Middle East

Businesses across Iran have begun laying off workers as the country’s economy struggles under the combined pressure of war-related disruptions, sanctions, and infrastructure damage.

Speaking at the POLITICO Security Summit in Washington DC, Pahlavi said Western governments had spent years pursuing a failed strategy of appeasement that ultimately emboldened Tehran.

The Saudi attacks, not previously reported, mark the first time that the kingdom is known to have directly carried out military action on Iranian soil and show it is becoming much bolder.

Trump said that Iran has pledged to stop enriching uranium and is "100% confident" that they will comply, while stressing the US will never let Iran possess a nuclear bomb.

Trump said he was disappointed, apparently referring to weapons transfers involving Kurdish opposition groups. He claimed that only “some guns with ammunition” had been sent.

Kuwait condemned the IRGC's actions, decrying them as a hostile infringement upon their sovereign territory, while demanding that the Islamic Republic of Iran halt its hostile acts.

Reports of a secret Israeli base in Iraq have now led Baghdad to feel it must do something and stage a show of force, resulting in Iranian-backed militias sending forces to southern Iraq.

Qassem asserted the terror group's commitment to remaining on the battlefield, saying Lebanon would not return to the state of affairs that existed before March 2. 

US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee confirmed that Israel sent Iron Dome batteries to the UAE during the Iran war, marking a major step in cooperation between the two countries.

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