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News18
6 hours ago
- Politics
- News18
Irans UN ambassador says 78 people killed, over 320 injured in Israeli attacks
Dubai, Jun 13 (AP) Iran's UN ambassador said on Friday that 78 people have been killed and over 320 injured in Israeli attacks. Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council that Israel's 'barbaric and criminal attack" and assassinations were against senior military officials and nuclear scientists. But he said 'the overwhelming majority" of victims were civilians, women and children. He said Israel again on Friday is conducting 'acts of aggression" targeting multiple civilian and military sites across several Iranian cities. Israel launched blistering attacks on the heart of Iran's nuclear and military structure on Friday, deploying warplanes and drones previously smuggled into the country to assault key facilities and kill top generals and scientists — a barrage it said was necessary before its adversary got any closer to building an atomic weapon. Iran retaliated late on Friday by unleashing scores of ballistic missiles on Israel, where explosions flared in the skies over Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and shook the buildings below. 'We will not allow them to escape safely from this great crime they committed," Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a recorded message in which he vowed revenge. An Associated Press reporter saw smoke rising in Tel Aviv after an apparent missile strike. A Tel Aviv-area hospital said it was treating 15 injured civilians. US ground-based air-defence systems in the region were helping to shoot down Iranian missiles, said a US official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the measures. Israel's ongoing airstrikes and intelligence operation and Iran's retaliation raised concerns about an all-out war between the countries and propelled the region, already on edge, into even greater upheaval. (AP) RC First Published: June 14, 2025, 03:00 IST
Mint
2 days ago
- Business
- Mint
Iran Warns of Retaliation to UN Watchdog's Nuclear Censure
(Bloomberg) -- Iran warned it will retaliate following a decision by the United Nations atomic watchdog to censure the Islamic Republic over its nuclear program, deepening a crisis that's also drawn in the US and Israel. The International Atomic Energy Agency's board of governors approved a resolution in Vienna on Thursday that deemed Iran in non-compliance of its international obligations, setting up a potential referral to the UN Security Council for a renewal of sanctions. Iran will 'consider appropriate responses, including initiating the process of withdrawing from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,' Iran's ambassador to UN, Saeid Iravani, said ahead of the vote, according to the state-run IRNA news agency. The breakdown in nuclear diplomacy comes alongside a corresponding rise in regional tensions. The US ordered some staff to depart its embassy in Baghdad and authorized families of military service members to leave the region, officials said, while US President Donald Trump said he's growing less confident about the prospects for a successful deal to impose new limits on Iran's nuclear program. Iran warned it could hit US military assets in the Middle East if the talks collapse and the Islamic Republic is attacked. Oil prices rose the most since October on the mounting tensions, before paring gains on Thursday. Negotiations between Iran and the Trump administration have stalled over whether or not Tehran's engineers will retain their right to enrich uranium. The US and Israel have publicly insisted Iran can't possess that key technology — critical for producing the fuel needed for nuclear reactors and bombs. 'A comprehensive deal is likely contingent on the US allowing Iran to retain some domestic enrichment capacity,' analysts at the Eurasia Group wrote in a note this week. Iran has previously offered to end its ramp up of highly-enriched uranium in exchange for sanctions relief, after producing a record volume over the last quarter. That material could quickly be turned into the fuel for the equivalent of 10 bombs, should Iran's leadership take the political decision pursue weapons. The IAEA's vote was highly divided, with 19 in favor — led by the US and European nations — and three against, including China and Russia. There were 11 abstentions. Russian diplomats, who have been asked by the Trump administration to facilitate a diplomatic solution with Iran, cautioned that passing the IAEA vote of censure carries significant risks. 'The adoption of the presented resolution will significantly reduce the chances' of a diplomatic resolution, wrote Moscow's IAEA envoy Mikhail Ulyanov in a statement. Instead, 'such an escalation will have the most negative consequences both for the IAEA and for the entire non-proliferation regime.' More stories like this are available on
