The Iranian supreme leader was killed on Saturday while he was “having breakfast,” US President Donald Trump has said Israeli intelligence hacked nearly all of Tehran’s traffic cameras to prepare the assassination of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Financial Times has reported, citing sources. The US and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday, killing Khamenei and other senior officials. The cameras in the Iranian capital had been hacked for years, with feeds encrypted and transmitted to Israel, the outlet wrote on Monday. One camera, installed on the street where Khamenei’s compound was located, provided an angle allowing analysts to track the vehicles and routines of security personnel. The data was reportedly processed to build what spies call a “pattern of life” of officials and their guards. Israel also disrupted components of mobile phone towers near the compound to block potential warnings, according to the FT. Read more Iran accuses US of fighting ‘on beha...
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RT breaks down public and Capitol Hill reactions to the new Middle East war, launched days before election season US President Donald Trump’s order to attack Iran has drawn mixed reactions among Americans, with polls showing a clear public split and statements from lawmakers exposing divisions within both the Republican and Democratic parties. Trump claimed the joint US-Israeli military campaign , launched on Saturday and dubbed ‘Operation Epic Fury’, was necessary to dismantle Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs. Tehran insisted the strikes were entirely unprovoked and has retaliated with missiles and drones targeting Israel and US bases across the Middle East. Analysts note the campaign, launched mere days before primary contests begin for the November midterm general elections in the US, has the lowest starting support in modern American history. RT breaks down the numbers. How has the US general public reacted? Opinion polls showed growing public discontent with the ...
The State Department has urged US citizens to leave over a dozen countries immediately amid escalating Iranian retaliatory strikes The US State Department has issued an urgent warning for American citizens to immediately leave over a dozen countries across the Middle East, citing “serious safety risks” as Iran’s retaliatory strikes against US and Israeli targets continue to escalate. In a post on X on Tuesday, Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs Mora Namdar stated Washington “urges Americans to DEPART NOW from the countries below using available commercial transportation, due to serious safety risks.” The warning covers Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Americans requiring assistance with commercial departures have been directed to call the State Department’s 24-hour hotline and enroll in the STEP program for security updates. The advisory comes as I...
The Pentagon has “virtually unlimited” ammo stockpiles, the president has asserted The US is prepared to fight a war “forever” with its “virtually unlimited” ammunition stockpiles, President Donald Trump has claimed. Military observers have identified munitions availability – particularly air defense missiles – as a limiting factor in the ongoing US-Israeli campaign aimed at toppling the Iranian government. In a Truth Social post on Monday, Trump dismissed such concerns. “Wars can be fought ‘forever,’ and very successfully, using just these supplies (which are better than other countries finest arms!),” he wrote. The president suggested weapons stored in other nations could be reallocated for Pentagon use. The US-Israeli attack began on Saturday with a decapitation strike that killed Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other senior officials, accompanied by calls for an Iranian uprising. Trump said the campaign is exceeding expectations and predicted it would last...
The escalating chaos in the Middle East was apparently not enough for the Brussels bureaucrats to cut their weekend short European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has drawn mockery for her response to the Iran crisis after announcing that an emergency meeting on the situation can wait until after EU bureaucrats enjoy their weekend. US-Israeli strikes on Iran began on Saturday, killing Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, senior officials, and hundreds of civilians, including more than 100 schoolchildren in a strike on an elementary school. Iran retaliated with hundreds of missile and drone attacks on Israel and US bases across the Gulf, including in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and the UAE. “For regional security and stability, it is of the utmost importance that there is no further escalation through Iran’s unjustified attacks on partners in the region,” von der Leyen wrote on X late Saturday. Public attention, however, centered on her note in the same post t...
Shehbaz Sharif has delayed his trip due to the current domestic and regional situations Prime Minister Shebaz Sharif has postponed his planned trip to Russia, the Pakistani government has said. Sharif was scheduled to visit Russia March 3-5. The decision to postpone the trip was made due to the current domestic and regional situations, the Pakistani government said in a statement on Sunday. “The Prime Minister’s visit to Russia holds utmost importance for progress in the bilateral relations between the two countries, but in light of the current circumstances, the visit has been postponed,” it said. حالیہ علاقائی و داخلی صورتحال کے پیش نظر وزیرِ اعظم نے مشاورت کے بعد اپنے دورہء روس کو مؤخر کرنے کا فیصلہ کیا ہے۔ وزیرِ اعظم کا دورہء روس دونوں ممالک کے دو طرفہ تعلقات میں پیش رفت کیلئے انتہائی اہمیت رکھتا ہے، مگر موجودہ حالات کے پیش نظر یہ دورہ مؤخر کیا گیا ہے. دورے کی نئی… pic.twitter.com/pSxe5w6bQR — Government of Pakistan (@GovtofPakistan) March 1, 2026 A new date will be d...