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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei crushed internal threats during more than three decades in power as Iran’s supreme leader

Ministers from UK, France and Germany meet Abbas Araqchi but do not say whether there had been any tangible progress after hours of talks

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Here are the key events on day seven of the Israel-Iran conflict.

President Donald Trump reportedly believes bombing Fordow, Iran's nuclear facility buried deep under a mountain, is necessary to prevent the country from obtaining a nuclear weapon

The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has said that his country’s campaign in Iran “could certainly” lead to regime change. In an interview with Fox News on June 15, he called the government in Tehran “very weak” and added that, given the opportunity, “80% of the [Iranian] people would throw…

The FTSE 100 index closed down 51.67 points, 0.6%, at 8,791.80.

Irish premier Micheal Martin said ‘dialogue is the way to resolve the nuclear issue in terms of Iran’.

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