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Iran Says U.S. ‘Decided To Destroy Diplomacy’ By Striking Nuclear Sites

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – The world struggled with enormous inferences on Sunday after wearing the United States Israeli War Against Iran With an attack This revealed urgent questions about what remained from Tehran’s nuclear program and how the weakened army could react.

Some observers, the future of efforts around the world The spread of nuclear weapons It would be in danger in the coming days.

Iran attacked the United States because it passed a “very large red line”. risky decision Missiles and three Iranian nuclear fields of 30,000 pounds shelter bombs.

“The US attacked us; what would you do in such a situation? Naturally, they need to get a response to their aggression” Masoud Pesshkian According to the president’s website, he said during his call with the leader of France.

Iran’s Ambassador to UN Amir Saeid Iravani said that at an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council, the US decided to destroy diplomacy and that the Iranian army would decide the “timing, nature and scale of the country’s proportional reaction”.

The UN Amir Saeid Iravani’s permanent representative of Iran left the United Nations Security Council Emergency Meeting in New York on 22 June 2025 the day after the US launched strikes to Iran’s nuclear facilities.

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The fears of a wider regional conflict seemed great. The IRNA News Agency, operated by the state, said that any country used by the United States to strike by the US to strike by the US will be a legitimate target for our armed forces.

Trump management sent an open message That he wanted to restart diplomatic talks with Iran. Im Let’s meet directly, dedi he said in an interview with Foreign Minister Marco Rubio CBS. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the United States is not looking for war.

However, Tehran said that the time of diplomacy has passed and had the right to defense. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was flying to Moscow for coordination with nearby ally Russia.

President Donald Trump, who Congress took action without authorityIf Tehran retaliate to US forces, he was previously warned about additional strikes. Tens of thousands of American soldiers in the Middle East.

Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Fordo and Natanz enrichment facilities as well as Isfahan Nuclear Region. Iran and the UN nuclear guard dog, said there was no sign of radioactive contamination.

Trump claimed that the US sites “completely and completely destroyed ,, but the Pentagon reported“ constant, extremely severe damage and destruction ”. The Israeli army spokesman Effie Defrin said, “Damage is deep ,, but an assessment with the US continued.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu late on Sunday, we are very close to achieving our goals in lifting Iran’s nuclear and missile threats. ”

The United Nations Security Council, General Rafael Grossi, Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks through the video during an emergency meeting on strikes against US nuclear facilities in New York on June 22, 2025.
The United Nations Security Council, General Rafael Grossi, Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, speaks through the video during an emergency meeting on strikes against US nuclear facilities in New York on June 22, 2025.

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Rafael Mariano Grossi, President of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said the UN Security Council is not in a position to evaluate underground damage in Fordo, which was excavated in depths of a mountain, but the visible craters were monitored by US announcements. IAEA said inspectors should be allowed to look at the sites. The UN Nuclear Keeper’s Board of Directors planned to hold an emergency meeting on Monday.

Grossi stressed that there is a path for diplomacy, but if this fails, “violence and destruction can reach irreparable levels” and global efforts in the prevention of nuclear nuclear weapons can be “disintegrated”.

By attack performed without detectionUnited States He put himself into a war He tried to escape for decades. Success may mean to end Iran’s nuclear ambitions and eliminate the last important state threat for the security of Israel, the close ally. Failure – or over -access – can insert the US into another Long and unpredictable conflict.

For the Supreme Leader of Iran, it can mark the end of a campaign to transform the Islamic Republic into a larger regional power that keeps the enriched nuclear material one step away from the grade of weapons. Ayatullah Ali Khamenei Lastly spoke to the public on Wednesday and said that the strikes aiming at the Islamic Republic of the US would result in irreparable damage to them ”.

Iran has been beaten by Israel’s greatest attack so far Started on June 13annoyed Recitation optionslike The key allies are mostly outside conflict. It can attack US forces deployed in the Middle East with missiles and rockets that Israel has not destroyed. The hormuz, the global oil materials between the United Arab Emirates, can try to close an important bottleneck for the Strait.

Or it may rush to develop a nuclear weapon with the rest of the program. Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, the program will not be stopped, he said.

New questions about Iran’s nuclear stocks

A Maxar satellite image reveals multiple buildings that have been damaged or destroyed by Iran's Isfahan nuclear area after being bombed by the US on 22 June 2025.
A Maxar satellite image reveals multiple buildings that have been damaged or destroyed by Iran’s Isfahan nuclear area after being bombed by the US on 22 June 2025.

