Author: Prima News

Thousands of anti-war demonstrators on Saturday marched through central London, calling for an immediate halt to US and Israeli military operations against Iran and an end to arms sales to Israel. According to the Manchester Evening News, the protest drew between 5,000 and 6,000 participants, based on estimates from the Metropolitan Police. The rally began at Millbank near Victoria Tower Gardens at noon and was organized by a coalition of activist groups, including the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), Stop the War Coalition and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Protesters marched toward the US Embassy carrying placards reading “Stop Trump’s Wars”…

Israeli forces expanded their bombardment of Iran overnight, striking fuel ​depots near Tehran, while Bahrain said an Iranian attack had damaged one of its desalination plants, signalling a widening assault on vital infrastructure across the region. As the fighting escalated on day nine of ‌the U.S.-Israeli assault on Iran, Tehran moved closer to naming a new supreme leader after the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with every indication suggesting his powerful son could take charge. Israel’s military threatened to kill any replacement for Khamenei, while U.S. President Donald Trump said the war might only end once Iran’s military and rulers had been wiped out. BLACK SMOKE…

The Israeli ​military warned it would ‌continue pursuing every successor of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah ​Ali Khamenei, who was ​killed in U.S. and ⁠Israeli strikes on Iran. In ​a post on ​X in Farsi, the Israeli military also warned it would pursue every ​person who seeks ​to appoint a successor for ‌Khamenei, ⁠referring to the clerical body charged with choosing the Islamic Republic’s ​supreme ​leader. The ⁠warning comes as the clerical body ​is set to ​meet ⁠to choose Iran’s next supreme leader.

Just days ago, Hussain Khrais was proudly showing off his newly restored home in south ​Lebanon, fixed up after being badly damaged in 2024 clashes between Israel and Hezbollah. But a new war has since erupted ‌and his home is in the line of fire again. Khrais fled his hometown of Khiyam, about five km (three miles) from the border with Israel, as Israel pounded Lebanon with heavy airstrikes last week in retaliation for Iran-backed group Hezbollah’s rocket and drone fire into Israel. “Is the house I worked so hard to build, or the business I started, ​still there? Or is it…

The clerical ​body that will choose Iran’s next supreme leader, succeeding the slain Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has more or less reached a ‌majority consensus, Assembly of Experts member Ayatollah Mohammadmehdi Mirbaqeri said on Sunday. The Mehr news agency quoted him as saying “some obstacles” still needed to be resolved regarding the process. On Saturday, a senior cleric in the Assembly of Experts said its members would meet “within one day” to choose the leader. NEXT SUPREME LEADER MUST ‘BE HATED BY ​THE ENEMY’ Two members of the panel, Ayatollah Mohsen Heidari Alekasir and Ahmad Alamolhoda, said the assembly had chosen a successor,…

U.S. President Donald Trump praised Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni ​and said she was willing to ‌help the United States and Israel in their war with Iran, Italy’s Corriere della ​Sera reported on Sunday. Speaking to ​the newspaper in a telephone call ⁠on Saturday, Trump described Meloni as “a ​great leader” and said Italy was ​doing what it could to assist.  “I love Italy, I think she is a great leader,” ​Trump was quoted as saying of ​Meloni. “She always tries to help, she is an ‌excellent ⁠leader and she is a friend of mine,” Trump said, according to Corriere…

At least four people were killed ​when an Israeli strike hit an apartment in the Ramada hotel building in central Beirut early on Sunday, ‌with Israel saying it targeted Iranian commanders operating in the Lebanese capital. The attack marked the first Israeli strike in the heart of Beirut since Israel-Hezbollah hostilities resumed last week, and prompted fears the scope of Israel’s strikes would expand outside areas where Hezbollah has traditionally operated. Israel said it targeted key commanders ​of Iran’s elite Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards but did not name them. “The commanders of the Quds Force’s Lebanon ​Corps operated to advance…

Iran’s hierarchy is showing signs of fracturing over a war its leaders see as existential, with angry divisions between hardliners and more pragmatic factions laid bare by a row over President Masoud Pezeshkian’s promise not to strike Gulf states. Fissures within Iran’s ruling elite were ​long suppressed under the iron rule of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but his killing a week ago has allowed them to spill out into the open as ‌U.S. and Israeli strikes pile pressure on Tehran. The unrelenting bombardment mortally imperils the Islamic Republic and has prompted its fiercest acolytes, the Revolutionary Guards, to seize a bigger role…

The U.S. embassy in ​Oslo was hit by a loud explosion early ‌on Sunday, causing minor damage but no injuries, Norwegian police said. The blast was heard from the embassy compound in ​western Oslo at around 1 a.m. (0000 GMT), and ​smoke was seen rising from the area, eyewitnesses ⁠said. “There was a very thick layer of smoke ​on the street,” said Sebastian Toerstad, 18, a high ​school student who drove past the embassy at the time of the incident. “There was some damage to the entrance,” Toerstad told ​Reuters. Oslo police said the blast had occurred at ​the entry…

Just a week ago, Lebanon had been “in relatively good shape”, Jeanine Hennis‑Plasschaert, the UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon, said in a press statement. The armed forces were extending State authority, long‑promised reforms were finally advancing, and preparations for legislative elections were underway. A major World Bank loan was set to jump‑start reconstruction, and a warming diplomatic track with Syria was creating “new areas for bilateral cooperation”.  ‘Progress has halted overnight’“Of course, things were not perfect,” she said – airstrikes, political infighting and institutional paralysis remained real constraints. “But there was progress. Progress which has now come to a screeching halt.”Since…