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Iran State media has confirmed that the country's Supreme Leader Ali Hamanai is dead,
“President Trump announced Hamanai's death Saturday on social media.”
The death came during the joint military operation by the U.S. and Israel against Iran that continues at this hour, and Perez Daniel Estern reports from Tel Aviv. The person briefed on the strike told NPR that Ayatollah Ali Hamanai Iran's Supreme Leader since 1989 was killed in Israeli strikes. Israeli media are reporting Hamanai's body has been pulled from the rubble, and Israeli military
official told reporters that three separate gatherings of senior officials were struck simultaneously Saturday morning local time at the start of the joint U.S. Israeli attack on Iran. The official said several central government figures in Iran were killed. President Trump and Netanyahu have called on Iranians to rise up and topple the Iranian regime, Daniel Estern and PR News, Tel Aviv.
An emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council was called following the start of the U.S. and Israeli operation in Iran. At that meeting, U.S. Ambassador Mike Waltz celebrated the strikes. He said there a matter of global security because Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, and he laid out the Trump administration's objectives for the strikes.
To dismantle missile capabilities that threaten allies to degrade naval assets, use to destabilize international waters, and to disrupt the machinery that arms proxy militias,
and to ensure the Iranian regime never, ever, can threaten the world with a nuclear weapon.
UN Secretary of State Antonio Gutierrez called for an end to the hostilities and to return to talks between the U.S. and Iran. Russia is condemning the strikes on Iran in a statement Russia's foreign ministry warned the attacks risk destabilizing the wider Middle East, and PR's Charles Mains has more. The Foreign Ministry statement called the U.S. Israeli strikes on Iran a pre-planned and
unprovoked act of aggression, and demanded an immediate return to diplomatic talks. The Ministry also accused Washington and Tel Aviv of falsely hyping threats surrounding Iran's nuclear program to pursue regime change, and war in the Middle East was in danger of plunging into a cycle of uncontrolled escalation. Russian response was in line with its objections to recent U.S. military pressure against
Kremlin allies in Venezuela, Cuba, and elsewhere in the Middle East. It Moscow has thus far stepped back from taking more forceful actions, with the vast majority of its military resources devoted to the war in Ukraine. Charles Mains and PR News Moscow
“Key members of Congress are demanding a quick vote on a war-powered resolution that could”
restrain Trump's attack on Iran, Democrats and some Republicans are arguing that the president must seek approval from Congress for what they warn is a potentially illegal campaign, and they say the fighting could draw the U.S. into a deeper, Middle East conflict. You're listening to NPR News. The Supreme Court Monday will hear arguments concerning whether marijuana users can be blocked
from owning guns. Gun control groups are arguing, along with the Trump administration that the court should uphold a law that bars regular users of marijuana from legally owning guns. But the ACLU and the National Rifle Association are both against the law. One of the world's top medical journals is taking aim at Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
to mark his first year leading the Department of Health and Human Services, the scathing
editorial appears on the latest issue of the Lancet, and peers will still in reports. The editorial is titled Robert F. Kennedy Jr. one year of failure. The piece was authored by the Lancet's editorial board, and the front cover bears a quote from it, saying the destruction that Kennedy has wrought in one year might take generations to repair, unquote.
It catalogs many of his controversial actions, including the dismissal of agency employees, cuts to cutting-edge scientific research, and the undermining of vaccine policy. In HHS spokesperson did not immediately respond to NPR's request for comment on the new editorial,
“but Secretary Kennedy has made no secret of his disdain for mainstream medical journals,”
including the Lancet, last year he called them corrupt and beholden to the pharmaceutical industry. Will Stone and PR News. Shane Lauri shot a bogey-free round of 63 at the PGA Classic underway this weekend in Florida that puts him in a tie with leader Austin's smotherman at 1,300 par with one round to go.
Saturday's gal finished early after organizers moved up the star-time to avoid bad weather. Taylor Moore and Nico Echeveria are tied, and sit just one stroke off the lead. I'm Dale Wilman and PR news.
