Analysis: What’s next for Lammy after Washington visit?

By Dominic Waghorn, international affairs editor

Diplomacy to prevent the conflict between Israel and Iran spiralling further out of control is picking up pace with the UK at its centre.

UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy has met with his US counterpart Marco Rubio and Donald Trump’s chief negotiator Steve Witkoff in Washington and flies next to Geneva.

Sources close to the talks say the meeting in the US capital was positive and the Americans are seeking a diplomatic solution while retaining military action as very much an option on the table.

Lammy flies to meet with Iran’s foreign minister Abbas Araghchi and their French and German counterparts in Geneva tomorrow. He will be taking with him a message to the Iranians from the Trump administration.

Their response could be crucial in what happens next in a conflict that threatens to escalate engulfing the region.

There are limitations to the diplomacy underway not least because Israel is not involved in the talks.

Israelis say Iran cannot be trusted and do not want their stunning military progress jeopardised by weeks of delaying diplomacy fearing the Iranians will play for time.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt answered reporters’ questions on the Israel-Iran conflict and possible US involvement during a news briefing on Thursday.

She read a statement from President Donald Trump saying he will decide whether to launch a US strike on Iran within the next two weeks. He wants to allow diplomatic efforts to proceed before making a final decision on US military action, according to the statement. Leavitt also said a deal with Iran must include no enrichment of uranium.

Here’s what else she said:

On criticism from MAGA allies: Leavitt urged supporters to “trust in President Trump” after some MAGA allies criticized the administration’s consideration of increased US involvement in the conflict.

“President Trump has incredible instincts, and President Trump kept America and the world safe in his first term as president in implementing a peace through strength foreign policy agenda,” Leavitt told reporters during Thursday’s press briefing. “And with respect to Iran, nobody should be surprised by the president’s position that Iran absolutely cannot obtain a nuclear weapon — he’s been unequivocally clear about this for decades, not just as president, not just as a presidential candidate, but also as a private citizen.”

On Iran obtaining a nuclear weapon: Iran has “never been closer to obtaining a nuclear weapon,” she said, when pressed on Trump’s assessment that Iran is “a few weeks away” from it. Asked later to clarify whether that means Iran is close to starting to build a weapon or completing production of one, Leavitt said, “Iran has all that it needs to achieve a nuclear weapon.”

On Iran’s position: Tehran “is in a very weak and vulnerable position” after eight days of escalating conflict with Israel, the press secretary told CNN. The president “has been very direct and clear: Iran can and should make a deal,” she added.

Iran Israel war live updates: The Israeli flag flutters in front of a destroyed building at the site of an Iranian missile attack in Ramat Gan in central Israel near Tel Aviv.

Iran Israel war live updates: The Israel-Iran conflict escalated aggressively on Thursday after relentless strikes rocked both nations on day seven of the military showdown. Israel struck Iran’s Arak heavy water reactor, a key nuclear site, hours after issuing evacuation warnings. Iran also unleashed a barrage of missiles, one of which hit southern Israel’s largest hospital Soroka Medical Center, causing “extensive damage”, said officials. At least 47 people have been injured in Iranian strikes on Israel, according to rescuers. …Read More

Senior officials of the United States are preparing for the possibility of striking Iran in the coming days, Bloomberg reported citing people familiar with the matter.

This comes after US President Donald Trump weighed on Wednesday whether to enter the conflict to aid Israel or not, with no certainty yet on the US’ participation.

“I may do it, I may not do it…I mean, nobody knows what I’m going to do,” said Trump while talking to reporters at the White House.

He also said, “I have ideas as to what to do…I like to make the final decision one second before it’s due because things change, especially with war.”

Some high-ranking European diplomats will hold nuclear talks with Iran on Friday, reported Associated Press citing an European official familiar with the matter, however, there were no plans yet of the United States joining these talks.

An offer of mediation between Iran and Israel has also come from Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese president Xi Jinping.

Iran-Israel conflict | Key updates

At least 240 people have been killed in Iran since Israel began airstrikes on June 13. Israel has reported 24 deaths from Iranian attacks.

Iran’s foreign minister said an Israeli hospital was damaged in a missile attack on Israeli military targets. Israel military targets were nearby.

