"Live from NPR news in Washington, on Corva Coleman, Israel says it has kille...
Iranian officials that includes the head of the National Security Council and its paramilitary
besieged forces.
“NPR's Kerry Con reports Iran has not commented on the claim."”
Israel's defense minister, may the announcement saying both men were killed overnight and he's instructed the military to continue "hunting the leadership." Israel's military confirmed it had killed "Golum Resa Solamani, the leader of the besieged paramilitary forces, responsible for violently suppressing street protests against the Iranian government earlier this year, and that an Israeli air strike killed Ali
LaRanjani, who it says had been in charge of directing Iran's military efforts since Israel killed the Supreme Leader in the beginning of the war. Iran continues to strike targets in the Gulf. The UAE Defense Ministry says it has, quote, "engaged 10 ballistic missiles and 45 drones
just in the early Tuesday hours."
Kerry Con and PR news, Tel Aviv. President Trump continues to turn up the pressure on allies to join his coalition and protect oil tankers crossing through the Strait of Hormuz.
“But NPR's Franco Ordonia's reports, several traditional allies, say they want little to”
do with the war. Trump made his most forceful push yet, while also saying the U.S. doesn't really need the help. We don't need anybody. We're the strongest nation in the world.
We have the strongest military by far in the world. We don't need them, but it's interesting. I'm almost doing it. In some cases, not because we need them, but because I want to find out how they react. Trump T's, he'll be making announcements soon on the coalition, but several western nations,
including Germany and the United Kingdom, said they won't participate.
Trump is not happy about it, claiming he always believed, "If we ever need it, help, they
won't be there for us."
“And he said that their reluctance to help was proving his point, Franco, Ordonia's, NPR News.”
However, there are reports that at least three ships have safely sailed through the Strait of Hormuz, two worships flagged by India. The third was a ship flagged by Pakistan. President Trump is also saying that his administration could take over Cuba. He said yesterday that it would be "his honor" to do so.
Trump also says the U.S. has been in talks with Cuban officials. NPR's Ader Brawl says this comes as the U.S. oil embargo on Cuba makes life harder on the island. President Diaskanei blamed the U.S. for "cruly squeezing energy resources," and that has made the situation in Cuba worse because the country depends on imported oil to
run its thermal power plants, and for three months now, Cuba hasn't received any oil. NPR's Ader Brawl to Reporting On Wall Street in pre-market trading, Dow futures are up 130 points. You're listening to NPR. Officials in Afghanistan say that Pakistan has carried out a deadly air strike in the Afghan
capital, Kabul, Afghan officials say the strike hit a drug rehabilitation hospital, and that at least 400 people have been killed. Pakistan disputes the claims saying it targets only military facilities. Raider's news agency says the facility is a former NATO military base that was converted to a hospital about a decade ago.
America's democracy is at its lowest-level in decades. It's according to a leading report on global democracy that's just been released. NPR's Frank Langfit reports. The Vida Institute puts out an annual report measuring the health of democracy across the globe.
It found that last year America's Democratic ranking fell from 20th to 51st out of 179 countries, settling in between Slovakia and Greece. Staff in Lindberg, the Institute's founding director, cited many reasons why. It's a very rapid and aggressive concentration on power in the Presidency, encroaching and taking powers from the leddy slature, along with attacks on media freedom and freedom
of speech. Lindberg says there's at least one bright spot, elections have been free and fair, but he doubts Trump will accept a defeat in the midterms. NPR reached out to the White House for comment, but is yet to hear back. Frank Langfit and PR news.
Other forecasts are posting heat advisories and warnings in the West, reaching from San Francisco to Phoenix. The National Weather Services temperatures in Phoenix could reach well into the triple digits all this week. I'm Corva Coleman, NPR News.
