Iranians were due to bid farewell to late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a ceremony in Tehran later yesterday, a senior Iranian official told state media.

The Trump administration plans to meet with executives from the biggest US defense contractors at the White House on Friday to discuss accelerating weapons production, as the Pentagon works to replenish supplies after strikes on Iran and several other recent military efforts, five people familiar with the plan told Reuters.

Sanchez was responding after US President Donald Trump threatenedtocut trade with Madrid over its position on the conflict.

Real-time data was encrypted and transmitted back to servers in Tel Aviv and southern Israel, the report says

Here are the latest developments as the Middle East war continued into its fifth day

The Pentagon said four ranged in age from 20 to 42 and served in the 103rd Sustainment Command from Des Moines, Iowa, part of the Army's global logistics and supply operation.

The airstrikes have killed hundreds of Iranians since Saturday while Israeli and US leaders have voiced hopes they would trigger an uprising

Nearly all the traffic cameras in Tehran had been hacked for years. And when the senior Iranian officials came to work near Pasteur Street in Tehran - where Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed in a US-Israeli air strike on Saturday - the Israelis were watching, according to a Financial Times report.

US Central Command wrote in an X post.

He later qualified that the conflict "may take some time, but it's not going to take years."

The strait is especially key to the world energy markets, with around 20 percent of global seaborne oil passing through.

Six US service personnel have been killed so far, all in Iran's retaliatory attacks over the weekend on Kuwait.

Trump says that his attack on Iran could extend longer than a month

New strikes were reported Tuesday across the Middle East, including Israeli strikes on Lebanon and a drone attack on the US embassy in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh.

The strait is the world's most vital oil export route, connecting the biggest Gulf oil producers, such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and the UAE, with the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea

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The Suez Canal is a crucial shortcut between Europe and Asia

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