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Urgent | Iranian Foreign Ministry: We condemn Ukraine's attack on an Iranian commercial ship in the Caspian Sea at dawn today, which resulted in the killing of one person and the injury of another.
Urgent | Iranian Foreign Ministry: We condemn Ukraine's attack on an Iranian commercial ship in the Caspian Sea at dawn today, which resulted in the killing of one person and the injury of another.
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Zelensky: Ukrainian long-range strikes hit Russian warship, vessels transporting Iran-linked cargo
Zelensky hailed a long-range operation in the Caspian Sea, claiming Ukrainian forces struck a Russian warship and vessels tied to Iran-linked military logistics.
President Trump has set aside, at least for now, plans to sharply escalate the American military assault against Iran, with particular concern that intensifying the war could dangerously drain the Pentagon’s already diminished stockpile of Patriot antimissile interceptors and other air defense munitions in the Middle East.
The threat to interceptor stockpiles is one of many considerations that has made a return to major combat operations a hugely risky endeavor, administration officials say. Mr. Trump and his top aides are also uneasy about the prospect of a widening war in the Middle East, the alienation of key Gulf allies who are vulnerable to Iranian attack, a global economic crunch, and growing energy and refugee crises.
The latest turn in Mr. Trump’s handling of the conflict with Iran came after a meeting on Friday with top advisers and senior members of his cabinet, according to two people briefed on the discussion.
The private deliberations have focused on the Pentagon’s shrinking inventory of Patriot interceptors and other air defenses, the officials said, discussing operational matters on the condition of anonymity. Three U.S. soldiers in Jordan were killed last Friday when a ballistic missile slipped through American air defenses fending off a barrage of Iranian missiles and drones, a senior U.S. official said.
I wonder if the US will take the bait. Ukraine is hoping that if Russia is helping Iran, the US will start helping Ukraine.Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) on X
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I will instruct our intelligence to share with our partners the information we have regarding Russia’s new assistance to the Iranian regime. Since the beginning of July, we have recorded active Russian satellite surveillance of the Gulf states and U.S. military facilities located there. These images subsequently appear in Iran. At the same time, there is a clear correlation between Russia’s satellite imagery of these sites and Iranian strikes – both before the attacks, in preparation for them, and afterward, to assess the damage inflicted.
I guarantee the U.S. already knows this, there was reports of it during the last round of hostilities too, I imagine the reaction will be the same as last time.I wonder if the US will take the bait. Ukraine is hoping that if Russia is helping Iran, the US will start helping Ukraine.
