US involvement would be 'very very dangerous', Iranian foreign minister says
BreakingEPAWe've just been hearing from Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who tells reporters that his country "cannot go through negotiations with the US when our people are under bombardment".
He claims that "the US has been involved in the aggression since day one", though he does not provide evidence of this.
Speaking to reporters in Istanbul, where he is set to continue diplomatic talks, Araghchi warns that US involvement in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran would be "very very dangerous".
As a reminder, US President Donald Trump approved plans to attack Iran earlier this week but held off from strikes in case Iran agreed to abandon its nuclear programme.
The Iranian foreign minister says he is "absolutely ready for a negotiated solution for our nuclear programme".
In 2015, Iran agreed a long-term deal on its nuclear programme with a group of world powers after years of tension over the country's alleged efforts to develop a nuclear weapon.
Araghchi adds: "Diplomacy has worked in the past and can work again in the future. In order for us to come back to diplomacy the aggression must be stopped."
Another Quds Force commander killed in western Iran, IDF says
Israel claims to have killed another Iranian commander from the same branch of the military as the one we reported killed earlier.
The IDF says its warplanes targeted and killed Behnam Shahriyari as he was travelling in a car through western Iran overnight.
Shahriyari was a commander in the Quds Force's weapons transfer unit, part of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to the IDF.
It adds he was responsible for transporting Iranian missiles and rockets to proxy groups across the region, including Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Who was Saeed Izadi, the IRGC's coordinator with Hamas?
Jiyar Gol
World affairs correspondentMohammad Saeed Izadi was a senior commander, serving as the head of the Palestine Corps within the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force - the IRGC's overseas operations arm, which has ties with armed groups in the region.
He was targeted in an Israeli attack on an apartment in the Iranian city of Qom. As we reported earlier, Israel says he was killed but the IRGC has not confirmed his death.
Known as a key liaison between Iran and Hamas, Izadi played a central role in co-ordinating Tehran’s support for Palestinian armed groups.
He was reportedly instrumental in arming and financing Hamas. Israel says he helped orchestrate a multi-front assault on Israel that culminated in the Palestinian group's attack on Israeli communities near Gaza on 7 October 2023.
In April 2024, Izadi narrowly survived an Israeli air strike targeting the Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria - an attack that killed several high-ranking Quds Force commanders.
IDF says strike in Qom followed long intelligence operation
We're hearing confirmation now of earlier reports that Israel's military say they assassinated an Iranian commander in the north-eastern city of Qom overnight.
The IDF says in a statement that its warplanes struck a "hideout in the heart of Iran, following a prolonged intelligence-gathering effort.
The statement adds that "Izadi was one of the founding figures and promoters behind the Iranian regime’s concrete plan to destroy Israel, which was revealed in the opening hours of Operation "Rising Lion."
There's been no official confirmation of Izadi's death from Iran.
Iranian adviser believed to have survived Israeli strike
Getty ImagesA senior Iranian political figure initially thought killed in an Israeli strike on Tehran at the start of the nine-day exchange of strikes appears to have survived, Iranian state media reports.
Ali Shamkhani, a former security chief and an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, was reportedly injured in an Israeli attack on 13 June.
According to the IRNA state news agency, Shamkhani is in recovering in hospital and now in a stable medical condition.
Shamkhani's X account posted this morning in English, saying that he had survived the attack.
"It was my fate to survive wounded—so I remain," the post reads. "Still the reason for the enemy’s hatred. I’d sacrifice myself a hundred times for Iran."
Iran to continue diplomatic talks in Istanbul today
ReutersFollowing Friday's meeting with European representatives in Geneva, Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araghchi is in Istanbul, Turkey, today to continue diplomatic talks.
The Tasnim state news agency reports Araghchi arrived in Turkey this morning to meet representatives from across the Arab and Muslim worlds.
"At this meeting, at the suggestion of Iran, the issue of the Zionist regime's attack on our country will be specifically addressed," Araghchi says, according to a Tasnim report.
We'll keep across developments today and bring you any important updates.
Trump says Gabbard was 'wrong' on Iran
Watch: Trump says Tulsi Gabbard is 'wrong' on Iran
More now from US President Donald Trump, who spoke to reporters yesterday on the tarmac next to Air Force One.
He was asked what intelligence he has that suggests Iran is building a nuclear weapon, when his intelligence community has previously said they have no evidence.
"Well, then my intelligence community is wrong. Who in the intelligence community said that?" Trump asked.
The reporter replied that it was Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard.
"She's wrong," Trump quickly replied.
In March, Gabbard told Congress that US intelligence agencies determined Iran had not resumed its suspended 2003 nuclear weapons programme, even as the nation's stockpile of enriched uranium - a component of such weapons - was at an all-time high.
