Day: June 8, 2026

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis vow to block Israeli ships from traversing Red Sea

by

Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi terrorist organization declared a “complete and total ban on Israeli maritime navigation.” Supporters of the Iran-backed Houthi movement brandish their weapons as they rally in solidarity with Iran and Lebanon amid the Middle East war, in the capital Sanaa on April 17, 2026.(photo credit: Mohammed Huwais/AFP via Getty Images)ByREUTERS, MAARIVJUNE 8, 2026 09:20Updated: JUNE 8, 2026 10:16 Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis said on Monday that they would ban Israeli maritime navigation in the Red Sea. Earlier on Monday, Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis fired rockets at central Israel. No injuries were reported. The military spokesperson for the Houthis, Yahya Saree, announced on Monday that …

Read more

Iran already has two nuclear weapons, does it have a third? – opinion

by

When Washington says “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon,” it means something far broader than enrichment percentages Iranian missiles are displayed at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps(IRGC) Aerospace Force Museum in Tehran, Iran.(photo credit: MAJID ASGARIPOUR/WANA/REUTERS)ByAJ JAFFJUNE 8, 2026 10:30Updated: JUNE 8, 2026 10:34 The most carefully chosen sentence in American foreign policy is the one Washington has repeated reflexively since the first night of this war. “Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.” Read in isolation, the line sounds like a routine “non-proliferation commitment”, the kind every administration has made about Tehran’s enrichment since 2003. It is not that statement. The phrasing is deliberate. …

Read more

IDF strikes petrochemical targets in Iran

by

Israeli Air Force strikes petrochemical complex in Mahshahr, after strikes on Iranian air defense. Uzi Baruch Published: Jun 8, 2026, 8:43 AM (GMT+3) IAF pilot en route to IranIDF spokesperson The IAF on Monday morning struck several targets at the petrochemical complex in Mahshahr, in southwestern Iran, the IDF confirmed. Since Iran began striking Israel on Sunday night, Israel has responded with two waves of attacks, focused on strategic area of Iran. The first wave focused on striking surface-to-air missile systems, which make up Iran’s air defense array, in several areas of Tehran, as well as in central and western Iran, …

Read more

‘Grant me the governorship of Jerusalem’: Turkish Interior Minister prays for control of Israelv

by

Referring to the fall of the Assad regime, the interior minister said he hoped he would see Jerusalem “liberated” in the same way Damascus was, and that one day “those lands will be ours once again.” Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accompanied by Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, meets with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte in Ankara, last April. Ankara is quietly assembling the architecture of permanent regional power, the writer says.(photo credit: Murat Kula/Turkish Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS)ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD JUNE 7, 2026 16:06 “O Lord, grant me the governorship of Jerusalem,” Turkey’s Interior Minister, Mustafa Ciftci, prayed during his period as governor …

Read more

Iran, Houthis fire missiles at Israel after IDF strikes petrochemical plant, military targets in Iran

by

Trump said earlier he would urge Netanyahu to hold off on retaliation for last night’s Iranian missile fire * Hospitals move underground, schools are shut amid fears of further missile attacks By ToI StaffToday, 2:51 am 8min ago Transportation minister says Ben Gurion Airport continuing to operate as scheduled By Sharon Wrobel Illustrative: An El Al airplane departs from the Ben Gurion International Airport during the US-Israel war with Iran. March 16, 2026. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90) Transportation Minister Miri Regev says the country’s airspace remains open and operations at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport continue as scheduled until further notice. At the same …

Read more