Dubai, Mar 30 (AP) Iranian forces “are waiting for the arrival of American troops on the ground to set them on fire and punish their regional partners forever,” the country’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf said.
Qalibaf added: “Our firing continues. Our missiles are in place. Our determination and faith have increased.” The comments came as regional powers were meeting in Pakistan to discuss how to end the fighting in the Middle East as about 2,500 US Marines arrived in the region and Iranian-backed Houthi rebels entered the monthlong war.
The war has threatened global supplies of oil and natural gas, sparked fertilizer shortages and disrupted air travel.
Iran’s grip on the strategic Strait of Hormuz has shaken markets and prices.
The Houthis’ entry could further hurt global shipping if they again target vessels in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait off the Red Sea, through which about 12 per cent of the world’s trade typically passes.
Here is the latest: UN peacekeeper killed in southern Lebanon — A UN peacekeeper was killed and another critically wounded when a projectile exploded in their position near a village in southern Lebanon, UNIFIL said in a statement very early Monday.
The statement said the “origin of the projectile” was unknown.
The hilly frontier zone where the UNIFIL force patrols has seen decades of cross-border violence.
Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants fought a full-scale war in 2024 and are fighting again since Hezbollah joined Iran at firing into Israel in the current war. Israel has moved thousands of troops across the border into Lebanon.
Israel says it thwarted 2 attacks against troops in West Bank — Israeli soldiers shot at two men who they assessed were posing a threat to them in separate incidents in the occupied West Bank overnight, killing one and “neutralizing” the other, Israel’s military said early Monday.
According to the military’s statement, one man armed with a knife ran toward soldiers near Dura, in the southern West Bank, and was killed. Another accelerated toward them in his vehicle near a village just north of Jerusalem, and troops also fired at him.
Israeli air force intercepts 2 drones launched from Yemen — Israel’s military said that its air force had intercepted two drones launched from Yemen early Monday morning.
The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for launching their first attack in the current war — a missile fired at Israel, which was also intercepted — early on Saturday morning. (AP) AKY
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