Iran’s 85-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is reportedly in a coma and preparing to step down, with plans to name his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, 55, as his successor. Reports suggest that on September 26, the Supreme Leader summoned 60 members of the Assembly of Experts, the constitutional body responsible for selecting and overseeing the…
The US received written assurance from Iran before the presidential election that its leadership was not actively trying to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, CBS News confirmed, according to a source with direct knowledge of the correspondence. The message arrived after the White House in September affirmed that killing a former US president or former US…
JPMorgan Chase CEO and Chairman Jamie Dimon speaks during the US Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee oversight hearing on Wall Street firms, on Capitol Hill in Washington, US, December 6, 2023. Evelyn Hockstein | reuters JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon sees risks climbing around the world amid widening conflicts in the Middle East…
The US military on Friday struck over a dozen Houthi targets in Yemen using both aircraft and warships, US officials told CBS News. The strikes, according to a statement from the US Central Command, hit 15 targets containing Houthi offensive military capabilities, and the strikes were “to protect freedom of navigation and make international waters…
Israel is carrying out rapid airstrikes on southern Lebanon. Israel is also targeting those residential areas of Lebanon where Hezbollah terrorists have hidden weapons. The Israeli Army is selectively bombing the terrorist bases of Hezbollah, due to which its commanders are being reduced to dust. In the war that has been going on for 9…
Iranian hackers sought to interest President Biden’s campaign in information stolen from the rival campaign of former President Donald Trump, sending unsolicited emails to people connected to the Democratic president in an effort to interfere in the 2024 election, the FBI and other federal agencies said Wednesday. There’s no evidence that any of the recipients…
Iran is accelerating online activity that appears intended to influence the us electionin one case targeting a presidential campaign with an email phishing attack, Microsoft said Friday. Iranian actors have also spent recent months creating fake news sites and impersonating activists, laying the groundwork to stoke division and potentially sway American voters this fall, especially…
Iran has started an influence campaign designed to undercut the candidacy of former President Donald Trump, US officials indicated Monday, in an apparent reprisal of a 2020 effort that US intelligence agencies found with high confidence had been authorized by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. The updated came from officials with the Office of the…
