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...UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called for “calm heads to prevail” in the Middle East, while European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen urged Iran and Israel to “restrain from further action”....
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...The failure of that accord, torpedoed by former US president Donald Trump, helped the hardliners cement their control over all branches of the state....
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...Explosions were first heard in the early hours of Friday morning in the cities of Isfahan, home to an Iranian military base, and Tabriz, prompting Iran’s air defences to shoot at incoming targets....
...command of Iran’s armed forces....
...European stocks edged lower on Friday, but pared most of the initial losses that came amid a global equity market sell-off as traders turned cautious after Israel launched retaliatory strikes against Iran...
...Explosions were heard near the cities of Isfahan in central Iran, home to a military base, and Tabriz in the north west, according to the Tasnim news agency, which is close to Iran’s elite Revolutionary...
...European stocks sank in early trading on Friday amid a global sell-off after Israel launched retaliatory strikes against Iran....
...of tensions between Iran and Israel....
...President Ebrahim Raisi made no mention of the attack when he gave a live televised speech hours later, even though officials have previously vowed to retaliate immediately to any direct Israeli assault...
...The director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency said “a very serious conversation is due” with Iran over its nuclear enrichment capabilities....
...Scholz said Israel should use the success of defending the attack “to strengthen its own position in the whole region and not to respond with its own massive attack.”...
...Oil markets shrugged off Israel’s retaliatory strikes against Iran after a shortlived price spike on Friday, in a sign of investors’ confidence that the action will not escalate into a broader conflict in...
...Ankara blamed Israel for starting the tit-for-tat with its suspected strike on Iran’s consulate in Damascus, which Turkey called a “violation of international law”....
...President Joe Biden urged Israel to, as he put it, take the win and not to strike back at Iran. The Americans, like many others, fear a wider war in the Middle East....
...The US was not involved in any “offensive operations” in Iran overnight, US secretary of state Antony Blinken said on Friday....
...Iran and Israel must “contain themselves”, the EU’s chief diplomat has said, to ensure “the war in Gaza does not spread to the rest of the region”....
...In this case, Iran’s anger is justified. I point this out, not as a supporter of the Iranian regime, but because the consequences of misreporting affect us all....
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