Iran has filed a complaint to the UN secretary-general and president of the Security Council against the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) head, Rafael Grossi.
Iranian UN ambassador Amir-Saeid Iravani condemned Grossi’s “approach regarding Iran’s peaceful nuclear activities” and what he said was a “failure” to condemn Israel’s military action against Iran, according to the semi-official Iranian news outlet Fars News.
Mohammad Eslami, the head of Iran’s atomic energy agency, threatened legal action on Thursday against Grossi for alleged “inaction” during Israel’s attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities.
In early June, Grossi said Iran had continually evaded providing details on its nuclear programme, meaning the agency “will not be in a position to provide assurance that Iran’s nuclear programme is exclusively peaceful”.
Speaking to the UN Security Council on Friday, Grossi warned that attacks on Iran’s nuclear sites had caused “sharp degradation in nuclear safety and security”.
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There have been reports of an explosion in the central Iranian city of Isfahan, according to the Fars News Agency, which is run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
ReplyDeleteThe city is home to the Isfahan Nuclear Technology Center, Iran’s largest nuclear research complex.
The Israeli military has detected a new Iranian missile attack, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)’s press service said in a statement.
ReplyDeleteShortly after the report, the IDF announced "a series of strikes against missile storage and launching infrastructure sites in central Iran."
Iranian media outlet Tasnim has just published an announcement from the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on the latest missile attack on Israel that took place a little earlier.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the IRGC statement, the attack was the 18th against Israeli targets and was focused on military sites and operational support centres in central Israel, including Ben Gurion international airport.
The attack involved Iran’s domestically designed Shahed-136 drones, which “continuously carried out missions in the skies” over the occupied territory, as well as solid- and liquid-fuelled Iranian missiles.
“The most advanced defence systems were unable to intercept them,” the IRGC said.
The United States probably used negotiations with Iran as a cover-up for its preparations to attack the Islamic Republic, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said.
ReplyDelete"It's up to Americans, the United States again to show their determination for going for a negotiated solution, or they have something else in their mind and they want to attack Iran anyway," Araghchi said. "So they had, perhaps, this plan, and they just needed negotiations, perhaps to cover it up."
He said that in light of the recent events, Tehran has little trust in Washington.
"What they did was, in fact, a betrayal to diplomacy," the top Iranian diplomat said.
Emergency crews are working to extinguish a fire in a residential building in Holon in Tel Aviv district, central Israel, Israel’s Ynet news reports.
ReplyDeleteThe Israeli outlet reported that “missile interception booms echoed across central and northern Israel at around 2:40am [23:40 GMT] on Saturday”.
It’s currently unclear if the fire was caused by a missile fragment or a direct hit by a missile.
Iran and Israel have exchanged fresh attacks, a day after Tehran said it would not negotiate over its nuclear programme while under threat and Europe tried to keep peace talks alive.
ReplyDeleteShortly after 2:30 am in Israel, the Israeli military warned of an incoming missile barrage from Iran, triggering air raid sirens across parts of central Israel, including Tel Aviv, as well as in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
Interceptions were visible in the sky over Tel Aviv, with explosions echoing across the metropolitan area as Israel's air defence systems responded.
At the same time, Israel launched a new wave of attacks against missile storage and launch infrastructure sites in Iran, the Israeli military said.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said there was no room for negotiations with the US "until Israeli aggression stops". But he arrived in Geneva yesterday for talks with European foreign ministers at which Europe hopes to establish a path back to diplomacy.
ReplyDeleteUS President Donald Trump reiterated that he would take as long as two weeks to decide whether the United States should enter the conflict on Israel's side, enough time "to see whether or not people come to their senses", he said.
Irán lanza su decimoctava oleada de ataques contra Israel
ReplyDeleteLos objetivos de esta nueva ofensiva iraní fueron instalaciones de la industria de defensa, centros de mando, empresas de apoyo a las operaciones militares del Gobierno de Israel y las bases aéreas de Nevatim y Hatzerim, informó el Cuerpo de la Guardia Revolucionaria Islámica (CGRI), como parte de su nuevo informe de la operación Promesa Verdadera 3.
Tehran will be ready to deliver retaliatory strikes on the US military in the Middle East if Washington joins Israel’s military operation, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told NBC News in an interview.
ReplyDelete"When there is a war, both sides attack each other. That's quite understandable, and self defense is a legitimate rights of every country," he said when asked whether Iran would target the US military in the Middle East in case of an attack.
In his opinion, "what it needs is only a telephone call from Washington to Tel Aviv to stop everything."
President Donald Trump said Friday that Iran had a “maximum” of two weeks to avoid possible US air strikes, indicating he could take a decision before the fortnight deadline he set a day earlier.
ReplyDeleteTrump added that he was not inclined to stop Israel attacking Iran because it was “winning,” and was dismissive of European efforts to mediate an end to the conflict.