5 h. ago Britain warns Trump's 'bullseye' air strikes on Iran won't stop Tehran developing nuclear weapons

The US president authorised bombings of key nuclear sites, including the heavily fortified Fordow plant

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6 h. ago Trump’s war with Iran signals perilous shift from showman to strongman

The emergence of Hawk Trump dismayed some of his Maga base but students of US adventurism were unsurprisedSo the military parade that brought tanks to the streets of Washington on Donald Trump’s birthday was more than just an authoritarian ego trip. It was a show of strength and statement of intent.Exactly a week later, sporting a “Make America great again” (Maga) cap in the situation room, the American president ordered the biggest US military intervention in decades as more than 125 aircraft and 75 weapons – including 14 bunker-busting bombs – struck three Iranian nuclear sites. Trump called it a “spectacular military success” – but it remains unclear how much damage had actually been inflicted. Continue reading...

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6 h. ago Former UK Ambassador to Iran says Britain has always wanted 'lasting solution' to Iran's growing Nuclear weapons programme

It comes after US President Donald Trump sensationally called for regime change, suggesting a new leader could 'Make Iran Great Again'.

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7 h. ago David Lammy repeatedly declines to say whether British government believes US strikes on Iran were illegal – UK politics live

Keir Starmer backs strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities and calls on Tehran to return to negotiations but warns of ‘risk of escalation’ in Middle EastArmed forces minister Luke Pollard also appeared on the media round today, and stuck to the government line of not commenting on US action against Iran.He told viewers of Sky News that “it’s not for me to comment on the particular US action, but we’re assessing the battle damage at the moment to understand the true extent of the strikes.”I’m sorry that (the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) has since been breached, of course I am, but that’s why the international community is ultimately committed to this. And let’s be clear, if Iran is able to enrich beyond 60%, is able to get a weapon, what we will see is nuclear proliferation across the Middle East, the world will be seriously more dangerous than it is at the moment, that’s why it must be stopped.I went straight to Geneva to sit with the Iranians. I spent seven hours in Geneva to ta...

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8 h. ago Trump hails 'bullseye' Iran strikes but UK warns they won't stop Tehran developing nuclear weapons

The US president authorised bombings of key nuclear sites, including the heavily fortified Fordow plant

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23 h. ago Starmer backs Trump’s bombing of Iran saying it ‘can never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon’

Prime minister backs US president as he bombs Iranian nuclear sites and says key facilities ‘completely and totally obliterated’

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23 h. ago Trump administration denies wanting war with Iran or regime change after nuclear site bombing raid

With the world reeling after Trump’s attack on Iran, US defence secretary Pete Hegseth insisted that the operation was only about ending Tehran’s ambitions for nuclear weapons

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24 h. ago Iran strikes back: Foreign minister brands Trump a 'lawless bully' who 'betrayed diplomacy' after US blew up three nuclear bases in overnight strike

In a press conference after the strikes, US President Donald Trump said he had 'obliterated' Iran's nuclear weapons programme, and warned of the possibility of more attacks to come.

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26 h. ago Keir Starmer warns of 'risk of escalation' after Donald Trump launches US strikes on Iran

He added that Iran having a nuclear weapon was the 'greatest threat to stability' in the Middle East

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27 h. ago No matter what Trump says, the US has gone to war – and there will be profound and lasting consequences | Simon Tisdall

Trump has fallen slap bang into the trap laid for him by Netanyahu. His reckless gamble makes a nuclear weapon for Iran more, not less, likelyBombing will not make Iran go away. US bombs will not destroy the knowhow needed to build a nuclear weapon or the will do so, if that is what Tehran wants. The huge attack ordered by Donald Trump will not halt ongoing open warfare between Israel and Iran. It will not bring lasting peace to the Middle East, end the slaughter in Gaza, deliver justice to the Palestinians, or end more than half a century of bitter enmity between Tehran and Washington.More likely, Trump’s rash, reckless gamble will inflame and exacerbate all these problems. Depending on how Iran and its allies and supporters react, the region could plunge into an uncontrolled conflagration. US bases in the Persian Gulf and elsewhere in the region, home to about 40,000 American troops, must now be considered potential targets for retaliation – and possibly British and allied forces,...

