US military says it disabled tanker trying to breach blockade amid new wave of strikes on Iran – Middle East crisis live

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Iran’s air defences have been activated in Tehran to counter “hostile threats” on the Iranian capital, according to the country’s semi-official Mehr news agency. In more news from the US, the House of Representatives has defeated a measure to slash military aid to Israel. But more than 100 House Democrats voted for it in a significant rebuke of the longtime US ally as accusations that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government authorised genocide in Gaza continue to convulse the party ahead of US midterm elections in November. See the full report here: Donald Trump has thanked the country he is bombing, Iran, for allowing an American citizen he says was “wrongfully detained in…