Iran’s Nuclear Dreams May Survive Even a Devastating American Blow
A billboard showing a variety of missiles in Tehran last year. Iran’s nuclear program has become ingrained in the country’s identity since it began in the late 1950s.
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Claims of Potential Human Rights Violations Strain E.U.-Israeli Relations
Preparing bread in Gaza in April. Many bakeries were forced to close and flour supplies ran low after Israel imposed a blockade on food and fuel supplies that ended last month.
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China Says the U.S. Damaged Its Own Credibility by Striking Iran
Fu Cong, China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, speaking during a U.N. Security Council meeting at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sunday.
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Zelensky Arrives in U.K. After Russian Attack on Kyiv Kills at Least 8
President Volodymyr Zelensky and King Charles at Windsor Castle on Monday. Concerns are growing in Kyiv that Russia’s assaults are drawing less attention as global focus shifts to the Israel-Iran war.
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on June 2025
How Hugo Aguilar Ortiz Became Mexico’s Most Powerful Indigenous Lawyer
Hugo Aguilar Ortiz is the newly elected chief justice of Mexico’s Supreme Court.
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Trump’s Strike on Iran Cements Netanyahu’s Political Comeback
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel speaking this month at the Knesset, Israel’s Parliament, in Jerusalem.
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After U.S. Strikes on Iran, Prospects for Diplomacy Look Dim
President Trump addressing the nation late Saturday, flanked by, from left, Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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Will Iran Decide to Retaliate Against the U.S.?
A demonstrator in Tehran on Friday with photos of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at a march condemning Israel’s attacks on Iran.
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Far-Right Party Tries to Expand Its Appeal in Germany’s West
Duisburg has long been at the heart of Germany’s steel industry. The site of one former steel plant is now an urban park.
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Iran Had Vowed to Retaliate. Now, It Faces Grim Choices.
Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, in Geneva on Friday.
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Villages Evacuated on Greek Tourist Island as Wildfires Rage
Firefighters battling a large wildfire in Karyes, a village on the island of Chios, Greece, on Sunday.
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Netanyahu Says Israel Is ‘Very, Very Close’ to Achieving Its Goals in Iran War
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel speaking on Thursday at the Soroka hospital complex in southern Israel after it was hit by a missile fired from Iran.
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Putin Condemns Strikes on Iran but Stops Short of Offering Concrete Support
In a photograph provided by Russian state media, Russia’s President Vladimir V. Putin met with Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, at the Kremlin in Moscow on Monday.
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The U.N.’s nuclear watchdog says the war could lead to ‘unimaginable levels’ of destruction.
Rafael Grossi, head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, at an emergency meeting of the agency in Vienna on Monday.
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European officials voice fears of further escalation in the Israel-Iran war.
The European Union’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, in Brussels, on Monday. European ministers “are very much focused on the diplomatic solution,” she said.
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What Is the Strait of Hormuz and Why Is It Important?
A satellite image of the Strait of Hormuz, showing the Iranian coast at top, and Qeshm Island and the United Arab Emirates below.
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Monday Briefing
Demonstrating against the U.S. and Israel in Tehran yesterday.
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Around Military Bases in the U.S., Unease Over What Comes Next
An Army color guard during a ceremony at Fort Benning in Georgia in April.
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Rod Nordland, 75, Dies; War Reporter Who Also Wrote of His Own Struggle
Rod Nordland in 2018, a year before his cancer diagnosis. A reporter for 40 years, he covered most of the world’s major wars before turning his attention to his own health crisis.
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on June 2025
Is the U.S. at War With Iran? What to Know About Trump, Congress and War Powers
Demonstrators hold signs against the U.S. strikes against Iran in Washington outside the White House on Sunday.
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on June 2025
Monday Briefing: The U.S. Struck Iran
Demonstrating against the U.S. and Israel in Tehran.
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Syria Church Bombing Kills at Least 20 in Damascus
People sought to help on Sunday after an attack on the Mar Elias Church in Damascus, Syria.
