Russia says US-Israeli military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, including repeated attacks on the Bushehr Nuclear Power Plant, have brought the entire Middle East to the brink of a nuclear and radiological catastrophe.

Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs has rejected any notion of surrender to the United States.

A senior Iranian health official says at least 16 nurses have been martyred during the two US-Israeli wars of aggression against the Islamic Republic.

The United States rejected Iran’s latest peace proposal solely because it was not a “letter of surrender,” a senior Iranian diplomat has said.

Iran’s Defense Ministry says the American-Zionist enemy must accept the legitimate and definitive rights of the Iranian nation, or expect to suffer repeated defeats both on the diplomatic front and on the battlefield.

General Abdollahi says the country’s armed forces are fully prepared to confront any “strategic mistake” or aggression by the “American-Zionist enemy.”

President Pezeshkian has told his French counterpart that the Islamic Republic is ready to pursue in earnest diplomatic channels to end the war and secure the rights of the Iranian nation.