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Al Arabiya
2 hours ago
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Nuclear scientist killed in Israeli strike on Tehran: Israeli media
An Iranian nuclear scientist was killed in a strike on a building in Tehran on Friday, state Israeli broadcaster Kan and other local media reported. The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the reports.
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Business Standard
4 hours ago
- Politics
- Business Standard
Netanyahu vows to eliminate Iran's nuclear threat as conflict escalates
As the Israel-Iran conflict entered its seventh day, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that Israel is ready to dismantle Tehran's nuclear and missile capabilities—with or without international support. Speaking to Israel's public broadcaster Kan on Thursday, Netanyahu said, 'Israel is capable of striking all of Iran's nuclear facilities. All help is welcome, but we will act independently if we must.' His comments came amid ongoing Israeli air raids on Iranian sites under the banner of Operation Rising Lion, launched last Friday. Trump will do what is best for US: Netanyahu The prime minister also addressed the possibility of direct US involvement, saying the decision rested with President Donald Trump. 'Trump will do what is good for the United States, and I will do what is good for Israel,' he stated, signalling coordination but also strategic autonomy. During a tour of Soroka Medical Centre in Beersheba, a southern Israeli city struck by Iranian missiles earlier that morning, Netanyahu stressed that 'no one is immune' from Israeli retaliation, once again suggesting that Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei could be considered a legitimate target. 'I gave instructions that no one is immune,' he said, adding, 'It's best to let actions speak for themselves.' The Israeli leader reiterated that the offensive was aimed squarely at Iran's nuclear ambitions and ballistic arsenal, which he described as existential threats. 'We are targeting weapons of mass destruction. They are targeting civilians,' he said. 'They fire at hospitals. That's the difference between a functioning democracy and murderous regimes.' אני כאן בבית החולים סורוקה בבאר שבע יחד עם שר הבריאות וסגן השר אלמוג כהן, איש הדרום, ולא בפעם הראשונה עם מנהל בית החולים סורוקה. אנחנו רואים כאן את כל ההבדל. אנחנו פוגעים במדויק במטרות גרעין ומטרות טילים, והם פוגעים בבית חולים, שאנשים לא יכולים לקום ולברוח אפילו. הם פוגעים לא… — Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) June 19, 2025 Katz compares Khamenei to 'modern Hitler' The Defence Minister, Israel Katz, echoed this sentiment in more severe terms during a visit to missile-hit Holon. Calling Ayatollah Khamenei 'the modern Hitler', Katz said one of Israel's objectives was to 'prevent his continued existence.' He accused Iran's supreme leader of orchestrating attacks on civilian infrastructure, including hospitals, as part of a broader ideological campaign against Israel. Heavy casualties and destruction reported on both sides According to a Washington-based Iranian human rights organisation, at least 639 people have died in Iran so far, including 263 civilians. Over 1,300 have been injured. Iran has retaliated with more than 400 ballistic missiles and over 1,000 drones, targeting cities such as Ramat Gan, Holon and Beersheba, killing at least 24 people in Israel and injuring hundreds more. Among the injured are at least 240 people following missile strikes on residential areas near Tel Aviv and Soroka Medical Centre, 80 of them patients and medical staff. Much of the hospital had been evacuated in anticipation of the attack, limiting the extent of casualties. As tensions escalate, Israel claims to have destroyed over half of Iran's missile launchers. Netanyahu declared that the operation was 'changing the face of the Middle East—and now, the world.' Netanyahu clarifies Iran war goals Despite speculation about regime change in Iran, Netanyahu clarified that toppling the government in Tehran was not an explicit objective. 'That's a matter for the Iranian people,' he said. 'It could be a result, but it is not a stated or formal goal.' Due to the ongoing conflict, the Israeli military has imposed strict censorship on media coverage. These wartime restrictions limit reporting on operational details, target selection, and any damage to critical infrastructure or military capabilities. Netanyahu vowed that Israel would see the operation through to its conclusion. 'At the end of this mission,' he said, 'there will be no nuclear threat on Israel, and there won't be a ballistic threat either.'
Malay Mail
10 hours ago
- Politics
- Malay Mail
Netanyahu: Israel ‘changing the face of the world' in war with Iran
JERUSALEM, June 20 — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday that Israel was 'changing the face of the world' in its war with Iran, as he welcomed 'all help' in destroying the Islamic republic's nuclear sites. 'I said that we're changing the face of the Middle East, and now I say we're changing the face of the world,' he told public broadcaster Kan. Seven days into the war, Netanyahu said Israeli forces were ahead of schedule in their offensive against Iranian nuclear and missile sites, but refused to provide a clear timeline for an end to the most intense confrontation in history with arch foe Tehran. 'We are at war. I'm not going to reveal our timeline. I'm not going to tell them [the Iranians] what we're preparing,' said Netanyahu. 'When you enter a war, you know when it begins, but not when it ends,' he added. He said Israel had already destroyed 'more than half' of Iran's missile launchers and was 'capable of striking all of Iran's nuclear facilities'. But, in an apparent nod to key ally the United States, Netanyahu added: 'All help is welcome'. During his interview with Kan, Netanyahu went on to say that US President Donald Trump 'will do what is good for the United States, and I will do what is good for the State of Israel'. Following the remarks, Trump offered a fresh timeline for a possible US intervention in the conflict, saying in a statement that he would decide whether to attack Iran within the next two weeks due to a 'substantial' chance of negotiations. — AFP
NDTV
10 hours ago
- Politics
- NDTV
Netanyahu Says Fall Of Iran's Leadership Not A Goal But Could Be A Result
Tel Aviv: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday that the change or fall of Iran's leadership was not a goal of Israel's attacks but could be a result. "The matter of changing the regime or the fall of this regime is first and foremost a matter for the Iranian people. There is no substitute for this. "And that's why I didn't present it as a goal. It could be a result, but it's not a stated or formal goal that we have," Netanyahu said in an interview with Israel's Kan public television. He said Israel had the power to remove all of Iran's nuclear facilities, whether U.S. President Donald Trump decides to join in or not. Netanyahu spoke before the White House said Trump would decide in the next two weeks whether to get involved. Military analysts believe Israel might need the help of U.S. military bunker-busting bombs to destroy the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant, the crown jewel of Iran's nuclear program buried beneath a mountain near the city of Qom. Asked whether Fordow could be addressed with or without the Americans, Netanyahu said: "We have the power to remove all our targets, all their nuclear facilities, but the president's decision whether he wants to join or not is again his decision. "He will do what is good for the United States and I will do what is good for the State of Israel and I must say that up to this moment everyone is doing their part," Netanyahu said. On Wednesday, Trump said the United States alone had the capability to destroy or dismantle Fordow. "But that doesn't mean I'm going to do it - at all," Trump said.
