Iran war updates: IRGC says 8 US military sites destroyed
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The IRGC says its forces have destroyed eight US military sites in Kuwait and Bahrain, describing the attacks as retaliation for recent US strikes on Iranian facilities.
The Strait of Hormuz remains under total Iranian control for the next 30 days and any US attacks will only exacerbate the precarious situation, warns Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.
He also says Iran is ready to partner with Gulf states on regional security.
Iran and the US have agreed to resume technical talks in Qatar this week aimed at securing a permanent end to the war, according to Axios.
GCC secretary-general says Iranian strikes on Bahrain and Kuwait “undermine international and regional efforts aimed at establishing security and peace and resolving the crisis”.
Syria’s Foreign Ministry has condemned Israeli incursions into the southern Syrian provinces of Quneitra and Deraa.
Israel-Lebanon deal ‘will not pass’, says parliament speaker Berri
Nabih Berri, the speaker of Lebanon’s parliament and head of the Amal Movement party, says the framework agreement signed this week between Israel and Lebanon is “contradictory and impossible to implement”.
“This agreement will not pass, and it will not be implemented in its current form,” Berri said in a statement shared by his party, adding that it was “an agreement of ‘dictates’, not an agreement that preserves Lebanon’s rights”.
“This agreement was designed to sow discord between the Lebanese, which I categorically reject.”
Iran’s Araghchi calls for regional security framework
Foreign Minister Araghchi says Iran is ready to partner with Gulf states on regional security.
During a meeting with Iraqi National Security Adviser Qasim al-Aboudi, Araghchi said that Gulf countries should learn from the events of recent months and collectively decide on the region’s security architecture.
He added that any security pact should cover economic matters and that military powers from outside the region should be excluded.
Syria’s Foreign Ministry ‘strongly condemns’ Israeli attacks, incursions
Syria’s Foreign Ministry has condemned Israeli incursions into the southern Syrian provinces of Quneitra and Deraa, as well as artillery shelling in the area, which the ministry said “terrorised civilians”.
“The attacks constitute a flagrant violation of Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” the ministry said in a statement shared by the SANA news agency.
“The continued attacks undermine efforts to promote security and stability, increase the suffering of civilians in the affected areas, and risk further escalation and tension across the region.”
Up to 75% journalists in Gaza lost homes or displaced since October 7: Report
Between 60 and 75 percent of journalists in Gaza have lost their homes or been forcibly displaced since October 7, 2023, the Freedoms Committee of the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate says.
In a report titled “Media without walls”, it said approximately 265 journalists had been killed since the start of the conflict, one of the highest death tolls recorded globally against journalists in a single conflict.
More than 80 percent of media offices and institutions had been completely or partially destroyed, leading to an “almost complete collapse” of journalistic infrastructure, it said.
It added that journalists in Gaza no longer work from newsrooms but from tents, footpaths and shelter centres, with phones as their primary production tool and intermittent internet dictating when they can publish.
