"Live from NPR news, I'm Dale Wilman.
Iran is threatening to strike recreational and tourist sites around the world in retaliation
“for the continuing attacks on that country by the U.S. and Israel, and while President”
Trump has posted on social media that he's considering winding down the military operations in Iran, the U.S. military is now deploying three more warships to the Middle East, along with more than 2,000 Marines. Trump Friday gave an assessment of how the fighting is going. "We're doing extremely well in Iran.
The difference between them and us is they had a Navy two weeks ago, they have no Navy anymore, so let the bottom of the sea." Israel says its killed more top officials in Iran, including the spokesman for Iran's
Revolutionary Guard, also known as the IRGC.
Iran's Supreme Leader hasn't been seen publicly for some time, but a statement attributed to him calls for revenge, NPR's Kirikon has more in that story. The spokesman for the Revolutionary Guard Corps, Ali Mohamed Noine, was killed in an
“overnight Israeli strike on Friday, according to Israel's military.”
Israeli officials say he was the IRGC's main propagandist. Just before his killing, Noine issued a statement denying Israel's prime minister's claim that Iran's missile production had been decimated. So any said even during war, Iran was having no problems producing and stockpiling missiles. It appears he was killed after the statement was issued by state media.
Kary Khan and Piyar news, Tel Aviv. On Wall Street stocks were down again Friday because of fears that the war in Iran is escalating. His MPs Rafael Nam reports, investors, are now preparing for much longer conflicts. When the U.S. and Israel started attacking Iran at the end of last month, investors crossed their fingers and hoped the war would end quickly.
But three weeks later, investors are starting to get deeply concerned as the war rages on.
“The straight of her moves remains virtually shut, which means that critical supplies of energy”
and other vital shipments like fertilizer are not getting through. That's raising big concerns about inflation and that the global economy is going to be hit by an energy crisis. Both three major indexes dropped and have now fallen for four consecutive weeks. Refund Nam in Piyar news.
The Nasdaq closed down 443 points or 2%. The Justice Department Friday filed another lawsuit against Harvard University, this time it's accusing the school of failing to address anti-Semitism on campus. The government wants to freeze existing grants and recover money already paid to the University. Harvard says it's committed to fighting bias and accuses the government of violating
the school's first amendment rights by trying to limit campus activism.
You're listening to NPR news. Check officials say a warehouse fire. At a drone technology company may have been an arson attack linked to terrorism. The plant 60 miles east of Prague makes drones used by Ukraine's armed forces in its fight against Russia.
The fire has been extinguished and police say there is no danger to the public. A convoy of humanitarian aid has set sail from Mexico to Cuba after an energy blackout left the island in the dark for more than 24 hours this week. From the frontierist task in Eramoseo, Sonora, KJZZ, Nina Kravinski, as more. Cuba's electrical grid continues to crumble amid a U.S. energy blockade.
The White House in January said it would put tariffs on any country that sends oil to Cuba Mexican President Claudia Sheimbaum told reporters, "Mexico is looking for ways to provide Cuba with fuel without impacting her country." Mexico was one of Cuba's major oil suppliers before the U.S. ban.
We always defend self-determination.
It's the Cuban people who must decide how to govern themselves without foreign intervention, Sheimbaum said, "Mexico's navy delivered more than 800 tons of humanitarian supplies to Cuba last month. For NPR News, I'm Nina Kravinski, in Eramoseo, Mexico." After 99 years producing hourly newscast, CBS radio is being closed in an announcement
Friday. The network said the last hourly newscast will be broadcast in May. The network began broadcasting in 1927 and now is heard on some 700 stations across the country. The network was the home of fame broadcaster Edward Armero, who gave reports from rooftops
during the London Blitz early in World War II. I'm Dale Wilman and PR News.
