The E-3 AWACS – one of only 16 still in service with no active production line – was photographed in ruins at Prince Sultan Air Base, adding to a growing list of US military assets degraded since the war began.
The US refused to halt the fighting while Tehran formulates its response to the American proposal. Iran asked for a delay of several days and a temporary pause, but Washington insisted on keeping up military pressure. President Donald Trump granted a limited extension within the framework of the ultimatum, while contacts continue without a ceasefire.
Some 3,500 sailors and Marines arrived in the Middle East, while additional forces are on their way to the region. The Wall Street Journal reported the number could reach 10,000 troops.
The Iranian regime this week pulled out another card from its arsenal: 12-year-old children. Recruiting children is the latest move by a government that has lost the ability to persuade or meet the people's needs and has chosen instead to traffic in hunger. It is a desperate attempt to pit poor against poor, a hungry child in uniform against a student hungry for freedom.
Israel attacked the heavy water facility in Arak and a plant in Ardakan. The reactor in Arak, which was also struck in June, is capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium, while the nearby plant in Ardakan produces “yellowcake,” the raw material used in the uranium enrichment process.
