"If a conflict breaks out in the region, no country would be able to manage its scope and timing," Iranian general warns. “When the Iranian regime decides to forgo violence and meet our diplomacy with diplomacy, it knows how to reach us,” says US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Mixing Islamist chants with anti-Western rhetoric, angry protesters shout, "No to normalization with Israel. … Down, down with the Bahrain conference."
Top defense sources say US cyberattack was carried out "with approval from President Trump," crippled Iranian military computer and weapon systems. Strike on Iranian Revolutionary Guard's systems had been planned over weeks. Iran, for its part, has increased its cyberattacks against the US government and critical infrastructure.
Announcement comes as some global airlines reroute flights to avoid Iran-controlled airspace over the Strait of Hormuz and Gulf of Oman after the US aviation regulator barred its carriers from the area until further notice.
"The plan cannot pass because it ends the Palestinian cause," says Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Hamas: “Palestine isn’t for sale." Across Arab world, meanwhile, pundits denounce the plan as “colossal waste of time,” “nonstarter,” “dead on arrival."
