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Trump Says Iran Called Washington to Stop Sunday's Planned Strike, 'Did Not Want to Be Hit'

New Delhi, Aug. 4 -- The largest US military strike on Iran since the conflict began in February was poised to launch Sunday night. It did not, Donald Trump said Monday, because Iran placed a call. t... Read More


No New Negotiations Between US and Iran Planned, Only Current Ones - Reports

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- The gap between what Donald Trump says is happening and what is actually happening on the Iran diplomatic front widened on Monday to the point where both governments were publicl... Read More


Israeli Court Blocks Ben-Gvir's Crocodile Prison Guards in Ruling That Bypassed the Detainees Themselves

JERUSALEM, Aug. 3 -- A Jerusalem District Court has ruled that Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir cannot use crocodiles to guard Palestinian security detainees at Ketziot Prison, a fa... Read More


UK, Bulgaria and Ukraine Tell Tehran They Will Not Join Military Action Against Iran

TEHRAN, Aug. 3 -- Within a 24-hour window on Saturday and Sunday, the governments of the United Kingdom, Bulgaria, and Ukraine each made contact with the Iranian Foreign Ministry to say the same thing... Read More


Israeli Forces Carry Out Powerful Explosions in Several Southern Lebanon Villages Overnight Killing Civilians

New Delhi, Aug. 3 -- Israeli forces carried out a series of powerful explosions overnight into Sunday in several settlements in the south of Lebanon, a Lebanese military field source told reporters. T... Read More


Israeli Forces Carry Out Powerful Explosions in Several Southern Lebanon Settlements Overnight

New Delhi, Aug. 3 -- Israeli forces carried out a series of powerful explosions overnight into Sunday in several settlements in the south of Lebanon, a Lebanese military field source told reporters. T... Read More


Iran-Oman Talks on Strait of Hormuz Are Bilateral, Do Not Include Other States - Tehran

TEHRAN, Aug. 3 -- The gap between what Donald Trump described and what Tehran acknowledged on Sunday stretched across the essential question of who is negotiating with whom. Trump told reporters in Wa... Read More


Trump Announces Halt to Iran Strikes, Tehran Calls It Psychological Operations

New Delhi, Aug. 3 -- WASHINGTON - The same Sunday night produced two incompatible accounts of what happened. Donald Trump announced on Truth Social that he had agreed to cancel a major planned strike ... Read More


US Redirects 35 Vessels as Naval Blockade of Iran Continues, CENTCOM Says

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- The weight of the naval blockade fell hardest on the ships that never chose a side. Since the United States reimposed a maritime cordon around Iran in July, 35 vessels have been ... Read More


Iran Denies Any Deal as Trump Cancels Strikes, Demands Hormuz Opening

New Delhi, Aug. 2 -- there was no deal, and Iran's armed forces were "ready for any eventuality." The contradiction placed the near-term trajectory of the longest American military campaign since Afg... Read More