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Fox News meldde dat duizenden Iraakse Koerdische rebellen een grondaanval in Iran zijn begonnen, maar Koerdische bronnen ontkennen het bericht en zeggen dat er voorzichtig wordt afgetast langs de grens tussen de Iraaks-Koerdische regio en Iran.

The United States military has joined Israel and attacked more than 1,000 targets in Iran and assassinated many of its top officials, including supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Below is a look at the legality of the US attacks, which critics say exceed the president’s authority and fail to comply with international law. What has Trump said? US President Donald Trump has provided varying objectives and justifications. He has said he felt Iran was going to strike first and the attack was meant to eliminate imminent threats to the United States, its military bases overseas and allies, although he did not provide details and some claims were not backed by US intelligence reports. Trump also said Iran could obtain a nuclear weapon within one month, but he did not provide evidence, and this contradicted his claims in June that the US military had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear programme. Presidential power to use the military The attacks on Iran are pushing the boundaries of Trump’s constitutional authority, ac...

Jamaat-i-Islami Pakistan Emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman has announced nationwide protests on Friday against US-Israel attacks on Iran and to express solidarity with the neighbouring country, according to a press release issued by the party’s information secretary. The statement said that JI emir met Iranian Ambassador Reza Amiri Moghadam in Islamabad and addressed a press conference following the meeting, in which he strongly criticised the US, Israel, and India and described them as an “evil trinity”. It added that Rehman also termed the Board of Peace led by US President Donald Trump, of which Pakistan is a member, as deceptive and demanded the government withdraw from it. The statement added that during the meeting, the JI emir also conveyed condolences over the assassination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other Iranian leaders in US-Israeli strikes. “He offered prayers for the departed and assured the ambassador that the people of Pakistan and Jamaat-i-Islami stand firmly with Iran in the current...

Turkey said 'that we reserve the right to respond to any hostile actions against our country' • The incident marks the first time that NATO member Turkey, Iran's neighbor to the northwest, has been drawn into the conflict ⁠between Iran and the U.S. and Israel

Operatives from Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence signalled openness to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to talks on ending the war, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing officials briefed on the matter. The offer was made through an unnamed country’s spy agency, the NYT said, citing Middle Eastern officials and officials from a Western nation who spoke on condition of anonymity. The White House and the CIA did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Officials in Washington are sceptical as to whether Iran or the Trump administration is really ready for an “off-ramp”, at least in the short term, the report added. Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva on Tuesday ruled out for now any negotiations with the United States, days after the US and Israel launched joint strikes on his country. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Tehran wanted to talk but it was too late, as the United States continued its military operation against Iran.

TRM said a post-strike spike in Nobitex wallet activity looked like routine liquidity moves, even as Chainalysis flagged higher outflows from Iranian exchanges overall. Nobitex, Iran’s biggest crypto exchange, showed no signs of a sustained, user-driven run after US-Israeli strikes on Iran, even as blockchain data indicated a brief spike in activity and higher outflows from Iranian exchanges more broadly, according to separate analyses from TRM Labs and Chainalysis. The TRM report, which examined onchain activity around Nobitex after US-Israeli strikes on Iran began on Feb. 28, found that the platform recorded a noticeable increase in activity in the immediate aftermath, including transfers exceeding $35 million from hot wallets to cold storage. However, TRM said the transfers were likely part of the exchange’s internal treasury operations. “Based on historical behavior and wallet attribution, these movements aligned with routine liquidity management rather than user-driven withdrawals,” the report said. Read...

On Sunday afternoon, protesters in Islamabad pressed shoulder to shoulder, most of them dressed in black, and chanted slogans that rippled through the crowd. “Death to America, death to Israel,” they shouted in unison. Among them was also Kazim Hussain, who clutched a portrait of Ayatollah Khamenei. The student, also an activist affiliated with Shia group Imamia Students Organisation (ISO), believes that the crisis unfolding in Iran was not a distant geopolitical conflict playing out beyond Pakistan’s western border. For him, it is deeply personal and emotionally moving. “This is not just an attack on Iran. It concerns all Shia Muslims,” he said, raising his voice above the chants as the crowd marched toward the US embassy. “The death of Ayatollah Khamenei will not end the movement. It has strengthened it.” Kazim’s words reflect a growing wave of anger and grief within Pakistan’s Shia community following the assassination of Iran’s supreme leader amid escalating attacks by Israel and the United States, as wel...