WASHINGTON − President Donald Trump said there was a “substantial chance” of U.S. negotiations with Iran and that he would decide within two weeks whether diplomacy keeps America out of the ongoing Israel-Iran conflict.

The statement took down the temperature as the world waited for news of whether he would commit U.S. forces to Israel’s campaign against Tehran’s nuclear program.

“Based on the fact that there’s a substantial chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next two weeks,” press secretary Karoline Leavitt said, quoting Trump.

Iran has said it won’t negotiate under duress, raising the question of whether Israel and the U.S. will support a ceasefire in the seven-day conflict.

Earlier on June 18, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed revenge after a hospital was struck by an Iranian ballistic missile.

“This morning, Iran’s terrorist tyrants launched missiles at Soroka Hospital in Beersheba and at a civilian population in the center of the country,” Netanyahu said in a statement. “We will exact the full price from the tyrants in Tehran.”

Iran’s foreign minister said its forces “will continue to pummel the criminals who target our people until they cease and pay for their criminal aggression.”

The conflict has killed at least 240 Iranians and 24 Israelis since June 13. Israeli warplanes struck three nuclear sites in Iran on June 18.

Follow along with USA TODAY for live updates.

Israel says Iran fired major cluster bomb-bearing missile

Iran launched a missile at Israel on June 19 that scattered small bombs with the aim of increasing civilian casualties, the Israeli military and its Washington embassy said, the first reported use of cluster munitions in the seven-day-old war.

Cluster bombs are controversial because they indiscriminately scatter submunitions, some of which can fail to explode and kill or injure long after a conflict ends.

The Israeli military released a graphic as a public warning of the dangers of unexploded ordnance.

“The terror regime seeks to harm civilians and even used weapons with wide dispersal in order to maximize the scope of the damage,” Israel’s military spokesperson, Brigadier General Effie Defrin, told a briefing.

U.S. suggests direct talks with Iran are ongoing

Reuters reported on June 19 that Special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi had spoken by phone several times since Israel began its strikes on June 13, citing three diplomats. Araqchi told Witkoff nuclear negotiations could not resume until the attacks halted.

At a press briefing the White House confirmed conversations were taking place with the Iranians and suggested that at least some of them were direct.

“I can confirm that correspondence has continued,” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said. She declined to provide further details.

Araqchi will meet in Geneva, Switzerland, on Friday with European nations. Witkoff was not expected to attend.

-Francesca Chambers

White House says Iran ‘has all it needs’ to produce nuclear weapon

The White House said Iran is “close” to developing a nuclear weapon and could do so within weeks.

“It is a fact, and the United States government maintains this fact, that Iran has never been closer to obtaining a nuclear weapon,” Leavitt told reporters, without citing specific intelligence.

Pressed later to explain, Leavitt said Iran is close to having enough enriched uranium to start building a weapon.

“Iran has all that it needs to achieve a nuclear weapon. All they need is a decision from the supreme leader to do that. And it would take a couple weeks to complete the production of that weapon,” she said.

-Francesca Chambers

Trump intellegence chief said Iran wasn’t chasing a bomb, flagged high uranium enrichment

Just three months ago, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, testified before Congress that the U.S. intelligence community had assessed that Iran “is not building a nuclear weapon.”

In her prepared testimony before the House and Senate Intelligence committees on March 25, Gabbard provided an overview of all threats to U.S. national security, including Iran. She was unequivocal in the assessment provided by the 18 U.S. intelligence agencies she oversees, including the CIA and the National Security Agency.

“The IC continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamanei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program that he suspended in 2003,” Gabbard said. “We continue to monitor closely if Tehran decides to reauthorize its nuclear weapons program.”

Over the past year, Gabbard said, U.S. spies, intelligence analysts and specialized satellites have “seen an erosion of a decades long taboo in Iran on discussing nuclear weapons in public, likely emboldening nuclear weapons advocates within Iran’s decision-making apparatus.”

“Iran’s enriched uranium stockpile is at its highest levels and is unprecedented for a state without nuclear weapons,” Gabbard said. “Iran will likely continue efforts to counter Israel and press for U.S. military withdrawal from the region by aiding, arming, and helping to reconstitute its loose consortium of like-minded terrorists, actors, which it refers to as its ‘Axis of Resistance.’“

-Josh Meyer

What does Trump need to see in a deal?

