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Monday, July 14, 2025

Iran warns US: Involvement risks ‘all-out war’ amid Israel strikes

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Pakistani families, who were stuck in Iran due to Israeli strikes on Iran, wait for clearance after entering in homeland through Taftan, a joint border crossing point on Pakistan Iran border, Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Fateh Muhammad)

Pakistani families, who were stuck in Iran due to Israeli strikes on Iran, wait for clearance after entering in homeland through Taftan, a joint border crossing point on Pakistan Iran border, Wednesday, June 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Fateh Muhammad)

Fateh Muhammad

Is­raeli war­planes pound­ed Iran’s cap­i­tal overnight and in­to Wednes­day as Iran launched a small bar­rage of mis­siles at Is­rael with no re­ports of ca­su­al­ties.

Iran­ian For­eign Min­istry spokesman Es­mail Baghaei de­liv­ered a warn­ing in an in­ter­view with Al Jazeera Eng­lish, say­ing “any Amer­i­can in­ter­ven­tion would be a recipe for an all-out war in the re­gion.”

What to know:

U.S. re­ac­tion: Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump in a so­cial me­dia post called for Iran’s “UN­CON­DI­TION­AL SUR­REN­DER” as the six-day con­flict con­tin­ued and warned Supreme Leader Ay­a­tol­lah Ali Khamenei that the U.S. knows where he is hid­ing but that there were no plans to kill him “at least not for now.”

Ca­su­al­ties mount in Iran: Hu­man Rights Ac­tivists said it had iden­ti­fied 239 of those killed in Is­raeli strikes as civil­ians and 126 as se­cu­ri­ty per­son­nel. The group, which al­so pro­vid­ed de­tailed ca­su­al­ty fig­ures dur­ing 2022 protests over the death of Mah­sa Ami­ni, cross­checks lo­cal re­ports against a net­work of sources it has de­vel­oped in the coun­try.

Over 400 EU cit­i­zens evac­u­at­ed from Is­rael

The Eu­ro­pean Union has helped evac­u­ate about 400 of its cit­i­zens out of Is­rael via Jor­dan and Egypt as part of its ef­forts to co­or­di­nate emer­gency re­sponse to the con­flict with­in the 27 na­tions of the bloc.

“Up till now, we have an es­ti­mate that over 400 EU cit­i­zens were repa­tri­at­ed via this civ­il pro­tec­tion mech­a­nism of the EU,” said Eva Hrn­ciro­va in Brus­sels on Wednes­day.

She said the EU was field­ing re­quests by Slo­va­kia, Lithua­nia, Greece and Poland for as­sis­tance in evac­u­at­ing from the Mid­dle East.

“Mem­ber states co­or­di­nate the list and we co-fi­nance these flights up to the 75% of the trans­port costs,” she said.

Iran’s supreme leader says God will make his na­tion ‘vic­to­ri­ous’

In the mes­sage, Khamenei al­so urged of­fi­cials to “con­tin­ue their work with strength and trust in God.”

“God will cer­tain­ly and sure­ly make the Iran­ian na­tion ... vic­to­ri­ous,” he said.

State tele­vi­sion said that a video of Khamenei giv­ing the same ad­dress would be aired lat­er.

Khamenei’s last mes­sage to the na­tion, which was re­leased late Fri­day af­ter the start of the Is­raeli cam­paign, was al­so first read out on tele­vi­sion be­fore he ap­peared him­self read­ing it a while lat­er. It may be a se­cu­ri­ty mea­sure to pro­tect Khamenei, whose ex­act lo­ca­tion isn’t pub­lic knowl­edge.

Iran’s supreme leader warns US that join­ing Is­raeli strikes will ‘re­sult in ir­repara­ble dam­age for them’

Iran’s supreme leader has warned the Unit­ed States that join­ing the Is­raeli strikes tar­get­ing the Is­lam­ic Re­pub­lic will “re­sult in ir­repara­ble dam­age for them.”

The com­ments by 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ay­a­tol­lah Ali Khamenei came in a state­ment read out by a state tele­vi­sion an­chor against a still im­age of the leader. It wasn’t clear why Khamenei did not ap­pear him­self on screen, as he has done ear­li­er since the Is­raeli at­tacks be­gan on Fri­day.

“Any mil­i­tary in­volve­ment by the U.S. in this field will un­doubt­ed­ly re­sult in ir­repara­ble dam­age for them,” the state­ment said.

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