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29 h. ago Inside Trump's attack on Iran nuke bases with 'bunker buster' bombs and missiles

The major US operation is said to have targeted Iran’s nuclear sites using some of its most powerful weapons, according to Donald Trump - including six 30,000lb bunker-busting bombs

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31 h. ago Starmer backs Trump’s bombing of Iran saying it ‘can never be allowed to develop nuclear weapon’

US president bombs Iranian nuclear sites and says key facilities 'completely and totally obliterated’

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32 h. ago Keir Starmer backs strike by Trump's US on Iran saying its nuclear weapons are 'a grave threat to international security'

The Prime Minister said that Tehran's atomic programme was 'a grave threat to international security' after bombers dropped 30,000-pound 'bunker buster' bombs on the Fordow nuclear facility.

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52 h. ago Putin declares ‘all of Ukraine is ours’ in latest blow to peace talks

Putin also hinted that Moscow stands ready to use a nuclear weapon if Kyiv’s forces used a so-called ‘dirty bomb’ - but Ukraine has denied it would ever do so

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58 h. ago Iran is the enemy Netanyahu has always wanted to destroy. Even from their bomb shelters, most Israelis support his war | Aluf Benn

Within Israel, Iran is seen as the ultimate threat. The prime minister knows this is his chance to rewrite his bloodied legacy “It’s 1938 and Iran is Germany The Jewish people will not allow a second Holocaust.” Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, recited slogans like these incessantly for decades, urging action against the gravest threat to the Jewish state – a nuclear-armed Iran. He conveyed the message to successive US presidents. He presented a bomb cartoon at the UN. At countless Holocaust memorial events he described Iran’s nuclear ambitions as the present-day “final solution”.Netanyahu talked and talked about the pressing Iranian threat, but his listeners were not convinced. They dismissed him as an alarmist whose deadline Iran crossed year after year without deploying a nuclear weapon (it still hasn’t). Netanyahu’s critics at home taunted him as a chicken who would never dare to attack Iran’s nuclear installations – unlike his more decisive predecessors, who had ord...

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59 h. ago Israel and Iran launch new attacks as Tehran says it will not negotiate nuclear programme while under threat

Israel’s foreign minister says its strikes have delayed Iran’s potential to develop a nuclear weapon by ‘at least two or three years’Iran and Israel exchanged fresh strikes early on Saturday, after Tehran said it would not negotiate over its nuclear programme while under threat and Israel claimed its attacks had delayed Iran’s potential to develop a nuclear weapon by “at least two or three years”.Shortly after 2.30am the Israeli military warned of an incoming missile barrage from Iran, triggering air raid sirens across parts of central Israel, including Tel Aviv, as well as in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Continue reading...

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59 h. ago Trump's top spy confirms worst fears about Iran after public rebuke from president as US prepares military strike

Trump's Director of National Intelligence had testified in March that the U.S. intelligence community 'continues to assess Iran is not building a nuclear weapon.'

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2 d. ago What I saw as one of the only people allowed inside Britain’s only nuclear bunker

The media have been allowed inside the Atomic Weapons Establishment for the first time in a decade. Robert Fox takes a journey into the heart of Britain’s nuclear weapons programme - at a time of increased global tension

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3 d. ago Russia issues 'catastrophic' nuclear warning to US as Trump ponders Iran strikes

United States president Donald Trump has not yet ruled out whether to use American nuclear weapons to attack the underground Fordow enrichment site in Iran

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3 d. ago Revealed: How Trump 'backed out of nuking Iran because only a tactical nuclear weapon would destroy Fordow bunker'

LIVE UPDATES: Follow MailOnline's live coverage of the Israel-Iran conflict as Donald Trump says he will make a final decision within the next two weeks on whether the US will join the fight.

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