In pic: Israel scrambles F-15 jet after Iran airstrike
Israeli Air Force F-15 fighter jet flies above at the scene where Iranian ballistic missiles struck residential buildings in Beer Sheba, southern Israel (EPA)
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar20 June 2025 07:40
UN’s nuclear watchdog says key buildings damaged at Iran’s Khondab site
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has information that key buildings at Iran’s Khondab heavy water research site were damaged in Israeli strikes, including the distillation unit, it said in an X post.
The information was an update on an assessment from yesterday, in which the IAEA said the reactor has been hit but there were no radiological effects.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar20 June 2025 07:38
United, American, Delta suspending flights to Middle East
Major US airlines have suspended some flights to the Middle East amid the Israel-Iran conflict.
Delta Air Lines and United Airlines have suspended flights to Tel Aviv amid the strikes and now US carriers are grounding flights to other Middle Eastern countries as the conflict intensifies.
United Airlines suspended flights between Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey and Dubai yesterday, citing, “conflict in the region,” CBS News reported.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar20 June 2025 07:32
Live: View of Tel Aviv after dozens injured in Iran missile strike on Israel hospital
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar20 June 2025 07:05
Russia warns nuclear plant strike will cause ‘Chernobyl-style catastrophe’
The head of Russia’s nuclear energy corporation has warned that an Israeli attack on Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant could lead to a “Chernobyl-style catastrophe”.
An Israeli military spokesperson said Israel had struck the site, but an Israeli military official later called this statement “a mistake” and said he could neither confirm nor deny that the Bushehr site on the cost of the Gulf had been hit.
Bushehr is Iran’s only operating nuclear power plant and was built by Russia.
President Vladimir Putin told reporters yesterday that Israel had promised Russia that Moscow’s workers – who are building more nuclear facilities at the Bushehr site – would be safe, even as Israel tries to degrade Iran’s nuclear capabilities by force.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar20 June 2025 07:00
In pics: Aftermath of Iran’s missile strike on Israel today
Aftermath of Iran’s missile strike on Israel (REUTERS)
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Alisha Rahaman Sarkar20 June 2025 06:46
Rubio says UK agrees Iran ‘can’t have nuclear weapons’
US secretary of state Marco Rubio met British foreign minister David Lammy yetserday and held separate calls with Australian foreign minister Penny Wong, French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot and Italian foreign minister Antonio Tajani to discuss the conflict between Israel and Iran.
The state department said that Mr Rubio and the foreign ministers agreed that “Iran can never develop or acquire a nuclear weapon”.
Mr Lammy said the same on X while adding that the situation in the Middle East “remained perilous” and a “window now exists within the next two weeks to achieve a diplomatic solution”.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar20 June 2025 06:36
How war reduced bustling Tehran to a desert of empty streets
While Iranian officials continue to issue confident claims that they are “fully prepared”, “responding decisively” and “managing the crisis”, the reality on the ground tells a very different story.
On day six of Israeli strikes, Iranians are facing streets filled with fear, empty shelves at stores, long queues for bread and fuel, and promises of bomb shelters that do not actually exist.
In a country that does not even have functioning air raid sirens, what people are feeling deeply, in every sense, is a slow collapse of both safety and hope.
Even if they survive the missiles, the trauma of these days will linger for years.
Reports from Tehran and other Iranian cities reveal that despite decades of threats against Israel, the Islamic Republic has no real plan in place to protect civilians during wartime.
Now, the same population already battered by the regime’s chronic mismanagement and deepening economic hardship is facing the added burden of war, and all the suffering that comes with it.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar20 June 2025 05:53
Breaking: Fire erupts near Microsoft office in Israel after Iran airstrikes
Several fires were burning in a street in Israel’s southern city of Beer Sheba, close to a tech park that houses a Microsoft office, according to reports.
A loud explosion was heard in Beer Sheba in southern Israel after Iran launched a barrage of missiles.
Buildings were damaged in the new Iranian missile attack, but there were no casualties reported, local media said.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar20 June 2025 05:46
Israel says it struck dozens of military targets in Iran
The Israeli military this morning said it carried out strikes on dozens of military targets in Iran overnight.
The military claimed it struck the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research, which it said is involved in Iran’s nuclear weapons development.
More than 60 fighter jets were involved in the strikes, dropping 120 munitions, according to the military.
“Among the targets were military industrial sites producing missile components and facilities for manufacturing raw materials used in casting missile engines,” it claimed.
Alisha Rahaman Sarkar20 June 2025 05:37