New satellite images obtained by Fox News on Thursday have shown a secret Iranian nuclear weapons facility in an exclusive report by the American source.
The facility is located in the country’s northern province, the Semnan Province. Iranian officials have code-named the facility the “Rainbow Site” and have masked it as a chemical production company under the name “Diba Energy Siba.”
The site reportedly covers over 2,500 acres, according to the source, and has been operational for over 10 years.
Citing the Network Contagion Research Institute, the US source said that the facility’s primary function is tritium extraction. Tritium is a “radioactive isotope of hydrogen,” according to Oxford Languages’ definition, with the Fox News report saying that it is also used to enhance nuclear weapons.
The IDF and Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) on Wednesday killed Muhammad Rasmi Marzouq Barakeh, a member of Hamas’s military intelligence, in the Gaza City area, the military confirmed on Thursday.
Barakeh infiltrated Israel during the October 7 massacre and participated in the abduction of Yaffa Adar.
Yaffa Adar, 86, from Kibbutz Nir Oz, was released as part of a hostage deal in November 2023.
The United States is no longer demanding Saudi Arabia normalize ties with Israel as a condition for progress on civil nuclear cooperation talks, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters ahead of US President Donald Trump’s visit next week.
Dropping the demand that Saudi Arabia establish diplomatic relations with Israel would be a major concession by Washington.
Under former President Joe Biden, nuclear talks were an element of a wider US-Saudi deal tied to normalization and to Riyadh’s goal of a defense treaty with Washington.
The Indian government announced on Thursday that its military had killed the Islamic terrorist who beheaded Jewish-American journalist Daniel Pearl.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India’s governing party, said that the Indian army killed Pakistani terrorist Abdul Rauf Azhar in “Operation Sindhoor.”
A group of Islamist terrorists, including Azhar, kidnapped and murdered Pearl in 2002. The terrorist was affiliated with al-Qaeda and Jaish-e-Mohammed, an Islamist terror group that aims to separate Kashmir from India and fully incorporate it into Pakistan.
Syria’s Finance Minister, Mohammed Barnieh, has stated that Qatar will assist in paying public sector employees in Syria, according to a report by AFP and Reuters.
This is crucial for the new Syrian government. Syria faces numerous challenges. One challenge is rebuilding the country. Another is integrating various regions under the new transitional government. To achieve this, the country needs investment and funds to pay basic salaries.
According to reports, Doha financing is made possible by an exemption from sanctions by the US. This is important because if Western allies and partners don’t jump in to invest in Syria, then countries that oppose the West may exploit the situation.
Some international aid organizations have sent a clear message to Israel: they will not cooperate with the new humanitarian aid plan unless several changes are made. This was reported to The Jerusalem Post by two Western diplomats familiar with the details of the discussions.
This week, Israel’s Security Cabinet approved a new plan for distributing humanitarian aid when it is determined that the aid stockpiled in the Gaza Strip over the past few months has run out.
At least 21 hostages are alive, and three more are considered living although there are serious concerns for their lives, an Israeli source familiar with the details told The Jerusalem Post Thursday.
The IDF carried out strikes in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah-affiliated al-Manar claimed on Thursday.
The 14 strikes were conducted in the Nabatieh area, two Lebanese security sources told Reuters.
In April, Israel struck a southern Beirut building that it said it was being used to store precision missiles belonging to the Iran-backed Hezbollah group.
Lebanon and Hezbollah had agreed to a ceasefire in November which halted the fighting and mandated that southern Lebanon be free of Hezbollah fighters and weapons.
This is a developing story.
A new report revealed that the temporary pier the US military deployed to Gaza was more dangerous than previously known.
The Pentagon’s inspector general’s office released a report that said a total of 62 people were injured during the deployment.
What Israel did to Hezbollah in Beirut, it will do to the Iranian regime in Tehran, Defense Minister Israel Katz warned on Thursday morning.
“The Houthis will suffer heavy blows from Israel if they continue to fire at us,” Katz added.