The purchases came as geopolitical tensions tied to the US and Israel's conflict with Iran weighed on global markets, pushing major indexes lower. Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest increased its exposure to crypto-related equities, adding shares of Coinbase and Robinhood Markets across several of its exchange-traded funds (ETFs) as broader markets pulled back. The company purchased a combined 22,452 shares of Coinbase across the ARK Innovation ETF (ARKK), ARK Next Generation Internet ETF (ARKW) and ARK Fintech Innovation ETF (ARKF), according to trade notifications for Tuesday. Based on Coinbase’s closing price of $182.36 during the day, the purchase was valued at about $4.1 million. Ark also accumulated 158,587 shares of Robinhood through the same ETFs. With Robinhood closing at $76.07, the transaction was valued at about $12 million. Read more

De benzineprijzen zijn woensdag verder opgelopen door de oorlog in Iran. Dat meldt persbureau ANP op basis van informatie van consumentencollectief UnitedConsumers.

A drive to rebuild the houses destroyed in the first war between Israel and Iran through urban renewal projects led to the drafting of groundbreaking legislation. However, internal government infighting, followed by exasperating foot-dragging in the Knesset, has left the bill nowhere near approval, with the newly displaced asked to keep on waiting

GENEVA: The United States made a “totally stupid decision” to attack Iran while in negotiations, and betrayed Gulf nations by trashing their diplomatic efforts, Tehran’s UN ambassador in Geneva Ali Bahreini said on Tuesday. The ambassador insisted Tehran had made no approach to Washington for negotiations, saying “there hasn’t been any contact from our side”. Trump had claimed earlier that the Iranian leadership “wants to talk” and had “contacted Washington” for this purpose. Ali Bahreini said Tehran had no problem with its neighbours, but could not let US bases in the Gulf be used as launch pads for attacks on Iran. “War was not our option. War was imposed on Iran,” Bahreini told UN correspondents. Ambassador Ali Bahreini denies Trump’s claim that Tehran has reached out to Washington for talks “Nobody should expect Iran to show restraint in front of aggression. We will continue our defence until the point that this aggression is stopped,” he said. On Feb 26, Washington and Tehran held indirect negotiations i...

Americans, including many Republicans, remember the bitter lessons of U.S. wars in the Middle East after September 11. Trump may have shifted attention from other issues, but as days pass, the Iran war is proving far more complex and could easily spiral out of control

Dinsdagavond laat zijn de eerste te repatriëren Nederlanders die in het Midden-Oosten vast zijn komen te zitten door de oorlog in Iran, met een KLM-vlucht vertrokken uit Oman richting Schiphol.

Israël heeft een nieuwe reeks aanvallen uitgevoerd op Iran. Dat meldt het Israëlische leger op Telegram. Vanuit Oman is dinsdagavond het eerste KLM-toestel met in Iran gestrande Nederlanders vertrokken. De verwachte aankomsttijd van vlucht KL9896 op Schiphol is woensdagochtend 08.15 uur. Volg alle ontwikkelingen in het Midden-Oosten in ons liveblog.

Mojtaba Khamenei, the son of the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been elected as Iran’s new Supreme Leader.

Fiecare conflict major în care s-a implicat SUA a avut ca efect o contracție a economiei, explică profesorul Radu Carp. În contextul în care, alegerile din toamnă vor fi decise de starea economiei, durata conflictului din Iran va fi decisivă la scrutin.

Amerika viel Iran aan. Maar wie bepaalde de gang van zaken? Minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Marco Rubio zorgde voor vragen in het Congres met een verklaring dat Washington wist dat Israël zou aanvallen en daarom mee ging in die actie. Zeker binnen Trumps eigen kamp viel deze lezing heel slecht.

White House officials conducted damage control throughout Tuesday after a clip surfaced of Rubio saying the U.S. was effectively drawn into the conflict with Iran due to planned Israeli action, sparking political backlash and confusion over Washington's military rationale

De prijzen van vliegtickets dreigen door de oorlog tegen Iran tientallen euro’s of nog meer omhoog te gaan. De snel gestegen olieprijzen hebben een grote impact op de bedrijfsvoering van KLM en andere airlines, zeggen luchtvaartexperts en de belangenvereniging van vliegmaatschappijen Barin. Daarnaast moeten ze veel meer omvliegen.

As of today, U.S. forces have struck more than 1,700 targets inside Iran as part of a joint military operation with Israel.