Missiles fired from Iran in retaliation for Israeli assaults are seen within the sky over the Hebron, West Financial institution on June 21, 2025.
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Iran’s Overseas Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday stated Tehran reserves all choices to defend its sovereignty and folks after the “outrageous” U.S. assaults on three main nuclear enrichment amenities within the Center Jap nation.
Iran additionally launched its twentieth wave of missile and drone strikes in opposition to Israeli army targets, in line with Iran state-owned media Fars. The Israel Protection Forces on Sunday reported sirens blaring on account of additional Iranian offensives and added it had begun its personal missile offensives in western Iran.
The 2 regional foes have been exchanging assaults since Israel’s shock assault on Iran final week.
Tehran’s response comes after the U.S. carried out a direct army assault on Iran for the primary time, a transfer that has dramatically ratcheted up geopolitical tensions within the already unstable area.
Araghchi stated on social media that the U.S. assaults concentrating on the Fordo, Natanz and Isfahan nuclear websites would have “eternal penalties,” including that “each member of the United Nations have to be alarmed over this extraordinarily harmful, lawless and prison conduct.”
“In accordance with the UN Constitution and its provisions permitting a authentic response in self-defense, Iran reserves all choices to defend its sovereignty, curiosity, and folks,” Araghchi stated on X.
Addressing the nation on Saturday night, U.S. President Donald Trump stated strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear websites had been a “spectacular army success” that “utterly obliterated” the nation’s key enrichment amenities.
The U.S. president’s declare about the results of the operation couldn’t be independently confirmed. The Worldwide Atomic Power Company and Iran’s nuclear security middle had reported no radiation or contamination on the nuclear facilities following the assaults, as of Sunday morning London time.
Protesters in help of Iran and Palestinians in Gaza maintain flags and placards throughout an illustration in opposition to the actions of Israel and the US in Sydney on June 22, 2025.
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“There will likely be both peace, or there will likely be tragedy for Iran far higher than we’ve witnessed during the last eight days. Keep in mind, there are lots of targets left,” Trump stated.
Israel welcomed Trump’s intervention within the battle. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated Trump’s “daring choice will change historical past.”
Elsewhere within the Center East, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman and Qatar’s respective governments all expressed deep concern in response to the U.S. incursion on Iran’s nuclear amenities.
Lebanon, in the meantime, known as “for restraint and the launch of constructive and critical negotiations to revive stability to the international locations of the area,” in line with a Google-translated publish from the presidency.
United Nations Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres stated he was “gravely involved” by the U.S. use of pressure in opposition to Iran, warning that “there’s a rising danger that this battle might quickly get uncontrolled.”
