Trump-Iran latest: Tehran could start ‘making nuke within months’ as work spotted at bombed Fordow site

The Iranian judiciary has revised the number of people killed in an Israeli strike on Tehran’s Evin prison, increasing the figure to 79 people.

The 23 June attack, the day before the ceasefire between Israel and Iran took hold, hit several prison buildings and prompted concerns about the safety of the inmates, many of whom were detained for political reasons by the Iranian government

Judiciary spokesperson Asghar Jahangir previously said that the attack had hit the prison’s infirmary, engineering building, judicial affairs and visitation hall, where visiting family members were killed and injured.

Israeli strikes killed at least 58 people across Gaza on Monday as residents in the enclave’s north reported one of the heaviest bombardments in weeks, while Israeli officials were due in Washington for a new ceasefire push by the Trump administration.

A day after US President Donald Trump urged an end to the 20-month-old war, a confidant of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu was expected at the White House for talks on a Gaza ceasefire, Iran, and possible wider regional diplomatic deals.

But on the ground in the Palestinian enclave, there was no sign of fighting letting up. The Israeli military issued evacuation orders on Monday to residents in large districts in the northern Gaza Strip, forcing a new wave of displacement.

“Explosions never stopped; they bombed schools and homes. It felt like earthquakes,” said Salah, 60, a father of five children, from Gaza City.

“In the news we hear a ceasefire is near, on the ground we see death and we hear explosions.”

Israeli tanks pushed into the eastern areas of Zeitoun suburb in Gaza City and shelled several areas in the north, while aircraft bombed at least four schools after ordering hundreds of families sheltering inside to leave, residents said.

Satellite images taken in the week after the US airstrikes on Iran’s three nuclear sites show activity at the Fordow facility, which Donald Trump claimed was “completely and totally obliterated” in last week’s attack.

Only international transit flights will be allowed into Iran’s airspace, a government spokesperson said.

Iran’s western and central airspace will be opened to those flights, a spokesperson for Iran’s Ministry of Roads and Urban Development said on Monday, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.

Internal flights from western Iran to Tehran are not yet permitted, the spokesperson said.

People attend a memorial service ceremony for five Ukrainian citizens who were killed in a Iranian missile strike as they stand next to a damaged residential building in Bat Yam, Israel on Monday.

Several countries have denounced threats against the head of the UN nuclear watchdog on Monday, after a hardline Iranian newspaper said the International Atomic Energy Agency boss Rafael Grossi should be tried and executed as an Israeli agent.

“France, Germany and the United Kingdom condemn threats against the Director General of the IAEA Rafael Grossi and reiterate our full support to the Agency and the DG in carrying out their mandate,” said a statement from the three countries’ foreign ministries.

The ministries also called on Iran to “immediately resume full cooperation” with the agency, and to ensure the safety of all IAEA personnel.

Iran’s hardline Kayhan newspaper, closely associated with Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, accused Grossi of ties to Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency and said he should be sentenced to death if he entered the country.

Iranian officials have not publicly endorsed the newspaper article. But Foreign minister Abbas Araqhchi said Grossi was not welcome in the country, and foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei said the country could not yet guarantee the safety of IAEA inspectors.

Iran says 935 people were killed in Israeli strikes on the country during the 12-day war, according to Iran’s judiciary spokesperson.

Asghar Jahangir told state media on Monday that the figure was based on the latest forensic data, and added that the number includes 38 children and 132 women.

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned a “fanatic few” Israeli settlers after Israeli troops were attacked by them in the West Bank.

The Israeli military said it was attacked by settlers after troops stopped them driving toward a closed military zone near the Palestinian village of Kafr Malik, where days earlier settlers set fire to homes and vehicles.

Mr Netanyahu said the attack was “violent and anarchic” and urged it to be investigated.

He defended the wider Israeli settlement in the West Bank as a “model and an example of developing the land”

Israeli West Bank settlements are illegal under international law, with Israeli citizens building towns and villages on Palestinian land.