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German Minister Promises More Talks if Iran ‘Serious’ on Nuclear Assurances 

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul looks on during a joint press conference with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman al-Safadi, not pictured, at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, Wednesday June 18, 2025. (Katharina Kausche/dpa via AP)
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul looks on during a joint press conference with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman al-Safadi, not pictured, at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, Wednesday June 18, 2025. (Katharina Kausche/dpa via AP)
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German Minister Promises More Talks if Iran ‘Serious’ on Nuclear Assurances 

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul looks on during a joint press conference with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman al-Safadi, not pictured, at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, Wednesday June 18, 2025. (Katharina Kausche/dpa via AP)
German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul looks on during a joint press conference with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman al-Safadi, not pictured, at the Federal Foreign Office in Berlin, Wednesday June 18, 2025. (Katharina Kausche/dpa via AP)

Germany together with its European partners is open to further discussions with Iran if there is a serious willingness from Tehran to provide assurances on its nuclear and missile programs, Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul said on Friday.

"My colleagues in the United Kingdom, France and also the High Representative (for the European Union) have always said that we are ready to talk," Wadephul said ahead of a meeting with the Iranian foreign minister in Geneva.

"This requires Iran's serious willingness to renounce any enrichment of nuclear material, which could lead to nuclear weaponization. This also requires that the missile program can be included. If this serious willingness exists, then the consequence on our part will also be that we are prepared to hold further talks," he added.

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Israel Launches Communications Satellite from Florida

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft lifts off at Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy Space Center before the launch of Axiom Space Axiom Mission on June 25, 2025, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images/AFP
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft lifts off at Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy Space Center before the launch of Axiom Space Axiom Mission on June 25, 2025, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images/AFP
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Israel Launches Communications Satellite from Florida

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft lifts off at Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy Space Center before the launch of Axiom Space Axiom Mission on June 25, 2025, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images/AFP
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft lifts off at Launch Complex 39A at NASA Kennedy Space Center before the launch of Axiom Space Axiom Mission on June 25, 2025, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Miguel J. Rodriguez Carrillo/Getty Images/AFP

Israel on Sunday said it had launched a new national communications satellite on board a SpaceX rocket from the United States.

The Dror 1 satellite was blasted into orbit on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) and the foreign ministry said.

"This $200 million 'smartphone in space' will power Israel's strategic and civilian communications for 15 years," the ministry wrote on X.

Accompanying video footage showed the reusable, two-stage rocket lift off into the night sky. SpaceX said the launch happened at 1:04 am in Florida (0504 GMT Sunday).

IAI, which called the launch "a historic leap for Israeli space technology", said when it announced the project to develop and build Dror 1 that it was "the most advanced communication satellite ever built in Israel".

In September 2016, an unmanned Falcon 9 rocket exploded during a test in Florida, destroying Israel's Amos-6 communications satellite, which was estimated to have cost between $200 and 300 million.