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What recent developments have occurred in the U.S.-Israel-Iran conflict?
Live from NPR News, I'm Giles Snyder. Today marks two weeks since the U.S. and Israel started their air campaign against Iran, and since then the war has widened across the Persian Gulf and to Lebanon. NPR's Carrie Khan is in Tel Aviv. She says Israel's goals appear to be shifting. Leaders here are moving away from talking about regime change as the goal of the war.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave his first press conference since the war this week, and he pretty much said regime change probably not happening. Expect just a weakened regime. President Trump is at his golf club in Florida this weekend with events in the Middle East in the backdrop.
Trump posted to social media this morning saying many countries will be sending warships to the Strait of Hormuz. which has been virtually shut down by Iran. He did not provide details, and it's not clear if there is an agreement. Iran, meanwhile, is urging people to evacuate three major ports in the United Arab Emirates. It claims the U.S. is using them to launch strikes on Iran.
As Iran continues to launch missile and drone strikes across the Gulf region, the BBC's Electra Naismith reports that the Iran-backed Palestinian group Hamas is calling on Iran to stop attacking neighboring countries. The statement is a rare rebuke from Hamas of its main ally and sponsor. While it affirmed Iran's right to respond to attacks, it called on Tehran to stop targeting its neighbours.
It's a significant development and highlights Hamas's tricky position. Tehran provides significant financial and military support to the group. which is in turn a key part of Iran's network of regional proxies. But Turkey is also a major backer, as is Qatar. Both have come under Iranian attack. Hamas said Israel was trying to sow discord among its Islamic neighbours.
Members of a Mississippi synagogue damaged by an arson attack in January are supporting congregants of the Detroit-area Jewish Temple, which was attacked Thursday. Mississippi Public Broadcasting's Shamir Mohammed has more. Former president of Jackson's Beth Israel Temple, Abram Orlansky, says the January arson attack on that city's only synagogue was terrifying.
But he says it also revealed how embedded his synagogue is in the community. Orlansky hopes Temple Israel's congregation has a similar experience. Just hold on to each other and hold on to your broader community. And remember that you are a part of the wider community there in Michigan. that this person doesn't speak for the community, you'll build back just like we will.
Synagogues around the world have been ramping up security since the U.S. and Israel launched strikes on Iran on February 28th. For NPR News, I'm Shamira Mohamed in Jackson, Mississippi. In Venezuela, the U.S. flag has been raised over the U.S. embassy in Caracas. Today's flag raising came exactly seven years to the day when it was taken down in 2019. This is NPR News.
The Justice Department is moving to dismiss charges against an Army veteran of Iraq and Afghanistan who set fire to an American flag near the White House last year. Jay Carey of Arden, North Carolina, was arrested in August after he set fire to a flag on the same day that President Trump signed an executive order.
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