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The U.S. and Israel launched a large onslaught connected Iran connected Saturday, and U.S. President Donald Trump called connected the Iranian nationalist to “seize power of your destiny” by rising up against the Islamic enactment that has ruled the federation since 1979.
Iran retaliated by launching missiles and drones toward Israel and U.S. subject bases successful the region.
Some of the archetypal strikes connected Iran appeared to deed areas astir the offices of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Smoke could beryllium seen rising from the superior arsenic portion of strikes that Iranian media said occurred nationwide. It wasn’t instantly wide whether the 86-year-old person was successful his offices erstwhile the onslaught occurred.
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Iran calls for ‘immediate action’ from UN
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has written to the U.N. Security Council calling for the 15-member assemblage to “take contiguous enactment successful effect to this breach of planetary bid and security.”
The council, which is presently nether the presidency of the United Kingdom until midnight Saturday, is expected to clasp an exigency gathering connected Saturday.
Araghchi reiterated that Iran volition proceed to retaliate by each means indispensable and that “all bases, facilities, and assets of the hostile forces successful the portion shall beryllium regarded arsenic morganatic subject objectives.”
EU to clasp exigency information gathering connected Monday
The European Union volition clasp an exigency information gathering connected Monday implicit the struggle successful the Middle East, said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
“For determination information and stability, it is of the utmost value that determination is nary further escalation done Iran’s unjustified attacks connected partners successful the region,” she said connected a Saturday successful a societal media post.
Egyptian person speaks with Saudi crown prince
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has spoken by telephone with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.
El-Sissi expressed solidarity with Saudi Arabia, and stressed the value of intensifying efforts to “contain the escalation” successful the region.
“Continued subject escalation volition lone bring much suffering to the radical of the portion and undermine improvement opportunities,” el-Sissi said.
Leading Democrat denounces US strikes connected Iran
U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia has questioned whether President Donald Trump has learned thing “from decades of U.S. meddling successful Iran and everlastingly wars successful the Middle East.”
“For months, I person raised hellhole astir the information that the American radical privation little prices, not much warfare — particularly wars that aren’t authorized by Congress, arsenic required by the Constitution, and don’t person a wide objective,” Kaine said successful a statement.
“These strikes are a colossal mistake, and I commune they bash not outgo our sons and daughters successful azygous and astatine embassies passim the portion their lives,” helium said.
He called for the U.S. Senate to “immediately return” to the Capitol and ballot connected whether to authorize oregon bounds strikes connected Iran.
UN Security Council to clasp exigency meeting
The U.N. Security Council has scheduled an exigency gathering connected the U.S. and Israeli attacks connected Iran.
Israel’s U.N. Mission says the gathering volition instrumentality spot astatine 4 p.m. EST (2100 GMT) astatine the petition of Bahrain and France.
Israel’s U.N. ambassador Danny Danon said Israel “is strong, agreed and determined to support its citizens against immoderate existential threat.” Danon besides said that “Israel volition ne'er let an Iranian atomic state.”
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has condemned the strikes connected Iran and the Islamic Republic’s retaliation.
“The usage of unit by the United States and Israel against Iran, and the consequent retaliation by Iran crossed the region, undermine planetary bid and security,” Guterres said successful a statement. He besides called for an contiguous ceasefire and for each parties to instrumentality to the negotiating table.
Iran's ultimate person and its president are live — curate says
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi tells NBC News that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Masoud Pezeshkian are live “as acold arsenic I know.”
Egypt consults with respective countries
Egypt’s apical diplomat has discussed the subject escalation successful the Middle East with his counterparts successful respective determination and European countries, including Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Germany and France.
Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty warned that the escalation successful Iran volition person “dire repercussions” connected Mideast information and stability. In a statement, helium called for prioritizing governmental and diplomatic solutions to avert a “comprehensive confrontation” successful the region.
US Congress was notified earlier strike, root says
Congress was notified earlier the strikes connected Iran, arsenic required by law.
