Israel strikes Iran’s nuclear sites and kills top generals. Iran retaliates with missile barrages. By The Associated Press Updated June 13, 2025, 11:54 p.m.

All week we’ve been talking to experts on Iran’s nuclear program, its leadership and on U.S. foreign policy, as President Trump weighs entering the war. But speaking directly to people in Iran ...

Iran's only commercial nuclear power plant is in Bushehr on the Persian Gulf, some 465 miles south of Tehran. Construction on the plant began under Iran's Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in the mid-1970s.

Iran's U.N. envoy Amir Saeid Iravani said 78 people, including senior military officials, were killed in Israel's strikes on Iran and more than 320 people were wounded, most of them civilians.

5:00 p.m. EDT Iran U.N. Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani told the U.N. Security Council that 78 people are dead and 320 are injured, acknowledging the deaths of military officials and nuclear ...

Israel’s large-scale attack on Iran’s nuclear and military structures threatens to further escalate Mideast tensions while weakening Iran and its proxy network.

Israel’s massive strike on Iran on Friday morning came after decades of mutual hostility and a long-running shadow war of covert strikes and sabotage.

Israel attacked Iran's capital early Friday in strikes that targeted the country's nuclear program and raised the potential for an all-out war between the two bitter Middle East adversaries.

Iran now theoretically has enough near-weapons-grade material, if further refined, for about 10 nuclear bombs, according to International Atomic Energy Agency ...

Iran announced it had built a third nuclear enrichment facility. AFP via Getty Images The censure by the International Atomic Energy Agency, its first in 20 years over Iranian non-compliance ...

Iran has never been weaker internally after nationwide protests a few years ago, and Israel has massively degraded its proxies, Hezbollah and Hamas. And they have a sympathetic president in the ...

What happened? Israel and Iran have been on the brink of war since Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel and sought to trigger a response from Iran and its proxies.