Trump urges everyone to “immediately evacuate Tehran”
In a social media tweet, U.S. President Donald Trump declared that Iran would not be let to possess nuclear weapons and urged the whole capital to leave “immediately.”
About 300,000 people in Tehran were urged to leave by Israel on Monday in anticipation of airstrikes.
Then, during a live broadcast, Israeli commandos attacked Iran’s state-run television station.
Iran launched a barrage of missiles at Israel before dawn that killed at least eight people, while Israel has been bombarding Iran with drones and airstrikes all day.
Israel launched the tit-for-tat attacks on Iran because of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program, and the conflict has sparked concerns about a more extensive and dangerous regional conflict.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, stated on Monday that he speaks with Trump every day and that the strikes have delayed Iran’s nuclear program by “years.”
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White House communications secretary Karoline Leavitt posted on social media, “President Trump had a great day at the G7, even signing a major trade deal with the United Kingdom and Prime Minister Keir Starmer.”
“Although a lot was done, President Trump will be departing tonight following dinner with heads of state due to the situation in the Middle East.”
Trump has set his first one-on-one meeting with Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum for Tuesday, when the summit is expected to continue.
Additionally, Trump was scheduled to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Canada on Tuesday.
While attending the G7 conference in Canada, U.S. President Donald Trump sent a dire message on Monday, demanding the urgent evacuation of Tehran, the capital of Iran.
Trump repeatedly stated throughout the day that Iran is incapable of possessing a nuclear weapon. On his social media page, he reiterated the point by saying, “IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON.”
In reference to Israel’s recent strikes, he claimed that Iran ought to have accepted the “deal” he instructed them to sign in order to stop what he described as “a shame, and waste of human life.”
Trump concluded the article by saying, “Everyone should leave Tehran right away! ”
John Cox, a retired pilot and aviation safety specialist, stated that the disruptions will have a significant financial impact.
He told the AP, “You have thousands of passengers who are suddenly not where they should be, crews who are not where they should be, and airplanes that are not where they should be.”
Israel has shuttered its main international Ben Gurion Airport “until further notice,” and Iran has shut off its airspace entirely.
Airports in Lebanon and Jordan are in a state of chaos, despite the fact that airspace is still partially open in both countries. Because of its proximity to Iran, all of the airports in neighboring Iraq have closed. Some of the Iraqis who are stuck there have chosen to depart via land.
Defense systems were in operation to intercept the missiles, according to the military. Reports of damage or casualties were not immediately available.
Many Israelis appear to be supporting the operation in these early days, despite the fact that no opinion polls have been issued since Israel’s surprise attack on Friday.
Some inhabitants of Petah Tikva claimed Israel must continue its attacks in order to live as they examined the damage and relocated to hotels or loved ones’ houses.
According to one woman, a large portion of her flat was demolished and four of her neighbors were slain.
Miryam described it as the scariest thing she has ever experienced. She talked to the AP under the stipulation that her last name not be used because she is in the military.
She stated, “But attacking Iran is the right thing to do; I don’t want them to have this power over us.”
As crowds attempted to reach new food distribution facilities on Monday, Israeli troops opened fire, killing at least 34 Palestinians, according to Gaza medics and witnesses.
Heba Jouda, one of the thousands attempting to provide for her family, claimed, “Fire was coming from everywhere.” Since the start of the aid system last month, which is funded by the United States and Israel, hundreds of people have been killed in similar killings, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
According to Israel, the new method stops Hamas from stealing aid, while the U.N. It has turned food into a weapon and failed to satisfy urgent requirements, according to organizations and NGOs like Doctors Without Borders.
The closest Red Cross field hospital in Rafah reported treating 200 injured people on Monday, the most people it had ever seen in one mass casualty incident. After months of an almost complete isolation, aid organizations warn that Gaza is on the verge of hunger and claim that the current system causes “lethal chaos.”
Regarding Monday’s shootings, the Israeli military refrained from commenting right away.
According to Hinz, logistics and geopolitics will make it challenging to rebuild Iran’s air defenses. He called Iran’s air defenses a “hodgepodge” of antiquated American, Chinese, Iranian, and Russian systems.
According to Hinz, Russia, which was once a major supplier, is unlikely to supply Iran additional systems because of its conflict in Ukraine and because Moscow does not want to jeopardize its “working relationship” with Israel. He claimed that Israel will probably attack any Russian air defense supplies to Iran and that they wouldn’t provide a quick solution because setup and training took time.
