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A government supporter holds a portrait of Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei during a street celebration marking Prophet Muhammad’s birthday, with St. Sarkis Armenian Cathedral in the background, in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026.<\/p>\n
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FILE – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and son Yair, left, pose for a photo in Tel Aviv, Israel, Jan. 23, 2020. (Aleksey Nikolskyi\/Sputnik Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)<\/p>\n
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Israeli settlers enter Palestinian properties in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2026.<\/p>\n
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Crowds fill a street during celebrations marking Prophet Muhammad’s birthday in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Aug. 30, 2026.<\/p>\n
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Iran\u2019s supreme leader called on Muslim countries to stand together against Israel and the United States, imploring them to \u201cknow your real enemy.\u201d<\/p>\n
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U.S. forces said they struck Iranian rocket launchers in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, in their first military action in a month. Iran later said it had launched missiles at U.S. sites in Jordan after earlier vowing to retaliate.<\/p>\n
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Israel’s Shin Bet said it had evacuated the prime minister’s oldest son from the U.S. following a threat. And an Israeli airstrike in Gaza killed at least two Palestinians, including a 3-year-old, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a look at the latest developments Sunday in the Iran war and the wider Middle East. Full coverage can be found here.<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s Khamenei urges Muslim nations to \u2018confront\u2019 enemies<\/p>\n
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, urged rulers of Muslim nations to “know your real enemy, understand its plans and confront it,\u201d and called the U.S. and Israel enemies of all Islamic nations, the official IRNA news agency reported.<\/p>\n
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Six months after the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran, killing Khamenei’s father and other senior leaders, Khamenei still has not been seen publicly. His comments came in a letter to religious leaders attending a conference in Tehran.<\/p>\n
The war has exposed divisions in the Muslim world after Iran struck targets in neighboring Gulf Arab countries and restricted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran has opposed the U.S. military presence in the region.<\/p>\n
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US says it struck Iran with \u2018limited, precise action\u2019<\/p>\n
U.S. forces struck Iranian rocket launchers in the Strait of Hormuz in their first military action in a month on Sunday, breaking a lull in fighting in the war that has lasted more than six months. Iran said it had launched missiles at U.S. sites in Jordan, after earlier vowing to retaliate.<\/p>\n
Iranian state television showed what it said were ballistic missiles being fired by Iran at U.S. bases in Jordan in response to the American strikes. Jordan\u2019s armed forces said they intercepted eight missiles that penetrated the country\u2019s airspace early Monday in the Mideast.<\/p>\n
U.S. military officials disputed Iran\u2019s claim that the latest American strikes were an act of aggression, calling them a \u201climited, precise action\u201d against what they said were Iranian minelaying forces.<\/p>\n
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Semiofficial news outlets in Iran reported sounds of explosions near Larak island on the strait. The Revolutionary Guard in a statement carried by Iran\u2019s state broadcaster noted \u201cthe martyrdom and injury of several of our fighters and compatriots.\u201d<\/p>\n
The last time the U.S. military confirmed targeting Iran was on July 29, when it announced a \u201cheavy wave of strikes\u201d on dozens of Revolutionary Guard targets including coastal surveillance and defense sites.<\/p>\n
Netanyahu son evacuated from US over \u2018significant\u2019 threat<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s Shin Bet security agency says it urgently evacuated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s oldest son from the United States due to a threat against him.<\/p>\n
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In a brief statement obtained Sunday, the Shin Bet confirmed there had been a \u201csignificant threat\u201d to Yair Netanyahu. It did not elaborate.<\/p>\n
But the prime minister told an Israeli TV station last week that Iran had tried to kill one of his sons. His office declined to comment Sunday.<\/p>\n
Yair Netanyahu moved to Miami in 2023 and remained out of the country for most of the time while Israel was at war in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. He has often served as an unofficial adviser to his father while sometimes sparking controversy over his attacks on critics on social media.<\/p>\n
A tanker ship is struck in the Strait of Hormuz<\/p>\n
A monitoring agency run by the British military says an unknown projectile struck a tanker ship on Saturday north of Khasab, Oman, in the Strait of Hormuz.<\/p>\n
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The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Organization said the ship had been moving inbound and no casualties or environmental impact had been reported. It cited unspecified military authorities.<\/p>\n
There was no immediate claim of responsibility.<\/p>\n
NBC says settlers attack journalists in West Bank<\/p>\n
Settlers attacked an NBC crew in the central West Bank on Saturday as they were interviewing a Palestinian woman who said she\u2019d been driven out of her house, the network said.<\/p>\n
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Correspondent Matt Bradley, two other crew members and the woman were treated for injuries, NBC said, giving no details about them. NBC shared footage showing masked settlers approaching the crew with sticks and beating their vehicles.<\/p>\n
Israel\u2019s military said it was \u201caware of reports of Palestinian injuries, including a Palestinian woman who sustained non-life-threatening injuries.\u201d It did not comment on the attack on the NBC crew.<\/p>\n
Israel’s prime minister issued a rare condemnation Saturday after a wave of violence by settlers in the West Bank. Netanyahu has come under U.S. criticism for the attacks.<\/p>\n
And on Sunday, Netanyahu in an interview with Israeli broadcaster Channel 14 described the violent settlers as \u201ca small handful of people, usually young people who come with all kinds of hardships.\u201d<\/p>\n
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He said he wants \u201cto strengthen the settlement\u201d in the West Bank and that violent settlers should leave that task to the government, saying their involvement \u201charms the settlement project. It slanders us in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Settlers seized a British activist, lawyer says<\/p>\n
Israeli settlers seized a British activist from a Palestinian village in the West Bank on Saturday and locked him in a shed before turning him over to police, his lawyer said Sunday.<\/p>\n
It was not clear what led to his capture. Settlers alleged Finn Joughin assaulted a child, which lawyer Inbar Shaked Vardi denied. Settlers pointed to a video where the activist uses his body in an apparent attempt to block a settler boy from passing through a fence. Vardi said the video shows he was trying to protect the village.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWithout any hearing, the police has decided to move him to deportation, which just shows that this entire case has been political in the first place,\u201d Vardi said later, adding that Joughin would likely be deported Sunday night.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the U.K. government said embassy officials have raised the case with Israeli authorities.<\/p>\n
Israeli strike kills 2 Palestinians in Gaza, including a child<\/p>\n
An Israeli strike hit a group of people in the western part of Deir al-Balah, killing a 3-year-old and a man who Israel’s military called a Hamas operative. It said he had \u201cposed an immediate threat,\u201d without providing evidence.<\/p>\n
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Another Palestinian was wounded, according to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, which received the casualties.<\/p>\n
Gaza’s Health Ministry says Israeli fire has killed at least 1,318 Palestinians since a fragile October ceasefire deal attempted to halt more than two years of war between Israel and Hamas. The ministry, part of the Hamas-led government, maintains detailed casualty records that are seen as generally reliable by U.N. agencies and independent experts. It does not give a breakdown of civilians and militants.<\/p>\n
Saudi, Turkish and Pakistani ministers will meet<\/p>\n
Turkey says it will host senior officials from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan on Monday for the first meeting since the Muslim-majority countries signed a defense agreement earlier this month that says an attack on any one of them would be treated as an attack on all three.<\/p>\n
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Pakistan\u2019s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, arrived in Turkey on Sunday, the military said, giving no details. Pakistan earlier said Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar had also traveled to Istanbul.<\/p>\n
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AP writers Samy Magdy in Cairo, Julia Frankel in Jerusalem and Natalie Melzer in Nahariya, Israel, contributed.<\/p>\n
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