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ANALYSIS: Israel’s rhetoric has gone up into the use of the N (azi) word as the battlespace is being shaped for more bloodletting, World affairs editor Sam Kiley reports from Tel Aviv

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Here are the key events on day seven of the Israel-Iran conflict.

President Donald Trump reportedly believes bombing Fordow, Iran's nuclear facility buried deep under a mountain, is necessary to prevent the country from obtaining a nuclear weapon

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said that his country’s campaign in Iran “could certainly” lead to regime change. In an interview with Fox News on June 15, he called the government in Tehran “very weak” and added that, given the opportunity, “80% of the [Iranian] people would throw…

The FTSE 100 index closed down 51.67 points, 0.6%, at 8,791.80.

Irish premier Micheal Martin said ‘dialogue is the way to resolve the nuclear issue in terms of Iran’.

Plus: Iran strikes an Israeli hospital, Social Security and Medicare are still running out of money, Trump erects a giant flagpole, and more…

Keir Starmer is weighing up whether to back the US and – as a lawyer – will be aware of the legal landscape

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz said Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei "cannot be allowed to continue to exist" after the latest missile barrage from the country hit a hospital

British PM calls for restraint and a return to diplomacy as Trump delays decision for at least two weeks