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🔴 LIVE: War on Iran | Day 255

- Iranian army says oil tanker ablaze in Hormuz Strait after hitting mine
- Enriched nuclear material will not leave Iran, security chief says

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🔴 UN humanitarian chief says "no more excuses" on opening Gaza crossing

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🔴 LIVE: War on Iran | Day 255

- Iranian army says oil tanker ablaze in Hormuz Strait after hitting mine
- Enriched nuclear material will not leave Iran, security chief says

Live updates ⤵️
https://t.co/HM7tuKrUpu

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Saudi-led coalition says two Houthi ballistic missiles destroyed, explosions heard in Aden

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America’s vice president JD Vance has blamed Republicans’ midterm losses on the Iran war and America’s relationship with Israel.

Several ‘America First’ figures, from Tucker Carlson to the president’s own son, Donald Trump Jr., have joined him.

That division first began over a year ago - here’s how ⤵️

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told COP31 in Antalya that nature is paying a “heavy price” for armed conflicts, describing Gaza as the starkest example and saying what has happened there is “not only a genocide, but also an ecocide”.

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🧵 A petrol station chain owned by one of the West Bank’s wealthiest businessmen is facing accusations of alleged fuel smuggling, financial misconduct and tax evasion totalling more than 1bn shekels ($325m), according to a leaked report seen by Middle East Eye

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They say the company and Natsheh are cooperating with legal proceedings, but have criticised his detention, commenting that “personal freedom should not be used as a means of pressure to accept figures whose accuracy has not been established”

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"Trump may hope that sustained pressure will force Tehran to concede. But Iran's leaders could instead escalate to make the blockade intolerable"

✍️ Opinion by Shahir Shahidsaless

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"Gaza flooding is a catastrophe by design - and the spineless West is complicit"

✍️ Opinion by David Hearst

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Hours after bidding farewell to her family members leaving Gaza for medical treatment, a Palestinian mother was shot dead by an Israeli soldier ⤵️

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Israeli bulldozers demolish houses in Zawtar al-Sharqiyeh, southern Lebanon, in footage filmed from neighbouring Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh, a pilot zone for Lebanese army deployment under a framework agreement reached with Israel in June.