Regional sources say Iran’s president and foreign minister are trying to preserve the channel for talks with the US, but their influence is waning as the Revolutionary Guards are expanding their grip on key centers of power.
Israeli officials were not surprised that US President Donald Trump did not launch an intensified round of strikes over the weekend, but Israel remains prepared both defensively and offensively. Despite what appears to be close coordination with the US, there are concerns that cooperation between the two countries needs to be strengthened. Netanyahu’s last White House visit came two weeks before the attack that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
The typhoon made landfall in Guangdong province, bringing strong winds and heavy rain. Authorities issued the highest flash-flood alert in several provinces.
Armed military personnel arrived at police headquarters after the raid on the home of Indonesia’s deputy attorney general for special crimes, triggering unprecedented tensions between the security forces. President Prabowo Subianto intervened, and officials agreed that the prosecutor would be investigated by his own agency.
The remains of Shimon and Rivka Herzl, the grandparents of the visionary of the Jewish state who helped shape his Zionist outlook, are expected to be brought from Belgrade in the coming days and reinterred beside him on Mount Herzl. The burial ceremony is scheduled for Aug. 5, marking 77 years since Theodor Herzl was laid to rest in Jerusalem.
