TEHRAN -- At least 60 people, including 20 children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a 14-story building in a residential complex in the Iranian capital Tehran on Friday morning, state-run IRIB TV reported Saturday.
The residential complex, named Martyr Chamran, is located northeast of Tehran, and was among the places hit by Israel in its airstrikes on different parts of the capital and other Iranian cities, the report said. (Iran-Israeli Airstrike-Casualty)
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MUSCAT -- Omani Foreign Minister Sayyid Badr bin Hamad bin Hamood Albusaidi said on Saturday that the sixth round of nuclear talks between the United States and Iran, scheduled for Sunday, "will not take place."
In a post on social media platform X, Albusaidi reaffirmed that diplomacy and dialogue remain the only path to achieving lasting peace. (Iran-U.S.-Nuclear Talks)
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TEHRAN -- An Israeli micro aerial vehicle hit an onshore refinery of the phase 14 of Iran's South Pars gas field in Bushehr province on Saturday, causing an explosion at the facility, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported.
Due to the explosion, a part of the Fajr Jam gas refinery has caught fire, Tasnim said, adding no report was released yet of the extent of damage. (Iran-Onshore Refinery-Explosion)
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JERUSALEM -- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video statement on Saturday that "we have paved a path to Tehran. In the very near future, Israeli jets will be seen over the skies of Tehran."
He warned that Israel would strike any site of Iran, "and what they have felt so far is nothing compared to what they will feel under our arms in the coming days." (Israel-Iran-Attacks) Enditem