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Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, rejected United States (U.S) calls for surrender and warned that joining the war would lead to “irreparable damage”, as Israel ramped up rhetoric about regime change and again ordered civilians to evacuate a district in Tehran, the Iranian capital. Khamenei added that Israel made a “huge mistake” by launching the war, in his first comments since last Friday. He said in a statement read out by a presenter on state TV: "Intelligent people who know Iran, the Iranian nation, and its history will never speak to this nation in threatening language because the Iranian…

Donald Trump has posted on social media that the United States knows the location of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He added that the US would not kill Khamenei but called for Iran’s “unconditional surrender”. “We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding. He is an easy target, but is safe there - We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now. But we don’t want missiles shot at civilians, or American soldiers. Our patience is wearing thin. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Trump posted on his social media…

U.S president Donald Trump said on Tuesday, June 17, that he was aiming for a “real end” to the conflict between arch-rivals Israel and Iran, and not just a ceasefire, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports. According to him, it was in Iran's hands to end the fighting by completely giving up her nuclear weapons efforts. There has yet been no reaction to this from Tehran, which had repeatedly stated that the country's nuclear program was not for mass destruction as supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had issued a religious edict against such. However, Israel refuses to trust Iran's words on the…

*Ceasefire 'Offer' Made, Says French President U.S president Donald Trump has said “everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!” hours after Israel issued an evacuation order to residents of a large part of the Iranian capital on Monday. “Iran should have signed the “deal” I told them to sign. What a shame, and waste of human life. Simply stated, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. I said it over and over again! Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!,” the US president said in a post on his social media platform Truth Social. Washington and Tehran had been in the midst of nuclear…

The Iranian state-backed news agency Fars reported that the authorities had executed a man found guilty of spying for Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad. It was the third execution of an alleged spy in recent weeks. Iran’s Chief Justice, Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei, vowed there would be speedy trials of anyone arrested on suspicion of collaboration. “If someone is arrested for having ties to and collaborating with the Zionist regime, their trial and punishment should be carried out and announced very quickly, in accordance with the law and given the war conditions,” Ejei said, quoted by the Tasnim news agency. The…

Two U.S officials told Reuters today that President Donald Trump threw out an Israeli plan to kill Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “Have the Iranians killed an American yet? No. Until they do, we’re not even talking about going after the political leadership,” one of the sources, a senior U.S administration official, told Reuters . Separately, upon being asked about the reported plan, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said: “I’m not going to get into that.” Israel has a reputation of targeting and assassinating political and military heads of organizations she deems pose an existential threat to her. Already…

Israel and Iran exchanged another round of strikes late on Saturday and into Sunday, June 15, with at least eight people killed in Israel when Iranian missiles penetrated air defences in the north and centre of the country as well as hitting a science institute near Tel Aviv. The latest wave of Iranian attacks began shortly after 11 pm on Saturday, June 14, when air raid sirens blared in Jerusalem and Haifa. Israeli media said at least 35 people were missing after a strike hit Bat Yam, a city south of Tel Aviv, in a second wave of strikes for…

A journalist for Israel's Haaretz newspaper and a resident of Tel Aviv, Gideon Levy, has just spoken to the BBC about Iran's missile attacks on the city earlier this evening. In an interview for Newshour, Levy, who had been seeking refuge in a public shelter in the city, said: "We heard quite loud the explosions. Not a very pleasant feeling.'' Asked whether the Iranian missiles had been intercepted or hit the ground, he added: "Part were intercepted, but part fall (sic). "There were at least two cases where they fell directly on buildings and destroyed them partially. There are no…

*78 Killed, Hundreds Injured --Iranian State Media *UN Security Council Meets Today Over Crisis *Hamas, Iran's Ally, Mocks Israel U.S president Donald Trump has urged Iran to make a deal over its nuclear programme, saying in a post today on his Truth Social platform that there was still time for the country to prevent further conflict with Israel. The post stated: "I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them, in the strongest of words, to “just do it,” but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn’t get…

*Launches 100 Drones, Some Intercepted by Jordan *'Israeli Strikes Now Justify Need For Iran's Nuclear Bomb, We'll Go Ahead' *Israel, A Terrorist Nation -Iran Iran vowed to avenge the attack on its nuclear sites and the assassination in Tehran of its senior military leadership, saying it would respond forcefully and that the “end of this story will be written by Iran’s hand," reports today's edition of The Guardian UK. In the first signs of a counterstrike, Israel said Iran had launched 100 drones towards Israel and that its air defences were intercepting them outside Israeli territory. Iraq said more than…