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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.

ISLAMABAD - Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazal) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman yesterday visited the Iranian Embassy and met with Ambassador Reza Amiri Moghaddam, expressing grief over the recent martyrdom of Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Israeli and American cyber units reportedly infiltrated Iranian surveillance networks, and in some cases used AI to lay the groundwork for the strike that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. At the same time, Iran is also investing heavily in cyberwar operations which increasingly shape modern warfare

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The process of bringing back Pakistani citizens stranded in Iran entered its third consecutive day, with another 115 individuals arriving in Pakistan through the Gabd-Rimdan border crossing.

Iran has warned that any actions by European countries in the Middle East will be regarded as an "act of war" and could lead to attacks on European states.

The outrage over the American strikes in Iran has not been limited to Democrats. Some prominent voices in Trump's America First camp, like Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly and Steve Bannon, are questioning the administration's claim that Iran posed an imminent threat

Pakistan’s Defence Minister Khawaja Asif has alleged that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched actions against Iran to redirect global attention away from the ongoing situation in the Gaza Strip.

De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump wil niet meer onderhandelen met Iran, mochten de autoriteiten in Teheran dat willen. Het is daar volgens hem "te laat" voor. Ondertussen gaan de Verenigde Staten en Israël onverminderd door met aanvallen op Iran.

Nederlandse industriële bedrijven volgen de Amerikaans-Israëlische oorlog met Iran op de voet. Als het conflict lang duurt, kunnen de gevolgen ingrijpend zijn. Vooral vanwege hoge energieprijzen.

ISLAMABAD: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar on Tuesday said that Pakistan was ready to facilitate dialogue between the United States and Iran. “Pakistan is ready to facilitate dialogue between Washington and Tehran in Islamabad,” Dar said while speaking in the upper house of Parliament. He noted that both Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Asim Munir had played a “very active and positive role” in diplomatic and defence-level engagements aimed at defusing tensions. He also told the Senate that Iran had agreed not to build nuclear weapons, but said the US was pressing for the complete dismantling of Tehran’s nuclear programme. In his speech, he also recalled that the dialogue process between the US and Iran was initially progressing “successfully”. He also highlighted Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s visit to Austria, where he held a meeting with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief, who Dar said was “optimistic that dialogue was heading in a p...

One Likud source said that the PM would want to go to elections right after the military campaign in order to leverage the Iran war. Meanwhile, the opposition Democrats party appealed to the Knesset speaker to suspend committee discussions related to the coalition's contentious judicial overhaul plans until the war is over