A single phone call can stop Israel-Iran war, says Iranian FM…
Israel-Iran war: A single phone call from US President Donald Trump can stop Israeli attacks on Iran and put an end to the Israel-Iran war, which has been raging for the last five days, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has said. In a post on X, the Iranian diplomat said that Trump must ask Israel to stop the assault if he was indeed sincere about diplomacy and ending the conflict.
“If President Trump is sincere about diplomacy and interested in preventing this war, the next steps will be consequential. Israel must stop its aggression and if military aggression against us continues, our responses will continue,” Araghchi wrote. He noted that all it would take for the war to stop and rein in someone like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is “one phone call” from Washington.
“This could open the way for the return of diplomacy,” he added.
Trump demands Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender’
Meanwhile, Donald Trump has seemingly changed his stance on the Israel-Iran war situation, as the US President demanded an “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER” from Iran, and told reporters that Tehran cannot be allowed to have nuclear weapons.
“Iran should have signed the ‘agreement’ I told them to sign. What a shame, and a waste of human life. Simply put, Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. I have said this over and over again! Everyone must evacuate Tehran immediately!,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
Israel-Iran war
On June 13, Friday, Israel launched its fiercest attack on Iran, unleashing a wave of pre-dawn air strikes on Iranian cities on Friday, including capital Tehran, under Operation Rising Lion, in which several top Iranian nuclear scientists and military commanders, including IRGC chief Hossein Salami, commander Ghulam-Ali Rashid, nuclear scientist Dr. Mohammad Tehranchi, nuclear scientist Dr. Fereydoon Abbasi and Iran’s Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Mohammad Bagheri.
Hours later, Iran responded with a barrage of missiles and drones on that struck several Israeli cities and major population centers, including Tel Aviv. Both sides have launched devastating strikes on each other, causing significant damage to infrastructure and loss of civilian lives, even as world powers and global agencies, including the United Nations, have urged the two bitter enemies to exercise utmost restraint.
According to media reports, more than 230 people, including about top Iranian military officers and nuclear scientists, have been killed in Israeli airstrikes, while Iranian missile attacks have resulted in the deaths of more than 24 Israelis.
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