“My days and nights are the same. I feel paralysed. I just stare at the ceiling all day and all night.” “I keep wondering what will happen next, and we are constantly caught by surprise.” Shahla – whose name we have changed for her protection – is among the Iranians who have contacted BBC Persian...
Seven men have been charged with grievous bodily harm after two people were allegedly assaulted outside the Iranian embassy during a protest. Officers had responded to reports of an altercation in Princes Gate in Knightsbridge, west London, shortly after 09:50 BST on Friday, the Metropolitan Police said. The officers intervened and additional police were deployed...
PA Media Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has called on Iran to “return to the negotiating table” after the US became involved in the Israeli operation against the country on Saturday night. Sir Keir said “stability in the region is a priority” and described Iran’s nuclear programme as “a grave threat to international security”. “Iran...
Donald Trump has said Iran “must now make peace” or face future attacks, after the US struck struck three Iranian nuclear facilities. The US president said the strikes were a “spectacular military success” in a televised address to nation on Saturday. Earlier, Iran’s foreign minister had warned that US involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict would...
After the unprovoked attack, Trump demanded that Iran effectively surrender while continuing to threaten the country. Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. President Donald Trump announced on Saturday that the U.S. military struck...
Having rendered Iran’s main nuclear-weapons development sites useless — we hope — Donald Trump will shortly address the nation on live TV, scheduled for 10 pm ET. If you have not followed Beege’s excellent thread tonight, be sure to catch up now. Trump decided to eschew a narrow objective of just the Fordow site, which...
“Two weeks” turned out to be two days. On Thursday Donald Trump gave the Iranians a deadline if they wanted to avoid a US strike on their nuclear facilities, but that deadline turned out to be much shorter than expected. Two days later, the US president announced on Saturday evening that US warplanes had bombed...
Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. As Israel warned of a “prolonged campaign” against Iran and launched a new round of airstrikes on a nuclear facility and missile sites Saturday, a number of...
Sofia Ferreira Santos BBC News Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images The director of national intelligence had previously said Iran was not building nuclear weapons Tulsi Gabbard says Iran could produce nuclear weapons “within weeks”, months after she testified before Congress that the country was not building them. The US Director of National Intelligence said...
EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi (centre) met European diplomats in Geneva on Friday Iran has said it will not resume talks over its nuclear programme while under attack, hours after Israel’s defence minister warned of “prolonged” conflict against the Islamic republic. Exchanges of violence continued on Friday, as Iran fired another salvo of missiles...
A relatively new talking point has been floated that there is no evidence independent from Israel’s intelligence that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons. In the most narrow of senses, one could argue that this is true. After all, none of us is a mind-reader, and it is conceivable that the Iranian regime just loves the...
Part of the Series Human Rights and Global Wrongs Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. As Donald Trump threatens to further enmesh the U.S. in Israel’s war against Iran with direct strikes, legal...
One expert has warned that attacks on nuclear facilities “should never take place” because of the radioactive fallout. Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! The Pentagon has reportedly assessed that the only weapon that could destroy a nuclear facility in Iran deemed by war hawks to be...
Trump offers to talk. Iran says “No.” If this were high-stakes poker, you would say that Iran is calling Trump’s bluff, believing that he doesn’t want to intervene in the war directly, and also believing that Israel is incapable of taking out Iran’s key nuclear site buried deeply under a mountain. Khamenei is gambling that...
We speak to Trump’s former representative to Iran Read full article at source...