Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth launches a blistering attack on the media and defends ‘historically successful’ US strikes as Iran’s Ali Khamenei threatens to hit American bases ‘whenever it deems necessary’.
Vowing that Iran ‘will not surrender’, Ali Khamenei warned the US that his nation will stand firm against ‘an imposed peace’ and any American intervention in the conflict with Israel will ‘undoubtedly be accompanied by irreparable damage’.
The US President says he wants more than a ceasefire with Tehran ‘giving up entirely’ on nuclear weapons, as Israel claims to have killed Iran’s top military commander and the Ayatollah’s close aide Ali Shadmani.
Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz said ‘the boastful dictator from Tehran has turned into a cowardly murderer’, as the country’s death toll from Iran’s overnight missile strikes rose to eight.
Israel’s military says it focused strikes on the headquarters of the Iranian Ministry of Defence, the headquarters of the nuclear project, among other ‘targets where the Iranian regime hid the nuclear archive’.
In the middle of the night near an Iranian missile site, two Mossad agents start the finishing touches of a plot that has been years in the making. Hours later Iran’s military and nuclear power will be devastated.
Israel and Iran continue to trade blows as the conflict escalates.
Donald Trump confirms he was aware of the plan to strike Iran but the US had no involvement: Hossein Salami, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, and two nuclear scientists were killed, along with the military’s chief of staff.
Maori Party co-leaders and NZ’s youngest MP face the harshest punishment in parliament’s history for performing a haka in the chamber.
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