Rafael Grossi told an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council that the U.S. attacks on three Iranian nuclear sites threaten a widening of the Israel-Iran conflict but also offer a return to diplomacy.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi responded Sunday, writing on the X/Twitter platform that the attacks were “outrageous” and would not go unanswered.

The US struck Iran's key nuclear sites overnight, lending military might to Israel in its war with Iran and provoking threats of "everlasting consequences" from Tehran on Sunday. "Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated,