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IOL News
2 hours ago
- Politics
- IOL News
Iranian Embassy responds to Israeli aggression
Smoke billows from an explosion near the Azadi Tower in Tehran. The Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) building was struck in an Israeli attack on June 16, cutting live coverage immediately. The blast occurred as the presenter was live on TV lambasting Israel before she was seen leaving the live broadcast, Iranian media reported, sharing a video of the incident. Image: Atta Kenare / AFP Statement by the Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Pretoria In Response to the Aggression of the Zionist Regime Against the Sovereignty of Iran June 2025 In the Name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Pretoria strongly condemns the recent act of aggression by the Zionist regime against the sovereign territory of the Islamic Republic of Iran. In a deliberate and unlawful attack, the occupying and rogue regime targeted multiple sites in Tehran and other cities, including civilian neighbourhoods, military installations, and nuclear infrastructure. This heinous assault resulted in the martyrdom of some of Iran's most devoted military commanders, scientists, scholars, and innocent civilians, including women and children. It represents a blatant violation of Iran's national sovereignty and territorial integrity, as well as a grave breach of international law. The Zionist regime's actions constitute a flagrant violation of Article 2(4) of the Charter of the United Nations and amount to an unprovoked act of aggression against a UN member state. In accordance with Article 51 of the UN Charter, the Islamic Republic of Iran has reaffirmed its inherent right to self-defence and has acted within its legal framework to defend its people and sovereignty. Video Player is loading. 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Next Stay Close ✕ As conveyed in the official communications from Foreign Minister Dr Seyed Abbas Araghchi to the United Nations Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council, Iran has demanded urgent action by the international community to uphold peace and security and to hold the aggressor accountable. A separate letter has also been submitted to the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in response to the targeted strike on peaceful nuclear facilities, requesting an emergency session of the Board of Governors. These violations would not happen without the direct support and coordination of the United States and its allies, whose role in enabling and encouraging such reckless acts cannot be ignored. The responsibility for the consequences of this aggression lies not only with the Zionist regime but also with all those who support and shield it. The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran reiterates the country's firm commitment to international peace, multilateralism, and the principles of international law. Iran will continue to pursue diplomatic and legal tools and channels while safeguarding its national security with resolve and responsibility. The Embassy expresses its sincere appreciation to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) of the Republic of South Africa for its clear and principled stance in condemning the violation of Iran's sovereignty by the Zionist regime. This position reflects South Africa's longstanding commitment to justice, peace, and the rule of international law.
Sky News AU
7 hours ago
- Politics
- Sky News AU
Inside the Iranian news station targeted by Israeli air strike exposed
Footage released of an Iranian state media outlet being forcefully interrupted by an Israeli air strike has made headlines, as the conflict between Israel and Iran intensifies. The strike damaged the broadcasting company, IRIB, which has rendered the entire building useless. Public anger has been unleashed towards the Israelis for this attack.
Hindustan Times
13 hours ago
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Israel Iran war live: Missile strikes continue as Trump undecided on US involvement
Destroyed building of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) after it was hit a few days earlier in an Israeli strike, in Tehran. The conflict between Israel and Iran has entered its eighth day, and both sides continue to fire missiles and drones at each other. Israel bombed nuclear targets in Iran on Thursday and Iran fired missiles and drones at Israel after hitting an Israeli hospital overnight. Iranian missiles struck a major hospital in southern Israel and hit residential buildings in Tel Aviv on Thursday, injuring 240 people and causing widespread damage. ...Read More Israel's Defence Minister, Israel Katz, blamed Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and has given the army instructions to achieve their goals in Iran at any cost. "Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has been instructed and knows that in order to achieve all of its goals, this man absolutely should not continue to exist,' Katz said in a post on X. Israel launched strikes on Iran's Arak heavy water reactor, marking