Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control targeted 16 people and two entities in Iran that produce engines that power the drones used in the April 13 attack on Israel.
(CBS) – Two U.S. officials confirm to CBS News that an Israeli missile has hit Iran. The
NBC News' Richard Engel reports from Jerusalem where air defenses have been intensified across the region as U.S. officials confirm that Iran has launched multiple drones toward Israel. The move fulfills Iran's promise to retaliate against Israel, accusing it of bombing the embassy in Syria earlier this month.
President Biden said Friday that he expected Iran might attack Israel soon.
The U.S. 7th Fleet said a Navy P-8A Poseidon flew through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, a day after U.S. and Chinese defense chiefs held their first talks since November 2022 in an effort to reduce regional tensions.
Another employee of the U.S. State Department announced her resignation in protest of the Biden administration’s handling of the war in Gaza. Hala Rharrit, the department’s Arabic language spokesperson, wrote on her LinkedIn profile that she had “resigned April 2024 after 18 years of distinguished service in opposition to the United States’ Gaza policy.” When
U.S. officials expect a possible Israeli response to Iran’s attack over the weekend to be limited in scope and most likely involve strikes against Iranian military forces and Iranian-backed proxies outside Iran, four U.S. officials told NBC News. The U.S. assessment is based on conversations between U.S. and Israeli officials that happened before Iran fired more than 300 drones and missiles at Israel on Saturday night. As Israel was preparing for a possible Iranian attack last week, Israeli...
An unnamed senior Saudi official accused Tehran of having “engineered a war in Gaza” to interfere with Jerusalem’s attempts to normalize Saudi relations, before describing them as “a country that sponsors terrorism, and it should have been stopped a long time ago.” The anonymous individual said in an interview with Israel’s Kan public broadcaster that
Iran says that it warned the United States, a key Israeli ally, of its attack on Israel but U.S. officials dispute those claims.
“The ball is now in Israel's court.”
Canada announced it was sanctioning Iran's defence minister and top military command organizations while the U.S. and U.K. said they are targeting Iran's drone industry.
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