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  1. US President Donald Trump is asked questions by reporters on board Air Force One

  2. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian sign a strategic partnership treaty during a ceremony following their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow on January 17, 2025.

  3. In the background: A satellite image of Iran's Fordo nuclear site. A BBC Verify logo is in the top left-hand corner.

  4. A boy sitting on a bed crises, while a man sat beside him hugs him and a woman stands beside him

  5. Vehicles wait in lines of traffic as people queue to get out of Tehran through road in the west of the city on 15 June 2025

  6. Deborah Claydon, on the left, and Hannah Lyons-Singer, on the right

  7. European Council President Antonio Costa, Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, US President Donald Trump, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen pose for a family photo during the Group of Seven (G7) Summit at the Kananaskis Country Golf Course in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada

  8. US President Donald Trump gestures as he attends a family photo session during the G7 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta, Canada. Picture date: Monday June 16, 2025.

  9. Newsreader reacting as blast happens

  10. A still imagen taken from a video released by Iranian news agency WANA on June 18, 2025, that it says showed missiles fired by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps towards Israel

  11. A satellite image shows damaged structures at the Natanz nuclear facility following Israeli air strikes (14 June 2025)

  12. Tehran's skyline at night on Sunday 15 June, with three large plumes of smoke rising above the city and two large fires blazing below

  13. An Israeli F-35 jet

  14. A composite of satellite images from damage inflicted on Iranian military sites: Left: the roof of a building struck in Bid Kaneh military facility; Right: a destroyed structure at Kermanshah military base. Surrounded by BBC Verify branding

  15. Promo image of Benjamin Netanyahu and Ali Hosseini Khamenei

  16. A mourner reacts during the funeral of Palestinians killed in what the Gaza health ministry says was Israeli fire near a distribution center in Rafah, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, June 16, 2025. REUTERS/Hatem Khaled

  17. Huge queue of traffic at night on a highway in Tehran

  18. Split image of BBC's Hugo Bachega and a blast

  19. Veronica Osipchik, 33, had her home damaged by the blast

  20. Emergency personnel standing in front of apartment building on fire in Tel Aviv

  21. A woman with short curly grey hair looks at the camera. She is wearing a green shirt and is sat on a wooden chair with lots of cushions.

  22. A close-up of US President Donald Trump sitting in the Oval Office. He is looking to his left, wearing a red tie with a US flag pin on his suit.

  23. Missiles launched from Iran are intercepted as seen from Ashkelon, Israel

  24. People run along a street amid smoke following the Israeli strikes on Iran, in Tehran, Iran, June 15