The Latest Breaking News from Iran

Tehran, home to 10 million people, suffers from severe traffic congestion making a speedy evacuation impossible.

Trump sought to underline European irrelevance in the Middle East crisis. All now rests on what he proposes

Israel stunned Iran last week with an intelligence and military operation years in the making that struck high-level targets with precision

Israel’s initial attack on Iranian nuclear and military facilities, alongside its assassination of top military officials and nuclear scientists, on June 13 has been followed by days of escalating strikes. Iran threatened “severe punishment” and quickly launched what were, in relative terms, smaller-scale missile attacks against Israeli territory.

In the early hours of June 13, Israel launched its largest-ever attack on Iran. Airstrikes involving more than 200 aircraft targeted nuclear and missile facilities, as well as key figures in the Iranian military and nuclear programme leadership. The attack, codenamed “Operation Rising Lion”, appears to have been supported on…

The NPT bars members that don’t have nuclear weapons from acquiring them. But critics call the treaty discriminatory.

The International Atomic Energy Agency says it believes Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s Natanz enrichment site have had “direct impacts” on the facility’s underground centrifuge halls

Trump reacts to an inconvenient truth.

A partial evacuation order was issued by the Israeli military to 330,000 people living in the centre of Iran’s capital early on Monday.