(Corrects spelling mistake in paragraph 5) By Kirsty Needham SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Monday that Canberra supported the United States strike on Iran and called for de-escalation and a return to diplomacy. “The world has long agreed that Iran cannot be allowed to get a nuclear weapon and we support …
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By Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Commercial satellite imagery indicates the U.S. attack on Iran’s Fordow nuclear plant severely damaged – and possibly destroyed – the deeply-buried site and the uranium-enriching centrifuges it housed, but there was no confirmation, experts said on Sunday. “They just punched through with these MOPs,” said David Albright, a former U.N. …
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By Parisa Hafezi, Phil Stewart and Maayan Lubell ISTANBUL/WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM (Reuters) -The world braced on Sunday for Iran’s response after the U.S. attacked key Iranian nuclear sites, joining Israel in the biggest Western military action against the Islamic Republic since its 1979 revolution. Iran vowed to defend itself a day after the U.S. dropped 30,000-pound bunker-buster …
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday questioned the possibility of regime change in Iran following U.S. military strikes against key Iran military sites over the weekend. “It’s not politically correct to use the term, “Regime Change,” but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be …
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VIENNA (Reuters) -Entrances to tunnels used to store part of Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile at the sprawling Isfahan nuclear complex were hit in U.S. military strikes overnight, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Sunday. “We have established that entrances to underground tunnels at the site were impacted,” the International Atomic Energy Agency said in a …
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(Reuters) -Israel is very close to completing its goal of removing the dual threats of Iran’s ballistic missiles and nuclear programme, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday. He promised not to let Israel be dragged into a war of attrition but also said he would not end the Iran campaign prematurely. “We won’t pursue …
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By John Irish and Parisa Hafezi PARIS/ISTANBUL (Reuters) -In a bid to defuse the conflict over Iran’s nuclear program, foreign ministers from Europe’s top three powers hurried to meet their Iranian counterpart on Friday in Geneva. Those hopes collapsed on Saturday when U.S. President Donald Trump ordered airstrikes on Iran’s three main nuclear sites, in …
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PARIS (Reuters) -France has evidence that Iran has used intermediaries in the past to hire drug traffickers to carry out activities in France on its behalf and could do so again, Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau said on Sunday. France is on heightened alert following U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities overnight. “Iran uses proxies that …
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(Reuters) -U.S. forces have struck Iran’s key nuclear sites, drawing threats from Tehran to retaliate, with U.S. military installations in the region a potential target. Following are significant U.S. facilities in the Middle East: BAHRAIN: Home to the headquarters of the U.S. Navy’s Fifth Fleet, whose area of responsibility includes the Gulf, Red Sea, Arabian …
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FRANKFURT (Reuters) -The leaders of Britain, France and Germany on Sunday urged Iran not to take any actions that would further destabilise the region following U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities overnight. “We have consistently been clear that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon and can no longer pose a threat to regional security,” …
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