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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will convene an extraordinary meeting of its Board of Governors next week at Iran’s request, following Israeli strikes on the country, diplomats told AFP on Friday.
Reporting by AFP
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington provided Israel with "exquisite intel" ahead of its deadly barrage of strikes on Iran, ABC News is reporting, citing a source familiar with the situation.
Rubio added that the US would defend Israel if needed.
The source confirmed that Washington had advance warning of the attack and said that the strikes would continue and intensify over the next few days.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has written to the United Nations Security Council ahead of a meeting set to take place later today, saying that Israel "has now crossed every red line, and the international community must not allow these crimes to go unpunished".
He added that Iran "reaffirms its inherent right to self-defence as enshrined in Article 51 of the UN Charter and will respond decisively and proportionately to these unlawful and cowardly acts".
Article 51 of the UN Charter covers the individual or collective right of states to self-defense against armed attack.
He further called on the UN Security Council and the secretery-general to condemn the aggression and take "immediate and unequivocal action".
"Failure to respond will only embolden the aggressor, reward impunity, and fuel further chaos in an already fragile region," he warned.
US President Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) that he was aware of Israel's plans to launch an attack on Tehran.
When asked by the WSJ whether the US had received a “heads-up” before the attack, Trump replied: "Heads-up? It wasn’t a heads-up. It was, we know what's going on."
He described the attack as "very successful… to put it mildly".
Israel's Channel 12 is reporting that the Israeli military has intercepted two drones in northern Israel, adding that a fire erupted in the occupied Golan Heights as fragments struck the area.
Meanwhile, Israeli newspaper Haaretz and Israeli Army Radio report that a single drone was intercepted.
Iranian media is reporting that eight people have been killed in Israeli strikes on Tabriz.
Following a barrage of deadly strikes on Friday morning, Israel later launched fresh strikes targeting Tabriz, Shiraz and a renewed attack on Natanz nuclear site.
The Israeli military said its navy intercepted drones fired from Iran.
This came shortly after Israeli Army Radio reported that air raid sirens had been activated in northern Israel.
Iranians are demanding a swift response to Israel's attacks, while some have taken to Tehran's streets in protest.
Protestors held aloft images of Supreme Leader Khamenei and waved Iranian flags while chanting: “Death to Israel. Death to America."
"As an Iranian, I believe there must be a crushing response," Ahmad Moadi, a 62-year-old retiree told AFP. "How much longer are we going to live in fear?"
“You can't approach this bastard gently,” Abbas Ahmadi, a 52-year-old Tehran resident, told AFP, referring to Netanyahu. "Letting him scare women and children like this. We could end up like Gaza".
“Iran must destroy him. It must do something.”
Another Tehran resident, Ahmed Razaghi said it was "unacceptable" that Israel wanted to remove Iran's nuclear capacity.
"So many scientists have worked hard for this, we achieved it ourselves, and now they want to take it from us."
“There must be a crushing response.”
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to speak with US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, his office said in a statement.
According to the statement, Netanyahu has already spoken to the leaders of Germany, India and France, who "showed understanding toward Israel's need to defend itself against the Iranian annihilation threat".
Reporting by Reuters
Donald Trump has described Israel's Friday morning attacks on Iran as "excellent" and warned Iran that things will get worse if the country does not agree to a nuclear deal with the United States.
Israel launched a huge attack on Iran in the early hours of Friday, targeting nuclear facilities, military commanders and scientists.
"I think it's been excellent. We gave them a chance and they didn't take it. They got hit hard, very hard. They got hit about as hard as you're going to get hit. And there's more to come. A lot more," Trump was quoted as saying by an ABC reporter.
Earlier on social media, Trump wrote: "I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal. I told them, in the strongest of words, to 'just do it,' but no matter how hard they tried, no matter how close they got, they just couldn’t get it done."
Implying that he had been aware of the attacks ahead of time, Trump said that he told Iran that “it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told”.
Read more: Trump hails ‘excellent’ Israeli attack on Iran, warns more to come
Videos circulated online and verified by Al Jazeera show fires erupting in western Iran after an Israeli attack on the Kermanshah facility, which stores ballistic missiles.
At the request of Iran, the United Nations Security Council will meet later on Friday over Israel's strikes on Iran, diplomats said.
Israel's attack on Iran in the early hours of Friday marks the most severe attack on the Islamic Republic since the end of the Iran-Iraq war in 1988.
International observers, analysts, energy monitors, politicians and ordinary people in Iran and Israel are still scrabbling to come to terms with the significance of the operation, branded "Rising Lion" by Israel.
The fear among regional leaders, in particular, is that the escalation of the conflict between the two longstanding rivals could draw in neighbouring countries.
Meanwhile, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has expressed concern over potential radioactive contamination as a result of the strikes on nuclear facilities.
With events still unfolding, Middle East Eye takes a look at what we know so far.
Read more: Israel's attack on Iran: What do we know so far?
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that Israel is seeking to drag the world into "disaster" after strikes on Iran and has urged the international community to stop what he called Israel's "banditry".
"The international community must put an end to Israeli banditry that targets global and regional stability," said Erdogan.
Erdogan accused Israel of carrying "its strategy of drowning our region, especially Gaza, in blood, tears and instability to a very dangerous stage" with its wave of attacks on Iran.
"Israel's attacks on our neighbor Iran are a clear provocation that disregards international law," he said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government "is trying to drag our region and the entire world into disaster with its reckless, aggressive and lawless actions," he added.
Read more - Israel's attack on Iran: How the world reacted
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, French President Emmanuel Macron and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer have held calls to discuss the deadly Israeli attacks on Iran, a German government spokesperson said on Friday.
"They discussed today's Israeli strikes against the Iranian nuclear programme and Iran's military response and agreed to remain in close contact," the spokesperson added.
