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Here’s where things stand on Wednesday 25 June 2025:
- Iran’s parliament passes bill to suspend cooperation with UN’s IAEA, as Israel’s assault on Gaza continues, killing at least 51 people today.
- US President Trump says ceasefire between Israel and Iran, announced yesterday, is going ‘very well’, as White House rejects intelligence report saying US bombings did not destroy Iran’s nuclear sites, only set programme back by months.
- Both Israel and Iran have claimed victory in the 12-day war, with Iranians holding celebrations in Tehran and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claiming a triumph that will stand for generations.
- Iran says at least 610 people, including 13 children, were killed and 3,056 wounded since Israel launched its attack on June 13. In Israel, at least 28 people were killed in Iranian strikes.
- Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 56,077 people and wounded 131,848, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7 attacks, and more than 200 were taken captive.
Iran set to press on with nuclear programme
It’s clear from the president and foreign minister’s statements that Iran’s nuclear programme will continue despite everything that has happened.
While US and Israeli attacks hit three of Iran’s facilities, we don’t yet know if they are completely destroyed. There are also other facilities.
Now that Iran’s parliament has approved a bill to stop cooperation with the IAEA, it will go to the Guardian Council, which will study it legally and religiously. If there is consensus in the body, the bill will go to the Supreme National Security Council to be approved and finally to the government to become policy.
Iran’s Baghaei says no trust in US after it ‘torpedoed diplomacy’
We can now bring you more of the Iranian foreign ministry spokesman’s remarks to Al Jazeera.
Asked about Trump’s earlier suggestion that the US would have “some sort of a relationship” with Iran in the future, Baghaei dismissed months of “contradictory remarks” from the US.
“While they [US officials] have been talking about diplomacy, they greenlighted the Israelis to attack Iran,” said Baghaei, asking how that could allow “any trust” to remain.
“They [the US] torpedoed diplomacy,” he went on.
While Baghaei said Iran believes “diplomacy never ends” and even engaged with “different actors” amid the war with Israel, he stressed that the country’s top priority is national security and would have to ascertain whether the US is “really serious” about diplomacy before re-engaging.
At least 51 killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza today
Sources at hospitals in the Gaza Strip give us this updated death toll, adding that at least 14 of the people killed by Israel today were killed near aid distribution centers.
The killing of Palestinian aid-seekers, once met with shock and international condemnation as Israeli-backed aid sites opened late last month, has now become a daily occurrence, as the starving population remains desperate to get any food aid that they can, even at the cost of their safety.
Iran’s Baghei says nuclear installations ‘badly damaged’
Further pressed on the condition of Iran’s nuclear sites hit by US and Israeli attacks, Baghei says, “Yes, our nuclear installations have been badly damaged.”
“That’s for sure because [they have] come under repeated attacks,” he said.
“I have nothing to add on this issue because it’s a matter of technical issue,” he went on, noting that the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran and other relevant agencies are addressing it.
Baghaei says its ‘natural’ for Iran to reconsider ties with IAEA
Speaking to Al Jazeera, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei confirms Iran’s parliament has voted to suspend – but not end – cooperation with the UN’s nuclear watchdog, the IAEA.
The legislation “talks about suspending not putting an end to the cooperation,” Baghaei explained. “Don’t you think it is only natural for the representatives of a nation that has come under an egregious act of aggression to reconsider the way they have been dealing with the IAEA?”
Baghaei went on to say that the bill sets conditions for Iran’s engagement future with the watchdog, including guarantees for the safety and security of Iranian scientists and nuclear facilities. It also calls for respect for Iran’s rights under the NPT – the international treaty under which non-nuclear-weapon states commit not to pursue nuclear arms but have the right to develop peaceful nuclear energy, he said.
“If we are going to be a responsible member of the NPT, we have to be able to enjoy the rights that are afforded to every state of this treaty,” added Baghaei.
Iranian missiles wrecked 6 Israeli university labs last week: Report
Six research facilities at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba were wrecked by Iranian missiles on June 19, The Times of Israel reports, citing the institution.
The university said the attack, which also caused damage to the nearby Soroka Hospital, “wiped out years of work on diverse research projects in medicine and biology” and estimated the cost of the damage could be tens of millions of dollars.
Residences housing nearly 100 students, faculty and staff were also hit, with dozens forced to evacuate, said the report.
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman says ‘right to nuclear energy intact’
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has spoken to Al Jazeera about the status of Iran’s nuclear programme in the aftermath of US and Israeli strikes on its facilities.
Asked about US claims that Iran’s major nuclear sites are now “completely destroyed”, Baghaei said Iran plans to keep pursuing nuclear energy.
“What I have to say is that Iran’s right to nuclear peaceful energy remains intact. Iran has every right under the NPT [Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons]… to enjoy using nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. And Iran is prepared to reserve that right under any circumstances.”
Pressed on the extent of damage inflicted on its nuclear sites and the status of enriched uranium stockpiles, Baghaei said these should be “secondary issues” to the international community.
“The primary concern of the international community has to be to condemn these lawless acts by the United States,” he said, calling the strikes a “detrimental blow” to international law, diplomacy and ethics.
“I think it is really very bad sign that many people across the globe are trying to underestimate the depths and gravity of the American act of aggression against Iran and now they are talking about the level of strikes or its effectiveness,” he said.
