Iran’s army warns it will open new fronts against the US if the US resumes attacks on Iran. The warning is tied to reports that Donald Trump may consider restarting military operations amid stalled negotiations. Iranian state media reports mass public weddings in Tehran for couples participating in a state-sponsored scheme that declares readiness to sacrifice lives in the war against the US and Israel. The ceremonies involve hundreds of couples and are broadcast on state television to boost wartime morale. In the UK, Yvette Cooper warns that disruption to shipping through the Strait of Hormuz could trigger a global food crisis. She cites World Food Programme figures suggesting nearly 45 million more people could face acute food insecurity if the conflict does not end by midyear.
"Iran's army has warned it would open new fronts against the US if it resumes attacks on the country amid reports that Donald Trump is weighing up restarting military operations in Iran amid an impasse in negotiations. If the enemy is foolish enough to fall into the Zionist trap again and launches new aggression against our beloved Iran, we will open new fronts against it, with new equipment and new methods, army spokesperson Mohammad Akraminia said, according to Iran's ISNA news agency."
"Share Iranian authorities held mass public weddings in Tehran for couples who signed up to a state-sponsored scheme declaring their readiness to sacrifice their lives in the war against the US and Israel. The ceremonies conducted late on Monday involved hundreds of couples in several major squares in the capital, including more than 100 in the vast Imam Hossein square in central Tehran, according to reports in Iranian media. They were broadcast on state TV in a bid to boost wartime morale."
"Over in the UK, Yvette Cooper, the foreign secretary, has said that the world is sleepwalking into a global food crisis because of the ongoing disruption to shipping going through the strait of Hormuz. Gulf states are major global providers of fertilisers and, in a speech to the Global Partnerships conference, Cooper highlighted World Food Programme figures saying that almost 45 million more people could fall into acute food insecurity if the [Iran] conflict does not end by the middle of this year."
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