As the fighting between Israel and Iran entered its fifth day on June 17, sources say Iran has sent messages through Gulf States to urge the US administration to pressure Israel to a ceasefire.
The two Middle Eastern rivals have exchanged blows, with Iranian officials reporting over 220 deaths, mostly civilians, while Israel said 24 civilians were killed.
00:00Traffic congestion built up along the Karaj Chalice Road with more people evacuating from Tehran as the fighting between Iran and Israel entered its fifth day on Tuesday.
00:13A plane carrying 73 people of different nationalities was flown out of Israel via Jordan and landed in Bratislava.
00:23In Jordan, there is practically nothing to do. It's mostly about the situation where you look at the media.
00:33You hear the night of the night, the rockets, they just shoot and so on.
00:39And in the park, there is a lot of...
00:44No, it was not a mess of the day, but we never lived in a situation like a situation where we needed to solve it.
00:53We were in the 19th of Slovakia, 25th and 25th, and we were in the 20th of our country and we were in the 20th of our country.
01:02All the rest were in the country, the Russian, Czech, Slovenian, Rakuten, the Slovakian, the Slovakian, the Slovakian, the Spanish-speaking, who brought us up.
01:12Business operators closed their premises in Tehran as many felt unsafe going about their daily lives.
01:42Both Israeli and Iranian militaries have warned civilians in a series of messages to leave their homes and go underground for their own safety.
02:01U.S. President Donald Trump, whose administration has been working to strike a deal with Iran to end its nuclear weapon program, also told Iranians to evacuate Tehran immediately.
02:13Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told ABC News that they had tried with peace talks, but Iran wanted forever war, and Israel is just preventing a nuclear war by striking Iranian nuclear facilities.
02:27While they were negotiating with the United States, the Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, tweeted almost every day, death to Israel. The talks were merely a facade.
02:39So are you going to target the Supreme Leader?
02:41Look, we're doing what we need to do. I'm not going to get into the details.
02:45But U.S. officials tell us that the president flatly rejected a plan, an opportunity that you, the Israelis, had to take out the Supreme Leader.
02:57Do you understand his concern? My understanding is his concern is that this would escalate the conflict beyond where it is already.
03:04It's not going to escalate the conflict. It's going to end the conflict.
03:07Reuters sources say Iran had sent messages through Gulf states to urge the U.S. to pressure Israel to a ceasefire, while Iran's ambassador to the United Nations, Amir Syed Iravani, said their strikes on Israel are self-defense.
03:23Let me be clear. Iran has not attacked Israel. Iran has not started any war. The so-called existential threat narrative is false.
03:36It has no legal basis. It has no legal basis. It is used only to justify aggression and hide Israel war crimes.
03:45Iran warns that any country assisting Israel aggression will share legal responsibility for the consequences.