He added China had already sold Iran missile-related chemicals, anti-drone lasers, and short-range air defense systems. Future sales, however, remain uncertain because Beijing might not want to take the chance of a political rift with Israel or the West.
According to Fabian Hinz of the International Institute of Strategic Studies, Iran has few realistic alternatives for retaliating against Israel, primarily because its main regional proxy Hezbollah has been “decapitated.”
According to Hinz, the Houthi rebels in Yemen, another ally of Iran, rely on long-range Iranian missiles, but their supply is scarce. He believes Iran might move the missiles to Shiite forces in Iraq, which are closer to Israel, if it decided to launch a short-range strike.
The nation’s primary gas production hub, South Pars, was hit by three Israeli mini-drones, the state-run IRINN television channel reported. The magnitude of the damage was not specified in the report.
Social media users are sharing videos of the Iranian state TV building, also referred to as “the glass building,” still burning.
Since the incident, live shows have been moved to a different studio that looks like radio broadcasting studios.
United Nations. Rafael Grossi, Iran’s nuclear commander, claimed that Israeli strikes had not affected Iran’s primary underground enrichment facility at Natanz.
According to Grossi, the U.N. The Natanz facility’s aboveground portion was destroyed, the Security Council said on Friday. Although the main subterranean centrifuge facility didn’t seem to be affected, he suggested the infrastructure there might have been harmed by the power outage.
Radiation readings outside the facility are currently normal, Grossi said on Monday
UN journalists are questioning Israel’s envoy about the strike on Iran’s official television.
He responded by saying that Israel now has “very good control over the skies of Tehran” and that “whoever is cooperating with this terror regime should be considering steps.”
Ambassador Danny Dannon avoided discussing the U.N. Israel has “pushed back the nuclear program,” according to nuclear head Rafael Grossi, who also emphasized that the present operation is more complicated than previous strikes on reactors in Iraq or Syria. Grossi said that Israeli strikes had not affected Iran’s subterranean Natanz facility.
Regarding peace negotiations, Danon stated that before Israel will participate, Iran would need to demonstrate that it is committed to destroying its “machine of terror.”
For some minutes, a considerable number of explosions have been reverberating around Tehran.
The location of the Israeli strikes in the Iranian capital is unknown, and the most recent series of airstrikes was not publicly announced.
Israel’s nuclear program has been delayed for a “very, very long time,” according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said Monday that Israel was not trying to overthrow the Iranian government but that he would not be shocked if that were to occur as a result of the strikes.
Netanyahu added that he communicates with Trump on a regular basis.
Israel’s opposition was plotting to overthrow Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s administration just twenty-four hours before he launched a savage attack on Iran.
Only a few days into the current campaign against Iran, the opposition has united behind it, putting an end to months of vehement criticism of Netanyahu and his management of the Gaza War.
It’s a dramatic reversal for a number of parties that have attacked Netanyahu during the conflict for what they claim are his politically driven choices.
In his first international media interview since the operation against Iran began, opposition leader and former prime minister Yair Lapid told The Associated Press on Monday, “It’s not the right moment to do politics.”
Hours after an Israeli strike struck Iranian state TV’s website, iribnews.ir, it is currently down.
“The website server is temporarily unavailable” is the notice that appears on the webpage.
Tom Wells, the spokesperson for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, told reporters that “significant destabilization in the region is in nobody’s interests.”
“This summit is an opportunity to try and press for de-escalation and that is the priority, certainly for the prime minister and I believe for other world leaders too,” Wells said Monday while speaking on the sidelines of a G7 summit where the Middle East crisis is the main topic.
However, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that his nation’s continuous attacks on Iran could lead to the toppling of the government and called on Iranians to rebel against their rulers on Friday.
Shortly after hurrying off-camera after Israel struck the state-run Iranian TV station, anchor Sahar Emami returned to the live from another studio.
In an interview with another host, Emami said that pictures showed smoke and flames in the sky and that “bodies of reporters” were there at the scene of the first broadcast.
Israel Katz said in a statement, “The IDF attacked the Iranian regime’s propaganda and incitement broadcasting authority following a mass evacuation of the area’s residents.” “The Iranian dictator will be hit everywhere.”
According to human rights organizations, it is a war crime to intentionally target journalists.
The German Foreign Office said on Monday that a charter flight is planned for Wednesday from Amman, the capital of Jordan, to Frankfurt. Those who wish to board the trip must make their own travel arrangements from Israel to Amman.
The Iranian foreign minister’s spokeswoman urged the world community to demand justice for the media attack and denounced the Israeli strike on Iran’s public TV channel.
