Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy has said after talks at the White House with Secretary of State Marco Rubio that there is still time to reach a diplomatic solution with Iran over its nuclear program, to avert a wider conflict.

"The situation in the Middle East remains perilous. We are determined that Iran must never have a nuclear weapon," Lammy said in a statement released by the UK embassy in Washington.

"We discussed how Iran must make a deal to avoid a deepening conflict. A window now exists within the next two weeks to achieve a diplomatic solution," Lammy said of his talks with Rubio and US special envoy Steve Witkoff.

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Iran has appointed a new chief of intelligence at its Revolutionary Guards, the official Irna news agency said, after his predecessor was killed in an Israeli strike last week.

Major General Mohammad Pakpour, the commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), appointed Brigadier General Majid Khadami as the new head of its intelligence division, Irna said.

He replaces Mohammed Kazemi, who was killed on Sunday alongside two other Revolutionary Guards officers - Hassan Mohaghegh and Mohsen Bagheri - in an Israeli strike.

Pakpour had himself been recently appointed after Israel killed his predecessor Hossein Salami in a strike on June 13.

"During the years that our martyred commanders Kazemi and Mohaqeq led the IRGC Intelligence, we witnessed significant growth in all aspects of intelligence within the IRGC," said Pakpour.

Israel launched air strikes on nuclear and military sites in Iran last week, claiming that its arch enemy was on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon, which Iran denies.

Israel killed several top Iranian officials, prompting a counter-attack by Iran, which on Thursday hit an Israeli hospital.

Upon his appointment by Iran's supreme leader Ali Khamenei last Friday, Pakpour threatened to open "the gates of hell" in retaliation for Israel's attacks.

Top Israeli figures have openly talked about killing Khamenei.

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A grenade was thrown into the yard of the home of the Norwegian ambassador to Israel on Thursday, officials said, adding that there had been no injuries.

"There was an explosion outside the Norwegian residence in Tel Aviv Thursday evening," Tuva Bogsnes, Head of Communications at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said in a statement to AFP.

Israel's foreign minister Gideon Saar said in a post to X that he had been in contact with Norway's ambassador to Israel, Per Egil Selvaag, adding that Selvaag's home had been targeted by "a shrapnel grenade".

"I strongly condemn this serious and dangerous crime," Saar said.

Bogsnes added that "no embassy staff were physically injured in the incident", and that Israeli police had been on the scene.

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CNN is reporting that the Israeli military has issued an evacuation warning for people in the industrial area of the Kalash Taleshan village in northern Iran.

It warned it would launch attacks against what it described as military infrastructure.

"Your presence in this area puts your life at risk."

CNN is reporting Iran plans to attack the offices of Israel's Channel 14 news station, which it accuses of being Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's "propaganda channel".

The state-run Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) said Iran will target the television offices in the coming days, urging all workers to evacuate them.

The body of a Ukrainian mother who had travelled to Israel for her daughter's leukaemia treatment was recovered on Thursday from a building struck by an Iranian missile four days earlier, Israeli officials said.

The city of Bat Yam, close to Tel Aviv, announced that "in the past few minutes, a body was found at the site of the missile impact", identifying the victim as 31-year-old Maria Peshkarova, 31, also known as Marina.

Peshkarova had travelled to Israel in December 2022 on a medical visa to seek life-saving treatment for her daughter Anastasia, 8, who was killed along with her grandmother in the destroyed apartment bloc in Bat Yam, according to the mayor's office.

Peshkarova's husband is fighting in Ukraine's war against Russia, according to the Israeli news website Ynet.

Israeli authorities had previously released the names of eight people killed in the strike and had stated that one person was missing.

Peshkarova's confirmed death takes the total deathtoll in Israel to 25 since the war with Iran started on Friday, according to authorities.

Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on Sunday that five of its nationals were killed in the Iranian strike on Bat Yam near Tel Aviv, including three minors.

Ukraine on Tuesday urged its citizens to leave Israel and Iran as soon as possible amid the spiralling conflict between the two countries.

