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Is Iran close to building a nuclear bomb?
Fp Explainers •The UN regulators recently found uranium particles enriched to 83.7 per cent purity — very close to weapons grade — at Iran’s Fordow site. While Tehran played down this development, a US official stated that the country could now produce ‘one bomb’s worth of fissile material’ in about 12 days
Iran wants revenge against US, aiming to kill Donald Trump
•Amirali Hajizadeh, the head of the Revolutionary Guards aerospace force, also spoke of Iran's often repeated threat to avenge the U.S. killing of a top Iranian commander, saying "We are looking to kill (former U.S. President Donald) Trump"
Azerbaijan evacuates diplomats from Iran after attack on embassy
Fp Staff •Tehran Police chief Hussain Rahimi said that the attacker entered the Azerbaijan embassy with his two children. Preliminary reports say that the motive for the attack was “personal and family problems”
Iran: Drone bombs defence factory in Isfahan, Israel hand suspected
Fp Staff •Iran’s defence ministry offered no information on who it suspected carried out the attack, which came as a refinery fire separately broke out in the country's northwest and a 5.9 magnitude earthquake struck nearby, killing three people
West Asia's longest-ruling monarch, Sultan Qaboos bin Said of Oman dies at 79; royal court declares three-day mourning
•Oman’s Sultan Qaboos bin Said, West Asia's longest-ruling monarch who seized power in a 1970 palace coup and pulled his Arabian sultanate into modernity while carefully balancing diplomatic ties between adversaries Iran and the US, has died. He was 79
Over 400 dead, 2,500 injured as 7.3 magnitude earthquake rocks Iran-Iraq border; landslides, powercuts hinder rescue ops
Fp Staff •At least 328 people were killed and as many as 2,500 were injured when a 7.3-magnitude earthquake shook the mountainous Iran-Iraq border on Sunday.