Iran, Israel launch new attacks after Tehran rules out nuclear talks

Iran and Israel exchanged caller attacks aboriginal connected Saturday, a time aft Tehran said it would not negociate implicit its atomic programme portion nether menace and Europe tried to support bid talks alive.

Iran's Fars quality bureau said Israel had targeted the Isfahan atomic facility, 1 of the nation's biggest, but determination was nary leakage of hazardous materials.

Iranian media besides said Israel had attacked a gathering successful the metropolis of Qom, with archetypal reports of a 16-year-old killed and 2 radical injured.

The Israeli subject said it had launched a question of attacks against rocket retention and motorboat infrastructure sites successful Iran.

Shortly aft 2:30 a.m. successful Israel (2330 GMT connected Friday), the Israeli subject warned of an incoming rocket barrage from Iran, triggering aerial raid sirens crossed parts of cardinal Israel, including Tel Aviv, arsenic good arsenic successful the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Interceptions were disposable successful the entity implicit Tel Aviv, with explosions echoing crossed the metropolitan country arsenic Israel's aerial defence systems responded.

Sirens besides sounded successful confederate Israel, said Magen David Adom, Israel's nationalist exigency service.

An Israeli subject authoritative said Iran had fired 5 ballistic missiles and that determination were nary contiguous indications of immoderate rocket impacts. There were nary archetypal reports of casualties successful Israel.

The exigency work released images showing a occurrence connected the extortion of a multi-storey residential gathering successful cardinal Israel.

Local media reported that the occurrence was caused by debris from an intercepted missile.

Israel began attacking Iran connected June 13, saying its longtime force was connected the verge of processing atomic weapons.

Iran, which says its atomic programme is lone for peaceful purposes, retaliated with rocket and drone strikes connected Israel.

Israel is wide assumed to person atomic weapons. It neither confirms nor denies this.

Its aerial attacks person killed 639 radical successful Iran, according to the Human Rights Activists News Agency, a U.S.-based quality rights organisation that tracks Iran. The dormant see the military's apical echelon and atomic scientists.

In Israel, 24 civilians person been killed successful Iranian rocket attacks, according to authorities. Reuters could not independently verify casualty figures for either side.

U.S. President Donald Trump said connected Friday helium thought Iran would beryllium capable to person a atomic limb "within a substance of weeks, oregon surely wrong a substance of months". He told reporters astatine the airdrome successful Morristown, New Jersey: "We can't fto that happen."

He said his manager of nationalist intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, was incorrect successful suggesting determination was nary grounds Iran is gathering a atomic weapon.

Iran has repeatedly targeted Tel Aviv, a metropolitan country of astir 4 cardinal radical and the country's concern and economical hub, wherever immoderate captious subject assets are besides located.

Israel said it had struck dozens of subject targets connected Friday, including rocket accumulation sites, a probe assemblage it said was progressive successful atomic weapons improvement successful Tehran and subject facilities successful occidental and cardinal Iran.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said determination was nary country for negotiations with the U.S. "until Israeli aggression stops". But helium arrived successful Geneva connected Friday for talks with European overseas ministers astatine which Europe hopes to found a way backmost to diplomacy.

Trump reiterated that helium would instrumentality up to 2 weeks to determine whether the United States should participate the struggle connected Israel's side, capable clip "to spot whether oregon not radical travel to their senses", helium said.

Trump said helium was improbable to property Israel to standard backmost its airstrikes to let negotiations to continue.

"I deliberation it's precise hard to marque that petition close now. If idiosyncratic is winning, it's a small spot harder to bash than if idiosyncratic is losing, but we're ready, consenting and able, and we've been speaking to Iran, and we'll spot what happens," helium said.

The Geneva talks produced small signs of progress, and Trump said helium doubted negotiators would beryllium capable to unafraid a ceasefire.

"Iran doesn't privation to talk to Europe. They privation to talk to us. Europe is not going to beryllium capable to assistance successful this one," Trump said.

Hundreds of U.S. citizens person fled Iran since the aerial warfare began, according to a U.S. State Department cablegram seen by Reuters.

Israel's envoy to the United Nations, Danny Danon, told the Security Council connected Friday his state would not halt its attacks "until Iran's atomic menace is dismantled".

Iran's U.N. envoy Amir Saeid Iravani called for Security Council enactment and said Tehran was alarmed by reports that the U.S. mightiness articulation the war.

Russia and China demanded contiguous de-escalation. A elder Iranian authoritative told Reuters that Iran was acceptable to sermon limitations connected uranium enrichment but that it would cull immoderate connection that barred it from enriching uranium completely, "especially present nether Israel's strikes".