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The US special envoy for Syria Tom Barrack has warned Lebanese militant group Hezbollah against getting involved in the war between its main backer Iran and Israel.

Barrack, who is also the US ambassador to Turkey, is on his first visit to Beirut, where he met top Lebanese officials including parliament speaker Nabih Berri, an ally of Hezbollah.

"I can say on behalf of President (Donald) Trump... that would be a very, very, very bad decision," Barrack said after his meeting with Berri, responding to a question on what the US position would be on any involvement by Hezbollah in the war.

In a statement, Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said the group will "act as we see fit".

"Tyrannical America and criminal Israel will not be able to subjugate the Iranian people and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps," Qassem said.

Hezbollah, he added, still had "the responsibility to stand by Iran and provide it with all forms of support that contribute to putting an end to this tyranny and oppression".

Hezbollah suffered devastating losses in its war against Israel last year, which ended with a ceasefire agreement in November.

When Israel struck Iran last week, the Lebanese foreign ministry said that it was "continuing its contacts" to spare the country from being dragged into any conflict.

In a statement shared by the Lebanese presidency after his meeting with Barrack, President Joseph Aoun said that "communications are ongoing to achieve the goal of weapons monopoly at both the Lebanese and Palestinian levels, and will intensify after stability returns... to the region".

According to the November ceasefire agreement, Hezbollah must pull its fighters back north of the Litani river, some 30km from the Israeli border, leaving the Lebanese army and United Nations peacekeepers as the only armed parties in the area.

Israel is required to fully withdraw its troops but has kept them in five locations in Lebanon it deems "strategic".

Lebanon has also recently ramped up efforts to disarm Palestinian militant groups, which for decades had been in charge of Palestinian refugee camps in the country.

After his meeting with Barrack, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam expressed Lebanon's "commitment to the choice of security and stability and rejection of being dragged into the ongoing war in the region".

He also asked the US envoy "to assist Lebanon in pressuring Israel for its complete withdrawal from the occupied Lebanese territories".

Despite the ongoing ceasefire, Israel has carried out repeated strikes in Lebanon, which it has said will continue until Hezbollah has been disarmed.

An Israeli strike killed one person in the southern village of Hula on Thursday, the Lebanese health ministry said.

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The latest developments in the Iran-Israel conflict in the last 24 hours, outside of Trump's statement:

Hospital strike

A hospital in southern Israel was hit as Iran fired "dozens" of missiles, officials said, with impacts also reported in two Israeli towns close to commercial hub Tel Aviv.

The Soroka Hospital in Beersheba was left in flames, and its director Shlomi Codish said 40 people had sustained injuries.

"Several wards were completely demolished and there is extensive damage across the entire hospital," he said.

Iran said the main target of its missile attack was not the hospital but a nearby military and intelligence base.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said "hospitals must be respected and protected", citing international law.

UN rights chief Volker Turk urged restraint from both Iran and Israel, saying it is "appalling to see how civilians are treated as collateral damage in the conduct of hostilities".

Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tehran would pay a "heavy price".

Israel threatens Khamenei

Speaking in Beersheba after the hospital strike, Netanyahu said Israel was "committed to destroying... the threat of a nuclear annihilation" as well as Iran's ballistic missile capabilities.

His defence minister, Israel Katz, said Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei "can no longer be allowed to exist".

"Khamenei openly declares that he wants Israel destroyed - he personally gives the order to fire on hospitals," Katz told reporters. "Such a man can no longer be allowed to exist."

President Donald Trump said earlier this week that the United States was aware of Khamenei's location but would not kill him "for now".

Iraq's top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani warned that any targeting of Iran's "supreme religious and political leadership" would have "dire consequences on the region".

Read more on the aftermath of the hospital strike here.

Iran could produce a nuclear weapon in the space of a "couple of weeks," the White House said, as US President Donald Trump debated whether to take military action against the Islamic republic.

"Iran has all that it needs to achieve a nuclear weapon. All they need is a decision from the supreme leader to do that, and it would take a couple of weeks to complete the production of that weapon," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters.

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