Iran had closed its skies since June 13 after Israel launched a major bombing campaign

President Donald Trump yesterday insisted that US strikes led to the “total obliteration” of Iran’s nuclear capabilities, contrary to a leaked US intelligence report that assessed those did not destroy the core components of the programme and likely only set it back by months. 

People in Tehran said the hours of darkness before Trump’s truce took hold were the most terrifying of the war as Israel intensified its bombardment.

United States President Donald Trump is attempting a high-risk manoeuvre in bombing Iran and then quickly seeking to de-escalate tensions, analysts told Al Jazeera.

Elections being planned by Myanmar’s ruling junta are a ploy to feign legitimacy and should be rejected by the international community as a “fraud”, a UN expert said yesterday.

A senior Hamas official told AFP yesterday that talks for a Gaza ceasefire between Israel and the Palestinian group “intensified in recent hours” with mediator countries.

US President Donald Trump took a victory lap at Nato’s Hague summit yesterday, joining leaders in reaffirming the “ironclad” commitment to protect each other after allies agreed to his demand to ramp up defence spending.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States would hold nuclear talks with Iran next week

The US strikes on Sunday hit key sites of Fordo, Isfahan and Natanz

Everything has been carefully choreographed at the gathering in The Hague to keep the volatile US president on board

Iran and Israel agreed a ceasefire on Tuesday ending 12 days of tit-for-tat strikes between the longtime foes.

"I think great progress is being made on Gaza, I think because of this attack that we made," said Trump

Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), was speaking to reporters at an Austrian cabinet meeting in Vienna.

"It was very severe. There was obliteration," he added.

Rubio dismissed the media reports as "false" and said they did not capture the full picture, according to Politico.

The move follows an air war with Israel in which Iran's longtime enemy said it wanted to prevent Tehran developing a nuclear weapon.

A survey released last week said 83% of Jewish Israelis supported the assault on Iran and pollsters said they expected Netanyahu's Likud party,

In a separate incident, a soldier was severely wounded also in southern Gaza, the military added in a statement on Wednesday.

Trump was drawing attention to no attempts by Iran so far to close the Strait of Hormuz to oil tankers

Mamdani, meanwhile, is backed by the Democratic Socialists of America