Iranians inside the country and abroad celebrated Khamenei’s death, toppling statues, waving flags and holding demonstrations despite internet blackouts
Category: 3. Middle East
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'Am I dreaming?': Iranians at home and abroad celebrate the death of Khamenei
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Israeli army officials urge a prolonged offensive to weaken Iran's capabilities
IDF officials have said that one of the war’s central objectives is to damage Iran’s missile systems and launchers. Iran has managed to restore offensive capabilities following the 12-day war and even increase its missile production rate
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IDF airstrikes hit IRGC headquarters in Tehran
The Israel Air Force also struck the IRGC’s intelligence headquarters, the IRGC’s air force headquarters, and its internal security headquarters, the military added.One of the sites was used by IRGC terrorists to manage and carry out terror acts…
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Iranian FM claims attacks on Oman ‘not our choice’
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi claimed that Iran’s armed forces are now “independent and somewhat isolated,” and that the attacks in Oman were “not our choice,” in an interview with Al Jazeera on Sunday.Araghchi also claimed to have…
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Analysis-Khamenei killing shatters Iran’s order, triggers high-stakes succession race
By Samia Nakhoul, Parisa Hafezi and Emily Rose
DUBAI, March 1 (Reuters) – The assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has plunged the Islamic Republic into its most perilous crisis since the 1979 revolution – confronting it…
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London Iranians, Jews celebrate Khamenei’s death together
Iranians and Jews took to the streets of Golders Green on Saturday night to celebrate Israel’s elimination of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Masoud Pezeshkian.Videos from the massive street party show hundreds of local Jews…
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Life under fire: How Israelis adapt as missiles fall
In Tel Aviv, a playground framed one of the major missile impacts from the first day of the war, as an Iranian ballistic missile slammed into a neighborhood in central Tel Aviv overnight between February 28 and March 1.Around forty buildings were…
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Poll: Only 1 in 4 Americans support US strikes on Iran
Only one in four Americans approves of the US strikes that killed Iran’s leader, while about half, including one in four Republicans, believe US President Donald Trump is too willing to use military force, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll that…
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Traveling from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem during the war
Sometimes you just have to roll the dice, or at least, that was my thinking when I decided to travel from Tel Aviv back home to Jerusalem on Sunday morning.After spending most of Saturday night in the safe room of a Tel Aviv hotel as the missile…
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Khamanei’s death: one strike, two perceptions
For Israel, the killing of Iran’s former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was a very welcome development. In the nearly 40 years he was in power, Khamanei was responsible, through proxies such as Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, and Hamas, for…
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