#us-iran-tensions

#us-iran-tensions

The 65-year-old taoiseach Irish for prime minister was under political pressure to talk tough to Trump about the war on Iran. But as the Irish Times newspaper noted, he remained effectively mute for the first 20 minutes as the US president held forth on a range of grievances, including the resignation of Kent, director of the US National Counterterrorism Center.

The 60-year-old man from London, who has not been named, was on holiday in the Gulf city when he was taken into custody, according to Detained in Dubai. The man deleted the video immediately when asked and meant no harm, yet he still faces charges, Detained CEO Radha Stirling said.

It was just really traumatizing. You could hear it, you could feel it. The house was shaking. [It was] the scariest thing I've ever been through. We all slept downstairs in the living room, away from windows.

Iranian forces have launched an operation targeting Kurdish groups in their semi-autonomous region of neighbouring Iraq, as they also began their 19th wave of missile and drone attacks against Israel and United States assets in the Middle East on the sixth day of a regional war that has embroiled much of the region in the conflict.

More than 1,000 drones a high proportion of which are likely to be Shahed 136s have targeted Iran's Gulf neighbours since the US and Israel first attacked Tehran on Saturday morning. On Monday afternoon, the UAE said it had been attacked by 689 drones and had downed 645 meaning 44 drones, a little over 6% of the total, got through.

If I weren't as sure as I am that the president is deep in some private swamp of dark derangement, I'd point out that his lickety-split escalation regarding Iran resembles the production number in Duck Soup in which Freedonia, under the leadership of Rufus T. Firefly, prepares to go to war against Sylvania, lacking only a banjo number and a falling chandelier.

But first, we have to think about that extraordinary reach that they had. In 2014, they rolled in and took one-third of Syrian territory, huge parts of Iraq, created their own state. So compared to that, yes, they're territorially gone, but they're still there. There are remnants of them, as you say, mostly in the desert in Iraq and Syria, and they have been regrouping and launching more attacks.