Esmaeil Baqaei commented on X, “The world is watching: targeting Iran’s news agency #IRIB’s office during live broadcast is a wicked act of war crime.”
It was unclear at first if the Israeli military’s announcement following the hit was a reference to the state TV building or to “a communication center that was being used for military purposes by the Iranian Armed Forces.”
Israel has attacked hospitals and U.N. facilities in Gaza during the conflict. facilities and educational institutions, claiming—often without visible proof—that Palestinian militants operate within civilian buildings.
For the second consecutive night, Iranian missiles struck an oil refinery in the northern city of Haifa early on Monday morning.
According to Israel’s fire and rescue services, the strike caused a major fire, damaged a structure, and killed three workers.
When a stairwell collapsed due to the impact, the workers were trapped within the safe room of the building. It was too late when firefighters attempted to rescue them and put out the flames.
The president and prime minister of Lebanon claim that any involvement would be harmful to the tiny country, which is already experiencing economic difficulties and is still recovering from the most recent conflict between Israel and the militant Lebanese group Hezbollah.
Long regarded as Tehran’s most potent regional partner, Hezbollah is financed and armed by Iran. However, in the most recent conflict with Israel, Israeli bombings killed a large number of Hezbollah’s military and political leaders.
During a Cabinet meeting on Monday, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam and President Joseph Aoun made comments that effectively told Hezbollah to keep out of the conflict.
According to two U.S. officials who spoke to The Associated Press, the actions provide President Donald Trump more choices to protect American bases and personnel in the area in the aftermath of Iran’s continuous ballistic missile assaults and Israel’s ongoing airstrikes against Tehran.
Whether it’s evacuations or a possible attack by American fighter jets, the refueling tankers are essential to any significant U.S. aviation action. To give information not made public, the officials talked on condition of anonymity.
The president of the United States refused to comment on what it would take for the United States to get actively involved in the escalating war between Iran and Israel, claiming he did not want to discuss the matter.
Rather, he persisted in pressuring Iran to engage in nuclear program negotiations.
Trump told the Canadian prime minister in a one-on-one meeting during the G7 summit, “They should talk, and they should talk immediately.”
“I would say Iran is not winning this war,” Trump continued.
Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, seemed to make a covert plea on Monday for the United States to intervene and mediate an end to the Israeli-Iranian conflict that has been going on for days.
Araghchi stated that if Trump is “sincere about diplomacy and interested in stopping this war, next steps are consequential” in a post on X, the website that was once known as Twitter.
Iran’s senior ambassador went on to say, “It only takes one phone call from Washington to silence someone like Netanyahu.” “That might open the door to diplomacy again.”
The message to Washington comes after Israel targeted important military and political figures in Tehran on Thursday, leading to the cancellation of the most recent round of U.S.-Iranian negotiations over the weekend.
An Iranian state television reporter remarked during a live broadcast that “the sound of aggression against the homeland, the sound of aggression against truth and righteousness” was causing the studio to fill with dust.
She was hurrying off camera as dust and debris were flying in the air when an explosion suddenly occurred, cutting out the screen behind her. From off-screen, she could hear the words “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest). The broadcast swiftly shifted to shows that had already been recorded.
An hour earlier, Israel had warned people to leave the area of Iran’s capital where the TV studios are situated.
According to a U.S. official, Iranian ballistic missiles were shot down over the weekend by two American warships, the USS The Sullivans and the USS Arleigh Burke.
While the Arleigh Burke has left the Mediterranean, the Sullivans and the USS Thomas Hudner are still there. The official discussed ongoing operations while speaking on condition of anonymity.
Together with the four vessels in its strike group, the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier is now in the Arabian Sea. They are not taking part in Israel’s defense.
The USS Nimitz is sailing west from the Indo-Pacific area and has long been planned to replace the Carl Vinson. According to the official, it is expected to reach the area by the end of the month, and before the Vinson returns home to San Diego, the two carriers would probably cross paths in the Middle East, if only briefly.
Ahead of the G7 summit in Canada, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz told reporters Monday that Germany and his European counterparts will draft a final communique proposal on the Israel-Iran conflict, emphasizing that “Iran must under no circumstances be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons-capable material.”
The communique would also highlight Israel’s right to self-defense, the chancellor noted, and he and the other European leaders would talk about potential next measures to find a diplomatic settlement.
Merz stated that “it would be good if Russia ended its war in Ukraine” and dismissed the notion that Russian President Vladimir Putin might mediate a diplomatic resolution to the conflict between Israel and Iran.
