US launches fresh strikes on Iran, as Trump warns of retaliation for deaths of soldiers

  The US military says it launched another round of strikes against Iran to "further degrade" its capabilities to attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

The strikes - the 10th consecutive night of attacks - come after US President Donald Trump vowed to punish Iran for the deaths of US soldiers.

In response, Iran said it struck two oil tankers in the waterway, as well as US military assets in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan, state news agency IRNA reported.

President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran was now fighting a "full-scale war" with the US. Trump earlier said Iran had been hit "very hard" the previous night "in honour" of three US soldiers killed recently - two in Jordan and one in Iraq.

US Central Command (Centcom) said its latest strikes had hit Iranian "military command centres, maritime capabilities, missile and drone launch sites, and air defence systems".

Explosions were reported near the north-western city of Tabriz, where state media said one person was killed and several wounded, as well at the Gulf ports of Bandar Mahshahr and Bandar Imam Khomeini and the south-eastern ports of Chabahar and Konarak.

Centcom also insisted that commercial vessels were continuing to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

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Yemen's Houthis announce 'maritime embargo' on Saudi Arabia

 Yemen's Houthis have announced a "maritime embargo" against Saudi Arabia.

The Iran-backed group's military spokesman said it would begin immediately and was in retaliation for a Saudi blockade of ports and airports in Houthi-controlled north-western Yemen.

He gave few details about the embargo, but a Houthi media official said they were closing the Bab al-Mandab Strait - the Red Sea's southern gateway - to Saudi vessels. 

In response, Saudi Arabia's foreign ministry condemned the allegation, vowing that the country "will take all necessary measures to protect its ships in accordance with international law". Second tanker in three months hijacked off Yemen by suspected Somali pirates

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"Egypt’s Muslim/Christian “Reconciliation Sessions” by Raymond Ibrahim

 How the Terrorized Are Forced to Submit to the Terrorists

Just days ago, a Muslim mob attacked a Coptic church in the Upper Egyptian village of Tal al-Quiblya, in Minya Governorate. Shouting sectarian slogans, the assailants pelted the church with stones, injured several Christians, and damaged both the building and the priest’s car. When police finally arrived, they proceeded to arrest four of the Christian victims.

Two days later, those Christians regained their freedom only after agreeing to withdraw their criminal complaint against the Muslims who had assaulted them.

At first glance, this appears to be another example of Egypt’s chronic failure to protect its Christian minority. It is that—but it is also something more. The incident exposes the inner workings of one of the Egyptian state’s most effective mechanisms for shielding anti-Christian violence from legal consequences: the so-called “reconciliation session” (جلسة عرفية).

These sessions are routinely portrayed by officials as noble efforts to preserve “social harmony” and prevent sectarian tensions from escalating. In reality, they achieve the opposite. They do not reconcile aggressor and victim so much as compel the latter to surrender to the former.

By now, the formula is familiar. A Muslim mob attacks Christians. Police intervene—not primarily to enforce the law, but to calm down the violence and avoid being accused of doing nothing. Christian men who defended their homes or churches are detained, threatened with prosecution, or otherwise pressured. Once sufficient leverage has been applied, local officials convene a “reconciliation session,” where the victims are expected to forgive, forget, and return home empty-handed.

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