Ali Shadmani, head of the Revolutionary Guards' Command Centre, has died from wounds sustained last week, Iranian media reported. In response, the Guards' Command Centre has vowed "harsh revenge" for his killing.
Israel's armed forces had said on June 17 that it killed Shadmani, who it identified as Iran’s wartime chief of staff and most senior military commander.
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the administration plans to have talks with Iran next week after failed negotiations between the two nations prompted a US attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
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US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday Israel and Iran are tired but the conflict between the two countries could start again.
"I dealt with both and they're both tired, exhausted... and can it start again? I guess someday, it can. It could maybe start soon," Trump told reporters.
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The United States and Iran disagree when it comes to how much damage US air strikes caused to Iranian nuclear facilities, Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said on Wednesday.
Ushakov said Moscow welcomed the ceasefire between Iran and Israel and hoped it lasted and noted what he said were differing assessments of the impact of the U.S. attack.
"The one that carried out the strikes believes significant damage was inflicted. And the one who received these strikes believes that everything was prepared in advance and that these objects did not suffer excessive, significant damage," Ushakov told reporters.
A spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry said earlier on Wednesday that the US strikes had caused significant damage to Tehran's nuclear facilities.
Earlier in the day, the Kremlin had said it thought it was too early for anyone to have an accurate picture of the extent of damage caused.
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Israeli military says its air force intercepted a drone that was 'apparently' launched from Yemen.
It further said that the drone did not cross Israeli territory.
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France is conducting its own analysis on damage to Iran's nuclear facilities, French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters on Wednesday, after US and Israeli strikes.
Trump had said earlier on Wednesday that the damage from the strikes was severe and "there was obliteration," though he also conceded that US intelligence had been inconclusive.
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Israel's two natural gas fields that supply Egypt and Jordan and were shut down nearly two weeks ago due to the Iran-Israel conflict have resumed operations, partners in the companies said on Wednesday.
Two of Israel's three gas fields, Chevron-operated Leviathan and Energean's Karish situated off its Mediterranean coast, provide the bulk of exports to Egypt and Jordan, and have been shut since June 13.
That left in operation only the older Tamar field, used mainly for domestic supplies.
The halt of Leviathan resulted in a loss in revenue of $12 million, the partners said in a regulatory filing in Tel Aviv citing an initial estimate. They added they intend to examine the possibility of receiving compensation from the state in connection with the cessation of gas production.
Energean ENOG.L and NewMed NWMDp.TA, a partner with Chevron, confirmed that the two fields had started operations after Israel and Iran agreed to a ceasefire on Tuesday, but that process takes many hours.
Israel's Energy Ministry said that after a security assessment, the larger Leviathan field and smaller Karish would reopen, leading to the resumption of gas exports, a rise in state tax revenues and greater flexibility in managing the electricity and industrial sectors.
Israeli gas accounts for about 15-20% of Egypt’s consumption, data from the Joint Organisations Data Initiative shows. The disruption to Israel’s gas supply had led Egyptian fertiliser producers to halt operations.
Leviathan produces 12 billion cubic metres of gas per year for sale to Israel, Egypt and Jordan. That will rise to some 14 bcm in 2026. Ratio Energies RATIp.TA is a partner in Leviathan alongside Chevron and NewMed.
Two Egyptian sources told Reuters that imports from Israel were expected to rise gradually, with full operations likely by Saturday.
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Iran has “less capacity” to rapidly produce a nuclear weapon and is “much further away” from one today due to US strikes on three of the country’s nuclear facilities, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview with Politico on Wednesday in The Hague, Netherlands.
“Intelligence leaks are one of the most frustrating things anywhere,” Rubio said in response to a question about CNN’s reporting of an early intelligence assessment that the US strikes did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months. Rubio added the intelligence is often “mischaracterised.”
“(Iran’s nuclear) program today has been set behind significantly from where it was a week ago. It is in far worse shape today than it was a week ago because of US actions and because some of the actions Israelis took,” Rubio told Politico.
“So, the bottom line is they are much further away from a nuclear weapon today than they were before the president took this bold action,” he said, adding that “very significant, substantial damage” was done to a “variety of different components.”
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Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson says its nuclear installations 'badly damaged' by American strikes, news agency AP's reporter posts on X.
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US President Donald Trump has insisted that US strikes led to the "total obliteration" of Iran's nuclear capabilities and set the country's atomic programme back "decades", while Israel said it was still early to fully assess the damage.
"They're not going to be building bombs for a long time," said Trump, adding that the strikes had set back the programme by "decades" and that the Iran-Israel ceasefire that he declared was going "very well".
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Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says the Israeli regime’s unilateral acceptance of a US-proposed ceasefire deal and Washington’s intervention in the 12-day anti-Iran aggression are indicative of Tel Aviv’s defeat against the Islamic Republic.
Araghchi made the remarks in an interview published by Tasnim News Agency on Wednesday, a day after Israel was forced to accept a truce deal proposed by Washington to halt the aggression against Iran and prevent further Iranian retaliatory strikes on the Israeli-occupied territories and US bases in the region.
“The US engagement in the war was a sign of the Zionist regime's defeat and its inability to continue the conflict. Their naive assumption was that Iran would surrender after Washington’s engagement, but when they saw that our response using the third generation of ‘Kheybar shekan’ missiles was much stronger and more decisive than they had imagined, they backtracked on continuing the war and proposed a ceasefire through mediators,” Araghchi said.
“Iran's acceptance of the ceasefire was to maintain moral and value superiority. The decision is based on creating a new approach to Iranian foreign policy that relies on regional and Islamic values,” he added.
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The Kremlin said on Wednesday that it thought it was too early for anyone to have a realistic picture of damage inflicted on Iran's nuclear facilities by US airstrikes.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was responding to a question about damage assessments offered by President Donald Trump who has suggested that the US attack obliterated Tehran's nuclear programme.
Peskov said that Moscow viewed the attacks on Iran as unprovoked and the situation as concerning.
Russia had indications that Washington and Tehran had open communications channels though, he said, and Moscow was closely monitoring developments and still talking to Iran itself.
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Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister on Wednesday said that the United States must compensate Tehran for damages caused to its nuclear facilities due to the recent airstrikes, adding that his regime will file a formal complaint with the United Nations.
In an interview with a Lebanese news agency, the minister stated, "Washington must pay compensation for the damages caused to Iran's facilities.” He also clarified that there was no written or binding agreement with Israel. "What happened was simply the halt of aggression by the Israelis," he said.
Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz on Tuesday signed a special order designating Iran’s Central Bank as a terrorist organisation. The move, he said, came at the request of Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and the National Economic Warfare Headquarters.
Katz accused the bank of "funnelling billions into terror outfits including Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis, and Shiite militias in Iraq and the West Bank", through Iran's Revolutionary Guards. "We will hit the places that hurt the Ayatollah regime the most. No Iranian regime element involved in terrorism would be spared," he said.