While oil prices are reversing some of their early spikes after Israel’s raid on Iran at the end of last week, U.S. stocks are rising on Monday.
The S&P 500 increased 1.1%, putting it on pace to recover almost all of Friday’s decline. The Nasdaq composite increased 1.4%, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 449 points. They were part of a global surge in stock values that extended from Asia to Europe.
While the price of gold decreased, the price of a barrel of benchmark U.S. oil dropped by over 3%.
Negotiations to relieve economic sanctions in exchange for restrictions on Iran’s uranium enrichment were resurrected by the Trump administration. However, the indirect negotiations between Iranian and American diplomats have come to a standstill.
Israel’s attack forced the cancellation of the most recent round of U.S.-Iranian negotiations on the future of Tehran’s nuclear program, which had been planned for Sunday in Oman.
Iran announced last Thursday that it has constructed a third nuclear enrichment facility and planned to turn it on. Less than two weeks had passed since the IAEA criticized Iran for violating nonproliferation commitments intended to stop Tehran from acquiring nuclear weapons. In twenty years, it was the first such rebuke.
Israel announced on Monday that it would attack Tehran’s military installations. Ahead of strikes, the Israeli military has warned populations in portions of Gaza and Lebanon to evacuate.
Up to 330,000 people were impacted by the warning in a region of central Tehran that houses the nation’s police and state television headquarters, three sizable hospitals, one of which is run by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.
A resolution to compel Congress to approve a declaration of war or any specific use of military force against Iran is being filed by Senator Tim Kaine, a Democrat from Virginia and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. During Trump’s first term in 2020, Congress passed a resolution along these lines.
“Unless a conflict with Iran is absolutely required to defend the United States, it is not in our national security interest to enter into one. The current uptick in hostility between Israel and Iran has me extremely worried that the US may be drawn into yet another protracted war,” Kaine stated.
The resolution would not stop the United States from defending itself against an impending attack, but it does mandate that any hostilities with Iran must be specifically approved by a declaration of war or special authorization for the use of military force.
According to Cypriot Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos, Portugal and Slovakia would use Cyprus to repatriate their citizens from the Israeli-Iranian combat zone.
Situated at 268 kilometers (167 miles) across the Mediterranean Sea, the island republic is the closest EU member state to Israel.
After the Islamist organization Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, sparking the current conflict in the Gaza Strip, Cyprus served as a transfer hub for evacuees.
Russia is prepared to take “everything necessary,” according to the Kremlin, to address the “root causes” of the “dangerous escalation of tensions” between Israel and Iran.
Dmitry Peskov, the spokesperson, told reporters he did not know whether Moscow had decided to arrange for a complete evacuation of its citizens from Iran and Israel.
“Every agency is keeping a close eye on the situation,” Peskov stated.
Henryka Mościcka-Dendys, a deputy foreign minister, stated that the evacuations will occur overland to neighboring Jordan within the following two days.
Tourists and short-term visitors who are evacuees will join a government plane to return home after a bus convoy to Amman, the capital of Jordan, she says.
Mościcka-Dendys stated that Poland would be the first nation to plan such an evacuation, stressing that the action is preventative and meant to prevent tensions from rising. There will be no military escort.
The presidents of Russia and Turkey demanded that hostilities cease immediately and that controversial matters be resolved diplomatically.
Israel’s attacks on Iran were denounced by both Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Vladimir Putin. According to the Kremlin, they had a phone conversation on Monday.
Russia’s ambassador to Israel, Anatoly Viktorov, told Russian official media on Monday that Moscow has advised Russians to leave Israel if at all feasible.
According to Viktorov, Russian nationals may freely go across Israel’s border with Egypt to board commercial planes back home. Additionally, he stated that “if necessary,” a larger, state-sponsored evacuation of Israeli civilians may be conducted.
“There is a very real threat to the lives and health of Russian citizens and diplomats in Israel,” he stated.
According to Lina Khatib, a Middle East specialist at the London-based think tank Chatham House, “Iran is fighting it out alone.”
Khatib told AP that Russia would not support Iran, citing the fact that Russia did not support Iran last year when Israel destroyed air defenses supplied by Russia or when Iran’s friend, former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, was overthrown.
According to Khatib, Russia would likely use the crisis to position itself as a mediator and restrict its backing for Iran to “strongly worded statements.”
In a phone call Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan informed Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian that Turkey was prepared to serve as a “facilitator” for the reopening of nuclear talks and the settlement of the Israel-Iran dispute.
Erdogan underlined Turkey’s commitment to regional peace and stability, according to a statement from his office.
