Khamenei names successors as Israeli strikes in Iran intensify

The regime's leader has also named prospective replacements for key military commanders in case they are killed again

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A photo Ayatollah Ali Khameini in Iran (Getty Images)
Smoke rises as fire burns, in an alleged site of IRGC's missile launch targeted by Israel on the mountains of Shiraz, Iran on June 21, 2025. Israel attacked Iran in early hours of June 13, and the exchange of fire between the two countries continues ever since. (Photo by Hiroon / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by HIROON/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
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What is Fordow? The nuclear site buried deep in an Iranian mountain, hit by president Trump’s bunker buster

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AKROTIRI, CYPRUS - OCTOBER 2: Defence Secretary John Healey visits RAF Akrotiri, during a visit to Cyprus to meet troops as the Government steps up efforts for a potential evacuation of Lebanon with the Middle East teetering on the brink of wider war, on October 2, 2024 in Akrotiri, Cyprus. Mr Healey confirmed British forces were involved in efforts to defend Israel from Iran's ballistic missile barrage as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer warned of the risk of a "miscalculation" after the escalation of violence in the region. It is understood RAF jets were involved in the efforts to intercept the Iranian missiles. (Photo by Yui Mok - Pool/Getty Images)
Cyprus

Israel says Iranian operative planned terror attack on Israelis and spied on RAF bases in Cyprus

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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 21: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers an address to the nation from the White House on June 21, 2025 in Washington, D.C. President Trump addressed the three Iranian nuclear facilities that were struck by the U.S. military early Sunday. (Photo by Carlos Barria - Pool/Getty Images)
Iran nuclear program

Iran nuclear sites ‘completely, totally obliterated,’ says Trump after US strikes on Natanz Fordow and Isfahan

By Andrew Bernard

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The Netherlands

The Labour-GreenLeft alliance in the Netherlands calls for ban on Dutch supplies for Iron Dome

By Jane Prinsley

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Iran

Khamenei assassination is now ‘an objective’ of Israel’s war

By Jacob Jaffa

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Lebanon

‘I was detained in Lebanon just for being a Jewish tourist’

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Trump ‘approved plan’ to strike Iran unless eleventh-hour ceasefire agreed

President Trump has reportedly 'approved' a plan for direct US strikes against Iran (Image: Getty)

Israeli-linked hackers claim $90m data theft from major Iranian cryptocurrency exchange

Israeli-linked hacker group Predatory Sparrow has reportedly stolen sensitive data from a major cryptocurrency exchange in Iran (Image: Getty)

Son of Iranian Shah urges uprising against ‘collapsing’ Islamic regime

Reza Pahlavi,son of the last Shah of Iran (Getty Images)

Trump ‘seriously considers’ Iran strikes as Israel eyes ‘regime change’

President Trump reportedly 'seriously considered' direct strikes against Iran during the latest meeting of the National Security Council (Image: Getty)

Israel has brought us hope for the end of this regime, say residents of Iran

A man in Tehran cycles past a poster of slain Iranian IRGC commander Gholam Ali Rashid (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)
Israel is filing 'court petitions' against the French government after defence firms were blocked from displaying freely at the Paris Air Show this week (Image: X/@Amirmizroch)
Israel

Israel suing French government over ‘antisemitic’ Paris Air Show snub for defence firms

By Jacob Jaffa

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An Israeli-linked hacktivist group has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on one of Iran's major banks, which it claimed was used by the IRGC (Image: Getty)
Iran

Israeli-linked hackers hit ‘IRGC’s bank’ in major cyberattack

By JC Reporter

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President Trump has seemingly been sending mixed messages over the prospect of direct US involvement in the Iran-Israel war (Image: Getty)
Iran

Trump hints at direct US involvement in Iran war amid sudden G7 exit

By Jacob Jaffa

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Officials in Iran have reportedly sent an 'urgent message' to Israel and the US calling for the end of hostilities and a renewal of nuclear talks (Image: Getty)
Israel

Iran ‘sends urgent message’ asking for end of war with Israel and renewal of nuclear talks

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

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Trump says he will decide whether to join war with Iran in ‘next two weeks’

US involvement in the war is considered necessary to destroy the remaining Iranian nuclear facility at Fordow

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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 15: U.S. President Donald Trump stops and talks to the media before he boards Marine One on the South Lawn at the White House on June 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. The President will attend the annual meeting of the Group of 7 nations, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States are taking place in the Canadian Rocky Mountains in Alberta, and will run until late Tuesday. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
New York

Who is Zohran Mamdani – the anti-Israel candidate for mayor of New York?

