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Radiation levels in Gulf are normal after Israel-Iran conflict: UN nuclear watchdog

Khaleej Times

10 hours ago

Politics
Khaleej Times

Radiation levels in Gulf are normal after Israel-Iran conflict: UN nuclear watchdog

The UN nuclear watchdog announced that radiation levels in the Gulf region remain normal following the 12-day conflict between Israel and Iran. Howevem, in a statement published on Thursday, the IAEA's Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi clarified that the air war between the two countries severely damaged several nuclear facilities in Iran. Many Iranian nuclear sites like Bushehr and Fordow were targeted in Israeli and US strikes during the conflict which ended with a surprise announcement of ceasefire by US President Donald Trump early on Tuesday. Grossi stated that a 48-nation network would have detected a major radioactive release from any damaged nuclear power reactor. He said regional data were reported regularly to the IAEA through the International Radiation Monitoring System (IRMIS). 'From a nuclear safety perspective, Iran's Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant and the Tehran Research Reactor represented our main concern as any strike affecting those facilities –including their off-site power lines– could have caused a radiological accident with potential consequences in Iran as well as beyond its borders in the case of the Bushehr plant," Gossi added. He said that this did not happen, and "the worst nuclear safety scenario was thereby avoided". He also stressed again that nuclear facilities should never be attacked, while pointing to the need for IAEA inspectors to continue their verification activities in Iran.

Nato chief calls Trump ‘daddy' as he makes Beijing the bogeyman

South China Morning Post

14 hours ago

Politics
South China Morning Post

Nato chief calls Trump ‘daddy' as he makes Beijing the bogeyman

Mark Rutte has some daddy issues. The Trump-endearment of the Nato secretary general has reached unprecedented cringe levels, even by the usually unseemly standards of the shameless sycophants of the American imperium in Brussels. He has repeatedly called US President Donald Trump 'daddy', both during and after the latest Nato summit in The Hague. Indeed, his subsequent clarification to the press was worse, thereby making Trump the official Daddy of Nato. It all started after Trump showed frustration and used an expletive, calling out Israel and Iran for threatening the ceasefire he has imposed on them. 'We basically have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don't know what the f*** they're doing,' he told reporters. When the two men sat down, Rutte interjected, 'Daddy has to use tough language.' Afterwards, reporters asked him to clarify. Reaching new, bizarre heights, he doubled down on his kowtowing by comparing Trump and Europe to the relationship between a daddy and his child.

Trump says Iran sanctions relief off the table after Khamenei's comments

The National

18 hours ago

Politics
The National

Trump says Iran sanctions relief off the table after Khamenei's comments

In a post on Truth Social, the US President said he had spared Mr Khamenei from a 'very ugly and ignominious death'

Watch: Dutch queen appears to pull face while meeting Trump

The Independent

a day ago

Politics
The Independent

Watch: Dutch queen appears to pull face while meeting Trump

Queen Maxima of the Netherlands appeared to subtly mimic Donald Trump 's mannerisms during a meeting at the Nato summit in The Hague. The moment, which took place on 27 June, quickly went viral after a video showed her making a brief expression as Trump smiled. Standing beside her husband, King Willem-Alexander, and the US president, Maxima's gesture sparked a flurry of online reactions—some praising her subtlety, others calling it inappropriate. The incident unfolded as Trump met with European leaders following amid the ongoing conflict between Iran and Israel.

Israeli court rejects Netanyahu's call to postpone graft trial hearings

Al Arabiya