Israeli strike killed Iranian commanders, Iran mentioned
Not less than seven officers together with three generals overseeing Iran’s covert operations within the Center East had been killed in an Israeli strike in Syria yesterday, in accordance with Iranian and Syrian officers.
The strike on the Iranian Embassy complicated in Damascus gave the impression to be among the many deadliest assaults in a yearslong shadow struggle between Israel and Iran.
Amongst these killed was Gen. Mohamad Reza Zahedi, 65, who oversaw Iran’s covert navy operations in Syria and Lebanon, two different generals and 4 officers, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps mentioned in a press release. 4 Israeli officers confirmed that Israel had carried out the assault.
Iran’s ambassador to Syria, Hossein Akbari, mentioned in a press release that the Iranian consulate’s constructing got here underneath assault by two F-35 fighter jets. “This assault could have our fierce response,” he mentioned, in accordance with Iranian media.
Particulars: The strike focused a secret assembly between Iranian intelligence officers and Palestinian militants to debate the struggle in Gaza, Iranian officers mentioned. Amongst them had been leaders of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, a gaggle armed and funded by Iran.
In Gaza: Israel withdrew from Al-Shifa, a serious hospital, after a two-week battle, leaving widespread devastation.
Motion on U.S. assist to Ukraine
Mike Johnson, the speaker of the Home of Representatives, has begun publicly laying out potential situations for extending new navy help to Ukraine. It’s the strongest signal but that Johnson, a Republican, plans to defy critics in his personal social gathering and push via the help bundle.
His feedback strongly recommend that the help, which has been stalled for months, may clear Congress inside weeks. The principle impediment standing in its method has been Johnson’s refusal to convey it up within the Home within the face of hard-right opposition. Now, the query seems to be not whether or not Johnson will permit assist to come back to the ground, however in what kind and when.
Particulars: Johnson instructed that among the assist may very well be paid for by promoting off frozen Russian sovereign property. Solely about $5 billion in Russian property are held within the U.S. Greater than $300 billion in Russian central financial institution property are stashed in Western nations.
India’s financial system underneath 10 years of Modi
Within the decade since Narendra Modi turned India’s prime minister, the nation’s financial system has virtually doubled. That robust progress — and its accompanying optimism amongst Indian customers — are key to his bid for a 3rd time period, which Modi appears set to win in elections that start on April 19.
However the financial actuality is extra sophisticated than the profitable story instructed by the Modi marketing campaign. Whereas the financial system is rising, Modi has benefited from geopolitical currents which have made India extra engaging to world financiers. The enlargement has additionally been unequal. The majority of India’s progress is determined by these on the prime of the revenue ladder, and a big proportion of India’s underemployed work power remains to be ready to learn from the success.
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