Iran launched missiles at Israel on early Thursday (March 5, 2026) as aerial attacks in West Asia entered the sixth day after an American submarine sank an Iranian warship and Iran threatened the destruction of military and economic infrastructure across the region.
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Israel announced the incoming attack shortly after its military said it had begun new strikes in Lebanon targeting the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militant group in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Meanwhile, the U.S. House of Representatives was expected on Thursday (March 5, 2026) to reject an effort to curb U.S. President Donald Trump’s authority to wage war against Iran. The measure is widely expected to fail, a day after the Senate rejected a similar effort.
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India on Thursday (March 5, 2026) condoled the killing of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei with Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri signing the condolence book at the Iranian Embassy on behalf of the government of India. The funeral ceremony of Khamenei, originally scheduled to take place at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Prayer Hall starting at 10 p.m. (1830 GMT) on Wednesday (March 4, 2026), was “postponed”, state media said, without elaborating further, as per France 24.
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