Israel began attacking Iran last Friday, saying it aimed to prevent its longtime enemy from developing nuclear weapons. Iran retaliated with missile and drone strikes on Israel. It says its nuclear programme is peaceful.
Israel has targeted nuclear sites, missile capabilities, while also hitting civilian areas, as it tries to shatter the government of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to Western and regional officials.
Iran has said it is targeting military and defence-related sites in Israel, although it has also hit a hospital and other civilian sites.
Iran’s emergency services said on Friday that five hospitals had been damaged in Israeli strikes.
“Now is the time to put a stop to the grave scenes in the Middle East and prevent a regional escalation that would benefit no one,“ said British Foreign Minister David Lammy.
The U.S. State Department said Rubio and the foreign ministers agreed that “Iran can never develop or acquire a nuclear weapon.”
However, Araqchi told Iranian state television on Friday that Tehran would not agree to talks while Israeli strikes continued.
The role of the United States remained uncertain. President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the region, Steve Witkoff, has spoken with Araqchi several times since last week, sources say.
MISSILE STRIKES
The missile struck near residential apartments, office buildings, and industrial facilities, leaving a large crater and ripping off the facade of at least one apartment complex while damaging several others.
Israeli public broadcaster Kan aired footage showing cars engulfed in flames, thick plumes of smoke and shattered windows at apartment buildings.
On Thursday, Iran hit a major hospital in Beersheba, Israel’s largest city in the south. Iran said it was targeting Israeli military headquarters near the hospital but Israel has denied there were any such facilities in the area.
Foreign Minister Israel Katz warned of action against Iranian ally Hezbollah on Friday, a day after the Lebanese militant group suggested it would come to Iran’s aid.
That may not be a firm deadline. Trump has commonly used “two weeks” as a time frame for making decisions and allowed other economic and diplomatic deadlines to slide.
But activists involved in previous bouts of protest say they are unwilling to unleash mass unrest, even against a system they hate, with their nation under attack.
“How are people supposed to pour into the streets? In such horrifying circumstances, people are solely focused on saving themselves, their families, their compatriots, and even their pets,“ said Atena Daemi, a prominent activist who spent six years in prison before leaving Iran.
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