Israel and US injures former Iranian foreign minister and kills his wife in airstrike

An airstrike carried out during a joint US Israeli operation has severely wounded a former Iranian foreign minister who once suggested Tehran could seek a nuclear weapon, Iranian media outlets report.
 

The attack yesterday wounded Kamal Kharazi, 81, and killed his wife, the reports say.
 

It wasn’t clear if the airstrikes targeted Kharazi or another site nearby.
 

Kharazi served as a foreign minister for Iran’s reformist President Mohammad Khatami, then as a foreign affairs adviser to the late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
 

In 2022, he told Al Jazeera that Tehran has “the technical means to produce a nuclear bomb, but there has been no decision by Iran to build one,” sparking concern about Tehran’s intentions.

After the war began, Kharazi told CNN: “I don’t see any room for diplomacy anymore. Because Donald Trump had been deceiving others and not keeping with his promises, and we experienced this in two times of negotiations — that while we were engaged in negotiation, they struck us.”