The notifications mentioned ballistic missiles, but didn’t bespeak that the strikes would beryllium truthful expansive oregon the goals truthful broad, according to a idiosyncratic acquainted with the notifications who requested anonymity to sermon them.
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio reached retired personally to immoderate apical lawmakers.
Saudi Arabia says it repelled onslaught by Iran
Saudi Arabia said Iran targeted its superior and its eastbound portion successful an attack.
The authorities reported the onslaught successful an announcement connected its state-run Saudi Press Agency. It called the onslaught “blatant and cowardly” and said it was repelled.
Saudi Arabia and Iran are longstanding rivals, but the state reached a Chinese-mediated detente with Iran successful 2023.
US is entering ‘war of choice,’ lawmaker says
One of the elder U.S. lawmakers precocious briefed by Trump medication officials connected Iran says that the United States is entering a “war of choice.”
“Everything I person heard from the medication earlier and aft these strikes connected Iran confirms this is simply a warfare of prime with nary strategical endgame,” said Rep. Jim Himes, the apical Democrat connected the House Intelligence Committee.
He besides expressed his concerns to U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio straight that subject enactment successful the portion “almost ne'er ends good for the United States.”
“It does not look that Donald Trump has learned the lessons of history,” Himes said.
China calls for halt to subject actions
China’s authorities said it is “highly concerned” astir the U.S. and Israeli strikes connected Iran and called for an contiguous halt to the subject actions and a instrumentality to negotiations.
“Iran’s sovereignty, information and territorial integrity should beryllium respected,” a Chinese Foreign Ministry connection said.
Ukraine's president supports US-led strikes
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy voiced enactment for US-led strikes connected Iran, calling the state “an accomplice of Putin” for supplying Shahed drones and the exertion for Moscow to nutrient them and different weapons successful its four-year warfare against Ukraine.
“Over the people of this full-scale war, Russia has utilized much than 57,000 Shahed-type onslaught drones against the Ukrainian people, cities, and vigor infrastructure. Other nations person besides suffered from Iranian-backed terror. Therefore, it is just to springiness the Iranian radical a accidental to escaped themselves of a violent authorities and to warrant information for each nations that person suffered from panic originating successful Iran,” Zelenskyy said successful a station connected X.
The Ukrainian person said the accent present should beryllium to prevention arsenic galore lives arsenic imaginable and forestall immoderate enlargement of the war.
“It is important that the United States is acting decisively. Whenever determination is American resolve, planetary criminals weaken. This knowing indispensable besides travel to the Russians,” Zelenskyy said.
Omani mediator successful caller talks urges US to not 'get sucked successful further’
Oman’s apical diplomat has urged the U.S. “not to get sucked successful further” to a struggle with Iran. Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi posted his comments connected X hours aft Israel and the U.S. launched associated strikes connected Iran.
“I impulse the United States not to get sucked successful further. This is not your war,” helium wrote.
Albusaidi was the cardinal mediator successful talks implicit Iran’s atomic programme seeking to debar a U.S. attack. He said successful an interrogation with CBS News that negotiations implicit a woody had made “substantial progress” successful the past circular talks successful Geneva.
Iranian authorities marque a road one-way to assistance radical leaving Tehran
Iran’s authorities quality bureau IRNA has reported that authorities turned a large road connecting Iran’s superior with the country’s northbound into a one-way way to accommodate postulation leaving Tehran.
The bureau reported dense postulation heading northbound retired of the capital.
Iran’s apical nationalist information assemblage had earlier told residents they should see leaving Tehran for their safety.
Canada’s person supports US action
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney says helium supports the United States acting to forestall Iran from obtaining a atomic limb and to forestall its authorities from further threatening planetary bid and security.
He says Canada is wide successful its presumption that “the Islamic Republic of Iran is the main root of instability and panic passim the Middle East.” Carney is besides urging Canadians successful Iran to structure successful place.
Flights are disrupted crossed the Middle East and beyond
The U.S. and Israel’s onslaught connected Iran is disrupting flights crossed the Middle East and beyond. Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar closed their airspace connected Saturday. Airspace successful confederate Syria was besides closed.
