Israel struck new targets across Iran on Thursday, after Tehran rejected USÂ overtures to wind down the nearly four-week Middle East war and vowed to keep up its "resistance".
Hopes for a negotiated end to the US-Israeli war with Iran -- which has mushroomed to engulf much of the Middle East -- rose after the United States was said to have put a 15-point peace plan to Tehran.
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