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Iran would have to agree to stop all uranium enrichment for Trump to find an agreement acceptable.

“Iran is absolutely not able to achieve a nuclear weapon,” she added. “The president has been very clear about that.”

Leavitt said a deal that the U.S. proposed through special envoy Steve Wiktoff prior to the Israeli strikes was “realistic and acceptable.” She did not provide specifics on what was in it.

-Francesca Chambers

Where’s President Trump today?

President Trump joined an 11:30 am meeting with members of his national security team in the White House Situation Room.

In the afternoon, he’ll hold a private, swearing-in ceremony for his ambassador to Ireland, Edward Walsh, a businessman from New Jersey.

Trump has no public events on his schedule – but he posted on Truth Social throughout the morning about various topics − including his extension of the deadline for a deal to save TikTok. He’s given no public clue on which way he’s leaning over a possible U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear program.

June 19 is a federal holiday, but the White House is treating it like a regular work day, as Trump contemplates his options on Iran. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will hold an on-camera briefing at 1pm.

-Francesca Chambers

Foreigners flee Israel and Iran

The U.S. embassy in Jerusalem was working to evacuate Americans from Israel by commercial flights and on cruise ships after Israeli air and seaports were reopened. Foreigners are trying to flee both Israel and Iran in the face of a deepening crisis. Here’s who’s leaving:

AUSTRALIA: The Australian government evacuated by land a small group of the 1,200 Australians on June 18, Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said. Around 1,500 Australians in Iran have registered for assistance.

AUSTRIA: Forty-eight Austrians have left Israel or neighboring Jordan, the Foreign Ministry said. Around 100 Austrians have requested to leave Iran. Forty-four Austrian and EU citizens have been evacuated towards Turkey and Armenia, it added.

CHINA: China has evacuated more than 1,600 citizens from Iran and hundreds more from Israel, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said June 19. Several thousand Chinese nationals are thought to reside in Iran, according to state media reports.

CZECH REPUBLIC: A flight with 66 people evacuated from Israel had landed near Prague, Czech Defence Minister Jana Cernochova said.

FRANCE: France will arrange a convoy by the end of the week from Iran to the Turkish or Armenian borders, French foreign minister Jean-Noel Barrot said. French citizens in Israel can board buses starting the morning of June 20 from the Jordanian border.

GERMANY: 345 German citizens have left the Middle-East region on charger flights, the foreign ministry said.

INDIA: India said had launched “Operation Sindhu” to evacuate Indian nationals from Iran. 110 Indian students were earlier evacuated from northern Iran to Armenia.

ITALY: Italy is organizing a charter flight from Egypt on June 22 to allow its citizens to leave Israel. Some 500 Italians are leaving Iran.

JAPAN: Japan’s government said it would send two Self-Defense Forces transport aircraft to Djibouti in preparation for the evacuation of Japanese nationals from Iran and Israel.

-Reuters

Trump disputes report he approved attack plans

The president took aim at a report in the Wall Street Journal that he had green-lighted plans for U.S. forces to attack Iran’s nuclear program.

Citing three people familiar with the deliberations, the Journal reported on June 18 that Trump had approved a strike plan but had not issued an order to proceed with it, as he waited to see if Tehran would agree to give up its nuclear enrichment program.

On June 19, Trump disparaged the report. “The Wall Street Journal has No Idea what my thoughts are concerning Iran!” he wrote in a single-line post on Truth Social.

-Francesca Chambers

Iran shadow fleet keeps the oil flowing

Iran is maintaining crude oil supply by loading tankers one at a time on the Persian Gulf and moving its seabound floating oil storage much closer to China, two vessel tracking firms told Reuters, as the country seeks to keep a key source of revenue while under attack from Israel.

The conflict between Iran and Israel poses a fresh hurdle for Iran, which uses a shadow fleet of tankers to conceal their origin and skirt U.S. sanctions reinstated in 2018 over its nuclear program.

Crude exports from Iran, OPEC’s third-largest producer, mainly head to China. Iran has loaded 2.2 million barrels per day of crude oil so far this week, marking a five-week high, analytics firm Kpler said.

Energy infrastructure in both countries has been targeted in missile exchanges, including the Haifa oil refinery in Israel and Iran’s South Pars gas field, though Iran’s major crude exporting facility at Kharg island has so far been spared.