Since Saturday, the Turkish leader has been attempting to defuse the situation through telephone diplomacy. Erdogan and Pezeshkian had spoken twice since the conflict began.
According to Azerbaijani media reports, once nationals of Russia, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan were evacuated, people from Portugal, the Philippines, Finland, and a few other nations entered the Astara border gate and made their way to the airport in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan.
Aykhan Hajizade, a spokesman for the Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry, reported that 41 of its citizens, including relatives of its diplomats in Iran, have also returned to Azerbaijan. The diplomatic missions of Azerbaijan in Iran have been conducting business as usual, he noted.
A fresh U.N. The return of military operations in Gaza is intensifying the food situation in Gaza “to unprecedented levels,” according to a food crisis report released on Monday.
According to the World Food Program and Food and Agricultural Organization’s Hunger Hotspots report, the Gaza Strip has not received enough commercial goods or humanitarian help since the cease-fire ended eight weeks ago, which is the longest break since the conflict began.
The most recent estimates, published in May, put all 2.1 million Gazans at risk of experiencing severe food insecurity by September.
The United Nations. The human rights head called on government officials to put pressure on Israel’s government and the militant organization Hamas to put an end to Israel’s conflict in Gaza, saying it is causing Palestinians “horrifying, unconscionable suffering.”
Volker Türk addressed the 47-member Human Rights Council, voicing concerns about the growing conflict between Iran and Israel, the effects of broad U.S. tariffs, and China’s human rights record, among other issues. He said, “Israel’s means and methods of warfare are inflicting horrifying, unconscionable suffering on Palestinians in Gaza.”
The Trump administration has excluded the United States from the council’s meetings, and Israeli officials have frequently charged the council with anti-Israel bias.
Two members of the Global March to Gaza’s international coordinating committee were detained by Egyptian police, the group announced Monday.
In a statement, the group claimed it has not heard from Spanish national Manuel Tapial and French national Hicham El Ghaoui since their detention, and it does not know where they are.
To draw attention to the worsening humanitarian conditions facing Palestinians since Israel started preventing relief trucks from entering the coastal enclave in March, protesters from 80 nations planned to march to Egypt’s border with Gaza.
“We still stand with Gaza, demand a halt to the genocide against the Palestinian people, and urge for the opening of a humanitarian corridor. “Governments need to take action immediately,” the statement said.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry announced Monday that over 120 people, including diplomats and their families, have been evacuated from Iran through Turkmenistan. According to officials, a large number of individuals evacuated came from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan, all of which are in Central Asia.
Iran shares a 1,148-kilometer (713-mile) border with Turkmenistan, a gas-rich country that has been mostly isolated under its dictatorial leadership since gaining independence after the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
According to the Czech Foreign Ministry, the Czech Republic is also sending a plane for Czechs who wish to flee Israel because of the situation with Iran. Other Czechs will travel home using a different jet that the Slovakian government sent to Jordan.
According to Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it assisted 14 Taiwanese in leaving Israel on Sunday via bus for Jordan and will continue to assist them on their journey. The ministry said in a statement on Monday that it is in contact with nine more Taiwanese who are currently in Iran and will help them leave if they want assistance.
An Iranian missile that landed close to the American Consulate in Tel Aviv caused little damage, according to the U.S. On Monday, Ambassador Mike Huckabee stated.
In a post on X, Huckabee stated that the American consulate in Tel Aviv and the Embassy in Jerusalem will stay closed all day as a precaution, but that no American workers had been hurt.
The destruction coincided with a fresh round of Iranian missile strikes on Israel in reprisal for Israel’s extensive strikes on Iran’s nuclear and military installations.
Since Israel’s bombardment started on Friday, 224 people have been killed, according to Iran’s health ministry.
Hossein Kermanpour, the spokesperson, said on social media that more over 90% of the victims were civilians and that 1,277 other persons were hospitalized.
According to Israel, 390 people have been injured and 14 people have died there since Friday.
U.S. According to a U.S. official with knowledge of the situation, President Donald Trump vetoed an Israeli proposal to assassinate Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
In recent days, the Israelis told the Trump administration that they had a plausible plot to murder Khamenei. The individual, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss on the sensitive issue, said that the White House made it clear to Israeli officials after they were informed on the plan that Trump was against the Israelis taking the action.
The Trump administration viewed the plan to kill Khamenei as a move that would intensify the fight and maybe destabilize the region because they are trying to prevent Israel’s military effort to decapitate Iran’s nuclear program from blowing up into an even more massive battle.
