Trump doubles down on Iran nuclear claims

A senior military adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Yahya Rahim-Safavi, said on Monday warned the Israel and the United States of "harsher" response if they start a new wave of threats.

"We warn the enemies that if they start a new wave of threats, Iran will respond in a harsher way — beyond their imagination," Iran International quoted the Khamenei's aide.

"The Americans and Israelis must know we won't let them go," said Yahya.

"The IRGC is prepared to respond forcefully in the event of any miscalculation. We have their targets in our database, and if there is another mistake, we will respond decisively under the command of the Supreme Leader," he added.

"Netanyahu's death is near," Rahim-Safavi added, referring to the Israeli prime minister.

Qatar Airways said on Monday it will resume flight operations to Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and Syria after the lifting of airspace restrictions in the region imposed due to the Israeli-Iran crisis.

The state-owned airline said flights to Iraq would resume later on Monday, while flights to Lebanon and Jordan will restart on July 1. Flights to Syria would resume on July 6, it added.

US President Donald Trump said Monday he was not offering Iran anything nor talking to it "since we totally obliterated" the country's nuclear facilities.

"I am not offering Iran ANYTHING, unlike Obama," Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.

"Nor am I even talking to them since we totally OBLITERATED their Nuclear Facilities."

At least 935 people were killed in Iran during its 12-day war with Israel, Iranian state media reported on Monday, nearly a week since a ceasefire took hold.

"During the 12-day war waged by the Zionist regime against our country, 935 martyrs have been identified so far," the official IRNA news agency quoted judiciary spokesman Asghar Jahangir as saying. The death toll included 132 women and 38 children.

DUBAI: Iran has criticised US President Donald Trump's shifting stance on whether to lift economic sanctions against Tehran as "games" that were not aimed at solving the problems between the two countries.

"These [statements by Trump] should be viewed more in the context of psychological and media games than as a serious expression in favour of dialogue or problem-solving," Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei told a press conference.

DUBAI: Iran cannot be expected to ensure usual cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency when the security of agency inspectors cannot be guaranteed days after nuclear sites being hit by Israeli and US strikes, said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei.

Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takht-Ravanchi has said that the US must assure that it would not carry out further attacks if it wants Tehran to resume negotiations, Al Jazeera reported citing the BBC.

Speaking to the BBC, Takht-Ravanchi said that Washington had communicated via mediators that it wanted to come back to the table for talks. 

Insisting on the enrichment of uranium, the minister said: "The level of that can be discussed, the capacity can be discussed, but to say that you should not have enrichment, you should have zero enrichment, and if do you not agree, we will bomb you – that is the law of the jungle."

US President Donald Trump has said that he was not speaking to Iran and was not offering the country "anything", and he reiterated his assertion that the US had "totally OBLITERATED" Tehran's nuclear facilities.

The US president has already dismissed media reports that said his administration had discussed possibly helping Iran access as much as $30 billion to build a civilian-energy-producing nuclear programme.

FM Dar went on to say that the US-Israeli action "seriously undermined" the long-standing norms of inter-state behaviour and exposed the entire region to a conflagration of potentially unimaginable consequences.

He said that Islamabad welcomes the announcement of a ceasefire between Iran and Israel.

"We stress again that all the relevant parties must constructively engage and dissolve all outstanding disputes peacefully through dialogue and diplomacy," he added.

The DPM was speaking at the 52nd anniversary of Institute of Strategic Studies Islamabad.

Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Ishaq Dar on Monday said that Pakistan remains profoundly concerned about the recent developments in the Middle East and condemned Israel’s "completely unjustified aggression" against Iran and US attack on Iranian nuclear sites.

"These actions, representing a highly dangerous escalation, have been in violation of the UN Charter and the international law," Dar said.

The DPM said that Pakistan has consistently supported Iran’s legitimate right to self-defence under the UN Charter.

"We appreciate the constructive and pragmatic approach that Iran adopted in finding a negotiated solution to the nuclear issue," he added.