June 20, 2025 06:44 am IST
Iran is set to engage in nuclear dialogue with the Foreign Ministers of Britain, France and Germany and the European Union’s top diplomat in Geneva on Friday.
Israel and Iran traded the missile strike on Thursday, in which the two countries caused heavy damage to each other. Among the largest parts of the struggle so far, Iran launched a barrage of missiles coming to the largest hospital in Southern Israel, however, Iran said the attacks were for the country’s military infrastructure. The attacks injured hundreds of people in Israel. Parallel, Israel, one of the major nuclear sites of Iran, hit Arak heavy water reactor, a few hours after issuing a withdrawal order.
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Iran’s tireless attacks on Israel came after being asked to surrender, a call that Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected firmly. After Thursday’s strike at the hospital, Israel vowed to take revenge and said Khameni would be held responsible for the attack.
Here are the top 10 updates on the Israel-Iran conflict:
- On Thursday, some 240 people were injured in the Iranian strike, who killed some residential buildings in Soroka Hospital in Southern Israel and Tel Aviv, which also caused widespread damage, AP reported.
- After Iran’s attacks, one of the biggest attacks ever in the ongoing struggle, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said that Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would be held responsible for this. He said that the Israeli army has been “instructed and knows that to achieve all his goals, this man should not exist completely.”
- Continuing its attack on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, Israel attacked the Ark Heavy Water Reactor on Thursday. According to the Iranian state television, there was no radiation leakage. The nuclear facility was also evacuated before the attack.
- In an email to Reuters on Thursday, the Israeli embassy in Washington said, “Before today, the Iranian armed forces launched a missile equipped with cluster bombal towards a densely populated civilian area in Israel.” Email did not disclose the exact location of the said attack.
- The statement said, “Iran has deliberately and illegally enhanced the threat to civil life by targeting residential areas with such widespread impact weapons. This is the first informed use of the cluster monshan in the ongoing struggle.
- United States Donald Trump According to the White House, in the next two weeks, we will decide that the ongoing Middle East struggle be aggressively entered and Iran should be attacked. It states that Trump sees a “enough” opportunity that the US and Israel demands on Iran’s nuclear program can be obtained through talks.
- Iran is set to engage in nuclear dialogue with the Foreign Ministers of Britain, France and Germany and the European Union’s top diplomat in Geneva on Friday. It is not yet known whether the United States will be involved in these dialogues.
- Confirming the meeting with the UK and the European Union leaders, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Aragchi said, “We will meet with the European delegation in Geneva on Friday,” according to a statement made by the state news agency IRNA.
- Britain’s Foreign Minister David Lammi met his United States counterpart Maro Rubio on Thursday with a special messenger of the White House with the Middle East Steve Vitcooff and discussed the ongoing Middle East Conflict, while Iran could not have a nuclear weapon.
- “We are determined that Iran should never have nuclear weapons … A window is now present within the next two weeks to get a diplomatic solution … Now it is time to stop serious scenes in the Middle East and to prevent a regional growth, which will not benefit anyone,” a statement said.
With agency input.
