Israel-Iran War

Iran

What is Fordow? The nuclear site buried deep in an Iranian mountain, hit by president Trump’s bunker buster

The uranium enrichment plant was the deepest and most formidable challenge in the campaign against Iran

By JC Reporter

2 min read

Smoke rises as fire burns, in an alleged site of IRGC's missile launch targeted by Israel on the mountains of Shiraz, Iran on June 21, 2025. Israel attacked Iran in early hours of June 13, and the exchange of fire between the two countries continues ever since. (Photo by Hiroon / Middle East Images via AFP) (Photo by HIROON/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Cyprus

Israel says Iranian operative planned terror attack on Israelis and spied on RAF bases in Cyprus

By JC Reporter

1 min read

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 21: U.S. President Donald Trump delivers an address to the nation from the White House on June 21, 2025 in Washington, D.C. President Trump addressed the three Iranian nuclear facilities that were struck by the U.S. military early Sunday. (Photo by Carlos Barria - Pool/Getty Images)

Iran nuclear program

Iran nuclear sites ‘completely, totally obliterated,’ says Trump after US strikes on Natanz Fordow and Isfahan

By Andrew Bernard

1 min read

Evacuees from war-torn Israel being welcomed at Limassol Port in Cyprus (Photo: Taglit Birthright Israel)

Israel-Iran War

EXCLUSIVE: Brits evacuated from Israel in ‘biggest rescue operation’ since outbreak of war

By Gaby Wine

4 min read

Israel-Iran War

Ukrainian girl receiving cancer treatment in Israel killed in Iranian missile strike

By Jane Prinsley

1 min read

Citizens repatriated from Israel disembark a flight from Egypt at Figo Maduro airport in Lisbon on June 19, 2025. A Portuguese flight brought repatriated citizens of Portuguese, German, Israeli, Czech, Spanish, Austrian, Bulgarian, Argentine and Ukrainian nationality. Governments are evacuating thousands of their nationals caught up in the rapidly spiralling Israel-Iran conflict, after Israel launched an unprecedented bombing campaign on June 13, 2025 targeting Iran's nuclear and military facilities, sparking retaliation from Tehran. (Photo by MARIO CRUZ / AFP) (Photo by MARIO CRUZ/AFP via Getty Images)

Brits in Israel

UK scrambles to charter flights out of Israel as Brits complain about response from government

By Jane Prinsley

2 min read

The Chief Rabbi has been sharing messages of hope from Israel, where he is stranded with thousands of other Brits as the Islamic Republic of Iran continues to strike the Jewish State (Photo: Screenshot/Facebook)

Chief Rabbi Sir Ephraim Mirvis

‘I feel more safe in Israel than anywhere else in the world’: Chief Rabbi speaks from Herzliya

By Jane Prinsley

4 min read

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Trump says he will decide whether to join war with Iran in ‘next two weeks’

US involvement in the war is considered necessary to destroy the remaining Iranian nuclear facility at Fordow

By JC Reporter

3 min read

June 20, 2025 09:30

WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 15: U.S. President Donald Trump stops and talks to the media before he boards Marine One on the South Lawn at the White House on June 15, 2025 in Washington, DC. The President will attend the annual meeting of the Group of 7 nations, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States are taking place in the Canadian Rocky Mountains in Alberta, and will run until late Tuesday. (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

Lord Hermer ‘warned PM’ that UK involvement in Iran War ‘may be illegal’

Either way, the British government may face an awkward choice if the US decides to launch its own strikes on the Islamic Republic

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

June 19, 2025 15:10

Attorney General Lord Hermer has reportedly advised the prime minister that greater UK involvement in the Israel-Iran War 'may be illegal' (Image: Getty)

Foreign Office ‘dullards’ slammed for treatment of Brits stranded in Israel

The department is accused of failing to learn from the mistakes of Covid-era repatriation efforts

By Lorin Bell-Cross

4 min read

June 19, 2025 12:39

A nurse carries medical supplies past a building with smoke billowing out at Soroka Hospital following an Iranian missile attack in Beersheba (Image: Getty)

Khamenei assassination is now ‘an objective’ of Israel’s war

Defence Minister Israel Katz said that the IDF is aiming to ‘prevent the existence’ of Iran’s supreme leader

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

June 19, 2025 11:25

The death of Iranian leader Ali Khamenei is now an 'objective' of Israel's war effort, according to Defence Minister Israel Katz

By Jane Prinsley

I was 50 metres from an Iranian missile strike in Tel Aviv — there’s no doubt the regime is targeting civilians

If this is what they do with ballistic missiles, imagine what they would aim for with a nuclear bomb

6 min read

June 19, 2025 10:48

People look up at the burning site of the blast (Photo: J Prinsley)

Trump ‘approved plan’ to strike Iran unless eleventh-hour ceasefire agreed

The president is reportedly ‘holding off’ in case Tehran agrees to give up its nuclear programme altogether

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

June 19, 2025 09:42

President Trump has reportedly 'approved' a plan for direct US strikes against Iran (Image: Getty)

Downing Street refuses to back Trump call for Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender’

But Reform UK’s leader, Nigel Farage, said he was ‘for’ regime change in the Islamic Republic

By Lorin Bell-Cross

4 min read

June 18, 2025 15:07

Downing Street has refused to back Donald Trump's call for Iran's 'unconditional surrender' (Image: Getty)

Foreign Office sent Brits stranded in Israel message about imaginary ‘charter flight’

The department insisted that no repatriation flights had been chartered and that the email was an ‘administrative error’

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

June 18, 2025 14:51

The British government has evacuated the relatives of its embassy staff from Tel Aviv (Image: Getty)

Israeli military source claims Iran’s military leadership is ‘on the run’

"The Iranian military leadership is on the run," he says after the IDF killed Iran's new wartime chief of staff, Ali Shadmani.

By Yaakov Lappin

3 min read

June 18, 2025 14:45

A man in Tehran cycles past a poster of slain Iranian IRGC commander Gholam Ali Rashid (Photo by ATTA KENARE/AFP via Getty Images)

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Israel-Iran War

What is Fordow? The nuclear site buried deep in an Iranian mountain, hit by president Trump’s bunker buster

Israel says Iranian operative planned terror attack on Israelis and spied on RAF bases in Cyprus

Iran nuclear sites ‘completely, totally obliterated,’ says Trump after US strikes on Natanz Fordow and Isfahan

EXCLUSIVE: Brits evacuated from Israel in ‘biggest rescue operation’ since outbreak of war

Ukrainian girl receiving cancer treatment in Israel killed in Iranian missile strike

UK scrambles to charter flights out of Israel as Brits complain about response from government

‘I feel more safe in Israel than anywhere else in the world’: Chief Rabbi speaks from Herzliya

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