Israel Planning to Seize Southern Lebanon

Large Cargo Ship Near Hormuz Reports Being Attacked, In First Escalation Since April 22 A large cargo ship near the Strait of Hormuz has reported being attacked by multiple small craft, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said Sunday, marking at least two dozen attacks in and around the strait since the Iran war began. All crew on the unidentified northbound carrier, which could be the Pasargad 11 General Cargo Ship with a destination of Dubai after it reversed... ... were safe after the attack off Sirik, Iran, east...

Iran Signals Ready To Deescalate After Defense Minister, IRGC Chief Killed In US-Israeli Strikes Update (10:00ET): Will the chaos be contained, after Iran unleashed retaliatory missiles on at least five regional countries, including Israel? Iran is quickly signaling that it's not willing to escalate this further, hoping for a halt in the US-Israeli operation: Iran is attacking U.S. military facilities in the Middle East region and not "Americans in their land," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in his exclusive interview with NBC News. He added that Tehran was interested in de-escalation and ready...

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Sunday that implementing the US-Iran Memorandum of Understanding was “difficult but possible” as he continues to favor diplomacy with the US despite recent strikes and high tensions between Washington and Tehran. Ghalibaf made the comments during a meeting with senior Hamas official Mohammed Darwish on the sidelines […]