Middle East crisis live: Iran announces end of attacks against Israel as Trump claims both sides want ‘immediate ceasefire’
by Aneesa Ahmed (now); Yohannes Lowe, Fran Singh and from World news | The Guardian on (#765BN)
US president says final peace negotiations' under way despite countries firing at each other for first time since April ceasefire
Iranian media is reporting that there were no immediate casualties following apparent Israeli strikes on the Karun petrochemical plant in Mahshahr, a city in Iran's southwestern Khuzestan province.
According to the Fars news agency, Iran's Revolutionary Guards said they responded to what they described as an American-Israeli strike on the Iranian petrochemical site by launching a missile attack on a similar plant in the northern Israeli city of Haifa.
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