After striking Iran early Saturday, Israel is bracing for a possible Iranian response. According to Israel, the strikes were “precise and targeted” and focused on military targets in different areas of Iran.Iranian media said four soldiers were killed.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres (centre) addresses the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East.
Israelis are on edge and waiting for expected retaliation almost two weeks after the purported assassinations of two senior militant leaders by Israel. Hezbollah and Hamas could both launch long-range missiles at much of Israel, causing enormous damage.But they also do not want an all-out war with Israel.
The United Nations flag is lowered to half-mast at UN Headquarters to honour Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi,President of the Islamic Republic of Iran,who passed away Sunday in a helicopter crash.
Turkey says it is preparing to launch a major military operation against Kurdish rebels who are based in Iraq. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, vows to end what he says is the threat posed by the Kurdish rebel group PKK, which has been fighting Turkey for decades.
Reacting to the news that Iran’s parliament has passed a new bill that would impose further draconian penalties severely violating women’s and girls’ rights as well as increasing prison terms and fines for defying Iran’s degrading and discriminatory compulsory veiling laws, Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa said:
IRANIn our society, older adults live longer and do more in their latter years. Many politicians are holding onto their positions well past the normal retirement age. VOA’s Senior Washington Correspondent Carolyn Presutti explores the ages of current world leaders in the context with the fact that the United States is facing two of the country’s oldest front-runners for president.
In their quest to reach Europe, Hundreds of young Afghans are choosing to make the treacherous journey to Iran.They say lack of job opportunities in Afghanistan is the reason they are fleeing.