Four arrested in Kerman for 'disturbing public opinion' over Israel posts

Part of an Iranian missile fell along a roadside near the Israeli settlement of Ariel in the West Bank on Thursday, June 20, following a series of missile launches by the Islamic Republic targeting multiple areas across Israel earlier in the day.

Among the targets hit was a hospital in the southern city of Beersheba.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will attend a special session of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation in Istanbul on Saturday, a Turkish foreign ministry source told Reuters, as the conflict with Israel escalates.

The 51st OIC Council of Foreign Ministers is expected to focus on Israel’s latest attacks, including Thursday’s strike on Iran’s Khondab nuclear site in Arak.

Israel said the targeted heavy-water reactor could produce weapons-grade plutonium. Turkey has condemned the attacks as illegal and backed Iran’s right to defend itself.

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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei appointed Mohammad Karami as the new commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ ground forces, state media reported Thursday.

Karami previously led the Quds Headquarters of the IRGC Ground Forces in southeastern Iran.

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Hezbollah issued a statement Thursday backing Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, calling threats by US and Israeli officials to kill him “foolish and reckless and will have disastrous consequences.”

“Merely uttering them is an offense to hundreds of millions of believers and those connected to Islam, and it is utterly reprehensible,” the group said. “Today, we are more determined and united around him.”

Hezbollah has not entered the fighting since Israeli forces began striking inside Iran on Friday. While the group condemned the attacks, it signaled to Beirut it would not intervene.

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Late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s cabinet warned Thursday of a “humiliating death” for the US president, in a statement referring to Donald Trump’s remarks about potentially targeting Iran’s Supreme Leader.

“Trump must still answer for the blood of [Revolutionary Guards Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani] and await the vengeance of the Iranian nation,” the cabinet members said.

“A humiliating death awaits him, and he will surely be destroyed by the hand of the world’s oppressed,” the statement added.