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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Aamna Mohdin

Friday briefing: Israel launches strikes against Iran, targeting nuclear programme

Onlookers at a bombed building in Tehran, following the Israel strikes on Friday.
Onlookers at a bombed building in Tehran, following the Israel strikes on Friday. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Good morning. After threatening to do so for decades, Israel launched a wave of strikes on Iran, which hit “dozens” of targets including its nuclear facilities, military commanders and scientists. Israel claimed it took this unilateral action because Tehran had begun to build nuclear warheads.

Iran responded by launching 100 drones towards Israel. The region now stands at a precipice of a catastrophic, all out war.

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