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 Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 10:40am On Apr 07 |
Attacks on Iran’s civilian infrastructure likely constitute war crimes, expert says US-Israeli attacks on Iranian civilian infrastructure are likely to constitute war crimes, Marieke de Hoon, assistant professor of international criminal law at the University of Amsterdam, tells Al Jazeera. “There can be an exception if these civilian objectives, like bridges and power plants, provide an effective contribution and military advantage”, de Hoon said. “But that has a very high threshold.” When the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for war crimes against Russian leaders for attacking power plants in Ukraine, de Hoon said, it explained that possible civilian harm takes precedence over any expected military advantage. “What is also very important is the rhetoric that the US and Israel are using,” the professor said. US President Donald Trump has threatened to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Ages” unless it agrees to a deal. Such a threat “implies that it is an attack also on the civilian population”, de Hoon said, which would also qualify as a crime against humanity. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 10:39am On Apr 07 |
What We Know So Far Multiple overnight explosions have struck Tehran as US and Israeli air strikes intensify across Iran. Heavy bombardment was reported near Mehrabad airport, with attacks also hitting cities including Shiraz and Isfahan. There are reports of casualties, with residential areas and civilian infrastructure increasingly affected. Israel has issued warnings for civilians to avoid railways, raising fears that transport networks may be targeted next. Iranian officials warn of “devastating” retaliation if attacks continue. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 10:37am On Apr 07 |
Israeli medics say three people injured in the north Israel’s ambulance service Magen David Adom reports that three people have been wounded in Nahariya from Hezbollah attacks. Meanwhile, the Israeli military said that search and rescue forces were deployed to a site in northern Israel from which reports of an impact had been received. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 10:35am On Apr 07 |
Breaking! Iran’s envoy to Kuwait pleads for diplomacy to avert ‘tragedy’ According to the AFP news agency, Iran’s ambassador to Kuwait, Mohammad Toutounji, has called on Gulf nations to intervene as the US president’s deadline for a new deal expires, bringing with it the threat of attacks on civilian infrastructure. Urging regional powers to leverage their influence, Toutounji warned of the devastating consequences of further escalation. “We hope that the countries in the region will use all their diplomatic and political capabilities to prevent such a tragedy from befalling the region,” he said, according to the AFP report.  |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 10:22am On Apr 07 |
Pezeshkian says ready to ‘sacrifice’ for Iran Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian says, “More than 14 million brave Iranians have so far declared their readiness to sacrifice their lives to defend Iran.” “I have also sacrificed my life for Iran, I am and I will continue to do so,” he wrote on X. Israel has carried out several high-profile assassinations since the war started on February 24, including that of former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and Ali Larijani, the powerful secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council. At least 2,076 people have been killed in Iran and 26,500 wounded. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 10:21am On Apr 07 |
Breaking! Attacks on Iranian capital ongoing, new blasts heard Reporting from Tehran, Iran We have heard air defence systems going off after the latest round of attacks. A short while ago, we witnessed an attack that hit near our offices in Tehran, but we don’t have specific information about the target. Some reports are saying it was an airspace research centre, but we cannot independently confirm them. This comes as the US and Israel intensify attacks on Iranian infrastructure and amid Israeli warnings of attacks against the rail network. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 10:21am On Apr 07 |
Two children among 18 killed in US-Israeli attacks on Alborz province, Iran Iranian state media report that US-Israeli air attacks on residential areas in Alborz province have killed 18 people, including two children. According to the state-linked Fars news agency, the deputy governor of Alborz province confirmed the deaths, adding that 24 others were wounded. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 10:20am On Apr 07 |
Iran’s Khorramabad airport hit in US-Israeli air strike State media reports that Khorramabad airport in western Iran has been hit by a US-Israeli air strike. According to a report from Mehr news agency, provincial authorities are currently assessing the extent of the damage. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 10:19am On Apr 07 |
‘War crimes’: Iranian Red Crescent condemns attacks on 17 civilian areas The Iranian Red Crescent says US-Israeli air attacks have bombarded 17 civilian areas across the country today. In a statement posted on X, the organisation said: “There is no justification for attacking civilians; international humanitarian law explicitly states that attacking defenceless civilians is a war crime.” Iranian media reported that at least 15 people have been killed in overnight US-Israeli attacks across the nation. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 8:45am On Apr 07 |