The Sun
12 hours ago
- Politics
- The Sun
Israel welcomes ‘all help' in striking Iran
JERUSALEM: Israel on Thursday welcomed 'all help' in striking Iran's nuclear sites as President Donald Trump dangled the prospect of US involvement in the war, saying he will decide 'within the next two weeks'. Israel, claiming Iran was on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon, launched air strikes against its arch-enemy last week, triggering deadly exchanges. After an Iranian missile hit an Israeli hospital on Thursday, in an attack that Tehran said targeted a military and intelligence base, Defence Minister Israel Katz issued a threat against Iran's supreme leader, spiking tensions in the week-old war. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran would 'pay a heavy price' for the strike on Soroka Hospital in the southern city of Beersheba that left 40 people injured and the facility in flames. In an televised interview later on Thursday, Netanyahu said Israel is 'capable of striking all of Iran's nuclear facilities' but 'all help is welcome'. 'Trump will do what is good for for the United States, and I will do what is good for the State of Israel,' Netanyahu told public broadcaster Kan. Citing 'the fact that there's a substantial chance' to resume nuclear negotiations with Iran -- which had been derailed by the Israeli attacks -- Trump said in a statement he will decide 'whether or not to go within the next two weeks'. Trump said on Wednesday that Iran had asked to send officials to the White House to negotiate a deal on its nuclear programme and end the conflict with Israel. Iran denied it would do so, but its Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi is due to attend nuclear talks in Geneva on Friday with top diplomats from France, Britain, Germany and the European Union, officials and diplomats said. Meanwhile Russia, an Iranian ally, told the United States that joining the conflict would be an 'extremely dangerous step'. Katz, in a stark warning for supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told reporters: 'He considers the destruction of the State of Israel to be a goal. Such a man can no longer be allowed to exist.' Asked whether Israel plans to kill Khamenei, Netanyahu said: 'No one is immune.' The latest escalation came on the seventh day of deadly exchanges between the two countries that have plunged the region into a new crisis, more than 20 months into the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip. - Panic - At Soroka, hospital director Shlomi Codish said 40 people were injured. 'Several wards were completely demolished and there is extensive damage across the entire hospital,' he said. 'It's only medical professionals here, and patients... and look what happened to us,' ophthalmologist Wasim Hin told AFP. World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called attacks on health facilities 'appalling', while UN rights chief Volker Turk said civilians were being treated as 'collateral damage'. In Iran, people fleeing Israel's attacks described frightening scenes and difficult living conditions, including food shortages and limited internet access. 'Those days and nights were very horrifying... hearing sirens, the wailing, the danger of being hit by missiles,' University of Tehran student Mohammad Hassan told AFP, after returning to his native Pakistan. 'People are really panicking,' a 50-year-old Iranian pharmacist who did not want to be named told AFP at the Kapikoy crossing on the Turkish border. Any US involvement would be expected to involve the bombing of a crucial underground Iranian nuclear facility in Fordo, using specially developed bunker-busting bombs. The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump told aides he had approved attack plans but was holding off to see if Iran would give up its nuclear programme. The US president had favoured a diplomatic route to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons -- an ambition Tehran has consistently denied -- seeking a deal to replace the 2015 agreement he tore up in his first term. - Nuclear sites - White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed Iran was 'a couple of weeks' away from producing an atomic bomb. 'All they need is a decision from the supreme leader to do that,' she told reporters. Iran had been enriching uranium to 60 percent -- far above the 3.67-percent limit set by the 2015 deal, but still short of the 90 percent needed for a nuclear warhead. Israel has maintained ambiguity on its own arsenal, but the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute says it has 90 nuclear warheads. A key Iranian government body, the Guardian Council, threatened a 'harsh response' if 'the criminal American government and its stupid president... take action against Islamic Iran'. On Thursday, Israel said it struck 'dozens' of Iranian targets overnight, including the partially built Arak nuclear reactor and a uranium enrichment facility in Natanz. Iranian atomic energy agency chief Mohammad Eslami confirmed in a letter to the UN nuclear watchdog that the Arak reactor was hit, demanding action to stop Israel's 'violation of international regulations'. Iranian media reported blasts in Tehran late Thursday, while the Revolutionary Guards said more than 100 'combat and suicide' drones were launched at Israel. In the central Israeli city of Bat Yam, the body of a Ukrainian woman was found in a site hit on Sunday, taking the death toll in Israel from Iranian missiles since Friday to 25 people according to authorities. Iran said Sunday that Israeli strikes had killed at least 224 people, including military commanders, nuclear scientists and civilians.