its latest assault on Iran's extensive nuclear program. Iranian state television reported that the facility had been evacuated prior to the attack and assured there was 'no radiation danger whatsoever.' The White House says President Donald Trump will decide within the next two weeks whether to strike Iran. It says Trump still sees a 'substantial' chance that negotiations can achieve US and Israeli demands on Iran's nuclear program. What is the latest in Israel-Iran conflict Israel bombed Iranian nuclear and missile facilities again on Thursday following Iran's missile and drone strikes, including one that damaged a hospital in Beersheba. Over 270 people have been injured in Israel from Iranian strikes; Iran has not updated its casualty figures since Sunday. Israel accuses Iran of using cluster munitions in the hospital attack. US President Donald Trump may decide within two weeks whether the US will intervene on Israel's side, with ongoing back-channel talks between US envoy Steve Witkoff and Iran's foreign minister. Iran's nuclear program has been severely damaged but not destroyed, according to reports. Israel continues airstrikes to prevent Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons, which Iran denies pursuing. Israeli leaders have called for intensifying strikes on Tehran and openly questioned the future of Iran's Supreme Leader, while Iran warns that US involvement would bring "hell" to the region. Follow all the updates here: June 20, 2025 6:08 AM IST Israel Iran war Live: President Donald Trump said he will decide within two weeks whether the US military will get directly involved in the conflict between Israel and Iran given the 'substantial chance' for renewed diplomatic negotiations over Tehran's nuclear program. June 20, 2025 6:02 AM IST United Airlines said Saturday it has indefinitely paused flights between Newark, New Jersey, and Dubai, United Arab Emirates. American Airlines said it is suspending flights between Philadelphia and Doha, Qatar, at least through Sunday and will make 'additional adjustments as needed.' Both airlines said they are monitoring the situation and are working to rebook customers.
Malay Mail
14 hours ago
- Politics
- Malay Mail
‘Offering prayer': Relieved Pakistanis recall ‘horrifying nights' as Israel, Iran trade strikes
TAFTAN (Pakistan), June 20 — Mohammad Hassan anxiously returned to Pakistan from neighbouring Iran this week after witnessing drones, missiles, and explosions tear through Tehran's sky during what he called long, 'horrifying nights'. The 35-year-old University of Tehran student is one of about 3,000 Pakistanis who, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, have returned home since Israel launched its aerial war against its long-time enemy last week. Governments around the world are scrambling to evacuate their nationals caught up in the rapidly spiralling conflict as Israel and Iran trade missile and drone strikes. This picture shows the heavily damaged building of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) after it was hit a few days earlier in an Israeli strike, in Tehran, on June 19, 2025. — AFP pic 'I was in the city centre where most of the strikes took place and even one of the student dormitories was attacked and luckily no one was dead, but students were injured,' Hassan said. There are more than 500 Pakistani students at his university alone, he said, all of them on their way 'back home'. 'Those days and nights were very horrifying... hearing sirens, the wailing, the danger of being hit by missiles. As one peeped out the window in the night, you could see drones, missiles with fire tails,' he told AFP. Vehicles move along a street in central Tehran on June 13, 2025. — AFP pic Ghost town Pakistan and Iran have a shaky diplomatic relationship. They bombed each other's territory little more than a year ago, both claiming to target rebels using their neighbour's land to launch attacks. Yet they have never suspended trade, tourism and academic ties. Iranian consulates across Pakistan have stepped up efforts to promote their universities. Between 25 million and 35 million Pakistani Shiite Muslims also hope to make at least one pilgrimage in their lifetime to holy sites in Iran, foremost among them the sacred city of Qom. Mohammad Khalil, a 41-year-old petroleum engineer, left Tehran three days ago, the capital of the Islamic Republic looking like a ghost town as residents sheltered indoors and families fled. 'In the last two days, I saw people moving out of the city in different vehicles with necessary commodities,' Khalil said. Abdul Ghani Khan sells medical equipment in his hometown of Peshawar in north-west Pakistan and travels to Iran regularly for supplies. He had been in Tehran for a week when the first Israeli missiles fell on Friday. Iran and Israel have traded heavy missile fire in the days since, raising fears of a wider regional conflict. Pakistan is in a difficult position as the only Muslim-majority country with nuclear weapons. It, like Iran, does not recognise Israel but is also a major ally of the United States. Khan had to make the journey home by road because the airspace is now closed. Pakistan has also shut its border crossings with Iran to all except Pakistanis wanting to return home. 