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Tehran targets oil supply, threatens to bring down world economy

Iran on Wednesday threatened a “war of attrition” that would destroy the global economy as it targeted oil tankers and neighboring energy infrastructure.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Two injured as Hezbollah pummels Israel in largest barrage of war

Hezbollah terrorists overnight on Wednesday launched their largest barrage of missiles and drones at Israel since the start of the current war, in what Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said was a combined attack from Lebanon and Iran.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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‘Don’t mess with Iran’: Two Jewish men beaten in San Jose after speaking Hebrew

Two Jewish men were beaten, and later briefly hospitalized, after they were heard speaking Hebrew in front of a restaurant in San Jose’s Santana Row in California, local media reported on Tuesday.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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UK bans Al Quds Day march in London over terror and security concerns

The UK’s Home Secretary has approved the Metropolitan Police’s ban on the upcoming annual Al Quds march and any associated counter-protest marches on account of elevated risk and potential for terror support.

Read more: The Jerusalem Post

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IDF targets Hezbollah command centers, weapons sites in strikes on Beirut suburbs

Israel launched new waves of airstrikes in Lebanon overnight Tuesday and into Wednesday, striking Hezbollah targets while ramping up its troop presence in northern Israel, amid continuing rocket and drone attacks by the terror group.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Witkoff: Tehran gave zero ground in talks leading up to war

U.S. President Donald Trump’s Special Envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff said in an interview on Tuesday that Iranian negotiators had left no space for compromise on their nuclear enrichment program.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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US destroys Iranian minelayers in Hormuz

U.S. forces destroyed what they said were 16 Iranian mine-laying ships in the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, as Iran continued to strike its neighbors, including in a drone attack near the main airport of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Second construction worker wounded in Iranian missile attack dies

A construction worker who sustained serious injuries when debris from an Iranian missile struck a building site in the central Israeli city of Yehud on Monday afternoon was pronounced dead on Tuesday.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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IDF strikes Hezbollah funding apparatus assets

Israeli Air Force jets on Monday carried out a wave of strikes targeting a Lebanese association used by the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist group to fund its weapons and operatives, the army said on Tuesday.
Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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US defense secretary warns of ‘most intense day’ of strikes on Iranian targets

The US defense chief warned that Tuesday would be the most intense day of the war against Iran so far, while Israel’s leader said regime change in Iran could only come from the people, as Washington and Jerusalem continued to strike targets across Iran on the 11th day of the conflict.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Trump says he’s ‘not happy’ with Iran’s choice of new supreme leader

President Donald Trump said he is “not happy” with Iran’s choice of a new supreme leader but that early results from Operation Epic Fury have been “way beyond expectation.”

Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been installed as the next supreme leader.

Read more: Fox News

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First immigrant since start of war arrives in Israel, ministry says

Henry Garfinkle, 26, on Sunday morning became the first immigrant to return to Israel since the start of “Operation Roaring Lion” against Iran, the Aliyah and Integration Ministry said.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Explosion damages synagogue in Belgium

A powerful explosion rocked the façade of a synagogue in Liège, Belgium, early on Monday morning, resulting in no injuries.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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Iran may still have access to enriched uranium at site bombed by US last year

Iran may be able to access and move highly enriched uranium that had been previously thought to have been buried underground by US strikes on the Isfahan nuclear facility last June, according to a New York Times report.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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US-sanctioned Mojtaba Khamenei named Iran’s next supreme leader after father’s death

Iran’s Assembly of Experts has elected Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as the country’s new supreme leader, according to Iranian state television.
Read more: Fox News

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Seventh US service member dies due to Iranian attack

A U.S. service member has died from wounds sustained during the Iranian regime’s initial wave of attacks across the Middle East, raising the American death toll in “Operation Epic Fury” to seven, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Sunday night.

Read more: Jewish News Syndicate

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1 dead, 2 seriously wounded as Iranian cluster bomb warhead hits central Israel

At least one person was killed and two others seriously wounded by an Iranian missile with a cluster warhead that was fired at central Israel on Monday, the seventh salvo of fire since midnight as Tehran kept up its attacks on Israel and Gulf nations.

Read more: The Times of Israel

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Russia is feeding Iran intelligence to help target US forces

Russia has provided Iran with targeting information on US military assets in the Middle East since the outbreak of the war, three officials familiar with the intelligence told the Washington Post, marking the first indication that another major US adversary may be involved in the conflict.

Read more: i24 News