Iran on Sunday signaled that it has effectively selected Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as his successor, as tensions escalated with overnight strikes by Israel on fuel depots in Tehran, as reported by Reuters. “The name of Khamenei will continue,” said Ayatollah Hosseinali Eshkevari, a member of the clerical council…
The island nation, home to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet, Bahrain, on Sunday became the first Arab country to accuse Iran of a drone attack that resulted in “material damage” to a desalination plant during the nine-day conflict in the Middle East. “Iranian aggression indiscriminately attacked civilian targets and caused material damage to a water…
The United States and Israel on Saturday (local time) launched strikes targeting Iran’s military and naval forces under “Operation Epic Fury.” The fresh strikes have thrown the Middle East region into a renewed military confrontation, days after US President Donald Trump warned to destroy Tehran’s missile arsenal and prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon,…
At least 30 Palestinians, including several children, were killed in Israeli strikes across Gaza on Saturday, hospitals said. The toll is one of the deadliest since the October ceasefire and came a day after Israel accused Hamas of violating the truce. The strikes occurred a day before the Rafah crossing on the Egypt-Gaza border is…
