The Latest Breaking News from Tehran

“She said she’s safe,” 17-year-old Hassan Syed told The News Minute, “but the uncertainty is scary.”

Tehran began emptying early on Tuesday after US President Donald Trump urged the immediate evacuation of the Iranian capital amid intensifying Israeli airstrikes.

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

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.

US president says Iran must stop uranium enrichment entirely for conflict to end, as Iran says it is open to talks

As Israeli air strikes on Tehran show no sign of abating, many residents have fled the Iranian capital.