Iran has moved part of its 40 million barrel floating storage fleet, which sits on 36 different vessels, much closer to China to minimize the impact of any disrupions on buyers, ship tracking firm Vortexa told Reuters.

-Reuters

Pakistan worries Iranian collapse could energize jihadis on the border

Separatist and jihadist militants on the Pakistan-Iran border could take advantage of any collapse of authority in Iran, fears that Pakistan’s army chief pressed in a meeting this week with the President Donald Trump.

Anti-Iranian and anti-Pakistan outfits operate on both sides of the 560-mile long border. As Israel bombs Iran’s nuclear program, its officials have repeatedly indicated that they are seeking to destabilize the Iranian government or see it toppled.

As well as worrying about chaos spilling over from Iran, Pakistan is concerned about the precedent set by Israel of attacking the nuclear installations of another country. Nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India fought a four-day conflict in May.

Following a June 18 lunch at the White House with Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, Trump said: “They’re not happy about anything,” referring to Pakistan’s views on the Israel-Iran conflict.

-Reuters

Israel eyes regime change in Tehran

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said the military had been instructed to intensify strikes on strategic-related targets in Tehran to eliminate the threat to Israel and destabilise what he called the “Ayatollah regime.”

He called Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “the modern Hitler” and said “this man should not continue to exist.”

Netanyahu has said Israel’s military attacks could result in the toppling of Iran’s leaders, and Israel would do whatever is necessary to remove the “existential threat” posed by Tehran. But Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said regime change was not an official goal, “for the time being.”

“The matter of changing the regime or the fall of this regime is first and foremost a matter for the Iranian people,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told public broadcaster Kan late on June 19. “There is no substitute for this.”

President Trump has focused on ending Iran’s nuclear program, but on June 17 he mused about the possiblity of killing Khamenei, calling him an “easy target.”

Trump has 40,000 reasons to worry

The Trump administration has at least 40,000 reasons to worry about the aftermath of a potential attack on Iran.

That’s the rough number of U.S. troops stationed in the Middle East, in bases from Bahrain to Syria and points in between. Not to mention U.S. citizens who live and work in the region.

They would be vulnerable to counterattacks that could involve Iranian ballistic missiles, drones or terrorism should the United States join Israel in its ongoing attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.

Iran can strike “all of them,” a U.S. Defense official said.

-Tom Vanden Brook and Cybele Mayes-Osterman

Iran targeted Israeli intelligence site when hospital was struck, foreign minister says

Iran’s foreign minister said that the Soroka hospital in Beersheba, Israel, was damaged in an attack on a nearby military command center, which Israel denied.

“Earlier today, our powerful Armed Forces accurately eliminated an Israeli Military Command, Control & Intelligence HQ and another vital target,” Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araqchi said on X. “The blast wave caused superficial damage to a small section” of the Soroka hospital.

Araqchi pointed out Israel’s repeated attacks on hospital facilities in Gaza.

“The claim of an attack on an intelligence base or the presence of military equipment under the hospital is another lie. We are not so despicable as to endanger civilians,” the IDF said in a Persian-language statement, the Times of Israel reported. “Attacking hospitals is a crime. Fabricating a reason does not justify it.”

No deaths were reported in the attack. Six people were seriously injured, emergency workers said.

Dozens killed in Gaza while seeking food aid

Like thousands of other Palestinians in Gaza, Hind Al-Nawajha takes a dangerous, miles-long journey every day to try to get some food for her family, hoping she makes it back alive.

The mother-of-four had to duck down and hide behind a pile of rubble on the side of the road as gunshots echoed nearby.

“You either come back carrying (food) for your children and they will be happy, or you come back in a shroud, or you go back upset (without food) and your children will cry,” said Nawajha, 38, a resident of Beit Lahiya, in northern Gaza. “This is life, we are being slaughtered, we can’t do it anymore.”

In the past two days, dozens of Palestinians have also been killed by Israeli fire as they tried to get food from aid trucks brought into the enclave by the United Nations and international relief agencies, Gaza medics said.

On June 19, medics said at least 40 people were killed by Israeli gunfire and military strikes, including 12 people who tried to approach a site operated by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the central Gaza Strip, the latest in near-daily reports of killings of people seeking food.

There was no immediate comment from the Israeli army on the incident.

