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 … 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. … Read more