EU says Iran attacks on Bahrain and Kuwait unacceptable

About 90,000 people crossed Iran’s Khuzestan border crossings over the past three days to attend the funeral ceremonies for Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Iraq, a provincial official said on Wednesday.

Valiollah Hayati, the deputy governor for security and law enforcement affairs in Khuzestan, said the crossings were recorded at the Shalamcheh and Chazzabeh borders.

He said the travelers were heading to Najaf and Karbala to take part in the ceremonies.

Two military sites in Iran’s southern Bushehr province were hit by US-Israel strikes on Wednesday, a provincial security official said.

The deputy governor for political and security affairs in Bushehr said one military site in Dashti county was struck before dawn.

He said another military site near the city of Choghadak was hit later.

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency said on Wednesday that airlines should not operate in the airspace of Iran and Iraq until Aug. 31 because of ongoing tensions and the risk of further military action.

The agency said the updated safety bulletin replaces its previous advisory, which expires on Wednesday.

The earlier bulletin also covered Lebanon and advised airlines to exercise caution when flying in the airspace of Bahrain, Kuwait, Israel, Jordan, Qatar, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

A member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Third Naval Region was killed on Wednesday in Bandar Mahshahr in what the force described as an "enemy" drone attack, according to its public relations office.

The statement said the Guards member was killed while responding to the drones. It did not identify who operated the drones or provide further details.

The reported attack came after the United States said it carried out a new wave of strikes on military targets across Iran overnight, including drone-related facilities and Revolutionary Guards assets, as fighting between Washington and Tehran intensified.

Iran’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday that US strikes in Iran’s southern coast were a flagrant violation of a memorandum of understanding with Washington.

It also cited Washington’s decision to revoke a license allowing Iran to sell oil, and what it called violations of Iranian arrangements in the Strait of Hormuz, and continued Israeli attacks in Lebanon as actions that had made parts of the memorandum ineffective.

The ministry warned neighboring countries on the southern shore of the Persian Gulf against allowing their territory to be used for attacks in Iran, saying any cooperation would amount to complicity.

It said Iran’s armed forces would respond to “target the source and origin of aggression.”