Not even a single American soldier will return alive, Iranian lawmaker says Ebrahim Rezaei, spokesperson for the Iranian parliament's Foreign Policy and National Security Committee, has warned US military personnel after Trump threatened to invade Iran's Kharg Island. "Not even a single American soldier will return alive," Rezaei wrote on X, responding to Trump's threat during the Nato summit in Ankara. "Come on, we're waiting for you," he added.
Ankara [Turkiye], July 9 (ANI): NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Wednesday defended the recent US military strikes on Iran, calling them 'absolutely necessary' after Tehran allegedly attacked three commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
Iran says eight armed forces members killed in US strikes Iran's state news agency IRNA says eight members of the country's armed forces were killed in US strikes on southern Iran. According to IRNA, the personnel from the Iranian army's air and naval forces were killed in Bandar Abbas and Bushehr.
Eight Palestinians killed in Gaza over past 24 hours Eight Palestinians were killed and 17 wounded in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, as Israeli forces continued military operations across the enclave. In its daily report, the ministry said a number of victims remain trapped under rubble and on roadsides, with emergency and civil defence teams still unable to reach them.
Lebanon demands Israeli withdrawal from 'pilot' zones Lebanon has said it would participate in the next round of direct talks in Italy after Israeli forces withdraw from two “pilot zones” in the south, AFP reported, citing a diplomatic source. The talks are scheduled in Rome on July 15 and 16, following a framework agreement signed last month. After US-led talks in Washington, Lebanon and Israel had agreed to create "pilot zones" in which the Lebanese armed forces “will take exclusive control of the territory to the exclusion of all non-state actors”.
Brussels [Belgium], July 8 (ANI): European Union (EU) High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Kaja Kallas has stated that the rising military tensions in the Middle East are creating severe roadblocks for global diplomatic initiatives.
Trump says Nato allies to deploy minesweepers to Hormuz After declaring the ceasefire with Iran over and threatening to "hit them hard tonight", the US president said Nato allies will send minesweepers to the critical waterway. There was no independent confirmation from allies, Al Jazeera reported. Iran has repeatedly warned against foreign navies operating in the Strait of Hormuz.
ABU DHABI, 8th July, 2026 (WAM) -- The United Arab Emirates has condemned in the strongest terms the renewed hostile attacks by Iran that targeted the Kingdom of Bahrain and the State of Kuwait with missiles and drones.
'We will probably hit them hard tonight': Trump on Iran “We hit them very hard last night, very, very probably hit them hard again tonight. I’ll give them a little warning. We’re going to hit them hard tonight,” Trump said before holding talks with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky, according to Al Jazeera.
After the latest exchange of attacks between U. S. and Iranian forces, President Trump suggested that the preliminary cease-fire between the warring countries was over.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Deputy Chief of Iran's Army for Coordination Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said the US failed to carry out plans to deploy forces on Iran’s southern coasts during the recent war, stressing that the country’s Armed Forces are prepared to confront any aggression.
ABU DHABI, 8th July, 2026 (WAM) -- The United Arab Emirates has condemned in the strongest terms the hostile Iranian attack which targeted Saudi's Wedyan tanker while transiting the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump says ceasefire is over and calls Iran leaders 'scum', as both sides launch attacks Submitted by MEE staff on Wed, 07/08/2026 - 12:37 US launches more than 80 strikes on Iran and Tehran hits back with attacks on Kuwait and Bahrain A vessel at the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Musandam, Oman, on 8 July 2026 (Reuters/Stringer) Off US President Donald Trump has declared that the ceasefire between the US and Iran is “over”, after a wave of attacks were exchanged by both sides despite the memorandum of understanding (MoU) agreed last month. “I think it’s over,” Trump said on Wednesday morning at a meeting of Nato leaders, hours after the US launched more than 80 strikes on Iran. Washington said it was responding to Iranian attacks on commercial vessels transiting through the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday.
Israel murdered Khamenei, yet the West fails to respect a nation in mourning Submitted by Hamid Dabashi on Tue, 07/07/2026 - 23:12 Israel and its allies in the western media have no business trying to stoke divisions at this time of national mourning A mourner holds a flower and a portrait of Iran’s slain supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, at the start of his funeral ceremonies in Tehran on 4 July 2026 (Atta Kenare/AFP) Off As a real-time Persian passion play unfolds across Iraq and Iran for the funeral ceremonies of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , one question remains paramount: what gives a European settler colony the audacity, the vulgarity, the vicious gall to fly over a sovereign nation’s territory and murder its supreme leader? The Israeli plot to assassinate Khamenei - which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tricked US President Donald Trump into joining, despite overwhelming American opposition to waging war on Iran - was just the latest move in a long and blood-soaked tradition, as chronicled in journalist Ronen Bergman’s boastful treatise Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations (2018). Khamenei was a head of a state, and the spiritual leader of millions of Shia Muslims.
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) released footage of its missile and drone strikes on US military bases in Bahrain and Kuwait, carried out in response to the latest American acts of aggression and breach of commitments toward Iran.
Hostilities between US and Iran resume as US president lashes out at ‘vicious, violent people’. Plus the fall out from the USMNT’s exit from the Fifa World Cup Good morning. Hostilities have resumed between the US and Iran.
The ceasefire deal between Beirut and Tel Aviv has led to a marked reduction in hostilities between Hezbollah and the Israeli military sparked by the wider Iran-Israel-US war, but the situation remains uncertain for communities returning home only to find widespread destruction, UN peacekeepers said on Wednesday.
Renewed attacks on shipping in the Strait of Hormuz unsettled energy markets on Wednesday and prompted calls from the UN maritime agency, IMO, for “maximum restraint and de-escalation”.
Washington, DC [US], July 8 (ANI): US President Donald Trump on Wednesday endorsed recent American military actions against Iran, following an announcement by the US military that Tehran had targeted three vessels in the Strait of Hormuz amid ongoing peace talks. In a post on his platform, Truth Social, Trump shared a screenshot of an X post that read, 'I voted for this.
