Israel-Iran battle reside: Trump floats regime change to ‘make Iran great again’ as area braces for Iranian response to US strikes

Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese has stated his authorities helps the US strikes on Iran, blaming Tehran for not coming “to the table” on nuclear diplomacy however including that Canberra now wished “diplomacy, dialogue and de-escalation”.

Iran was holding talks on a nuclear settlement with Washington when Israel launched its shock assault on the nation. Worldwide regulation consultants have stated the US and Israeli strikes are illegal underneath the UN constitution.

Israel is the solely Center East state with nuclear weapons however has by no means formally acknowledged its arsenal. It has not signed the nuclear nuclear non-proliferation treaty, not like Iran.

Chatting with reporters in Canberra simply now, Albanese stated:

The world has lengthy agreed that Iran can’t be allowed to get a nuclear weapon and we assist motion to stop that – that’s what that is. The US motion was directed at particular websites central to Iran’s nuclear program. We don’t need escalation and a full-scale battle.

We proceed to name for dialogue and for diplomacy. As I’ve stated for a lot of days now, we’re deeply involved about any escalation within the area and we wish to see diplomacy, dialogue and de-escalation.

We’ve been upfront concerning the problem going through the worldwide group – that’s, coping with the menace posed by any Iranian nuclear weapons program and coping with the danger of regional escalation. That’s why Australia known as upon Iran to return to the desk and abandon any nuclear weapons program. Iran didn’t come to the desk simply because it has repeatedly did not adjust to its worldwide obligations.

Israeli forces have bombed tents sheltering displaced Palestinians in al-Buraq camp close to Khan Younis in southern Gaza, Al Jazeera has reported.

The broadcaster stated it had verified footage circulating on-line that confirmed a deep crater ensuing from the bombing and other people trying to find these trapped.

It isn’t doable to independently confirm studies from Gaza as Israel doesn’t permit overseas journalists into the occupied territory.

Simply after midnight on Thursday morning, Abdullah Ahmed left his sleeping spouse and youngsters of their small and crowded dwelling within the battered al-Bureij camp in central Gaza and headed north.

The 31-year-old vegetable vendor had heard that the close by meals distribution website lately opened by the Gaza Humanitarian Basis (GHF), a secretive Israeli- and US-backed personal organisation that started operations within the territory final month, could be handing out meals at 2am.

To get there early and maximise his likelihood of grabbing a field of flour, oil, beans and different fundamentals, Ahmed and a few associates set out throughout the damaging rubble-strewn roads.

Simply reaching the neighborhood of the centre, one in every of 4 run by the GHF, was harmful. “All the time we could hear the sound of shells and stray bullets flying over us. We kept taking cover behind the ruins of houses. Whoever doesn’t take cover is exposed to death,” he stated.

All final week, each night time and most mornings, there have been comparable scenes throughout Gaza, as tens of hundreds of hungry, determined individuals converged on the GHF websites or waited at factors the place vans loaded with UN flour had been anticipated.

On daily basis, someplace within the devastated territory, these gatherings had a equally deadly conclusion when Israeli forces open hearth.

The precise toll during the last 12 days is unclear. Medical authorities in Gaza say about 450 have died and hundreds extra have been injured. The Israel Protection Forces (IDF) admit that some have been damage by their hearth however haven’t admitted any deaths in shootings, which they are saying are directed at “suspects” who’ve posed a menace to their forces and solely ever comply with warning pictures.

Australia’s ASX plummets greater than $10bn after US Iran strikes

Luca Ittimani

Greater than $10bn has been wiped from the Australian share market on opening after the US bombing of Iranian nuclear services, as merchants react to worsening financial progress prospects.

The benchmark S&P/ASX200 fell beneath 8,460 factors, again to close the place it was in the beginning of June after holding above 8,500 factors on Friday. It had closed at an all-time excessive of 8,592 on 11 June, days earlier than Israel started its navy strikes on Iran, however has fallen in six of the next seven buying and selling days.

Power corporations together with Woodside, Origin and Santos rose in worth after predictions the widening battle within the Center East would drive up international oil and fuel costs.

However these larger costs would limit financial exercise in Australia, which noticed merchants promote down the massive banks in addition to consumer-facing corporations from Flight Centre and Qantas to Breville and playing firm Tabcorp. Furnishings retailer Temple and Webster shed greater than $100m in worth.

Worsening prospects for international financial progress imply a poorer outlook for Australian commodity costs, pushing down share costs for Mineral Sources, Pilbara Minerals and Champion Iron.

Earlier, Iran’s UN ambassador, Amir Saeid Iravani, instructed an emergency assembly of the UN safety council that the US had “decided to destroy diplomacy” with its strikes on Iran.

Israel has made a “grave mistake” and “must be punished”, a social media account related to Iran’s supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has stated in what could be his first feedback because the US joined Israel’s battle on his nation. The submit on X learn:

The Zionist enemy has made a grave mistake, dedicated an excellent crime; it should be punished and is being punished; it’s being punished proper now.

The submit was accompanied by an image of a cranium with the star of David on it sitting on high a darkened metropolis with missiles raining down.

The US State Division has issued a “worldwide caution” for People, saying the battle between Israel and Iran may put these travelling or residing overseas at an elevated safety threat. In a submit on its web site it wrote:

The battle between Israel and Iran has resulted in disruptions to journey and periodic closure of airspace throughout the Center East. There’s the potential for demonstrations in opposition to US residents and pursuits overseas. The Division of State advises US residents worldwide to train elevated warning.

