In this photo provided by the Iranian Students News Agency, ISNA, a car lays smashed by debris from the earthquake at the city of Sarpol-e-Zahab in western Iran, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. A powerful earthquake shook the Iran-Iraq border late Sunday, killing more than one hundred people and injuring some 800 in the mountainous region of Iran alone, state media there said. ISNA via AP Pouria Pakizeh
TEHRAN, IRAN
The latest on developments from an earthquake in the border region of Iran and Iraq (all times local):
1:05 a.m.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says his country has offered the International Committee of the Red Cross "medical assistance for the Iraqi and Iranian victims" of this week's earthquake.
Neither Iran nor Iraq has diplomatic relations with Israel. It wasn't immediately known whether the offer was accepted.
Netanyahu made the comment during an interview broadcast to leaders of Jewish communities in North America.
The Israeli leader says his country has "no quarrel with the people of Iran."
He adds: "Our quarrel is only with the tyrannical regime that holds them hostage and threatens our destruction.
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