Live updates: Israeli strikes hit Tehran on Persian New Year, as Iranian drones target Gulf energy sites
AP News • • world
Key Points:
- Iran’s top military spokesman, Gen. Abolfazl Shekarchi, threatened that parks, recreational areas, and tourist destinations worldwide will no longer be safe for Tehran’s enemies amid ongoing American and Israeli airstrikes against Iran.
- Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz warned Syria against using the Middle East war as a pretext to harm the Druze community, following Israeli strikes on sites in Syria’s Sweida region in response to attacks on the Druze population.
- Sri Lanka rejected simultaneous military visit requests from Iran and the U.S. shortly before the war escalated, with President Anura Kumara Dissanayake announcing the government was studying Iran’s request when the U.S. made its own.
- Iranian-linked institutions in Dubai