The assertion made no point out of the US bombing of Iranian nuclear services over the weekend which Tehran has warned could have “irreparable consequences.”

Iran on Sunday warned that US forces could possibly be attacked in retaliation for the unprecedented air strikes, which had been condemned by worldwide regulation consultants as unlawful.

“Any country in the region or elsewhere that is used by American forces to strike Iran will be considered a legitimate target for our armed forces,” Ali Akbar Velayati, an advisor to Iran’s supreme chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, stated in a message carried by the official Irna information company.

The US on Saturday started evacuation flights from Israel for Americans and everlasting US residents residing in Israel or the West Financial institution.

It additionally ordered employees at its diplomatic missions in Iraq and Lebanon to go away these nations.

Israel and Iran have exchanged one other spherical of missiles prior to now hour.

In Iran, explosions had been heard in Karaj, west of Tehran, Iranian information businesses reported. In an replace final week, the Worldwide Atomic Power Company stated Israeli strikes had destroyed two buildings in Karaj the place completely different centrifuge parts had been manufactured.

Iranian outlet Nour information additionally reported early on Monday that airstrikes had hit Parchin, a navy advanced south-east of Tehran.

In Israel, sirens had been sounded after 3am when the navy stated that Iran had launched a missile assault, however no direct impacts or accidents had been reported.

On Sunday at the very least three individuals had been killed when an Israeli airstrike hit an ambulance in central Iran, native media reported, in accordance with Agence France-Presse (AFP).

The ISNA information company reported, quoting Hamidreza Mohammadi Fesharaki, the governor of Najafabad county within the central Isfahan province:

The ambulance … was en path to switch a affected person when it was severely broken by a drone strike.

All occupants of the ambulance – together with the driving force, the affected person, and the affected person’s companion – had been martyred.

The affect of the drone prompted the ambulance to veer astray and collide with a passing automobile.

Hey and welcome to our reside protection of the US and Israeli battle on Iran.

US president Donald Trump has introduced up the opportunity of regime change in Iran following US navy strikes in opposition to key Iran navy websites over the weekend, at the same time as high members of his administration insisted the US was not searching for to topple the Iranian management.

“It’s not politically correct to use the term, “Regime Change,” but when the present Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!” Trump wrote in a submit on his social media platform Reality Social.

Earlier, vice-president JD Vance had insisted the US was “not at war with Iran, we’re at war with Iran’s nuclear programme” whereas US secretary of state Marco Rubio stated that that the US was “not looking for war in Iran”.

The world was in the meantime braced for Iran’s response after to the US assaults, which noticed it becoming a member of Israel within the largest western navy motion in opposition to the Islamic Republic since its 1979 revolution.

Talking in Istanbul, Iranian overseas minister Abbas Araqchi stated his nation would contemplate all doable responses. There could be no return to diplomacy till it had retaliated, he stated. “The US showed they have no respect for international law. They only understand the language of threat and force,” he stated.

He later flew to Moscow to debate “common threats” with President Vladimir Putin.

In different key developments:

• Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that Israel may be very near assembly its targets in Iran of eradicating the threats of ballistic missiles and the nuclear programme. Chatting with Israeli reporters, he stated: “We won’t pursue our actions beyond what is needed to achieve them, but we also won’t finish too soon. When the objectives are achieved, then the operation is complete and the fighting will stop.”

• The UK, France and Germany have launched a joint assertion following American strikes on Iran’s nuclear services, saying that they name upon Iran to interact in negotiations resulting in settlement that addresses all issues related to its nuclear program. The three nations additionally urged Iran “not to take any further action that could destabilize the region”, including: “We have consistently been clear that Iran can never have a nuclear weapon and can no longer pose a threat to regional security.”

• Iran’s well being ministry stated that the US strikes on its nuclear services had wounded an unspecified variety of individuals however that none “showed any signs of radioactive contamination”. “For years, the ministry of health has set up nuclear emergency units in the nearest medical facilities to nuclear sites,” ministry spokesperson Hossein Kermanpour stated on X.

• Israel stated that its fighter jets had struck “dozens” of targets throughout Iran on Sunday, together with a long-range missile website in Yazd within the centre of the nation for the primary time, Agence France Presse studies. A navy assertion stated that “approximately 30 IAF (air force) fighter jets struck dozens of military targets throughout Iran” – together with “the ‘Imam Hussein’ Strategic Missile Command Center in the Yazd area, where long-range Khorramshahr missiles were stored”.

• US secretary of state Marco Rubio stated that “there are no planned military operations right now against Iran.” In a brand new interview with CBS, Rubio added that “no one will know for days” whether or not Iran had moved a few of its nuclear supplies previous to the strikes.

• Iran’s parliament has reportedly authorised the closing of the important thing strait of Hormuz delivery lane. Reuters reported Iran’s supreme nationwide safety council will make the ultimate determination on the transfer, which may hamstring international commerce by shutting the slender passage between Iran and Oman.

• Pete Hegseth, the US secretary of defence, stated the affect of the air strikes was nonetheless being assessed, however that the bombing had hit the areas that had been recognized within the planning of the operation. Hegseth stated: “The battle damage assessment is ongoing, but our initial assessment as the chairman said is that all of our precision munitions struck where we wanted them to strike, and had the desired effect.”

• Pete Hegseth praised Donald Trump’s management, and stated he had overseen the “obliteration” of Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Hegseth stated: “Many presidents have dreamed of delivering the final blow to Iran’s nuclear program, and none could until President Trump.”