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U.S. officials warned Tehran that Israel planned to target Iran’s top negotiators in talks to end the war and reopen the Strait of Hormuz, highlighting strains in the US–Israel relationship while Washington backed the peace process.
Conservative pro-Israel voices are criticizing Vice President JD Vance over his role in ending the Iran war, but evangelical conservatives at the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Conference remain broadly supportive and open to him as a potential GOP nominee, with mixed views on his Israel stance and some mention of Marco Rubio as a fellow contender.
Israel’s parliament approved a law making death by hanging the default penalty for West Bank Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis in a terrorist act, signaling a major expansion of capital punishment that rights groups call discriminatory; the measure does not apply retroactively to Oct. 7 attacks and faces legal challenges.
The Washington Post reports that the United States and Israel began their Iran campaign with synchronized aims of regime change, but Israel’s actions against Iran and public U.S. criticisms have exposed cracks in the alliance over the endgame in Iran, complicating coordination and raising the risk of further escalation.
Iranian officials say a new supreme leader has been chosen to replace Ayatollah Ali Khamenei after his death in the U.S.-Israeli strikes, as Israel widens its attacks on Iran’s energy infrastructure, hitting fuel depots in Tehran and a hotel in Beirut amid clashes with Hezbollah; the Assembly of Experts indicated a leader has been selected, with speculation around Mojtaba Khamenei, signaling a broader and escalating regional conflict.
Israel conducts fresh strikes on Iran while Tehran’s forces retaliate across the Persian Gulf and Lebanon, deepening a regional war. Iran’s leadership succession debate intensifies as Khamenei’s funeral is delayed; U.S. evacuations and embassy closures expand across the UAE, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. The United States says it is conducting 24/7 strikes into Iran, and six U.S. service members were killed in a weekend drone attack, highlighting the conflict’s widening toll.
Israel says it has launched fresh strikes on targets in Iran and Lebanon as Hezbollah drones hit Israel, while Iran and its allies claim retaliatory strikes across the region. The conflict is in its fourth day, with at least six U.S. service members killed and Americans urged to depart the Middle East; satellite imagery and reports describe damage to Iran’s nuclear sites, and cross‑border actions continue including attacks on cloud and other facilities in the Gulf. An expanding regional crisis broadens the fight beyond the initial theaters.
Israel recovered the remains of the last hostage, Rani Gvili, from Gaza, ending the years-long hostage saga that began with Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 attack.