World awaiting Iran's response

THE WORLD AWAITED Iran's response on Sunday after President Donald Trump said the US had "obliterated" Tehran's key nuclear sites, joining Israel in the biggest Western military action against the Islamic Republic since its 1979 revolution.

- PARISA HAFEZI, PHIL STEWART & MAAYAN LUBELL Istanbul/Washington/Jerusalem, June 22

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. It fired another volley of missiles at Israel that wounded scores of people and flattened buildings in Tel Aviv. But perhaps in an effort to avert all-out war with the US, it had yet to follow through on its main threats of retaliation against the US itself - either by targeting US bases or trying to cho