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Micheál Martin urges return to ‘rules-based international order’
Iran
Iran warns US, UK and France against trying to stop strikes on Israel
Iran and Israel exchange strikes overnight after Netanyahu launched biggest-ever air offensive against Tehran regime
‘This isn’t just about a visa. It’s about lost futures’: Job offers for Iranian scientists in Ireland hit roadblock
Research and medical services set back due to delay by Department of Justice in processing visas
Israeli attacks may give Iran’s nuclear programme greater impetus
Iran’s regime may feel a more urgent need to protect itself after Israeli attacks, saying the world now understands its need for enrichment and missile power
Netanyahu says more Israeli attacks on Iran ‘on the way’ as retaliatory missiles intercepted
Israel indicated it would next set its sights on the enrichment facility known as Fordo, Iran’s second-largest and most fortified nuclear complex
Iran retaliates with strikes against Israel as Netanyahu vows to continue for ‘as many days as it takes’
New Revolutionary Guards’ chief warns Tehran would open ‘gates of hell … upon this child-killing regime’
Iran fires missiles at Israel in response to attacks
Israel warns strikes are just start of its campaign, while Donald Trump says Iran could halt attacks by ending its nuclear programme
The Irish Times view on Israel’s attack on Iran: a reckless act
Binyamin Netanyahu’s willingness to escalate should concern the international community
Stocks tumble as Israel’s strikes on Iran fuel rush to safe havens
Irish index falls 1.6% as food, banking and travel hit
Oil prices surge after Israel’s attack on Iran
Global stock markets fall and gold, a haven asset, jumps
Iranians react to Israel’s strikes with anger and fear: ‘We can’t afford not to respond’
Iranian residents brace for escalation as some say they plan to leave for neighbouring Turkey
Most Israelis view a nuclear Iran as an existential threat
Already speculation that a successful outcome for Israel could prompt Binyamin Netanyahu to call early election
Arab states unite in condemnation of Israel’s attack
Saudi Arabia sets tone by referring to ‘brotherly Islamic Republic of Iran’ while condemning ‘heinous attacks’
‘A war that’s been planned for a decade’ - why Israel has attacked Iran and what happens next
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Israel attacks Iran: Where are Iran’s nuclear sites and does it have nuclear weapons?
Israel says it has struck Iranian nuclear targets to hurt that country’s military capabilities
UN nuclear watchdog says Iran is in breach of negotiations
US pulls embassy staff from Middle East as threats emerge over potential Israel attack on Iran
Even here in Israel, government statements about Greta Thunberg’s ‘selfie yacht’ are seen as crass
Mainstream television coverage took the story more seriously than mocking statements by the Netanyahu government
Iran to present counterproposal to US in nuclear talks
Tehran urges international community to press for Israeli nuclear disarmament
Maybe what the world needs right now is another Anthony Bourdain
Chef, TV star, rhetorician and more, he proved the truth of a culinary universal language
Khamenei dismisses US nuclear proposal, and says Iran will keep enriching uranium
Five rounds of nuclear talks have not bridged gaps as Iran’s leaders grapple with multiple crises
Trump tells Iran sanctions will remain until it ends nuclear programme
US demands Iran end all uranium-enrichment activities, including those relating to power generation and medical treatment
Iran has increased stockpile of highly enriched uranium, watchdog reveals
UN nuclear agency reiterates urgent call for co-operation
As Trump seeks Iran deal, Israel again raises possibility of strikes on nuclear sites
At the core of the tension between Netanyahu and Trump is their differing views of how best to exploit Iranian weakness
Seeing Israel use hunger as a weapon of war is monstrous to me as someone with a Holocaust legacy
Deliberate starvation of an entire people is a monstrous strategy, openly endorsed by cabinet members - horrifying, illegal and counter to Jewish morality and collective memory
Iran will survive if nuclear deal not agreed with US, says president
Uranium enrichment remains a core issue of contention between the sides
Zlatan wins the aerial battle but Michael D Higgins still comes home with another striking prize
Plus: Bloomsday hits Tehran (despite Ulysses ban); a great gig for tunnelling experts; and Norman naysayer Aengus Ó Snodaigh
Iranian director Jafar Panahi wins Palme d’Or at Cannes for It Was Just an Accident
Harry Lighton’s Pillion, produced by Dublin-based Element Pictures, takes award for best screenplay in the Un Certain Regard section
US and Iran to hold nuclear talks in Rome amid clashing red lines
Differences over uranium enrichment put fate of negotiations in the balance
Ramaphosa to face into a storm when he meets Trump, whose list of grievances against South Africa is long
US president unhappy at plight of Afrikaners, Pretoria’s court case against Israel and its ties with ‘rogue’ states like Iran
Tehran accuses US of lacking seriousness on deal to limit Iran’s nuclear programme
Iranian foreign minister says US envoy Steve Witkoff is ‘at a distance from reality of negotiations’
Man sentenced to 25 years in prison for attempted murder of author Salman Rushdie
Hadi Matar stabbed author 15 times at 2022 literary gathering in New York, causing severe injuries to his right eye, liver and intestines
Binyamin Netanyahu reduced to spectator as Donald Trump tours Middle East
US president bypasses Israel as he eyes Gulf billions, meets Syrian leader and pursues detente with Iran
Israeli concern over reported Trump shift on Saudi nuclear talks
Riyadh normalising relations with Israel had been US precondition for progressing civilian nuclear programme discussions
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