Middle East
The maritime border agreement signed with Lebanon did not improve Israel’s security, as shown by the ongoing war with Hezbollah, Eli Cohen said.
President says Tehran unprepared for negotiations as U.S.-Israeli strikes cripple the regime’s military and target its missile and drone capabilities.
The Pope appealed “in the name of the Christians of the Middle East and of all women and men of goodwill” for the war to stop.
IDF says over 4,700 Israeli strikes targeted Iran’s missile program; White House says Tehran’s ballistic missile capacity is “functionally destroyed.”
Drone and missile strikes disrupt Kuwait airport and the UAE’s Fujairah energy hub as Tehran widens attacks across the Middle East.
The names were previously withheld for publication.
The ideological reluctance of the movement to enter the current regional conflict is heavily reinforced by the recent degradation of its military capabilities and the high vulnerability of its supply lines.
The Palestinian Authority’s show of solidarity over Iranian attacks ignores Arafat’s alliance with Saddam and Kuwait’s mass expulsion of Palestinians.
The military says that the crash was not caused by hostile or friendly fire.
Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain have insisted on maintaining a policy of absolute military passivity.
Tehran’s vengeance “is not limited to the martyrdom of the great leader of the [Islamic] Revolution alone,” the newly minted supreme leader wrote.
Iran has effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, through whch 20% of the world’s petroleum supply normally passes.
