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🔴 LIVE: War on Iran | Day 20 • Saudi Arabia says may take military action against Iran • Iranian missiles hit Qatar industrial city, causing ‘extreme damage’ • Lebanon death toll rises to 968 Live updates ⤵️ middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-a…

🔴 Turkish foreign minister Hakan Fidan on Thursday said that Israel was the primary cause of the war, accusing it of threatening both regional and global stability. Speaking at a press conference in Doha alongside Qatar’s Prime Minister and foreign minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, Fidan said the conflict had pushed the region into an unprecedented crisis. “The primary cause of the war is Israel; it has threatened not only our region but global stability,” Fidan said, adding that the escalation had dragged the region “into an unprecedented crisis.”

Ali Larijani was one of Iran’s most versatile figures. He held many influential positions in Iran’s corridors of power, including military, legislative and cultural posts. So how much of a blow is his death for Iran?

"All it takes is a North African-sounding name to be labelled an Islamist tasked with infiltrating French political power" - Toufik Khiar, candidate for the municipal elections middleeasteye.pulse.ly/perjhridhv

🔴 UAE warns public as Saudi Arabia intercepts drones, Kuwait targeted Live updates ⤵️ middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-a…

An intense wave of missile activity was reported across Israel overnight from Thursday into Friday, with explosions heard near Jerusalem and sirens sounding across central areas, the Jordan Valley and the occupied West Bank middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-a…

🔴 LIVE: War on Iran | Day 20 • Saudi Arabia says may take military action against Iran • Iranian missiles hit Qatar industrial city, causing ‘extreme damage’ • Lebanon death toll rises to 968 Live updates ⤵️ middleeasteye.net/live/live-us-a…

A sharp drop in Iranian gas flows to Turkey following Israel's strike on the South Pars gas field the biggest source of domestic energy in Iran, supplying 70 percent of the country’s consumption. So what happens if Iran stops supplying Ankara? middleeasteye.pulse.ly/otqvodyus3

Toufik Khiar fell just under a hundred votes short of the incumbent centre-right mayor, Benoit Jimenez, whom he now suspects of having blocked him by mobilising voters from the far right through slander spread in the media middleeasteye.pulse.ly/rowkcsohm4

"The ongoing disruption in Iran is among the longest three internet shutdowns in our records. It's now the longest sustained nation-scale internet blackout we've tracked in a highly connected society" - Alp Toker, director of NetBlocks, told Middle East Eye middleeasteye.pulse.ly/bkwzeyozji

Qatar’s Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, has called for an immediate cessation of hostilities in the region, saying that “trust must be restored” during a press conference alongside Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan. “Everyone knows who the main beneficiary of this war is, and who is dragging the whole region into conflict,” Sheikh Mohammed said.