Category: 3. Middle East

By Jonathan Landay, Phil Stewart, Gram Slattery and Parisa Hafezi

WASHINGTON/DUBAI, March 1 (Reuters) – Israel and the U.S. timed their attack on Iran on Saturday to coincide with a meeting the country’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, was holding…

New York City residents converged on Times Square on Saturday hours after US President Donald Trump ordered a wave of deadly strikes on Iran. Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the strikes “a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of…

Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations, Amir-Saeid Iravani denounced US-Israeli military strikes across the country, decrying the deaths and injuries of hundreds of civilians as a war crime.

Figures from across the United States political spectrum have reacted to President Donald Trump’s joint attack with Israel on Iran, with Republicans largely expressing support and Democrats failing to offer a robust and unified response.

The…

Interior Ministry official says 66 missiles were fired at Qatar, and there were 114 reports of falling shrapnel. 

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The former defence minister and secretary of Iran’s Defence Council was involved in US-Iran nuclear negotiations.

The US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz says striking Iran was necessary to protect American allies, prevent proxy militias, and to ensure that Tehran can never “threaten the world with a nuclear weapon.”

US President Donald Trump says Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in joint US-Israeli strikes. Israeli officials cite “growing signs” he’s dead. Iranian state media deny the claim, saying Khamenei remains in…

The United States and Israel have attacked Iran, and Tehran has retaliated, firing missiles at Israeli targets and US assets in the region.

The attacks come…

US President Donald Trump said Saturday that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is “dead,” Anadolu reports.

“Khamenei, one of the most evil people in History, is dead,” Trump said in a post on his social…