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Jordan News
a day ago
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- Jordan News
Israel Targets Iran's Arak Nuclear Reactor - Jordan News
The Israeli military announced that its forces targeted Iran's Arak nuclear reactor during overnight operations. According to the Israeli army, 40 fighter jets carried out airstrikes last night on dozens of targets across Iran, including the Arak nuclear reactor. اضافة اعلان The Iranian Students' News Agency (ISNA) reported on Thursday that an area near the Khondab Heavy Water Research Facility—part of Iran's nuclear program—was hit in the Israeli strike. The agency, citing officials, added that the facility had been evacuated prior to the attack and that there is no radiological threat. — (Reuters)
DW
2 days ago
- Politics
- DW
Iranian missile strikes hit Israeli hospital – DW – 06/19/2025
06/19/2025 June 19, 2025 Israeli strike hits area near Iran's Khondab nuclear facility An area near the heavy-water research reactor in Khondab, a key site in Iran's nuclear program, was struck by Israeli forces, according to a report by the Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) on Thursday. ISNA said that officials had evacuated the facility before the attack and emphasized that there was no radiation risk. The reactor, formerly known as Arak, is still under construction. Iran has informed the UN nuclear watchdog that it plans to begin operating the facility next year.
Al Arabiya
2 days ago
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Israeli military says targeted nuclear sites in Iran's Arak, Natanz
The Israeli military said on Thursday it had targeted the nuclear reactor in the area of Arak in Iran overnight and what it called a nuclear weapons development site in the area of Natanz. An area near the heavy-water research reactor in Khondab, part of Iran's nuclear program, was hit by Israel, the Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) reported on Thursday. Officials announced the facility was evacuated prior to the attack and there is no radiation risk, ISNA added. The research reactor was partially built and previously known as Arak, with Tehran informing the UN nuclear watchdog that it plans operating the facility next year. On Thursday morning, a missile warning was issued by Israel's military and explosions were heard over Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. The Israeli military said several civilian areas, including a hospital, were hit by Iranian missile strikes. In Iran, the ISNA news agency reported that an area near the heavy water facility of the Khondab nuclear facility was targeted by Israel. Earlier, air defenses were activated in Tehran, intercepting drones on the outskirts of the capital, the semi-official SNN news agency reported. Iranian news agencies also reported it had arrested 18 'enemy agents' who were building drones for Israeli attacks in the northeastern city of Mashhad. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a video released by his office on Wednesday, said Israel was 'progressing step by step' towards eliminating threats posed by Iran's nuclear sites and ballistic missile arsenal. 'We are hitting the nuclear sites, the missiles, the headquarters, the symbols of the regime,' Netanyahu said. Israel, which is not a party to the international Non-Proliferation Treaty, is the only country in the Middle East believed to have nuclear weapons. Israel does not deny or confirm that. Netanyahu also thanked Trump, 'a great friend of the state of Israel,' for standing by its side in the conflict, saying the two were in continuous contact. Trump has veered from proposing a swift diplomatic end to the war to suggesting the United States might join it.
