THE LATEST | CANADABBC: Israel says it is carrying out a fresh wave of strikes in Iran, after the country earlier said it had carried out new attacks on Iran’s “leadership compound” on Tuesday…
CNN: A consulate in Dubai, CIA station in Saudi Arabia and US base in Qatar all sustained hits…
New York Times: The U.S. announced the names of four soldiers who were killed by an Iranian drone on Sunday. The leader of the U.S. Central Command said more than 50,000 troops, 200 fighters, two aircraft carriers and bombers were participating in the fighting…
New York Times: The senior clerics responsible for selecting Iran’s next supreme leader met on Tuesday to deliberate, and the son of the slain former leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, emerged as the clear front-runner, according to three Iranian officials familiar with the deliberations…
Financial Times: Iranian forces have launched a plan devised by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Tehran’s top commanders to sow chaos across the Middle East, create upheaval in global markets and raise the stakes in the hope of pressuring the US and Israel to halt their attack…
Wall Street Journal: Israel’s military is targeting the Iranian police state that brutally suppressed protests and killed thousands of people, with the hope of clearing the way for a popular revolt to overthrow the Islamic government.
Israeli airstrikes have targeted people responsible for internal security, from members of the Basij paramilitary force to senior intelligence officials, the Israeli military said. The U.S. has also hit some domestic-security agencies, including the Tehran headquarters of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp, the powerful group responsible for defending and perpetuating the regime…
Washington Post: President Donald Trump acknowledged for the first time on Tuesday the economic toll for Americans of his assault on Iran, saying that oil prices were likely to spike as a result of the fighting in the Persian Gulf but insisting they would eventually dip…
CNN: The Trump administration’s stated justifications for going to war with Iran were already a jumbled and self-contradictory mess…
But on Tuesday, Trump made it even worse — laying waste to the administration’s confusing explanation from Monday…
Washington Post: The State Department is scrambling amid the fallout from President Donald Trump’s high-stakes military assault on Iran and Tehran’s blistering response, with at least three embassies in the Middle East shuttered as of Tuesdayas violence worsened and U.S. citizens wereleft with limited means to escape…
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