Israel-Iran War Live Updates: Donald Trump slams media outlets for questioning success of military strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities

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• 25 Jun 2025, 11:15 AM

  Israel claims it killed 14 Iranian scientists

  As per an AP report, Israel has claimed it killed around 14 Iranian scientists, especially those working in the country's nuclear programme.

  “The fact that the whole group disappeared is basically throwing back the program by a number of years, by quite a number of years,” Israel's Ambassador to France Joshua Zarka told AP.

  
• 25 Jun 2025, 09:57 AM

  Trump slams reports suggesting US strikes didn't destroy Iranian nuclear sites, calls it 'Fake News'

  US President Donald Trump has slammed CNN for its report suggesting that the US strikes did not destroy nuclear sites in Iran. Trump said CNN, along with The New York Times, teamed up to "demean one of the most successful military strikes in history" and termed it "fake news."

  He reiterated his claim that the US has completely destroyed nuclear sites in Iran. According to him, both the media outlets faced backlash from the people

  .In a statement shared on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump stated, "FAKE NEWS CNN, TOGETHER WITH THE FAILING NEW YORK TIMES, HAVE TEAMED UP IN AN ATTEMPT TO DEMEAN ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MILITARY STRIKES IN HISTORY. THE NUCLEAR SITES IN IRAN ARE COMPLETELY DESTROYED! BOTH THE TIMES AND CNN ARE GETTING SLAMMED BY THE PUBLIC!"

  
• 25 Jun 2025, 07:39 AM

  France calls on Iran to negotiate comprehensive deal on nuclear program, urging restraint and cooperation

  France’s U.N. ambassador called on Iran to resume full cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency agency and allow access for U.N. nuclear inspectors as soon as possible to its nuclear facilities to determine that its uranium stocks have not been moved.

  Jerome Bonnafont also called on Tehran to return to negotiations on “a robust, verifiable and lasting diplomatic solution” that responds to international concerns that it is pursuing nuclear weapons.

  He spoke at a Security Council meeting on its resolution endorsing the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six major powers to rein in its nuclear program that imposed wide-ranging sanctions on the Islamic Republic. The last sanctions, on Iran’s nuclear activities and transfers, expire on Oct. 18.

  Bonnafont said France and its European partners Britain and Germany, who are still part of the nuclear deal – President Trump pulled the U.S. out in 2018 – are ready to use the 2015 resolution’s provision to “snapback” U.N. sanctions “if such an agreement were not to be found by the summer.”

  He said an agreement with Iran needs to take account the nonproliferation of nuclear weapons, regional stability and European security interests.

  
• 25 Jun 2025, 06:57 AM

  Trump envoy says US and Iran discussing return to negotiating table

  Trump’s special Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, says the U.S. and Iran are engaged in both direct talks and through intermediaries about getting back to the table after Israeli and U.S. strikes against Iran’s nuclear facilities.

  “The conversations are promising. We’re hopeful,” he said in an interview with Fox News.

  “Now it’s time to sit down with the Iranians and get to a comprehensive peace deal.”

  Witkoff did not provide details but said the weekend U.S. airstrikes achieved their objectives: eliminating Iran’s ability to convert any weapons-grade uranium it might have had or produce in the future into an actual weapon; and setting back Iran’s ability to enrich uranium to that point by years.