Some planes that were en way to cities similar Tel Aviv and Dubai were diverted oregon returned to wherever they took disconnected from.
The concern is changing rapidly and airlines urged passengers to cheque their formation presumption online earlier heading to the airport. Many large airlines are canceling flights to and from parts of the portion done Sunday oregon aboriginal adjacent week.
Dubai’s airdrome relation said flights person been halted indefinitely astatine Dubai International Airport, the world’s busiest airdrome for planetary flights, and the Dubai World Central — Al Maktoum International Airport connected the Gulf city’s outskirts.
Targets of the Israeli strikes included members of Iran’s leadership
Two radical acquainted with the operation, including a U.S. authoritative and a idiosyncratic briefed connected the attacks, said the targets of the Israeli strikes included members of Iran’s leadership. There was nary connection connected whether the attacks had been successful. They spoke connected information of anonymity due to the fact that they were discussing classified accusation connected an ongoing operation.
Both Israel and the U.S. are striking subject targets successful Iran.
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By Sam Mednick
Russia condemns the US and Israeli strikes connected Iran
Russia’s Foreign Ministry connected Saturday condemned the U.S.-Israeli strikes connected Iran arsenic “a preplanned and unprovoked enactment of equipped aggression against a sovereign and autarkic U.N. subordinate state.”
It demanded an contiguous halt to the subject run and a instrumentality to diplomacy.
In a connection posted to Telegram, the ministry accused Washington and Tel Aviv of “hiding behind” concerns astir Iran’s atomic programme portion really pursuing authorities change.
It warned the attacks risked triggering a “humanitarian, economical and perchance radiological catastrophe” successful the portion and accused the U.S. and Israel of “plunging the Middle East into an abyss of uncontrolled escalation.”
British premier curate holds exigency meeting
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer chaired a gathering of the government’s exigency committee connected Saturday greeting and planned to clasp calls with allies successful the coming hours.
“We bash not privation to spot further escalation into a wider determination conflict,” a U.K. authorities spokesperson said, reiterating Britain’s enactment for a negotiated solution to Iran’s atomic ambitions.
Britain was not progressive successful the U.S.-Israeli strikes.
The U.K.’s Foreign Office besides updated its question proposal to pass against each question to Israel and Palestine, and urged British nationals successful different Middle Eastern countries to “immediately structure successful place.”
Iranians banal up connected supplies
In bluish Tehran, supermarkets are seeing a surge of customers seeking breadstuff and bottled water. However, proviso has been limited, and immoderate of the items astir successful request — including bread, eggs, bottled h2o and beverage — are presently unavailable successful definite stores.
Long queues person besides been observed astatine state stations crossed the city.
State tv showed footage from 1 of Tehran’s highways, Soleimani highway, wherever highly dense postulation was disposable connected west-to-east routes.
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By Amir Vahdat successful Tehran.
Pakistan condemns attacks connected Iran
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar connected Saturday condemned what helium described arsenic “unwarranted attacks” connected Iran during a telephone telephone with his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi, Pakistan's Foreign Ministry said successful a statement.
It said Dar called for” an contiguous halt to escalation done urgent resumption of diplomacy to execute a peaceful, negotiated solution to the crisis.”
Kuwait says it has repelled an Iranian attack
Kuwait’s nationalist quality bureau says the Gulf country’s aerial defenses successfully repelled what it called a “heinous Iranian attack” earlier successful the day.
Quoting a connection from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the KUNA quality bureau said Kuwait maintains its close to support itself.
Smoke and explosions witnessed adjacent a US basal successful Iraq
Smoke roseate from a U.S. basal adjacent the airdrome successful Irbil, the determination superior of Iraq’s semiautonomous bluish Kurdish portion Saturday and an Associated Press writer successful the country heard explosions. Local media reported that missiles were changeable down. There was nary contiguous connection from Iraqi officials oregon from the U.S.
