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Iran appoints a new chief of intelligence at IRGC after predecessor killed by Israel
Iran appointed a new chief of intelligence at its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on Thursday after his predecessor was killed by Israeli strike on Sunday, the official Irna news agency reported. The commander of Iran's IRGC appointed Brigadier General Majid Khadami as the new head of its intelligence division, Irna said. Khadami replaces Mohammed Kazemi, who was killed on Sunday alongside two other Revolutionary Guard officers - Hassan Mohaghegh and Mohsen Bagheri - in an Israeli strike. IRGC commander Major General Mohammad Pakpour had himself been recently appointed after Israel killed his predecessor Hossein Salami in a strike on June 13. "During the years that our martyred commanders Kazemi and Mohaqeq led the IRGC Intelligence, we witnessed significant growth in all aspects of intelligence within the IRGC," said Pakpour. Israel launched air strikes on nuclear and military sites in Iran last week, claiming that Iran was on the verge of developing a nuclear weapon, which Iran denies and US intelligence circles corroborate.
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Israel says that at least 271 people were injured in strikes
Israel's Ministry of Health said at least 271 people were injured on Thursday morning following the Iranian strikes, Al Jazeera Arabic reported on Thursday. Iran launched a new wave of retaliatory missiles and drones toward large areas of Israel on Thursday, earlier in the day, wounding dozens and causing widespread destruction in Tel Aviv.
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Australia urges its citizens to leave Iran or shelter in place
Australia has announced it is suspending operations at its embassy in Tehran due to the deteriorating security environment and has directed the departure of all Australian officials, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said in a statement on Thursday. Wong advised Australians to leave Iran if they were able to, or shelter in place. Australia's ambassador to Iran will remain in the region to support the government's response to the crisis, Wong said.
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srael's attack on Iran: The violent new world being born is going to horrify you
Twenty years ago, the US warned prematurely of the 'birth pangs' of a new Middle East. Now they have arrived in full force - and they will not end in Iran. Ultimately this is about more than redrawing the map of the Middle East. And it is about more than toppling the rulers in Tehran. Just as Israel needed to take out Hamas, Hezbollah and Syria before it could consider clearing a path to Iran's destruction, the US and its western allies needs the axis of resistance eradicated, as well as Russia bogged down in an interminable war in Ukraine, before it can consider taking on China. Or as the German Chancellor Friedrich Merz noted this week, in one of those quiet-part-out-loud moments: "This [the attack on Iran] is the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us." This is a key moment in the Pentagon's 20-year plan for 'global full-spectrum dominance': a unipolar world in which the US is unconstrained by military rivals or the imposition of international law. A world in which a tiny, unaccountable elite, enriched by wars, dictate terms to the rest of us. If all this sounds like a sociopath's approach to foreign relations, that is because it is. Years of impunity for Israel and the US have brought us to this point. Both feel entitled to destroy what remains of an international order that does not let them get precisely what they want. The current birth pangs will grow. If you believe in human rights, in limits on the power of government, in the use of diplomacy before military aggression, in the freedoms you grew up with, the new world being born is going to horrify you. You can read more here.
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IAEA says its monitoring Israeli attacks on nuclear sites on Iran
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Thursday that it is continuing to closely monitor and assess the situation regarding the Israeli attacks on nuclear sites in Iran, Reuters reported. The UN nuclear watchdog said it had information that Iran's Khondab heavy water research reactor had been hit earlier on Thursday, but reported no radiological effects. Military strikes by Israel on Iran's nuclear sites could lead to potential leaks of radioactive material.
