Iran’s Health Ministry reports at least 606 people have died in the conflict, but independent monitors say the toll could be twice that figure. Meanwhile, damage to infrastructure, daily life disruptions, and heightened fear are widespread in cities like Tehran, Isfahan, and Tabriz

The uranium, enriched to 60 percent purity, is still short of the roughly 90 percent enrichment needed for nuclear weapons, but its disappearance has set off alarm bells in Washington, Tel Aviv, and Vienna, where the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is headquartered