Here are the latest developments in the Middle East war:
# Iranian authorities said that 466 people have been arrested, accused of seeking to destabilize the country through their online activity. The exact nature of the online activity nor the dates of the arrests were provided. Internet has been shut down in Iran since the start of the war on 28 February.
# Iran named a former Revolutionary Guards commander, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, as the new chief of the Supreme National Security Council to replace Ali Larijani, killed in an Israeli strike, state television said.
# The Gulf states will need to re-evaluate their shared security after the war, which has resulted in a “breakdown of the security system,” a Qatar foreign ministry spokesman said.
# Lebanon withdrew the accreditation of Iran’s ambassador and gave him until Sunday to leave the country. The move came after Beirut accused Iran’s Revolutionary Guards of commanding the operations of the Tehran-backed Hezbollah in its war against Israel.
# Israel’s military said that it had completed a “large wave of strikes in Isfahan”.
# Israel’s Defence Minister Israel Katz said the military would take control of south Lebanon up to the Litani River as a “security zone”, as it presses its fight against Iran-backed Hezbollah. The hundreds of thousands of south Lebanon residents who have been displaced by the war “will not return south of the Litani River until security is guaranteed for the residents of the north” of Israel, he said.
# The UN Human Rights Council said it will hold an urgent meeting on Wednesday on Iran’s strikes on countries in the Gulf region. # Iranian media reported on Tuesday that Israeli-US strikes targeted two gas facilities and a pipeline, hours after US President Donald Trump stepped back from his threat to attack power infrastructure. In an interview with state TV, Energy Minister Abbas Aliabadi said that Iran is less vulnerable to attacks on energy infrastructure because it was spread out, with 150 power plants across the country.
# A rocket attack in Iraq’s north killed six fighters from the peshmerga armed forces of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, officials said. The region’s armed forces ministry blamed Tehran, saying “six Iranian ballistic missiles targeted” the troops in two attacks. # A strike in western Iraq on Tuesday killed 15 fighters, including Saad Dawai al-Baiji, provincial commander and head of operations in Anbar for the former paramilitary coalition Hashed al-Shaabi, also known as the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF). The PMF is now part of Iraq’s regular army, but also includes some pro-Iranian groups. It has blamed the attack on the US.
AFP
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