The Guardian
2 days ago
- Politics
- The Guardian
Israel-Iran conflict live: hospital in southern Israel hit in Iran missile strike, say Israeli officials
Update: Date: 2025-06-19T05:04:47.000Z Title: Welcome and summary Content: Hello and welcome to the Guardian's continuing coverage of the Israel-Iran war. A hospital in southern Israel has been hit by a missile after Iran launched a round of retaliatory strikes on the country early on Thursday. Soroka Hospital in Beersheba was among several areas to be directly hit after Iran fired around 20 ballistic missiles at Israel, an Israeli military official said. There was no immediate information on any casualties. Israel's military has meanwhile warned people to evacuate the area around the Iranian city of Arak's heavy water reactor. The warning came in a social media post and included a satellite image of the plant in a red circle. The Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) later reported that the area had been hit but that the area had been evacuated beforehand and that there was no radiation risk. It was not possible to independently confirm the report. In the past week, Israel's campaign has targeted Iran's enrichment site at Natanz, centrifuge workshops around Tehran and a nuclear site in Isfahan. Meanwhile, Donald Trump said he has not decided whether or not to take his country into Israel's war with Iran and said he was still open to reaching a deal with Iran. The president has reportedly suggested to defence officials it would make sense for the US to launch strikes against Iran only if the so-called 'bunker buster' bomb was guaranteed to destroy the critical uranium enrichment facility at Fordow, according to people familiar with the deliberations. Elsewhere today: Donald Trump told reporters that 'a deal could still happen' and that he thinks 'Iran was a few weeks away from having a nuclear weapon.' The news came shortly before several US media outlets reported that Trump approved plans to attack Iran on Tuesday, but has not yet given the final order to do so. US intelligence sources briefed US senators on Monday that Iran was not working to develop a nuclear weapon. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Israel had made a 'huge mistake' by launching the war and warned the US against becoming involved, in his first comments since Friday. 'The Americans should know that any US military intervention will undoubtedly be accompanied by irreparable damage,' he said in a statement read out by a presenter on state TV. European leaders are pushing for diplomacy between Israel and Iran, with officials set to meet with Iran's foreign minister in Geneva on Friday. The foreign ministers of Germany, France and Britain, as well as EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas, will join the nuclear talks. Iran announced that it had fired ultra-heavy, long-range, two-stage missiles at Israel, while Israeli strikes hit targets across Iran, including the police central command building in Tehran. French president Emmanuel Macron has voiced concerns that Israeli strikes are 'increasingly targeting sites unrelated to Iran's nuclear and ballistic programs', leading to 'a growing number of civilian casualties'. So far, more than 224 people in Iran and more than 24 in Israel have been killed in the conflict. Rights groups suspect the death toll in Iran may actually be closer to 600. Longtime supporters of Donald Trump have voiced their disapproval of the possibility that the president may seek to involve the United States in the Israel-Iran conflict, a rare break within the deeply loyal Make America Great Again coalition. Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon said 'this is not something you play around with' while Republican senator Rand Paul told reporters that Trump would need congressional approval to bomb Iran. At the same time, some Trump allies voiced their support for the president, with Republican senator Ted Cruz saying the US could 'quite reasonably' strike an underground nuclear facility in Iran, but that 'there is zero possibility of American boots on the ground'. Internet connection across all of Iran has slowed to a near halt. The reduction in internet speeds comes after an anti-Iranian government hacking group with potential ties to Israel claimed that it hacked Iran's state-owned Bank Sepah. Fatemeh Mohajerani, a spokesperson for Iran's government, said on X that officials in Tehran had restricted internet access to ward off additional cyberattacks.
Daily Tribune
2 days ago
- Politics
- Daily Tribune
Iran arrests five for 'tarnishing' country's image: media
Iran said Wednesday it had detained five suspected agents of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency on charges of tarnishing the country's image online, Iranian news agencies reported. "These mercenaries sought to sow fear among the public and tarnish the image of the sacred system of the Islamic Republic of Iran through their calculated activities online," the Tasnim and ISNA news agencies quoted a statement from the Revolutionary Guards as saying. They added that the arrests had been made in the western province of Lorestan. The arrests came as Iran traded fire with Israel for a sixth day following the aerial assault on Iranian military and nuclear facilities, as well as residential areas, which it launched last week. Iran announced on Friday that it was placing temporary restrictions on the internet for the duration of the conflict. Numerous sites and apps have since been at least partially inaccessible. The authorities appealed to the public on Tuesday to "minimise their use of equipment connected to the internet and to take appropriate precautions" online. For their own safety, civil servants and their security teams have been banned from using any connected devices, including smartphones, watches and laptops during the Israeli air offensive. State television appealed to Iranians on Tuesday to delete WhatsApp from their phones, charging that the messaging app gathers users' location and personal data and "communicates them to the Zionist enemy".