We’ll bring you more of his remarks shortly.
Witnesses describe overnight Israeli attacks on Gaza
Reuters has spoken to Ramzi Khaled, a Gaza City resident who was close to a massive Israeli air attack on a building sheltering displaced people. Here is his harrowing account:
“Suddenly, without any previous warning, people who are staying and living in a shelter that is al-Shawwa [fuel] station … Without any previous warning, the place was hit.
“The ceiling was toppled to the ground. They are all in pieces. Approximately 12 people present in this building, they are all in pieces. We retrieved what we could, three people in pieces, and here we are trying to retrieve some, a martyr and the rest who are under the rubble.
“We started working … with a hammer – and primitive things. There are no bulldozers or things that help us. Here, people are trying to dig with simple means, they use their hands in order to retrieve remaining body parts and martyrs. This is all because of the lack of capabilities available in the Gaza Strip.”
In Iran, ceasefire brings relief but raises questions
There are mixed feelings. We are talking about a country that went through 12 days of war. People are happy that this came to an end. But now the big questions have come – people want to know what’s next.
People want to see how [the latest developments] will reflect on their daily lives and also on the country’s strategy, including regarding relations with the US and the region.
This is a moment that broke the status quo.
Palestine’s Abbas commends Trump for Israel-Iran ceasefire, hopes to work with him on peace deal: Report
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has written a letter to Trump applauding his efforts to secure a truce between Israel and Iran, and offering to work with him on another agreement that will bring lasting peace and stability to Palestinians, according to the Wafa news agency.
In the letter, Abbas, who heads the Palestinian Authority, which administers parts of the occupied West Bank, said he is ready to collaborate with the US and other Arab and international countries to negotiate a comprehensive peace deal that ends the Israeli occupation.
“We hope and trust in your ability to make a new history for our region that will restore to the region the peace lost for generations,” Wafa quoted the letter as saying.
People celebrate as ceasefire holds between Iran and Israel
A day after Trump announced a truce between Israel and Iran, the ceasefire appears to be holding despite a shaky start.
All parties have framed the ceasefire as a strategic victory, with Israel saying it completed its war objectives and Iran saying it “forced the enemy into … accepting defeat”.
Watch the celebrations that have erupted over the truce in Iran and Iraq here:
Kremlin says Iran’s move to pause cooperation with IAEA a result of attack on nuclear sites
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said the Iranian parliament’s move to suspend cooperation with the nuclear watchdog is concerning, but attributed it to Israel’s “unprovoked attack” on Iran’s nuclear facilities.
In comments carried by Russia’s state-owned RIA Novosti news agency, Peskov claimed the IAEA’s reputation has suffered serious damage from those attacks.
Peskov also said Russia thinks it’s too early for anyone to have a realistic picture of the damage inflicted on Iran’s nuclear facilities by US air strikes.
He 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.
Russia had indications that Washington and Tehran had open communication channels, though, he said, and Moscow was closely monitoring developments and still talking to Iran.
Netanyahu laments ‘difficult day’ after seven soldiers killed in Gaza
The Israeli PM says “it is a very difficult day for the people of Israel” after the news of seven soldiers killed by an explosion in southern Gaza.
“Our heroic combatants fell in the battle to defeat Hamas and free our hostages in the south of the Gaza Strip,” wrote Netanyahu on X. “Together with all the citizens of Israel, my wife and I mourn and grieve the fall of seven of our soldiers from the Combat Engineering Battalion. May their memory be a blessing.”
12 posts from ‘12-day war’: How Trump live-posted Israel-Iran conflict
After 12 days of intense air strikes between Iran and Israel, US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that the rivals had reached a ceasefire.
The ceasefire came after the US struck three key Iranian nuclear facilities on Saturday. In retaliation, Tehran launched a missile attack on the Al Udeid airbase in Qatar – the largest US military base in the Middle East – with no reported injuries as a result.
As Iran and Israel traded missile salvoes, Trump stayed busy on social media, especially on Truth Social, which he owns.
Click here for 12 posts authored by Trump, chronicling the Iran-Israel conflict over what he calls a “12-day war”.
Today’s death toll in Gaza rises
Sources in Gaza hospitals tell us that Israel has killed 41 people in the Strip since the early hours of this morning, including 14 near aid distribution centres.
Pope Leo appeals to Iran and Israel not to pursue vengeance after war
Pope Leo XIV has appealed to Iran and Israel not to pursue further hostilities after 12 days of war, which the US joined with air strikes in support of Israel.
“May all logic of oppression and revenge be rejected, and may the path of dialogue, diplomacy, and peace be chosen with determination,” the pontiff said in remarks at the end of his weekly audience in St Peter’s Square.
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Aid seekers given just 20 minutes at GHF-run sites to find supplies
Aid distribution centres run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) are set up very close to where Israeli forces are stationed, with their tanks, armoured vehicles and surrounding snipers. So when large crowds gather, they are vulnerable to Israeli fire.
Disturbingly, people are given just 20-minute windows at the aid centres to get their hands on whatever is available, such as food parcels. Once that 20-minute period ends, shooting often starts. That is one of the reasons we’re seeing large numbers of people dying at these centres.
Despite the danger, people feel that they have to go to the sites. If they don’t, their children will not eat.
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