Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Winter Johnston.
Israel has launched a new wave of air strikes on Tehran, the second straight day of
attacks on the Iranian capital.
“Israel says the goal is to establish air control over Iran, and PR's Greg Myri reports”
on what that means and how quickly this campaign has dismantled Iran's ability to fight back. Israel's military says it wants this new wave of large-scale attacks and we've heard these explosions ringing out in Tehran. Israel says the goal is to establish air superiority, and really one of the most striking
elements in this U.S.-Israel bombing campaign, both last June and again this time, has been how quickly they crippled Iran's air defenses.
That's MP Arts Greg Myri reporting.
Israel says it strikes have killed 40 top Iranian military officials. Israel did not provide evidence and neither Iran nor the United States immediately commented on that claim.
“In Iran, mourners are gathering today to pay their respects to the country's Supreme”
Leader who was killed in U.S. and Israeli air strikes on Saturday, and PR's Jaina Rath reports. In Tehran and in other cities, mourners packed public squares to commemorate the death of Ayatollah Ali Hamanni. The country cleared 40 days of mourning for the 86-year-old leader now considered a martyr. Iran said Hamanni died in U.S. and Israeli air strikes on his office on Saturday.
Anti-government protests which rocked the country in December have been sidelines since
the attacks. Iran said military leaders killed in the strikes, included the armed forces chief of staff and the senior intelligence commander. The Iranian government said it had already hit 27 U.S. military bases in the region, along with other targets.
“It vowed the biggest wave of attacks yet in retaliation for Hamanni's death.”
Jaina Rath and PR News, Aman. Protesters tried to overrun the U.S. consulate in Karachi and PR's D.A. Haddeed reports at least nine people were killed. Ayatollah Ali Hamanni was revered by many Shiites as a supreme leader of a Shiite majority nation and as a spiritual leader in his own right.
So as news of his assassination spread, Pakistani media reports that protesters converged outside the U.S. consulate in Karachi, a city with a sizable Shiite population. Where it has reported the protesters breached the out of wall of the highly secure complex. Multiple video shows social media of the protest filmed at different angles and at different times, shows some of the protesters using metal rods to smash one structure.
Dear Haddeed, M.P.R. News, Mumbai. It's M.P.R. The federal housing agency HUD wants new restrictions on rental aid and PR's Jennifer Leiden reports a proposal could impose full-time work requirements and a time limit of just two years.
The proposed rule is not a mandate it would allow local housing authorities and private landlords to impose the requirements if they choose elderly and disabled tenants would be exempt. It's part of a push by HUD Secretary Scott Turner to promote what he calls self-sufficiency. Supporters also say there are such long waiting lists for rental aid, it's more fair
to spread it around. Critics of the proposed rule say most people who can work already do, they just don't make enough to pay market rate rents. A few places have experimented with time limits, but drop them, because as the cut-off approached, they worried they'd be pushing people into homelessness, Jennifer Leiden and
Pierre News, Washington. The U.S. Supreme Court takes up a case Monday that pits marijuana users against federal gun laws. Gun control groups are siding with the Trump administration in defending a law that bars drug users from legally owning firearms.
On the other side, the ACLU and the National Rifle Association are pushing back against the law. The case comes after the Supreme Court's ruling in 2022 that expanded gun rights. The Justice's rule that any firearm restrictions must be firmly rooted in the nation's history and tradition.
I'm Winsor Johnston and PR News in Washington.
