In Photos: Week Six Of The Iran War
- By RFE/RL
Images from the sixth week of the US-Israeli war with Iran and the beginning of a fragile temporary cease-fire.
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The tail of an Iranian ballistic missile landed in Shadmot Mehola, an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. Iran launched a fresh barrage of missiles targeting Israel, with projectiles and intercepted debris falling across the West Bank on April 4.
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Iranian drone attacks also continued to target Gulf nations on April 4. This oil facility in Basra, Iraq, was damaged.
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An image released on April 5 by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps allegedly showed aircraft destroyed during a US mission to find a stranded airman. A second US crew member from a downed F-15E in Iran was rescued by special forces, Washington said.
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A US Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft refuels a F-35A Lightning II aircraft at an undisclosed location on April 5.
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Christian worshippers are stopped by Israeli security officers outside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after being blocked from attending Easter Monday events on April 5. Restrictions were placed on large gatherings amid the conflict with Iran.
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Smoke rises following strikes on Tehran on April 7.
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US President Donald Trump holds a White House press briefing on April 6, a day before the United States reached a last-minute cease-fire agreement with Iran. In a social media post on April 7, Trump wrote that "a whole civilization will die tonight" if Iran failed to reach a deal.
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Iranians gather on Enqelab Square in Tehran on April 8 reacting to news of the temporary cease-fire between Washington and Tehran.
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In Tehran, government supporters took to the streets after the two-week cease-fire deal was announced.
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A US B-52 Stratofortress bomber returns to the RAF Fairford airbase in Gloucestershire, Britain, on April 8 still loaded with munitions following the announcement of a two-week cease-fire in the Iran war.
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Hours after the cease-fire was announced, Iran claimed one of its oil refineries was targeted on Lavan Island, Hormozgan Province. Video appeared on social media showing smoke and flames at the installation.
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A satellite image of smoke billowing from the Aramco oil facility in Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia, on April 8. The reported attack highlighted the fragility of the truce and came just hours after the announcement of the temporary cease-fire deal between the United States and Iran.
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Smoke rises from the southern suburbs of Beirut on April 8 as Israel launched its biggest strikes of the war to date in Lebanon.
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Workers clear rubble from the Bir Hassan neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs on April 9. Israel says strikes on Hezbollah are not covered by the cease-fire, while Tehran says the conflict with its Lebanon-based proxy is also part of the deal.
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After the two-week cease-fire was announced, a large billboard remained on Tehran's Revolution Square reading "The Strait of Hormuz remains closed." Under the agreement, Iran was supposed to reopen the vital shipping route for global oil and gas exports from the Persian Gulf, but only a handful of vessels were getting through.
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Pakistani security forces stand outside the country's presidential residence on April 10 as Islamabad prepared to host peace talks.
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Mourners attend a funeral in Sidon, Lebanon, on April 10 for people killed in an Israeli strike that hit a cafe.
