Aya Batraoui
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first heard Nov 2024
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Iran has insisted since April's ceasefire deal with the U.S.
that it has to include an end to Israel's war in Lebanon, and it has been warning against Israel's escalations there.
So last night, after Israel's bombing of Beirut, Iran launched missiles at Israeli Air Force bases and other sites and continued attacking Israel this morning, making clear again that Lebanon is a red line for them.
And once again, sirens rang out,
with people sheltering in bunkers in parts of Israel.
Now, Iran's decision to launch these attacks have drawn mixed reactions inside Iran.
Iran's armed forces say Israel has, quote, learned a lesson and said it was suspending further attacks.
It follows Iran saying it launched missiles at Israeli air bases late Sunday and early Monday in response to an Israeli attack on Lebanon's capital, Beirut, where the Iran-backed Hezbollah has offices.
Israel says its air force struck back, hitting targets in Iran, including a petrochemical plant.
The fighting threatened to reignite and widen a war President Trump is trying to end.
Yemen's Houthis say that as part of the, quote, axis of resistance, they too fired a missile barrage at sensitive Israeli sites near Tel Aviv on Monday.
Aya Boltrawi, NPR News, Dubai.
Rafael Grossi of the International Atomic Energy Agency says there's very limited to no activity in Iran now in uranium mining and enrichment.
Grossi was directly involved in nuclear talks between Iran and the US in February, just before the US and Israel struck Iran.
Asked by NPR if Iran had agreed then to zero stockpiling of its highly enriched uranium, Grossi said it's hard to say because talks were truncated by war.
Grossi says other options included Iran halting or limiting enrichment.
Now, he says, it's yet to be seen what can be agreed on.
Aya Batraoui, NPR News, Abu Dhabi.
All right, so it was midday yesterday in Israel when Netanyahu published a video in Hebrew saying there would be no situation in which Hezbollah attacks Israeli cities while its offices in South Beirut remain off-limits.
And then he said he instructed the military to bomb targets in the capital.
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