Lebanese girl rings church bell in message of solidarity amid Israeli attacks After Israel reportedly told Druze and Christian leaders in southern Lebanon not to shelter their Shia Muslim neighbours, a Lebanese girl says, “We are all one” amid Israeli attacks. 1 Like |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 8:44am On Apr 07 |
Hezbollah claims attacks on Israeli settlements, military forces The Lebanese group says its fighters launched two attacks against the Kiryat Shmona settlement in northern Israel with rocket barrages, alongside additional strikes on the Metula and Kfar Yuval settlements. The group also says its fighters targeted an Israeli army force east of the Khiam detention centre in southern Lebanon with “appropriate weapons”. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 8:43am On Apr 07 |
Five dead in southern Lebanon following Israeli air attacks Two separate Israeli air attacks on southern Lebanon have killed five people and injured several, according to the country’s National News Agency (NNA). Two people were killed when their home in the town of Maarakeh was hit, NNA reports. The attack left many others injured as well. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 8:43am On Apr 07 |
Israeli military warns Iranians against using trains The Israeli army has issued a statement warning Iranians against using trains for their “safety” until 9pm local time (17:30 GMT). “Your presence on trains and in the vicinity of railway lines endangers your life,” the military said on its Persian-language X account. 1 Like |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 8:41am On Apr 07 |
Two killed in Israeli raids on Lebanon’s Nabatieh Two people have been reported killed in Israeli raids in the Nabatieh governorate of southern Lebanon. The National News Agency reported that a drone attack killed one person in the town of Deir Zahrani. A second person was killed in the early morning hours in the town of Zibdin. Israeli air raids were also reported in Ain Qana and Arab Salim, and a drone strike in Nabatieh al-Fawqa. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 8:41am On Apr 07 |
Breaking! Huge explosions in Tehran as jets fly over Iranian capital Al Jazeera correspondents are reporting a new round of attacks as fighters are seen circling above Tehran. At least three powerful explosions have been heard. We will bring you more on this shortly. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 8:40am On Apr 07 |
Iranian ambassador to Pakistan says diplomatic efforts to end war at ‘critical’ stage Reza Amiri Moghadam has said Pakistan’s “positive and productive” efforts to stop the US-Israel war on Iran are approaching a “critical, sensitive” stage, without offering more details. Pakistan has emerged as a key intermediary after many of the usual intermediaries in the Gulf were pulled into the war, as Iran launched retaliatory attacks on US assets and other targets in the region. 1 Like |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 8:40am On Apr 07 |
At least 15 killed in overnight attacks on Iran At least 15 people have been killed in overnight US-Israeli attacks across Iran, according to local media reports. Six bodies have been recovered from under the rubble of buildings in the city of Pardis, east of Tehran, Iran’s semi-official Mehr news agency reports. Local officials said nine people were killed in an Israeli air attack on a residential neighbourhood in Shahriar, in the west of Tehran province. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 8:39am On Apr 07 |
PMF member killed in strike on Anbar headquarters A member of the Iran-aligned Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF) has died following an “American-Zionist” attack on the 45th Brigade headquarters of the paramilitary group in Iraq’s Anbar province. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 8:39am On Apr 07 |
Breaking! Death toll rises to 9 following Israeli attack on Iran’s Shahriar The death toll from an Israeli air attack on a residential neighbourhood in Shahriar, in the west of Tehran province, has risen to nine, according to the Mehr news agency. |
| Crime › Re: Dozens Killed By Herdsmen In Mbalom, Gwer East, Benue Attack (Photos) by Jangbajantis: 7:58pm On Apr 05 |
God1000:Why are you calling God instead of Allah? The same terrorists you support are responsible for this. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 7:55pm On Apr 05 |
Photos: Destruction after Israeli strike in Beirut’s Jnah area. Rescue teams work at the site of an Israeli strike in the Jnah area of Beirut, Lebanon
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| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 9:32am On Apr 05 |
Iran executes two men involved in anti-government protests of January The Fars news agency is reporting that the two men were hanged after being found guilty of attacking a sensitive military site in Tehran and bring to gain access to the armoury there during the anti-government protests that swept Iran in January. The agency identified the two men as Mohammad Amin Biglari and Shahin Vahediparast and described them as “enemy agents”. The unrest in January began over economic hardship and morphed into a nationwide upheaval calling for the overthrow of the Islamic Republic. The authorities’ response led to one of the most violent confrontations since the country’s 1979 revolution, with thousands of people killed. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 9:31am On Apr 05 |