In recent days, the Israeli military said its forces had opened fire and fired warning shots to disperse people who approached areas where troops were operating, posing a threat. It said it was reviewing reports of casualties among civilians.

-Reuters

Trump supporters will back an Iran strike, Steve Bannon says

The “vast majority” of President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement “will get on board” with strikes on Iran, if he goes ahead with military action, his former chief White House strategist Steve Bannon says.

Should he decide there’s no diplomatic solution to be had, Trump will need to walk the American people and MAGA through his thinking, Bannon told reporters at a June 18 breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor. But Trump is also likely to win ove most of his naysaying supporters.

“There will be some, but the vast majority of the MAGA movement will go, ‘look, we trust your judgement, you’ve walked us through this, we don’t like it, in fact maybe we hate it, but we’ll get on board,’” Bannon said.

-Francesca Chambers

Contributing: Reuters

Ben Schmida, Carolyn Moorman, Kelly Campa, and Annika Ganzeveld

Information Cutoff: 6:00 AM ET

The Critical Threats Project (CTP) at the American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) are publishing multiple updates daily to provide analysis on the war with Iran. The morning update will focus on the exchange of fire between Iran and Israel. The evening update will be more comprehensive, covering events over the past 24-hour period and refining items discussed in the morning update.

Key Takeaways

The IDF struck several nuclear facilities, including the Arak Heavy Water Reactor in Markazi Province. Iran could use this reactor to support the production of plutonium-based nuclear weapons. The IDF also struck a storage facility linked to the Iranian nuclear program in Natanz, Esfahan Province.

The IDF has struck at least six Iranian Ghadir radars since June 12, according to commercially available satellite imagery. Ghadir radars reportedly have the ability to detect aircraft from 1,100 kilometers away.

An Iranian ballistic missile struck the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba. Iranian ballistic missile attacks on Israel since CTP-ISW’s last data cutoff have injured over 200 individuals. The Israeli defense minister warned that Israel will intensify its attacks on Iran following the strike on the Soroka Medical Center.

CTP-ISW has observed fewer reports of Israeli airstrikes from social media accounts based in Iran, which likely reflects widespread internet disruptions in Iran rather than an actual decrease in Israeli airstrikes. An internet monitoring group reported that Iran is currently facing a near-total internet shutdown.[1]

The IDF (Israel Defense Forces) has struck several Iranian nuclear facilities since CTP-ISW’s last data cutoff at 5:00 PM ET on June 18. The IDF struck the Arak Heavy Water Reactor in Markazi Province on June 19.[2] Iran began construction of the heavy water reactor in 1997, but the reactor never became operational.[3] Heavy water reactors produce plutonium as a byproduct, which can be used to create nuclear weapons.[4] Iran agreed to redesign the facility to alleviate international concerns about possible plutonium production as part of the 2015 nuclear deal.[5] The IDF said that it struck the facility due to its capacity to support the production of plutonium-based nuclear weapons.[6] Iran has pursued a uranium-based, not plutonium-based, nuclear program. The IDF separately struck a storage facility in Natanz, Esfahan Province. The IDF said that the storage facility contained equipment that Iran could use to develop nuclear weapons.[7] Previous Israeli airstrikes on the Natanz Enrichment Complex directly impacted the complex’s underground enrichment facilities.[8]

The IDF issued an evacuation order on June 18 for the area around the Arak Heavy Water Reactor.[9] Iran acknowledged that two projectiles hit the facility on June 19.[10] The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) confirmed that the IDF struck the heavy water reactor and that there was no nuclear material at the facility.[11] The IAEA said that it did not have information about whether the IDF had also struck the heavy water production plant, which is also located in the Arak facility.[12] The heavy water production plant provides heavy water for the reactor.[13]

Commercially available satellite imagery shows that the IDF has struck at least six Ghadir radars across Iran since June 12. The IDF struck Ghadir radars in Bijar, Kurdistan Province; Marber, Ilam Province; Garmsar, Semnan Province; Behabad, Yazd Province; Dasht-e Arjan, Fars Province; and Mal Gonzeh, Bushehr Province between June 12 and 19. Israel likely targeted the Ghadir radars in order to degrade Iranian air defense capabilities and maintain air superiority over Iran. The Ghadir radar system is an important component of Iranian integrated air defense systems because of the Ghadir’s ability to detect aircraft from 1,100 kilometers away.[14] Iran attempted to bolster its Ghadir system in the months leading up to the Israel-Iran War.[15] Iran likely built at least two new Ghadir radars in southern Iran near the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz and one in West Azerbaijan Province in recent months.[16]

