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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has insisted the U.S "gained no achievements" from strikes on its nuclear facilities, in his first public address since a ceasefire with Israel was agreed on Tuesday this week. Khamenei said the strikes did not "accomplish anything significant" to disrupt Iran's nuclear programme, and described Iran's retaliation against an American air base in Qatar as dealing a "heavy blow". It came as Washington doubled down on its assessment that the U.S strikes had severely undermined Iran's nuclear ambitions. U.S Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said intelligence gathered by the U.S and Israel indicated the operation…

The world’s rich and famous have arrived in Venice, Italy as the three-day wedding bash hosted by the Amazon billionaire, Jeff Bezos, and his wife-to-be, Lauren Sánchez, gets under way amid protests in the lagoon city. The U.S reality TV personalities Kim and Khloé Kardashian were spotted clambering into water taxis in stilettos, while Kris Jenner, Oprah Winfrey, Orlando Bloom and Jordan’s Queen Rania have also been seen. Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, was among the first of the 200 or so guests to arrive and has been spending the pre-wedding downtime sightseeing and shopping despite the stifling heat. More than…

*'Iran Can Restore Sites Within Months' Further confirmation that U.S strikes on Iran's three nuclear sites may have barely scratched the surface and not gone skin deep, came as findings by U.S Defense Intelligence Agency, DIA, suggest president Donald Trump’s declaration that they were ‘obliterated’ may be overstated. An initial classified U.S assessment of Trump’s strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities over the weekend said they did not destroy two of the sites and likely only set back the nuclear program by a few months, according to two people familiar with the report. The report produced by the DIA– the intelligence…

*As US, Israel Desperately Hunt For New Location Of 400kg Near-Weapons Grade Uranium Iran still has stocks of enriched uranium - which is used to make nuclear weapons - and 'the game is not over', sources close to the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told French news agency AFP Tuesday, June 24. The location of a stockpile of 400kg of the material - enough to make up to 10 nuclear weapons - is unknown after the United States' weekend bombing of three Iranian facilities. The 'missing' uranium is 60 per cent enriched. At 90 per cent, it can be used in nuclear…

Barely hours after U.S president Donald Trump said he has brokered a ceasefire between Israel and Iran, fresh crisis looms between the warring parties, who are sworn enemies. This morning (Nigeria time), Israel said Iran had fired missiles into its territory, causing destruction and injuries -a charge Iran denied. But in return, Israeli Defence Minister, Israel Katz, has ordered the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) to retaliate. Katz said on Tuesday the country’s military will "respond forcefully" to what he said was Iran’s violation of the ceasefire, Reuters reports. The directive followed an announcement by the military that it had detected…

Donald Trump has again claimed the U.S “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear facilities and called Tehran’s response “very weak”, with 13 out of 14 missiles fired into America's military base in Qatar intercepted. Trump thanked Iran for giving the U.S notice prior to shooting missiles at its base, which he said made it possible for no lives – both Qatari and American – to be lost. “I am pleased to report that NO Americans were harmed, and hardly any damage was done. Most importantly, they’ve gotten it all out of their ‘system,’ and there will, hopefully, be no further HATE,” Trump wrote…

*Warns Citizens Abroad Over Possible Anti-American Demonstrations U.S president Donald Trump on Sunday, June 22, questioned the possibility of regime change in Iran following U.S military strikes against key Iran military and nuclear program sites over the weekend. In a post on his Truth Social media platform, Trump said:"It's not politically correct to use the term, “Regime Change,” but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!" The president said in another post that the damage to the nuclear sites in Iran was said to be “monumental”. He…

Euronews spoke to people in Israel about how they are coping with the country's conflict with Iran and the daily threat of incoming rockets striking residential areas. On Thursday, Jimmy, a volunteer paramedic and one of the first respondents on site during the 7 October Hamas attack, rushed to action when a series of sirens sounded across Holon, a city south of Tel Aviv. "When the sirens sound, first respondents have to get into their vehicles and wait for the calls from the control hub to start coming in," Jimmy, a 36-year-old Arab-Israeli, who grew up in Jordan and East…

' What If The Strikes Hit Us On The Highway?’ As Farhad (not real name, for security reasons) and his friends left Tehran, they had plenty of time to survey the destruction. Smoke billowed from rooftops and flames flickered behind them as they inched their way through miles-long traffic to escape Israel’s bombardment of Iran’s capital city,reports the Guardian UK. Despite leaving early on Tuesday morning, it took Farhad six hours to reach his ancestral village, a journey that usually would take no more than two-and-a-half hours. “Young children, elderly and sick grandparents, you found everyone stuck on the roads,”…

Israel’s Defence Minister, Israel Katz, said today (Thursday, June 19) that Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “can no longer be allowed to exist” after Soroka hospital in southern Israel was hit during an Iranian missile attack, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports. Katz told journalists in Holon near Tel Aviv: "Khamenei openly declares that he wants Israel destroyed – he personally gives the order to fire on hospitals. He considers the destruction of the state of Israel to be a goal, "Such a man can no longer be allowed to exist." At Keast 240 Wounded By Iranian Missile Strikes The Associated…