'We saw drones, red lights of anti-aircraft guns and I spotted one building catch fire,' Khan said. Pakistani pilgrims evacuated from Iran walk across the Pakistan-Iran border at Taftan, in Balochistan province on June 18, 2025, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran. — AFP pic 'Offering prayer' Mohammad Asif, a lawyer from Lahore in Pakistan's east, heard about the air strikes while on a pilgrimage in Qom. He wasn't initially afraid and continued his pilgrimage to Mashhad in Iran's northeast, home to the golden-domed Imam Reza shrine. That was until Israeli strikes hit the airport in Mashhad, nearly 1,000 kilometres from the Pakistani border. Samreen Ali was also in Mashhad but, like Asif, cut her trip short and returned with her husband and 15-year-old son. She was praying in a mosque in Mashhad when Israel struck the city. Ali said she had visited Iran nine times before on pilgrimages and never imagined witnessing war there. 'I was offering prayer when I heard two explosions,' she told AFP. She then noticed she wasn't receiving messages on her phone and assumed that 'communication was being restricted... because of the war'. Syed Saqib, 46, was in Qom and had to travel 500 kilometres by bus south-east to Yazd. 'We had to take alternative routes, spend an entire night waiting at a bus terminal,' Saqib said. They then boarded buses to Zahedan, a city near the border with Pakistan's Balochistan province. A relieved Saqib recalled making the border crossing at Taftan, surrounded by families carrying heavy luggage. — AFP
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First Post
a day ago
- Politics
- First Post
Russia urges Israel to stop strikes on Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility
Israel bombed nuclear targets in Iran on Thursday and Iranian missiles hit an Israeli hospital overnight, as the week-old air war escalated with no sign yet of an off-ramp. read more This picture shows the heavily damaged building of the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) after it was hit a few days earlier in an Israeli strike, in Tehran, on June 19, 2025. AFP Photo Russia has called on Israel to immediately halt its airstrikes on Iran's Bushehr nuclear facility, citing the presence of Russian specialists at the site, according to a report. The move came after Israel had reportedly struck nuclear sites in Bushehr, Isfahan and Natanz and was continuing to target additional facilities. However, the official later retracted the mention of Bushehr, stating that it had been 'a mistake' to include the facility in the list of confirmed targets. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD Moscow also issued its warning after Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in a phone call condemned Israeli attacks on Iran and urged a diplomatic solution to the conflict. Israel launched an unprecedented wave of strikes at Iran last week, to which Tehran responded with missile and drone attacks. The IDF spokesperson confirmed that strikes had taken place on nuclear-related facilities in Natanz, Isfahan, and Arak but declined to confirm or deny any action against Bushehr, which houses Iran's only operational nuclear reactor. Following the strike which damaged the Soroka hospital in Israel's southern city of Beersheba, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tehran's 'tyrants' would pay the 'full price'. His Defence Minister Israel Katz said the military had been instructed to intensify strikes on strategic-related targets in Tehran in order to eliminate the threat to Israel and destabilise the 'Ayatollah regime'. Netanyahu has said that Israel's military attacks could result in the toppling of Iran's leaders, and Israel would do whatever is necessary to remove the 'existential threat' posed by Tehran. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD US President Donald Trump, meanwhile, has kept the world guessing about whether Israel's superpower ally would join it in airstrikes. Israel said on Thursday it had struck Iran's Natanz and Isfahan nuclear sites. A military spokesperson initially said it had also hit Bushehr, site of Iran's only functioning nuclear power plant, but a spokesperson later said this was a mistake to have said this. Earlier, Israel said it had hit another nuclear site near Arak overnight, where Iran was building a heavy-water reactor. Trump has veered from proposing a swift diplomatic end to the war to suggesting the United States might join it. On Wednesday he said nobody knows what he will do. A day earlier he mused on social media about killing Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, then demanded Iran's unconditional surrender. A week of Israeli air and missile strikes against its major rival has wiped out the top echelon of Iran's military command, damaged its nuclear capabilities and killed hundreds of people, while Iranian retaliatory strikes have killed at least two dozen civilians in Israel. STORY CONTINUES BELOW THIS AD With inputs from agencies
