Mountaineer Falguni Dey’s solo expedition to Asia’s highest volcanic summit, Mount Damavand, in Iran has turned into a battle for survival, as the 40-year-old tries to find a way to leave the country now battered by Israel’s missile strikes..A blizzard had forced him to descend from the su
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The Iran-Israel war has helped strengthen Netanyahu domestically and overseas, just as his grip on power looked vulnerable
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“I don’t care what she said,” Trump told reporters. In his view, Iran was “very close” to having a nuclear bomb.
He added that "we can easily get a deal done between Iran and Israel, and end this bloody conflict!!!"
A network of powerful Iran-backed militias in Iraq has also remained mostly quiet — even though Israel allegedly used Iraq’s airspace, in part, to carry out the attacks.
In Shfela region, another 37 people were wounded
Iran shares the South Pars gas field with Qatar. Striking it would mark a major escalation in the conflict, which had already pushed oil prices up 9% on Friday even though Israel spared Iran's oil and gas on the first day of its attacks
The talks on Iran's nuclear programme began in April, with US President Donald Trump threatening military action if diplomacy failed
After months of urging Israel not to strike Iran while he worked toward a nuclear deal, President Donald Trump told Reuters in a phone interview on Friday that he and his team had known the attacks were coming - and still saw room for an accord.
Iran and Israel traded missiles and airstrikes yesterday, the day after Israel launched a sweeping air offensive against its old enemy, killing commanders and scientists and bombing nuclear sites in a stated bid to stop it from building an atomic weapon.
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Experts say the attacks are unlikely to have delivered a fatal blow