Iran-backed Iraqi militias had antecedently threatened to onslaught targets successful the Kurdish portion successful lawsuit of an onslaught connected Iran. Earlier Saturday, a drone onslaught targeted a office of the Iran-allied Kataib Hezbollah militia southwest of Baghdad, sidesplitting two.
EU calls for restraint and diplomacy
European Union leaders issued a associated connection Saturday calling for restraint and engaging successful determination diplomacy successful hopes of “ensuring atomic safety.”
“Ensuring atomic information and preventing immoderate actions that could further escalate tensions oregon undermine the planetary non-proliferation authorities is of captious importance,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa. “We telephone connected each parties to workout maximum restraint, to support civilians, and to afloat respect planetary law."
Both said that the EU has pushed to resoluteness captious issues done diplomacy but besides has successful spot “extensive sanctions successful effect to the actions of Iran’s murderous authorities and the Revolutionary Guards.”
They said Brussels was moving with the EU’s 27 subordinate nations to enactment the bloc's citizens successful the Middle East.
Saudi Arabia condemns Iranian strikes
Saudi Arabia powerfully condemned the Iranian assaults connected the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Jordan arsenic a breach of their sovereignty.
The Kingdom confirmed that it afloat stands by those countries and warned of the “dire consequences of continued breach of sovereignty and violating planetary principles."
Saudi Arabia besides called connected the planetary assemblage to instrumentality measures to face the Iranian assaults that are “undermining” the stableness and information of the region.
US and Israeli strikes people sites crossed Iran
Strikes connected Saturday are targeting a increasing database of cities and sites crossed Iran, according to Iranian authorities media. Direct strikes connected the capital, Tehran, earlier sent plumes of smokes supra its skyline, with reports of explosions successful oregon adjacent the large cities of Isfahan, Shiraz and Tabriz.
Blasts were besides reported successful respective occidental towns arsenic good arsenic astir Persian Gulf larboard cities that are captious to Iran’s large lipid trade, including Asaluyeh.
France advises its citizens to workout caution
France, whose subject has bases and a regular beingness successful the Mideast, has called connected French citizens successful the portion to workout utmost caution.
"A subject escalation is underway ... It’s not the clip for negotiations. We are successful a concern of war," inferior Defense Minister Alice Rufo told France-2 tv Saturday, comparing the concern to the 12-day warfare successful June.
“Our precedence is the extortion of our citizens and extortion of our forces successful the region,” she said.
Asked if French forces were progressive successful the U.S. and Israeli strikes oregon targeted successful retaliatory strikes, French subject spokesperson Col. Guillaume Vernet said: “The French equipped forces continuously accommodate their posture to threats and instrumentality measures to guarantee the surveillance and extortion of subject installations wherever French soldiers are deployed.”
He would not elaborate.
“Our subject beingness guarantees France’s autarkic appraisal of the situation,” helium told the AP.
Israeli president salutes attacks connected Iran
Israel’s President Isaac Herzog has welcomed the associated U.S.-Israeli cognition against Iran.
Herzog says helium hopes the cognition “will bring a historical alteration and a amended aboriginal for the full Middle East and the full world.”
Khamenei's whereabouts unknown
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei did not made a nationalist quality successful the days earlier the onslaught and hasn’t been instantly seen after. During the 12-day warfare successful June, helium was believed to person been taken to a unafraid determination distant from his Tehran compound.
Qatar says it repels 2nd question of Iranian attacks
Qatar’s Defense Ministry says the subject has successfully repelled the 2nd question of Iranian attacks that targeted respective parts of the nation.
The Qatari Foreign Ministry condemned the attacks, calling them a “flagrant violation” of its sovereignty. It added that Qatar has been ever among the sides calling for a dialog with Iran.
The Foreign Ministry said that the targeting of Qatar by a neighbour “cannot beryllium accepted nether immoderate justification oregon pretext” arsenic the gas-rich Gulf federation has ever distanced itself from determination conflicts.
US-Israeli attacks are expected to continue, AP told
A idiosyncratic briefed connected the subject plans says Saturday’s cognition was planned by the U.S. and Israel for months and intimately coordinated.
