RT looks into the fighting capabilities of the respective countries as the conflict enters its second week The US and Israel attacked Iran last Saturday, citing the need to curb the alleged threat posed by the Islamic Republic and the need to topple its government. The bombing campaign started with attacks on the Iranian military and civilian leadership, taking the life of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several other senior officials. Read more How the Iran war is dividing Team Trump The bombing campaign continued throughout the week, with multiple government sites, police stations, and military installations targeted. More than 1,300 civilians were killed in the US and Israeli attacks, including a large number of children, according to Tehran. The bombing of a girls’ elementary school in Minab, which left at least 168 minors dead, became the most prominent mass-casualty incident of the conflict thus far. Iran retaliated with missile and kamikaze drone attacks...
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Worshippers were seen holding portraits of assassinated Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and waving national flags Millions of Iranians attended Friday prayers across the country for the first time since the US assassination of their supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Crowds gathered in central Tehran and other cities to pay their respects and offer prayers, as the conflict entered its second week with no clear end in sight. The US-Israeli attacks have left at least 1,332 Iranian civilians dead and thousands wounded, Iran’s UN ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani has said. Tehran’s strikes have left 11 dead in Israel, while at least six American service members have been killed. RT video footage showed crowds of men and women dressed in black, some carrying Iranian flags. Many worshippers held portraits of the assassinated supreme leader, chanted anti-US and anti-Israeli slogans and waved flags in support of their government amid the ongoing strikes. Similar scenes were report...
The states won’t be targeted unless the Islamic Republic is hit from their territory, the Iranian president has said Tehran has decided to stop attacking neighboring countries and has no intention of invading them, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has said, adding that the Islamic Republic would not surrender under pressure. In a televised address, Pezeshkian apologized to the countries of the region and said Iran respected their sovereignty. The US-Israeli war against Iran entered its second week on Saturday, with uncertainty growing over when hostilities might end. US President Donald Trump demanded Tehran's “unconditional surrender,” while Israel continued attacks against targets in Iran and Lebanon. Pezeshkian said the country’s Interim Leadership Council had approved a decision that no missile strikes would be carried out against regional states unless an attack on Iran originated from their territory. from RT World News https://ift.tt/B8C5WN2
Evidence suggests American forces likely bombed a girls elementary school in Minab, killing at least 168 children and staff American forces were likely responsible for the bombing of an elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab that left at least 168 children dead, as well as teachers and staff, the New York Times concluded in an analysis published on Thursday. The February 28 strike on the Shajarah Tayyebeh girls’ school came on the first day of the unprovoked US-Israeli attack on Iran that resulted in the death of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and several senior Iranian commanders, as well as hundreds of civilians. Attacks continue to date. In its analysis, which was based on newly released satellite imagery, verified social media posts and geolocated videos, NYT concluded that the school was hit by precision strikes at the same time as multiple attacks by US forces on an adjacent naval base belonging to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (I...
Budapest is accusing Kiev of blocking the transit of Russian oil in order to spark a crisis ahead of general elections Hungarian officials have announced a money laundering investigation that has led to the seizure of two armored vehicles transporting cash and gold from Austria to Ukraine – a move Kiev has described as hostage-taking. Ukraine and Hungary have been locked in tensions for months, which recently escalated over Budapest’s accusation that Kiev had imposed a politically motivated blockade on Russian crude being shipped to Hungary and fellow EU member Slovakia via the Soviet-built Druzhba pipeline. Ukraine’s state-owned Oschadbank, the country’s second-largest lender, broke the news Thursday. It said two vehicles carrying about nine kilograms of gold and cash, including $40 million and €35 million, from Austria’s Raiffeisen bank were intercepted by Hungarian officials along with seven guards. Read more Zelensky issues military threat to Orban (VIDEO) GPS tracking pla...
The Ukrainian leader recently took aim at the Hungarian PM over his refusal to unblock a €90 billion EU loan for Kiev Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said “threats to his life” made by Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky will not deter him from breaking Kiev’s “oil blockade” of his country. Zelensky issued a thinly veiled warning to Orban on Thursday over Budapest’s ongoing refusal to lift its veto on billions in EU-backed loans for Kiev, and amid a row over Ukraine’s blocking of oil supplies to Hungary via a pipeline from Russia. The Ukrainian leader suggested that Orban should not impede the new EU funding for Kiev, otherwise he would pass “the address of this person to our armed forces” so they could “speak to him in their own language.” Responding on Thursday, Orban stated, “We will break the oil blockade, and no threats to my life will deter me from doing so,” adding that “I don’t think this is about me, but about Hungary.” Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjart...