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President Donald Trump is abruptly leaving the Group of Seven summit, departing a day early Monday as the conflict between Israel and Iran intensifies and the U.S. leader has declared that Tehran should be evacuated “immediately.
Mohammad-Reza Zafarghandi said in an update that an Israeli strike on Sunday on Quds Square in northern Tehran injured 59 civilians and killed 12 people, including a pregnant woman. That attack also ruptured a main water pipeline.
Israel struck Iran's state-run television station during a live broadcast, forcing a reporter to run off camera following an explosion.
President Donald Trump will depart the Group of 7 summit being held in the Canadian Rockies a day early “because of what’s going on in the Middle East,” the White House said. CNN’s Senior White House correspondent Kristen Holmes reports.
The U.S. president faces pushback over the risk of U.S. involvement in the escalating conflict between Israel and Iran.
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