Iran has conducted two ballistic missile attacks targeting Israel since CTP-ISW’s 5:00 PM ET data cutoff on June 18. Iran launched four ballistic missiles targeting central Israel in its first barrage.[17] Israeli air defense systems intercepted all of the missiles.[18] Iran launched an estimated 30 ballistic missiles targeting central and southern Israel in its second barrage, causing four impacts: one in Beersheba, two in Tel Aviv, and one in Azor.[19] An Iranian ballistic missile struck the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba.[20] The attack damaged the building but did not cause any injuries because the facility had been evacuated days prior.[21] Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Abbas Araghchi claimed that Iran targeted an Israeli intelligence headquarters next to the hospital.[22] Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that he and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “instructed the IDF to increase the intensity of attacks against strategic targets in Iran and against government targets in Tehran” following the attack.[23] Another Iranian ballistic missile struck Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv, damaging shops and apartment buildings.[24] A third ballistic missile struck Holon, near Tel Aviv, damaging several apartment buildings.[25] The Israeli Health Ministry reported that the three strikes critically injured four people and moderately injured 16 people.[26] 220 individuals sustained minor injuries from the attacks.[27] The IDF announced that at least one of the Iranian ballistic missiles contained a cluster munition which contained 2.5-kilogram explosive submunitions.[28] One of the submunitions struck a home in Azor, but did not cause any injuries.[29] These barrages mark the first Iranian strikes that have inflicted injuries since June 15.[30]

The IDF has intercepted two drones targeting Israel since CTP-ISW’s 5:00 PM ET data cutoff on June 18. The IDF intercepted an Iranian drone over northern Israel.[31] The IDF also intercepted an Iranian drone over the Jordan Valley area.[32]

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[2] https://x.com/iaeaorg/status/1935625592768225321 ; https://x.com/idfonline/status/1935634619417665652

[3] https://www.nti.org/education-center/facilities/arak-nuclear-complex; https://x.com/iaeaorg/status/1935625592768225321 ;

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1254414875?ft=nprml&f=1254414875 ; https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/live-blog/live-updates-israel-iran-reactor-hospital-rcna213904/rcrd82748?canonicalCard=true

[4] https://x.com/iaeaorg/status/1935625592768225321; https://x.com/manniefabian/status/1935632190659776556

[5] https://apnews.com/article/arak-heavy-water-reactor-iran-israel-airstrikes-628381fb9b0706bacac8a1b8820b1cf3; https://www.nti.org/education-center/facilities/arak-nuclear-complex/

[6] https://x.com/idfonline/status/1935574764862492767

[7] https://x.com/idfonline/status/1935574764862492767

[8] https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-special-report-june-17-2025-evening-edition ; https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-special-edition-israeli-strikes-iran-june-13-2025-200-pm-et

[9] https://x.com/IDFFarsi/status/1935508510118183064

[10] https://apnews.com/article/arak-heavy-water-reactor-iran-israel-airstrikes-628381fb9b0706bacac8a1b8820b1cf3

[11] https://x.com/iaeaorg/status/1935625592768225321

[12] https://x.com/iaeaorg/status/1935625592768225321; https://www.nti.org/education-center/facilities/arak-nuclear-complex/

[13] https://www.nti.org/education-center/facilities/arak-nuclear-complex/

[14] https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-october-26-2024; https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-october-29-2024

[15] https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-april-3-2025;

[16] https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran-update-april-3-2025; https://x.com/obretix/status/1907478109928001657

[17] https://x.com/manniefabian/status/1935444423455760452 ; https://x.com/manniefabian/status/1935447468574904764 ; https://x.com/ariel_oseran/status/1935452567405826337

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[23] https://x.com/sentdefender/status/1935591417130201426

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[27] https://x.com/IsraelMOH/status/1935649625060368823

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[29] https://x.com/manniefabian/status/1935668932947357719

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[31] https://x.com/idfonline/status/1935474797409878037

[32] https://x.com/idfonline/status/1935480886423650568 ; https://x.com/manniefabian/status/1935535216795296087