Live Updates: Latest from Israel, Iran, and the Middle East | The Jerusalem Post Defense sources: Hezbollah and Iran weighed preemptive strikes on Israel • IDF: Hezbollah uses ambulances, paramedic uniforms, as disguises • Trump claims Iran ‘agreeing’ with US on peace plan Lightning occurs when META 4, an Oil Products Tanker, sails into Muscat … Read more
US Israel Iran War Live: Oil prices nudged back above $100 a barrel on Tuesday, up nearly 40 per cent since the war began, as fresh Israeli airstrikes battered Iran and Iranian missiles targeted Tel Aviv and Gulf states, dimming hopes of an imminent end to the four-week-old conflict. The price rise came despite talk … Read more
Middle Eastern airlines, some of the biggest globally, have been hit hard by the Iran conflict that has seen attack drones and missile strikes across the Gulf region, disrupting busy airport hubs and redrawing traffic routes across the skies. Major state-backed carriers in the region, including Emirates, Etihad Airways, flydubai, Qatar Airways, and Air Arabia, … Read more
Claim: Visuals show a physical altercation in March 2026 between Israelis fleeing the country and staff at the Ben Gurion Airport amid the war with Iran. Fact: The visuals are old and unrelated. They are actually screenshots from a 2025 video showing a physical altercation between young Israelis and cinema staff. On 13 March 2026, … Read more
Iran‘s new supreme leader has rejected de-escalation proposals conveyed to Tehran by intermediaries, demanding Israel and the United States first be “brought to their knees,” a senior Iranian official said on Tuesday. Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei had held his first foreign policy session since being named supreme leader, and had taken a stance for revenge against … Read more
Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran’s new supreme leader, survived the February 28 US-Israeli strike on Tehran’s leadership compound because he had stepped outside shortly before missiles hit his residence, according to leaked audio obtained by The Telegraph. The recording, attributed to a senior official in the office of the late Ali Khamenei, provides one of the fullest … Read more
A missile struck a helipad in the US embassy compound in Baghdad on Saturday, Reuters reported, citing two Iraqi security officials. There was a column of smoke rising over the compound on Saturday morning, the sources said. Also on Saturday, some oil loading operations at the port in Fujairah, UAE, outside the Strait of Hormuz, … Read more
Mojtaba Khamenei is infinitely more dangerous than his predecessor and father, Ali Khamenei, as he is more willing to lie and places less value on human life, a former study partner of the new supreme leader told The Jerusalem Post. Jaber Rajabi, who worked as a foreign-policy adviser to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and as … Read more
US President Donald Trump told Fox News that it’s possible he would be willing to talk with Iran but that it depends on the terms, the cable news network said on Tuesday. Trump also reiterated his unhappiness with Iran’s new Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who was named by Iran’s Assembly of Experts to replace his … Read more
Iran’s Tasnim News Agency published a report on Monday promoting speculation that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may have been killed or wounded, reviving the kind of wartime rumor that has repeatedly spread online during the current Israel-Iran conflict. The Persian-language item did not present evidence of a strike on Netanyahu or any official confirmation of … Read more