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Iran warns 'game isn't over' after US strikes

Date: 2025-06-22 21:22:29 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:91 - ID:11229012

TEHRAN, June 22 (MENA) - Ali Shamkhani, an adviser to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has taken to X to publicly warn that the "game isn't over", after the US strikes against Iranian targets. He also said Iran's stockpiles of ....

Russia: US strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities reckless decision

Date: 2025-06-22 21:15:38 GMT - Russia - Middle East - SN:88 - ID:11228955

MOSCOW, June 22 (MENA) - Russia has strongly condemned the US airstrikes on Iranian nuclear sites, saying it is an irresponsible decision that violates the United Nations Charter. In a statement issued on Sunday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said ....

Iran warns US involvement could expand regional war

Date: 2025-06-22 21:12:24 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:87 - ID:11229009

TEHRAN, June 22 (MENA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned that US involvement in Israeli attacks on Iran risks expanding the conflict across the Middle East. In a phone call with Canadian Foreign Minister Anita Anand, he said the ....

9 killed in Israeli shelling of Palestinians waiting for food aid northwest of Gaza

Date: 2025-06-22 19:11:34 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:84 - ID:11228990

GAZA CITY, June 22 (MENA) - Nine Palestinians were killed on Sunday evening in an Israeli artillery strike targeting people waiting for food aid in the Al-Waha area, northwest of Gaza City. WAFA reported the victims were struck while waiting for ....

Israeli strikes in central Iran kill nine Revolutionary Guards

Date: 2025-06-22 18:07:48 GMT - Iran - Middle East - SN:79 - ID:11228958

TEHRAN, June 22 (MENA) - At least nine members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards were killed Sunday in Israeli attacks on central Iran, local media reported. "Following the aggression of the barbaric [Israeli] regime and its mercenaries against two ....

UK, France, Germany urge Iran not to take any further destabilizing action

Date: 2025-06-22 18:06:57 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:78 - ID:11228957

LONDON/PARIS/BERLIN, June 22 (MENA) - The UK, France and Germany have released a joint statement following American strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities, saying that they call upon Iran to engage in negotiations leading to agreement that addresses ....

UK foreign secretary: UK not involved in strikes against Iran's nuclear sites

Date: 2025-06-22 17:22:10 GMT - United Kingdom - Middle East - SN:31 - ID:11228162

LONDON, June 22 (MENA) - UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy called on Iran to exercise restraint following US strikes on its nuclear sites in past hours, Sky News reported Sunday. In a post on "X" platform, the UK foreign secretary said the UK did ....

JD Vance: US at war with Iran's nuclear program, not Iran

Date: 2025-06-22 17:17:27 GMT - USA - Middle East - SN:77 - ID:11228920

WASHINGTON, June 22 (MENA) – US Vice President JD Vance said on Sunday the US was not at war with Iran but at war with its nuclear program. "We're not at war with Iran. We're at war with Iran's nuclear program," Vance said in an interview on NBC's ....

Death toll from Israeli aggression on Gaza rises to 55,959

Date: 2025-06-22 16:55:05 GMT - palestine - Middle East - SN:71 - ID:11228582

GAZA CITY, June 22 (MENA) - The death toll in the Gaza Strip has risen to 55,959 since the beginning of the Israeli war on October 7, 2023, WAFA news agency reported on Sunday. The number of injured has surged to 131,242 since the start of the ....

Pope Leo XIV demands global action to prevent wider Middle East war

Date: 2025-06-22 16:44:54 GMT - Italy - Middle East - SN:68 - ID:11228917

ROME, June 22 (MENA) – Pope Leo XIV, head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State, said that the world is calling for peace as tensions rise in the Middle East after US strikes on Iranian nuclear sites. He called on global ....