Easy News: Israel and USA attack Iran

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   The governments of Israel and Iran have been enemies least since the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

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   The Israeli government is led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Since 1992 he has been saying that Iran was making nuclear weapons to attack Israel with.

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   Nuclear weapons are very dangerous because they contain isotopes. Isotopes are radioactive metals which cause a lot of damage to buildings and radiation poisoning to living creatures and plants. Radiation poisoning can make people very sick or even kill them.

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   In the 1950s, some British soldiers, in experiments done by the Ministry of Defence, were exposed to nuclear radiation. Many of them went on to have cancer and had children either miscarry or born with severe disabilities.

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   Ali Khamenei has been the leader of Iran since 1989. He has said that the isotopes they have are for nuclear power stations and not for weapons. But Israel did not believe them.

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   Nuclear power stations use isotopes, shaped into rods, which contain a lot of energy. The metals are very hot and heat water into steam, which turns a turbine and creates electricity. This is like how the wind turns a wind turbine.

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   There are nuclear power stations in many countries like the UK and France. Some people are against nuclear power because it very expensive and takes a long time for the isotopes to become safe.

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   Once isotopes have been used, they stay dangerous for a long time and have to be buried underground.

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   Some isotopes like plutonium and uranium can take 1000s of years before they become safe.

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    On 13th June, 2025, Israel attacked Iran using fighter jets. These attacks are called air strikes. Israel said that they bombed only military areas, which killed people, to help stop Iran from attacking them.

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    Later on 13th June, the Iranian government responded by firing missiles and drones into Israeli cities and military sites, which damaged people’s homes and killed people.

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    Both countries carried on attacking each other and it led to more people being killed.

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    On 15th June, the USA president, Donald Trump said he didn’t want Israel to kill Iran’s leader Ali Khamenei at the moment. Killing him could have led to a civil war in Iran, similar to what happened in Iraq.

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    On 19th June, Donald Trump gave Iran 14 days to ‘unconditionally surrender’. This means that Iran would have to stop fighting and give up.

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    On 21st June, Donald Trump allowed the USA to attack Iran’s nuclear areas with air strikes, using jets to drop bombs.

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    Donald Trump claimed that the USA had destroyed Iran’s ability to make nuclear weapons. But others say that the damage was not very much and it will only take Iran less than 6 months to recover from it.

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    On 23rd June, Iran fired a missile at Qatar. Qatar is a nearby country which has a USA air force base. Iran gave warning before this attack.

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    Donald Trump said that he wanted Israel and Iran to stop attacking each other. This is called a ceasefire.

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    The conflict is an escalation of the years-long anger between Israel and Iran.

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    Since 24th June, Donald Trump has said that there has been a ceasefire, which Iran and Israel have agreed to. The ceasefire holds as of 30th June. Nobody knows how long this will last or what will happen next.

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    Since June 13th its reported over 950 people have been killed in Iran, and 28 have died in Israel.

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