"This is an absolutely unprovoked aggression against Iran," Putin told Araghchi

"The world clearly saw that the Atomic Energy Agency has not fulfilled any of its obligations and has become a political tool," Qalibaf added.

"The Zionist enemy... is being punished right now," Khamenei wrote on social media.

Iran is the world's ninth-biggest oil-producing country, with output of about 3.3 million barrels per day.

"The Department of State advises US citizens worldwide to exercise increased caution."

International concern focused on fears that the unprecedented US attacks would deepen conflict in the volatile region after Israel launched a bombing campaign against Iran earlier this month.

"The bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities by the United States marks a perilous turn," UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the Security Council on Sunday.

President Donald Trump said US air strikes yesterday had “completely and totally obliterated” Iran’s main nuclear enrichment facilities, and warned of more attacks to come if Tehran does not seek peace.

Pakistan on Sunday said Trump's decision to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities violated international law and that diplomacy was the only way to resolve the Iran crisis

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Iran has long used the threat of closing the Strait, through which around 20% of global oil and gas demand flows

President Donald Trump had spent weeks pursuing a diplomatic path to replace the nuclear deal with Tehran

With the damage visible from space after 30,000-pound US bunker-buster bombs crashed into the mountain above Iran's Fordow nuclear site, Tehran vowed to defend itself at all costs

Trump said he had "obliterated" Iran's main nuclear sites in strikes overnight with massive bunker-busting bombs, joining Israel's assault against its Middle East rival in a significant new escalation of conflict in the region

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When a state conducts military operations within another state’s territory, it frequently violates Article 2(4) of the UN Charter.

Many experts have argued that Iran’s greatest mistake was not to acquire nuclear weapons

The dramatic US strike, including the targeting of Iran’s most heavily fortified nuclear installation deep underground, marks the biggest foreign policy gamble of Trump’s two presidencies and one fraught with risks and unknowns.

Now that Trump has taken the significant step of entering the US in yet another Middle East war, where could things go from here?

 U.N. nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said on Sunday he was calling an emergency meeting of his agency's 35-nation Board of Governors.