were not engaged in any military activity," the group said. Sky News cannot independently verify these reports. Attacks on Iran starting to resemble Gaza and Lebanon, says expert Attacks on Iran are starting to resemble Israeli attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, says a senior lecturer in modern Middle Eastern history at the University of St Andrews. Israel has moved from attacking nuclear and military installations in less densely populated areas to striking targets in the middle of residential areas, says Dr Siavush Randjbar-Daemi. The IDF told approximately 300,000 people to evacuate Tehran before attacking state TV studios this afternoon. "Clearly, as targets next to residential areas in broad daylight and during business hours are being struck, there's going to be victims," Randjbar-Daemi tells lead world news presenter Yalda Hakim. The city has no air raid shelters, he adds. "Israeli methods, which have started to look really like Gaza and Beirut, will continue to produce civilian casualties moving forward." He continues: "Many people are realising this is certainly not the way to bring about political change in Iran." Iran to attack 'continuously until morning' More now on reports of a combined Iranian drone and missile attack on Israel. Iranian state news outlets cite the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as saying Iran will attack Israel throughout the night. "Moments ago, the ninth wave of the combined drone and missile attack began and will continue continuously until the morning," the IRGC's General Naeini has said, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency. Watch: Is de-escalation possible? As Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer calls for de-escalation, political editor Beth Rigby was at the G7 summit in Canada to ask how that would be possible... Iran says it has launched missile and drone attack Iran has launched a combined drone and missile attack on Tel Aviv and Haifa, according to Iranian state TV. Coming up: Watch special programme on Israel-Iran conflict Lead world news presenter Yalda Hakim will be hosting a special edition of The World focusing on the Israel-Iran conflict. You can watch live from 9pm at the top of the page. Iran accuses Netanyahu of launching attacks to sabotage US-Iran nuclear deal Iran's foreign minister has accused Benjamin Netanyahu of ordering the attacks on Iran to sabotage a nuclear deal between Iran and the US. Seyed Abbas Araghchi said Iran and the US were on "the right path" to achieve such a deal before the strikes. He called on Donald Trump to stop Israel's attacks. "It takes one phone call from Washington to muzzle someone like Netanyahu," said Araghchi. "He is playing yet another American president, and ever more American taxpayers, for absolute fools." Lammy tells Israel to 'step back' ahead of call with Iranian foreign minister Foreign Secretary David Lammy has called on Israel to "show restraint" and warned military action will not end Iran's nuclear capabilities. He said he will speak with the Iranian foreign minister alongside their counterparts from France and Germany this evening. The three countries are party to the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran and last week put forward a resolution declaring Iran in breach of its non-proliferation obligations. Lammy told MPs in the Commons that diplomacy was the way forward. "Fundamentally, no military action can put an end to Iran's capabilities." With Iran being a main oil producer and a vast amount of the world's trade flowing through the Strait of Hormuz, an "escalating conflict poses real risk for the global economy". To that end, the government's message to Israel and Iran is: "Step back, show restraint, don't get pulled ever deeper into a catastrophic conflict whose consequences nobody can control."
The Independent
35 minutes ago
- The Independent
Fears Trump will veto G7 joint statement on Russia sanctions and Israel
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Telegraph
38 minutes ago
- Telegraph
The Netanyahu I met is not wrong about everything
He would speak softly, never interrupting or hectoring, and sometimes I would strain to hear him in the cavernous expanse of the Foreign Secretary's office. Yet I never saw a leader with a more sure-footed ability to control a meeting than Benjamin Netanyahu. He would let his interlocutor do most of the talking while skilfully guiding the conversation, shutting down unwelcome subjects with an archly raised (dyed) eyebrow or sardonic aside, before returning to his abiding theme that the nuclear-tipped ambitions of Iran's messianic rulers posed the greatest threat to peace. In nearly eight years at the Foreign Office and Downing Street, I witnessed plenty of encounters with Israel's supremely assured prime minister. Now Mr Netanyahu's struggle against Iran is reaching its climax as he strives to reshape the Middle East by wielding more power more effectively than any other leader in the region. However this crisis ends, it will change the world. So how should our representatives react to Mr Netanyahu? The easy option would be to recoil with fastidious disdain and mouth the empty platitudes that David Lammy, the Foreign Secretary, has made his own ('we are urging restraint and de-escalation'). Or they could do something difficult and counter-cultural. They could try to understand how Mr Netanyahu thinks and what he wants. They might even be humble enough to admit that they have something to learn. When I watched Mr Netanyahu in action, what I found most striking was that, for better or worse, he has a coherent and comprehensive analysis of the geopolitics of the Middle East and the wider world. As the longest-serving prime minister in his country's history – and now the most historically consequential – he is completely different from leaders and foreign ministers who rely on their briefings and say whatever they have been programmed to say without any great thought or conviction. Over the years, I would listen to him describe how the rise of Iran as a nuclear threshold state and its sponsorship of terrorist movements across the Middle East – from Lebanon to Gaza and Yemen – was transforming the strategic balance of the region. He would emphasise how this threatened the Sunni monarchies of the Gulf at least as much as Israel. As long ago as 2017, I remember him describing how Arab leaders increasingly saw Israel as a vital counterweight to their real enemy, Iran's revolutionary Shia leaders. At the time, I suspected this was fanciful. After all, that venerable American diplomat, John Kerry, had roundly dismissed the notion that any more Arab states would make peace with Israel without settling the Palestinian conflict first. As US secretary of state in 2016, Mr Kerry declared: 'There will be no separate peace between Israel and the Arab world,' adding: 'Everybody needs to understand that.' So what happened? In 2020 four Arab countries made a separate peace with Israel, including the Gulf monarchies of Bahrain and the UAE, vindicating Mr Netanyahu and proving Mr Kerry hopelessly wrong. As I look back, I can remember other examples of Mr Netanyahu's prescience. In 2018 we asked him about Bashar al-Assad at a time when conventional wisdom held that Syria's blood-soaked dictator was secure in power, having effectively won the civil war. Mr Netanyahu begged to differ. He pointed out that Assad was utterly dependent on Russia and Iran. If they ever withdrew their support, the tyrant would inevitably fall. Sure enough, five years later they abandoned Assad to a life of obscure exile in Moscow. That sequence of events was triggered by Mr Netanyahu himself when he eviscerated Hezbollah, whose fighters had been instrumental in propping up Assad, during Israel's offensive in Lebanon last year. The Syrian despot, shorn of any independent power, had been living on borrowed time – and power is all that matters. Running through everything that Mr Netanyahu would say was his visceral belief that power is the currency of international relations and all else is wishful thinking and delusion. International rules and institutions count for nothing unless they are backed with power and, in the last resort, a willingness to use force. Today British diplomats and politicians are re-learning these eternal lessons thanks to Vladimir Putin. But they are learning the hard way having spent the past three decades pretending that diplomacy and hard power can be separated, and spending ever greater sums on international development can somehow compensate for dismantling the Armed Forces. We are now having to correct these errors at greater cost and risk than would otherwise have been necessary. If we had paid more attention to the view of the world expounded by Mr Netanyahu, these mistakes would never have been made. And of course, the more I listened the more I saw the gaping holes in his analysis. I was astonished by how his strategic clarity on Iran was matched by near total blindness on the Palestinians. Mr Netanyahu has no discernible plan for resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict. He is against the two-state solution and against the one-state solution. He is against any solution, except perhaps walling up the Palestinians in various overcrowded enclaves, where they would have municipal powers over street-cleaning and rubbish disposal and not much else. On this vital subject he is just as vacuous in private as he is in public. Mr Netanyahu was also wrong to oppose the Iran nuclear agreement of 2015, which limited the Islamic Republic to 5,000 enriching centrifuges, all of them obsolete, and just 300kg of uranium, all of it a long way from weapons grade. By wrecking that agreement, Donald Trump and Mr Netanyahu broke the constraints on Iran's nuclear programme and today their enemy has around 20,000 centrifuges and more than eight tons of enriched uranium, much of it a hair's breadth from weapons grade. Nor can anything any longer justify Mr Netanyahu's Carthaginian campaign in Gaza, where he seems determined to create a wasteland and call it peace, even after being indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court. But listing where he is wrong is easy. In one crucial respect, he is right. He instinctively understands the cold reality that hard power is the basis of diplomacy and a willingness to use force is the only way for any country to deter its adversaries. Our diplomats and politicians should admit that we would be in a far stronger position if we had never lost sight of these verities. Mr Netanyahu, for all his faults, never did and never would.