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Iran for a long time nuclear program is peaceful and US intelligence agencies Tehran has not actively bombed bombs. However, Trump and Israeli leaders argued that Iran could quickly form a nuclear weapon.

Israel significantly broke Iran’s air defenses and aggressive missile capabilities and damaged nuclear enrichment facilities. However, only the US army has the bunker-bullet bombs, which authorities believe that they have the chance to destroy deep places underground. Total 14 bomb According to Pentagon, it was used in Natanz and Fordo.

Experts tried to answer the urgent question: What happened to Iran’s uranium and centrifugal stocks?

Satellite images taken by Planet Labs PBC damage the facility after the US strike analyzed by Associated Press. They recommend that Iran’s entrance tunnels with dirt with Fordo and there are trucks at the facility in front of the strikes.

Many Iranian officials, including the Iranian spokesman Behrouz Kamalvandi, including the atomic energy organization, claimed that Iran has removed nuclear material from targeted places.

Before the start of the Israeli military campaign, Iran said it declared a third, unknown site as a new enrichment facility.

Darya Dolzikova, a senior research assistant focusing on non -senior issues of the Royal United Services Institute, said, “Iran continues to where Iran hides its already enriched stocks… Because these are almost absolutely hardened and unexplained through potential Israel or US strikes,” he said.

Global leaders responded with shock and call for restriction. He warned the Egyptian region for the region. Bahrain, hosting the US Navy’s fifth -based fleet of the Middle East -based, called on Iran and the USA to “continue to meet quickly”.

Trump’s decision and risks

On June 22, 2025, a demonstrator holds a sign during a protest against us to enter war with Iran outside the White House on the Washington DC.
On June 22, 2025, a demonstrator holds a sign during a protest against us to enter war with Iran outside the White House on the Washington DC.

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Decision to attack a Risky for TrumpWinning the White House partially promising Keeping America away from expensive external conflicts.

However, Trump also promised that Iran would not allow a nuclear weapon. Initially, he hoped that the threat of power would bring the country’s leaders to give up their nuclear program.

Strikes for Netanyahu were the peak of a decimal campaign to allow the US to hit Israel’s chief regional opponent and its controversial nuclear program. Netanyahu praised Trump to Trump, saying that he would “change history”.

Israel is widely believed Being the only Middle East country with nuclear weapons, but the country never accepted it.

Iran and Israel further attack trade

It is a damaged building after a missile strike from Iran in Tel Aviv, Israel on Sunday, June 22, 2025.
It is a damaged building after a missile strike from Iran in Tel Aviv, Israel on Sunday, June 22, 2025.

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Israel’s military chief Lieutenant Gen. Eyal Amir called the US attack as “turning point ,, but added:“ We still have goals and goals to complete to strike ”.

Iran’s paramilitary revolutionary guard, 40 missile dams in Israelincluding KHORRAMSHAHR-4, which can carry multiple war heads. Israeli officials said more than 80 people were mostly subjected to minor injuries.

On Sunday, the Israeli army said that he had hit the military infrastructure areas in Tehran and Western Iran again. Previously, explosions exploded in Bushehr, which was home to Iran’s single nuclear power plant. Israeli army, Bushehr, Isfahan and Ahvaz missile launchers, as well as KHorramshahr missiles said that the storage of a command center, he said.

According to Washington -based human rights activists, Israeli strikes on Iran killed at least 865 people and wounded 3,396 people. The group, the dead, 363 civilians and 215 security forces staff, he said. At least 24 people were killed in Israel and more than 1,000 injured.

On the Iranian border of Türkiye, he defended the nuclear program of an Iranian country separated.

“We were thinking about our own business,” said Behnam Puran.

Associated Press writers in Iran Nasser Karimi, Mehdi Fattahi and Amir Vahdat; Morristown, New Jersey Aamer Madhani; Julia Frankel in Jerusalem; Melanie Lidman in Tel Aviv; Rhode Island, Lolita Baldor in Narragrassett; Samy Magdy in Cairo; Van, Rusen Takva in Türkiye; Joah Boak in Washington; Edith M. Lederer and Türkiye in the United Nations contributed to this story in Ankara.

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