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Massive protests in Iran over Israeli attacks have been going on for a week: here's what we know.

Massive protests in Iran over Israeli attacks have been going on for a week: here's what we know.
Thousands of people demonstrated in Tehran on Friday against the week-long Israeli attacks. According to images broadcast on state television, they chanted slogans in support of their leaders.

Iranian state television showed the massive demonstrations. Photo: @MonitorX99800 / X

"This is the Friday of solidarity and resistance of the Iranian nation throughout the country," said the news anchor.
The images show protesters holding portraits of commanders killed since the start of the war with Israel , while others waved Iranian and Lebanese Hezbollah flags.
According to television reports, there were also demonstrations in other cities across the country, especially in Tabriz in northwestern Iran and Shiraz in the south.
On June 13, Israel launched a campaign of airstrikes against Iran, claiming that the Islamic Republic was close to completing construction of the atomic bomb.
Iran's main uranium enrichment plant, Natanz, was hit by these bombings. The second largest plant near the Fordó area, located 100 kilometers south of the capital, and the Isfahan nuclear facility, about 350 kilometers southeast of Tehran, were also hit.

Protesters chanted slogans in support of their leaders. Photo: @MonitorX99800 / X

It has also targeted weapons production centers, nuclear centrifuge development plants, and other research infrastructure, according to a military statement.
The Iranians have responded with missile and drone launches.
On the eighth day of the war, warning sirens sounded in southern Israel on Friday following renewed Iranian missile fire. The Israeli military announced it had bombed dozens of targets in Tehran overnight, including a "research and development center for the Iranian nuclear weapons project."
The hostilities have left at least 224 dead in Iran and 25 in Israel , which has also killed numerous Iranian military officials and scientists and damaged its nuclear infrastructure.

Lebanese Hezbollah supporters wave Palestinian and Iranian flags. Photo: AFP

Europeans and Iranians meet in Switzerland
This Friday, the foreign ministers of the European powers will meet in Geneva with their Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araqchi, to try to find a diplomatic solution to the war , which could involve the United States.
French President Emmanuel Macron called for a "return to substantive negotiations" and announced that his country, Germany, and the United Kingdom will make "a comprehensive diplomatic and technical negotiation offer" to the Iranians this Friday in Switzerland , including on the issue of their nuclear program.
"There is a window in the next two weeks to reach a diplomatic solution," British Foreign Secretary David Lammy said hours earlier after a meeting in Washington with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Soroka Hospital in Israel bombed on Thursday. Photo: AFP

US President Donald Trump said Thursday through a White House spokeswoman that he will decide "in the next two weeks" whether to involve his country in the Israeli offensive.
Only the United States has the GBU-57 bomb, the only one capable of reaching the deep-buried core of Iran's nuclear program, in Fordo, south of Tehran.
In this regard, Araqchi reiterated in an interview released Friday that he will not negotiate with Washington as long as Israel continues to attack his country.
The UN Security Council will also meet this Friday, in a session requested by Iran with the support of Russia, China, and Pakistan.

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