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' 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…

*As Iran Hits Israeli Hospital *Trump Mulls Deployment Of Extraordinary Military Weapon Iraq’s top Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, warned against targeting Iran’s leadership and said that the Iran-Israel war could plunge the whole region into chaos, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports. Sistani said in a statement on Thursday,June 19, that any targeting of Iran’s “supreme religious and political leadership” would have “dire consequences on the region." He warned that it could spark “widespread chaos that would exacerbate the suffering of its [the region’s] people and severely harm everyone’s interests." Sistani urged the international community to “make every effort to…

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…