The idiosyncratic says the attacks are expected to proceed for respective days.
They spoke connected information of anonymity due to the fact that they were not authorized to sermon the substance with the media.
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By Sam Mednick successful Tel Aviv.
Iran says Israeli-US a
irstrikes termination 5 astatine girls' school
Iran connected Saturday said Israeli-U.S. airstrikes successful confederate Iran killed 5 students astatine a girls’ school, the archetypal confirmed fatalities successful the operation.
The state-run IRNA quality bureau reported the onslaught happened successful Minab successful Iran’s Hormozgan province. Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard has a basal successful the city.
Neither the U.S. nor Israel has offered immoderate details connected the run truthful far.
Impact wounds 1 successful Israel
Israel’s nationalist rescue work MADA said 1 antheral was lightly wounded from an interaction successful bluish Israel.
Fire and rescue services said an flat connected the 20th level of an flat gathering suffered a nonstop hit. It was not wide if it was struck by a rocket oregon debris from an interception.
Iran confirms attacks connected US sites
Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard says that successful its retaliation against Israel and U.S. attacks connected Iran, the subject struck respective facilities successful the region.
The Revolutionary Guard said successful a connection that successful the archetypal signifier of retaliation, named “Truthful Promise 4,” Iran’s subject struck the bid of the U.S. 5th Fleet successful Bahrain arsenic good arsenic U.S. bases successful Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, and subject targets successful Israel.
There person been nary reports of harm successful these areas isolated from 1 decease successful the United Arab Emirates.
The Guard said Iranian attacks with missiles and drones are continuing and much accusation volition beryllium released later.
Bahrain condemns Iranian onslaught connected US fleet
Bahrain’s ambassador successful the U.S. says attacks occurred against “sites wrong the Kingdom,” without giving further details. Writing connected X, Abdalla Al-Khalifa said the attacks were a “blatant usurpation of sovereignty.”
Iran has seemingly attacked the U.S. 5th Fleet successful Bahrain successful effect to U.S.-Israeli attacks successful Tehran. The Bahraini diplomat said that Bahrain “reserves the close to respond” to onslaught connected its territory.
Iranian rocket shrapnel kills 1 successful UAE
Shrapnel from an Iranian rocket onslaught connected the superior of the United Arab Emirates killed 1 idiosyncratic Saturday, authorities successful Dubai said.
The state-run WAM quality bureau reported the fatality, the archetypal known successful the Iranian counterattack aft the United States and Israel launched a large airstrike run targeting Iran.
Attacks connected Iran hazard wider warfare and higher vigor prices
Within hours of the associated U.S. and Israeli onslaught successful Iran, Ali Vaez, who directs the Iran Project astatine the Crisis Group deliberation tank, warned that the warfare could apt escalate.
Vaez connected societal media stressed that Iran had been preparing for the struggle and that wider warfare could interruption retired crossed the Middle East.
He besides stressed that the warfare could pb to higher vigor costs, which would undercut 1 of Trump’s home governmental messages that gasoline prices person been little since his instrumentality to the White House.
“Iran sits on the Strait of Hormuz, done which astir a 5th of the world’s lipid proviso passes,” Vaez posted. “Even constricted disruption could spike vigor prices, substance inflation, and rattle planetary markets.”
EU calls Iran a menace to planetary security
The European Union’s apical diplomat called the struggle successful the Middle East “perilous” and said she was moving with Israel and Arab officials to prosecute a negotiated peace.
“Iran’s authorities has killed thousands. Its ballistic rocket and atomic programmes, on with enactment for panic groups, airs a superior menace to planetary security,” said Kaja Kallas, overseas argumentation main of the 27-nation bloc, successful a station connected societal media.
She said the EU was evacuating immoderate unit successful the portion and keeping successful spot a maritime ngo successful the Red Sea.
The EU precocious enactment caller sanctions connected Iran and starring figures, prompting retaliatory sanctions by Tehran.
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