Israel launches strikes against Iran
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Israel continued attacking Iran, with US President Donald Trump warning the violence will only get worse and urging Tehran’s government to strike a nuclear deal before it’s too late. After killing key Iranian military and scientific officials in pre-dawn attacks,
Israel launched Operation Rising Lion against Iran's nuclear facilities in the early hours of Friday morning, and Newsweek maps show where airstrikes took place. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attacks were "a targeted military operation to roll back the Iranian threat to Israel's very survival.
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President Donald Trump has issued a stark warning to Iran, urging the country to accept a nuclear deal to avoid further “planned attacks,” citing that “there has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter… come to an end.”
Iran said Friday after Israel's strikes on multiple Iranian targets that it is pulling out of nuclear talks with the United States.
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The push by the Trump administration to persuade Tehran to give up its nuclear program came after the U.S. and other world powers in 2015 reached a long-term, comprehensive nuclear agreement that limited Tehran’s enrichment of uranium in exchange for the lifting of economic sanctions.
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The Israeli military launched a massive attack on Iran on Friday in a dramatic escalation of their long-running conflict that drew early retaliation from Tehran and raised the risk of another war in the Middle East.
President Donald Trump warned Thursday of the possibility of “massive conflict” in the Middle East that could take place “soon.”
Precision weapons were also smuggles into central Iran and strategically positioned near surface-to-air missile systems, the official said, adding that Israel also deployed strike systems on vehicles. Israeli media reported that these systems ‘took out’ Iran’s air defences and gave Israeli planes ‘air supremacy’.