Israel claims 120 attacks on Iran air defences, missiles over past day The Israeli military has issued a statement on its attacks in Iran from the past day. “The Air Force struck more than 120 targets of the Iranian terror regime in central and western Iran,” it said in a statement on X. “Among the targets attacked – sites of the ballistic missile array in the Revolutionary Guards, storage and launch sites for UAVs, and air defence sites.” |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 9:30am On Apr 05 |
Israeli military claims 90 Hezbollah fighters killed in southern Lebanon The Israeli military claims to have killed 90 “terrorists” in southern Lebanon since the resumption of hostilities there between Israel and Hezbollah. The military also said it killed two Hezbollah fighters in the past 24 hours and its air force destroyed overnight some of the group’s infrastructure. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 7:35am On Apr 05 |
Breaking! Death toll from US strikes on southwestern Iran rises to 9 We’ve been reporting on attacks in Iran’s Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, where the rescue operation for the missing US airman from the downed F-15E jet took place. According to Fars, at least nine people were killed and eight wounded in the attacks. Citing a medical official, Fars said five people were killed and eight wounded in an attack on the Koh Siah area of Kohgiluyeh County, while four others were killed in the Vazg and Kakan areas of Boyer-Ahmad County 1 Like |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 7:08am On Apr 05 |
Breaking! Three Palestinians killed in Gaza in Israeli strikes As global attention remains fixed on the war in Iran, Israeli forces continue their attacks on the Gaza Strip. A Palestinian man was killed and several others were injured after Israeli forces struck a civilian vehicle at the entrance of the Maghazi refugee camp, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa. The wounded were taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir el-Balah. In a separate strike, two people were killed in an Israeli air attack on a neighbourhood east of Gaza City. The death toll from Israeli attacks since the so-called “ceasefire” of last year has reached 709, with at least 1,928 wounded. Since October 2023, the total number of Palestinians killed has risen to 72,291, many of them women and children, according to Wafa. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 7:07am On Apr 05 |
Breaking! Three killed in Israeli attack on southern Lebanon The National News Agency is reporting that an Israeli air raid on the town of Siddiqine in the Tyre district has killed three people. The air attack also left several people wounded, it said. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 7:06am On Apr 05 |
White House communications director hits out at media Steven Cheung, a former spokesperson for the Ultimate Fighting Championship, has taken aim at journalists that he says questioned Trump’s whereabouts earlier. Cheung did not provide any examples of journalists in traditional media who had done this. Some X users, including a number of prominent influencers, had speculated, without evidence, that Trump had been hospitalised. Steven Cheung @StevenCheung47 · Follow America leaves no warfighter behind! And to those reporters who were disgustingly questioning the President’s whereabouts today, *this* is what he was working on. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 7:05am On Apr 05 |
White House press secretary expresses pride in Trump, US troops White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has praised Trump and the US soldiers who conducted the recuse mission. |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 7:04am On Apr 05 |
US envoy to UN welcomes rescue US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz has weighed in on the rescue. “America breathes a sigh of relief,” Waltz, a former officer in the US Army Special Forces, said in a post on X. “More amazing work by my special operations brothers.” 1 Like |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 7:03am On Apr 05 |
Trump says rescued US officer sustained injuries, but will be fine More from the US president on the rescue operation inside Iran. Trump said the US military was monitoring the location of the weapons officer, who happens to be a colonel, “24 hours a day” and “diligently planning for his rescue”. The US military sent “dozens of aircraft, armed with the most lethal weapons in the World, to retrieve him”, Trump said. “He sustained injuries, but he will be just fine.” Trump added, “The fact that we were able to pull off both of these operations, without a SINGLE American killed, or even wounded, just proves once again, that we have achieved overwhelming Air Dominance and Superiority over the Iranian skies.” 1 Like |
| Foreign Affairs › Re: World News! Events Happening Around The World by Jangbajantis: 7:03am On Apr 05 |
‘We got him’: Trump confirms rescue of missing US officer from Iran The US president is now confirming the rescue of the weapons officer who went missing after his F-15E jet was shot down over Iran. “WE GOT HIM! My fellow Americans, over the past several hours, the United States Military pulled off one of the most daring Search and Rescue Operations in U.S. History, for one of our incredible Crew Member Officers, who also happens to be a highly respected Colonel, and who I am thrilled to let you know is now SAFE and SOUND!” he wrote. 1 Like |
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