Iran’s foreign minister dismisses Israel’s strikes, says it won’t retaliate

Iran’s foreign minister dismissed the Friday morning strikes on his country, which hit near a major air base and nuclear site near the city of Isfahan, casting doubt on their origin and downplaying their impact. “What happened last night wasn’t a strike,” Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said in translated comments during an interview on NBC News’s “Top … Read more

World Central Kitchen demands independent investigation into fatal Israeli strikes

The international food charity World Central Kitchen (WCK) is requesting an independent investigation into an Israeli strike earlier this week that killed six of its workers and a translator.  The nongovernmental group (NGO) asked the U.S., Australia, Canada, Poland and the U.K. to “join” them in demanding “an independent, third-party’’ probe into Monday’s incident. “This … Read more