Tag Archives: Middle East

The Washington Post reports: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with his security cabinet on Thursday to discuss plans for the full occupation of the Gaza Strip. It comes amid opposition voiced by Israel’s military leadership, said a person familiar with Netanyahu’s office’s decisions, corroborated by two former Israeli officials — potentially setting up a clash between the country’s military …

The BBC reports: Israel has demolished thousands of buildings across Gaza since it withdrew from a ceasefire with Hamas in March, with entire towns and suburbs – once home to tens of thousands of people – levelled in the past few weeks. Satellite images show massive amounts of destruction in several areas which Israel’s military command claims to have under …

The New York Times reports: For Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, the meeting with President Trump scheduled for Monday will serve as a kind of victory lap after the joint Israeli-U.S. assault last month on Iran’s nuclear facilities. The White House visit — the prime minister’s third since Mr. Trump returned to office — is likely to add luster …

The Associated Press reports: American contractors guarding aid distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition and stun grenades as hungry Palestinians scramble for food, according to accounts and videos obtained by The Associated Press. Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal operations, said they were coming forward because …

The BBC reports: Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, delivered his first video message since US strikes on his country and Iran’s ceasefire with Israel. In a speech broadcast by state TV Khamenei says “nothing significant” occurred to the nuclear sites struck by the US earlier this week, a remark that directly opposes Trump’s assertion that Iran’s nuclear programme had …

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump said he wasn’t seeking regime change in Iran, two days after first floating the idea. “I don’t want it. I’d like to see everything calm down as quickly as possible,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One as he traveled to the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands. “Regime change takes chaos and …

CBS News reports: Israel and Iran both indicated on Tuesday morning that they were complying with a ceasefire agreement announced by President Trump. But the apparent agreement — which Iranian officials had yet to formally confirm they would respect — appeared to falter within just a couple hours. The Israeli military ordered people into bomb shelters yet again and said …

“CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE! It has been fully agreed by and between Israel and Iran that there will be a Complete and Total CEASEFIRE (in approximately 6 hours from now, when Israel and Iran have wound down and completed their in progress, final missions!), for 12 hours, at which point the War will be considered, ENDED! “Officially, Iran will start the …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump boasted the United States dealt “monumental damage” to Iran’s nuclear programme after precision missile strikes on three key nuclear facilities. In a late Sunday night post on Truth Social, Trump declared that the strikes resulted in the “obliteration” of the sites, including the heavily fortified Fordow location: “Monumental Damage was done to all Nuclear sites …

Reuters reports: Iran said on Monday that the U.S. attack on its nuclear sites expanded the range of legitimate targets for its armed forces and called U.S. President Donald Trump a “gambler” for joining Israel’s military campaign against the Islamic Republic. Since Trump joined Israel’s campaign by dropping massive bunker-buster bombs on Iranian nuclear sites on Sunday morning, Iran has …

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump said Saturday that the U.S. military struck three sites in Iran, directly joining Israel ’s effort to decapitate the country’s nuclear program in a risky gambit to weaken a longtime foe amid Tehran’s threat of reprisals that could spark a wider regional conflict. The decision to directly involve the U.S. comes after more …

“People ask me – are we targeting the downfall of the regime? That may be a result, but it’s up to the Iranian people to rise for their freedom. Freedom is never cheap. It’s never free. Freedom requires these subjugated people to rise up, and it’s up to them. But we may create conditions that will help them do it. …

The Washington Post reports: What do Americans think about the possibility of launching U.S. airstrikes against Iran, which President Donald Trump threatened this week unless the country dismantles its nuclear program? The Washington Post texted more than 1,000 people on Wednesday to ask. The poll finds Americans opposing U.S. airstrikes against Iran by a 20 percentage-point margin — 45 percent …

The Washington Post reports: Israeli officials said they would intensify strikes on Tehran after a key hospital in southern Israel was hit in an Iranian missile attack. The strike on the Soroka Medical Center caused “extensive damage” in several areas, the hospital said, but police have reported no casualties so far. Iran said it was targeting military and intelligence headquarters …

ABC News reports: Following a meeting in the Situation Room on Tuesday, President Donald Trump told top advisers that he approved of attack plans for Iran that were presented to him, but said he was waiting to see if Iran would be willing to discuss ending their nuclear program, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News. The news of …

“We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran. Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment, and plenty of it, but it doesn’t compare to American made, conceived, and manufactured “stuff.” Nobody does it better than the good ol’ USA. “We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding. He is an easy target, …

Reuters reports: President Donald Trump vetoed an Israeli plan in recent days to kill the Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, two U.S. officials told Reuters on Sunday. “Have the Iranians killed an American yet? No. Until they do we’re not even talking about going after the political leadership,” said one of the sources, a senior U.S. administration official. srael …

The Associated Press reports: Israel’s defense minister warned Saturday that “Tehran will burn” if Iran continues firing missiles, as the two countries traded blows a day after Israel launched a blistering surprise attack on Iranian nuclear and military sites, killing a number of top generals. Israel’s military said the strikes had also killed nine senior scientists and experts involved in …

The Times Of Israel reports: Sirens are sounding across Israel amid a major Iranian ballistic missile attack. An estimated 100 missiles were launched from Iran at Israel, according to an Israeli military source. “A short while ago, missiles were launched from Iran at Israel,” the military says. Civilians are told to enter bomb shelters and remain there until further notice. …

Reuters reports: Iranian air defences shot down an Israeli drone in the vicinity of the country’s Fordow nuclear facility, Iranian media reported on Friday. Separately, Iran’s Press TV reported Iranian air defenses intercepted Israeli missiles south of Tehran. The Fordow site, which is dug into a mountain, is one of two nuclear sites where Iran was enriching uranium to near-bomb …