Ehud Olmert, Israel’s prime minister between 2006 and 2009, told Al Jazeera in an interview earlier that the Israeli public was firmly behind Benjamin Netanyahu’s attacks on Iran.
“You know how much I criticise Netanyahu, and I don’t hesitate to say it in the most explicit manner. But 99 percent of Israelis thought that the Israeli attack on Iran was unavoidable and inevitable,” Olmert said.
“And they are very happy that we have succeeded to break down a major part of the military power of Iran,” he added.
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US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites have obliterated the country’s ability to enrich uranium, US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said.
ReplyDelete"The objective was eradicate nuclear enrichment capability, which we did. And even if there was nuclear material that was hidden, it was then to eradicate the conversion, the conversion building, the conversion process that existed at Isfahan, which we did, which now made, rendered it absolutely impossible to weaponize," he said on Fox News.
The BRICS group of countries – a bloc of emerging economies that includes Brazil, China, India, South Africa and Russia – has expressed “grave concern” over the recent Israeli and US strikes against Iran, describing them as a “violation of international law” and the UN Charter.
ReplyDeleteUK, French and German leaders urged Iran to return to the negotiating table to help reduce the tensions in the Middle East, the UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s office said in a statement.
ReplyDeleteThe statement followed his meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on the sidelines of the NATO summit in The Hague.
The Israeli military said on Tuesday it intercepted earlier this evening two drones “most likely from Iran” that were making their way towards Israel.
ReplyDeleteIsrael’s Kan radio said the drones were most likely launched in the morning hours about the same time as the launch of a surface-to-surface missile from Iran.
Oil prices sank for a second straight day and stock markets mostly rose as a ceasefire between Iran and Israel appeared to be holding firm for a second day.
ReplyDeleteSteve Witkoff has dismissed an intelligence report that said US air strikes on Iran’s Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan sites did not destroy the country’s nuclear programme.
ReplyDelete“All three of those had most, if not all, the centrifuges damaged or destroyed in a way that it will be almost impossible for them to resurrect that programme,” Witkoff told Fox News.
“In my view, and in many other experts’ views who have seen the raw data, it will take a period of years.”
Witkoff also called the leaking of the report as “treasonous”.
US strikes have very significantly damaged Iran's nuclear facilities, International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi said on the air of the Fox News channel.
ReplyDeleteBRICS member countries issued a joint statement expressing deep concern over Israeli and US attacks on Iran and saying they violated international law and the UN Charter.
ReplyDelete"We express grave concern over the military strikes against the Islamic Republic of Iran since 13 June 2025, which constitute a violation of international law and the Charter of the United Nations," said the statement issued by the Brazilian Foreign Ministry.
The group, where Brazil holds the rotating presidency this year, also called for making the Middle East free of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction.
The Trump administration has postponed classified briefings about Iran for members of the Senate and the House as lawmakers continue to question the legality of the US’s attacks on Iranian nuclear sites.
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