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New York City mayoral candidate and Democratic State Representative Zohran Mamdani campaigns in New York City (Image: Getty)
US Politics

Pentagon’s chief Israel planner sacked after ‘death cult’ comments

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The Pentagon's chief Israel planner Colonel Nathan McCormack (left) has reportedly been sacked from his role after making incendiary posts about the Jewish State on social media (Image: Sergeant Kani Ronningen/US Army photo)
New York

Holocaust Museum accuses NY mayoral candidate of ‘exploiting’ Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by comparing it to intifada

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NEW YORK, NEW YORK - JUNE 4: Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani speaks during the New York City Democratic Mayoral Primary Debate at NBC Studios on June 4, 2025 in New York City. Nine candidates are taking the stage for the first debate of the primary election for mayor. (Photo by Yuki Iwamura-Pool/Getty Images)

World news

Israeli arms manufacturers were walled off from customers at the Paris Air Show, allegedly at the request of the French government (Image: Israeli Defence Ministry)
Israel

Israeli arms manufacturers blocked from displaying at Paris Air Show

By Jacob Jaffa

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The IDF has claimed that it has destroyed a third of Iran's missile launch sites (Pictured: Fires burn at the Shahran oil depot after an Israeli strike; Image: Getty)
Iran

IDF destroyed 1/3 of Iran’s missile launchers after Tel Aviv strikes

By Jacob Jaffa

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Sir Keir Starmer has announced that he is deploying military aircraft – including Typhoons and air-to-air refuelers – to the Middle East defend British interests amid the Israel-Iran conflict. (Getty Images)
Israel

UK deploying more RAF fighter jets to Middle East

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French President Emmanuel Macron and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman were supposed to co-chair the UN conference in New York. (Getty Images)
Israel

Macron’s two-state solution conference to be delayed after Israeli strikes on Iran

By Imogen Garfinkel

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Az al-Din Haddad, known as the 'Ghost of Al-Qassam', has reportedly been named the new leader of Hamas in Gaza (Image: screengrab from Hamas video)
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‘Ghost of Al-Qassam’ with $750k bounty on his head named as new Hamas leader

By Jacob Jaffa

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A bomb shelter keeps its door open as Israel braces for Iran's respond to Israel's strike on June 13, 2025 in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Getty Images)
Iran

Israeli military official on Iran: ‘We are prepared for this to keep going on for days’

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Iran
Prince Reza Pahlavi, son of the Shah of Iran, has called for the overthrow of the Khameini regime following Israel's strikes on his country (Image: Getty)

Son of Iran’s last monarch calls for overthrow of Khameinei regime following Israel strikes

Reza Pahlavi accused the Islamic Republic’s ‘corrupt and incompetent’ leaders of ‘embroiling Iran in a war’

By Jacob Jaffa

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Jane Prinsley

I was 50 metres from an Iranian missile strike in Tel Aviv — there’s no doubt the regime is targeting civilians

If this is what they do with ballistic missiles, imagine what they would aim for with a nuclear bomb

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Israel-Iran War

EXCLUSIVE: Brits evacuated from Israel in ‘biggest rescue operation’ since outbreak of war

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Brits in Israel

UK scrambles to charter flights out of Israel as Brits complain about response from government

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Citizens repatriated from Israel disembark a flight from Egypt at Figo Maduro airport in Lisbon on June 19, 2025. A Portuguese flight brought repatriated citizens of Portuguese, German, Israeli, Czech, Spanish, Austrian, Bulgarian, Argentine and Ukrainian nationality. Governments are evacuating thousands of their nationals caught up in the rapidly spiralling Israel-Iran conflict, after Israel launched an unprecedented bombing campaign on June 13, 2025 targeting Iran's nuclear and military facilities, sparking retaliation from Tehran. (Photo by MARIO CRUZ / AFP) (Photo by MARIO CRUZ/AFP via Getty Images)
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UJIA Israel tours delayed by Iran-Israel war

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Never again is now: Trump bombs Iran’s path to another Holocaust

The President strikes a severe blow to Iran’s nuclear programme. As always when Israel is involved, a strange coalition of bedfellows unites to criticise US military action

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