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Maxar Technologies/Handout via Reuters Satellite imagery showed a large whole in the Arak reactor building’s domed roof Israeli jets have bombed a nuclear reactor under construction in central Iran during a wave of air strikes on the seventh day of the conflict between the two countries. The Israeli military said it targeted the Arak heavy...
Lucy Williamson Middle East correspondent Reporting fromReporting from Beersheba AFP The Soroka hospital in Beersheba was hit by an Iranian strike on Thursday, although Iran denies targeting it Black smoke was still billowing from the middle of the Soroka Medical Center when we arrived, several hours after Iran’s attack on the building. Pieces of twisted...
There’s no question that Washington’s longstanding military and economic support made Israel’s illegal war possible. Did you know that Truthout is a nonprofit and independently funded by readers like you? If you value what we do, please support our work with a donation. Israel’s attack on Iran opens a huge danger of escalation in the...
Donald Trump has approved plans to attack Iran, but has not made a final decision on whether to strike the country, the BBC’s US partner CBS reports. The US president held off on initiating strikes in case Iran agreed to abandon its nuclear programme, a senior intelligence source told CBS. Trump is reportedly considering a...
Yesterday I wrote about an effort by Rep. Thomas Massie, a Republican from Kentucky, to pressure President Trump to seek authorization from congress before deciding on any strike against Iran. Rep. Massie’s effort was immediately joined by a group of Democrats including most of the Squad (AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Summer Lee, Ilhan Omar and Greg...
Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has long warned that Iran is close to developing nuclear weapons. After Israel launched attacks on Iran last week, Netanyahu said Iran could produce a bomb within months. BBC Verify’s Ros Atkins explains what we know about Iran’s nuclear programme. Produced by Aisha Sembhi. Additional reporting by Thomas Spencer and...
“We did not have any proof of a systematic effort to move into a nuclear weapon,” IAEA’s Rafael Grossi said. Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. The head of the leading intergovernmental watchdog for nuclear energy and atomic weapons has confirmed that the agency...
Maybe you’ve already seen this clip circulating on X last night or today. Ted Cruz on Iran. Full interview tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/hJNwAHAnxZ — Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 18, 2025 Pulling 90 seconds from a 2 hour conversation seems like a cheap shot but I was struck how similar this seemed to a moment in another debate...
I just thought I’d take a quick post to run down what we’ve heard as far as assets either in or headed towards the Middle East as there seems to be a fair amount of spazzing going on about the potential building for US involvement. By which I mean, a fingers-on-triggers, boots-on-the-ground sort of thing....
The US president says his patience is “wearing thin” with Iran Read full article at source...
“He wasn’t a politician, he was just a teenager, working hard to support our family back home,” Abdul Ghani tells us of his eldest son Abdul Wali, 18, killed in an Israeli strike in Iran. His father, says that Abdul was working and living in a construction site in north-east Tehran near a military building,...
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei has responded to President Donald Trump’s call for Iran’s surrender with a threat. Earlier this morning, he broadcast a televised address, and his X account posted a series of tweets directly targeting the United States, warning that if Trump becomes directly involved, there will be severe consequences. The US President...
Bernd Debusmann & Max Matza BBC News Getty Images The dilemma of whether the US should join Israel in attacking Iran, or stay out of the offensive altogether, has exposed divisions among US President Donald Trump’s supporters. The Republican president reportedly is considering helping target the Islamic Republic’s nuclear facilities, following a meeting with his...
NBC News is calling it an “emerging coalition” and I guess there’s some truth to that. This is just what Tucker Carlson and MTG have been saying turned into a more direct effort to keep the US out of Iran. A group of lawmakers spanning a broad ideological spectrum is raising alarms about the possibility...