Live updates: Israel and Iran trade strikes on fifth day of conflict
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Title: Parents in India-administered Kashmir fear for children studying in Iran
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Parents in India-administered Kashmir whose children are studying in Tehran are desperately trying to bring them home as the conflict between Iran and Israel intensifies.
Iran is a popular destination for university students from India, particularly those studying medicine. Many of these students are from India-administered Jammu and Kashmir.
Khursheed Ahmad Rather told CNN he has not heard from his daughter, Namoode Saher, a second-year medical student at Tehran's Islamic Azad University, since early Monday.
'No parent would ever put their children in this situation if they had known the environment could be this volatile,' he said. 'We are awake all night till one, two in the morning, watching the news closely.'
Suhail Qadri, whose son and daughter are pursuing a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery in Tehran, told CNN his children left the capital and arrived in the city of Qom, about 150 kilometers south, early Monday.
'My children are very brave and resilient,' he said. 'The kids over there are in good spirits but of course, there are tensions.'
Qadri said he has intermittently been able to contact his children since the conflict began, but communications have been patchy.
'The logistical challenge of getting them out of Iran is a big one,' Qadri said.
Iran's airspace has been closed since Israel's attack began meaning foreign nationals wanting to leave face lengthy journeys through land crossings.
The Indian embassy in Iran is attempting to facilitate evacuations for its citizens from the countrys.
India's foreign ministry spokesperson, Randhir Jaiswal, said a 24x7 control room has been established.
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Title: What Iran's Fordow plant is key to its nuclear program
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CNN's Nick Paton Walsh explains what we know about the key site in Israel's crosshairs.
It's key to Iran's nuclear program: the Fordow plant - in a mountain lair where hundreds of centrifuges, hidden possibly 90 meters underground, enrich uranium to 60%. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh explains what we know about the key site in Israel's crosshairs. #cnn #news #israel #iran #fordow #nuclear
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Title: Analysis: Does the US have bomb that can destroy Iran's deeply buried nuclear facilities? Experts are cautious
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Israel's ambassador to the United States says only the US Air Force has the weapon that can destroy Iran's deeply buried nuclear sites. But analysts are cautious that there's no guarantee even that bomb could do the job.
The Fordow plant is buried deep in the mountains near Qom, in northern Iran. Its exact depth is not publicly known, but some estimates place it at 80 to 90 meters deep.
'For Fordow to be taken out by a bomb from the sky, the only country in the world that has that bomb is the United States,' Ambassador Yechiel Leiter said.
The bomb Leiter is referring to the GBU-57/B – also known as the Massive Ordnance Penetrator.
Also known as a 'bunker buster,' it is a 30,000-pound GPS-guided munition with a 5,740-pound high explosive warhead that's so heavy it can only be dropped from the Air Force's B-2 bombers.
'The warhead case is made from a special high performance steel alloy,' enabling it to burrow deeply into the ground and destroy hardened bunkers and tunnels, according to a US military fact sheet.
A Royal United Services Institute report said the GBU-57 can penetrate to a depth of 61 meters (200 feet). That would be about 20 meters short of Iran's Fordow facility, according to the report's estimates.
'The GBU-57/B would likely require multiple impacts at the same aiming point to have a good chance of penetrating the facility,' the report said.
Other analysts agree, saying, if the US were to try to hit Fordow, it probably couldn't be done with one bomb.
'I would bank on repeated strikes against Fordow,' CNN military analyst Cedric Leighton, a former US Air Force colonel, said.
'Repeated strikes might work, but unsure,' said Peter Layton, a former Royal Australian Air Force officer now a fellow at the Griffith Asia Institute, adding there would be 'no guarantee of success or ability to prove (Fordow) been taken out' if it were hit.
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Title: Israel and Iran are trading strikes for a fifth day. Here's the latest
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President Donald Trump has left the G7 summit early after suggesting that he could soon strike a deal with Iran to end the current conflict. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is returning to the US with Trump.
The US president also directed members of his team to attempt a meeting with Iranian officials as quickly as possible, according to a person familiar with the matter and a US official. According to French President Emmanuel Macron, Trump has proposed a ceasefire deal.
But Trump also warned Iranians to evacuate Tehran, underscoring the danger to its 10 million residents.
Here are the latest developments in the conflict:
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Title: Israel is targeting Iranian nuclear sites. Here's what we know about the damage
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he estimates strikes on Iran have set its nuclear program back significantly.
'I estimate we are sending them back a very, very long time,' he said in a news conference Monday. 'We have targets and we're going to do a root canal here.'
Israel has targeted three key Iranian nuclear facilities — Natanz, Isfahan and Fordow — and several top scientists involved in nuclear research and development. The extent of the damage is beginning to come into view, with satellite imagery and expert analysis hinting that the strikes had a significant impact on at least two of the locations.
But the full extent of the damage remains unclear – not least because Iran's most sensitive nuclear infrastructure is buried deep underground – and each side gave predictably contrasting assessments: An Israeli military official said that strikes on Iran's nuclear sites in Natanz and Isfahan were able to damage the sites 'significantly,' while Iran claimed that damage to the facilities was limited.
'The whole (nuclear) supply chain has been disrupted,' Ali Vaez, the Iran Project Director at the International Crisis Group, told CNN on Sunday, as Israel and Iran continued to exchange fire. Vaez stressed the significance of each targeted nuclear site, which are all involved in the complex sequence of steps required to create a nuclear weapon.
'This chain is now broken, but it could be put back together in a matter of months, because Iran has both the knowhow and the material that is required for it,' he cautioned. 'This is not a problem that will go away simply with aerial strikes.'
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