(Bloomberg) -- The US believes an Iranian attack against Israel has grown even more likely and may come as soon as this week, officials said, as allied...
-- The US believes an Iran ian attack against Israel has grown even more likely and may come as soon as this week, officials said, as allied leaders sought to head off all-out war and the Pentagon deployed more forces to the region.In DNC, Chicago’s Embattled Transit System Faces a High-Profile Test
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is scheduled to travel to the Middle East on Tuesday night, Axios reporter Barak Ravid said in a X post, citing an unidentified source. He will travel to Qatar, Egypt and Israel, according to the post.The last time Iran attacked Israel, in April, it fired hundreds of ballistic missiles and drones, almost all of which were intercepted. Casualties were limited, and Israel responded at the time with a limited drone operation but elected not to escalate further.
“We don’t know when it will happen and if it will happen,” Colonel Gilead Shenhar of the Israel Defense Forces’ Homefront Command, which is in charge of civilian emergency preparedness, told Tel Aviv radio station 103 FM on Tuesday. “It’s possible that we will quickly transition from tense routine to the attack phase, which we refer to as ‘zero to sixty’.”
On Sunday, the Pentagon announced it was sending even more forces to the region, including the USS Georgia, a submarine equipped with more than 150 Tomahawk missiles. That in itself is an unusual show of force given that the US rarely discloses the movements of its nuclear-powered submarine fleet, and Tomahawks have been used to strike ground targets in the region in the past.
A Turkish court on Monday ordered the arrest of a woman on charges of inciting hatred and insulting the president after she criticised a ban on social media platform Instagram, broadcaster Haberturk and other media said.Private equity giant Blackstone announced on Tuesday it had sold 3,000 shared-ownership homes to Britain's biggest private pension fund, in a sign of growing dealmaking by big money managers in the UK housing sector.
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