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A secret Iranian nuclear weapons research facility was destroyed in Israel&s attack on the Islamic Republic last month, according to US and Israeli sources.

Iran backs any decision taken by Lebanon in talks to secure a ceasefire with Israel, a senior Iranian official said yesterday, signalling Tehran wants to see an end to a conflict that has dealt heavy blows to its Lebanese ally Hezbollah.

Israel carried out at least two airstrikes on a western neighbourhood of Damascus and one of the capital&s suburbs yesterday, killing at least 15 people and wounding another 16, Syria&s state news agency said.