Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has entrusted the day-to-day management of the country to his senior adviser Ali Larijani, effectively sidelining President Masoud Pezeshkian, according to a report in The New York Times.
Standing before 4,578 Jewish teens from across the globe, the hostage survivor shouted "Shema Yisrael" at the heart of Manhattan – a moment he had dreamed of since his days in Gaza.
It is almost impossible to believe that we are standing at a historic turning point for the Shiite axis of evil. If an attack does indeed go ahead on Iran, it would amount to a spectacular checkmate of the head of the snake.
On paper, billions of dollars have been pledged for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip, and a multinational force is in the process of being formed. But it remains doubtful that any of it will come to fruition, since the key to everything has always been, and remains, the disarmament of Hamas.
Sailors serving for months at sea aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford have been told their deployment is being extended and that they are heading back to the Middle East, amid tensions with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Missed funerals, long separations from their children and growing thoughts of leaving the US Navy are now part of daily life for the nearly 5,000 crew members and their families.
