Iran Defence council member threatens attacks in Iraqi Kurdistan
Ali Akbar Ahmadian, a member of Iran’s Defence council, has warned that Iran could carry out wide -spread attack in Iraq’s Kurdistan region if local authorities do not crack down on what he described as U.S. and Israeli-backed rebel groups allegedly plotting to enter Iran.
U.S. Iran war :-
Indonesia begins evacuating citizens form Iran as war rages in the Middle East. Indonesia has started evacuating dozens of its citizens form Iran, a foreign ministry official said, as the war in the Middle East continues to escalate.
strikes by the United states and Israel on the Islamic Republic along with Iran’s retalitory attacks across the region, have left tens of thousands of foreigners stranded amid cancelled flights and closed airspace. Among them are 329 Indonesians currently in most of whom are students based in the city of Qom.
Israel Iran war:-
phots show people fleeing after Israel strikes in Lebanon -many residents in Lebanon are fleeing their home after the militant group Hezbollah fired missiles into Israel in retaliation for the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Israel responded with airstrikes across Lebanon triggering fresh displacement and fears of a wider escalation.
U.S. Iran war :-
Missiles fired form Iran toward Israel, active defence systems. Israel’s military said missiles were launched form Iran toward Israeli territory, triggering air defence systems and emergency alerts for civilians. According to the military, Israel’s Home Front command issued a pre-emptive warning directly to mobile phones in affected areas instructing residents to immediately move to protected spaces.
Iran considers firms that buy U.S. government dept. and invest in treasury bonds as partners in the war against it because they are seen as financing the conflict, an Iranian official told CNN on Friday Tehran “considers these companies and their managers in the region to be among its legitimate targets. the official said” These individuals are being warned to declare development in this area as soon as possible ” U.S. government debt is held by thousands of investors worldwide including banks, pension funds corporations mutual funds and foreign government.
DUBAI/WASHINGTON/BEIRUT, march 6 (Reuters)- Israel pounded Beirut on Friday after ordering an unprecedented evacuation of the entire southern of the war against Iran it began a week ago alongside the United states.
In an apparent escalation of his own war aims U.S. President Donald Trump demanded the right to help choose Iran’s next supreme Leader Successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei killed by Israel bombs on the war’s first day.
Washington, March 5 (Reuters)- U.S. president Donald Trump told Reuters on Thursday the United states must be involved in choosing the next leader of Iran and said it would be’ “Wonderful” if Iranian Khardish forces based in Iraq were to cross into Iran to launch attack on security forces there Trump said in a telephone interview that he thinks the next leader of Iran is unlikely to be the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s son who has emerged as a Front runner to succeed his father who was killed in a military strike at the start of the war. “we’re going to have to choose that person along with Iran we’re going to choose that person”,
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The military of Iran reflected on its preparedness amid the rapidly escalating situation saying : ” we are ready for a long war our new inventions are ready for a long war.
Within hours of United states-Israeli attacks on Iran, US assets in Iraq’s semi- autonomous Kurdish region came under retaliatory attacks from Tehran- backed groups, that has since expanded across the Middle East and beyond.
since then, US assets located in Iraq have come under multiple attacks from pro-Iran groups and Iran’s powerful US has also carried out attacks against these Iraqi groups. During a news conference in the capital, Baghdad, on Monday, Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said, “Iraq has be-come one of the ongoing conflict.
” the country, Hussein said, is facing attacks from “both sides of the conflict”. Iran has also carried out near-daily at-tacks on US assets in the energy-rich Gulf countries, causing a spike in oil prices and threatening the global economy. In this explainer, we unpack what is happening in Iraq and why.
what is happening in Iraq ?
On Wednesday, a suicide drone was intercepted near the US Consulate in Erbil, and loud explosions were heard in the area, multiple news wires reported, quoting unnamed security and diplomatic sources. On the same day, a drone attack in Iraq’s Kurdish region killed a member of an Iranian Kurdish opposition group, the Komala party.
the party blamed Iran for the attack, which Iran has not commented on. A drone struck a key US diplomatic facility in Iraq on Tuesday in suspected retaliation by pro Tehran armed groups over the US-Israeli war on Iran, the Washington post reported, quoting an unidentified security official and an in- ternal US State Department alert.
The strike hit the diplomatic support centre, a logistical hub for US diplomats near Baghdad airport and Iraqi military bases, the post reported. It was not clear from the report whether there were any injuries.
the report added that six drones were launched towards the compound in Baghdad, one of which hit the US facility while five were shot down. the security official, whom the post said spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive security situation, was not aware of any casualties.
The attack was likely carried out by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, an umbrella group of Iran- backed armed factions, the post reported, quoting the security official. On Tuesday, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard corps {IGRC} said they hit a US base in Iraq’s Kurdish region.
“the headquarters of the invading US army in Alharir Air Base in the Kurdistan region was targeted with five Missiles, “they said in a statement on their Telegram channel.