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After U.S. Strikes, Iranian Officials Try to Project a Sense of Normalcy
President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran made the rounds in Tehran on Sunday.
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Russia, ‘a Friend’ of Iran, Seems Unlikely to Offer Much Help
The Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said Russia and Iran “enjoy a strategic partnership.”
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Gulf Countries Voice Concern After U.S. Attack on Iran Nuclear Sites
American bases in fossil-fuel-rich Gulf countries could be prime targets for Iranian retaliation against the United States.
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‘We’re All in Shock’: Iranians React to U.S. Attack on Nuclear Sites
Vehicles lined up for gas after Israeli airstrikes in Tehran last week.
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Some Israelis Expect New Era After U.S. Strikes on Iran. Others Are Skeptical.
Residents flee a building after an Iranian strike in Tel Aviv.
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Iran’s Fordo Nuclear Site Said to Look Severely Damaged, Not Destroyed
This satellite image provided by Maxar Technologies shows damage at the Fordo enrichment facility in Iran after U.S. strikes, on Sunday.
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Pentagon Details Multipronged Attack on Iranian Nuclear Sites
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke to reporters at the Pentagon on Sunday.
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Vance says Iran’s nuclear program has been ‘substantially delayed.’
Vice President JD Vance earlier this month. “I think we set that program back substantially,” he said on Sunday, “and we did it without endangering the lives of the American pilots.”
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Israel Recovers Bodies of Three Hostages Held by Hamas in Gaza
Ofra Keidar, the woman whose face is on the large central poster at this demonstration in Tel Aviv, was among the hostages whose bodies were recovered.
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on June 2025
Does Iran have another secret enrichment site, as it claims?
The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization, Mohammad Eslami, at a news conference in November in Tehran.
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‘We have to respond,’ Iran’s foreign minister warns.
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, told a news conference in Istanbul on Sunday that his country would defend itself.
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Here’s What to Know About Fordo, Iran’s Best-Protected Nuclear Site
A satellite photo from February showing the aboveground part of the Fordo nuclear facility, south of Tehran. In structures buried deep underground, the facility enriches uranium.
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on June 2025
Iran’s Allies Are Not Offering Support in Its Conflict With Israel
Smoke rising after an Israeli strike in Tehran this month. Iran’s allies have stopped short of offering any concrete support during this conflict.
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on June 2025
Oil Companies Fight Climate Lawsuits by Citing Free Speech
California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, along with several municipalities, has filed suits against Exxon Mobil, Chevron and other companies.
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on June 2025
Missteps, Confusion and ‘Viral Waste’: The 14 Days That Doomed U.S.A.I.D.
Within two weeks of President Trump’s return to the White House, U.S.A.I.D. was on the cusp of oblivion.
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on June 2025
Iran fires more missiles at Israel, hours after the U.S. strikes on Iran.
Emergency responders at the site of an Iranian strike in Ness Ziona, Israel, on Sunday morning.
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World Leaders React to the U.S. Strikes on Iran
António Guterres, the U.N. Secretary General, in 2023. He described the U.S. strikes as a “dangerous escalation in a region already on the edge.”
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on June 2025
Republican Lawmakers Cheer Strike on Iran as Top Democrats Condemn It
Speaker Mike Johnson, center, released a statement saying the strikes were necessary.
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on June 2025
Small Protests Against the U.S. Attack in Iran Sprouted Up Over the Weekend
Live Updates: Israel Pounds Tehran Amid Growing Calls for De-Escalation
‘The Better Life Is Out of Reach’: The Chinese Dream Is Slipping Away
Island-Hopping on a D.I.Y. Caribbean Cruise
NYC Increases Police Presence at Vulnerable Sites After U.S. Bombings in Iran
Pentagon details how attack was carried out
Satellite Images Show What U.S. May Have Targeted at Iran’s Fordo Nuclear Site