Trump grants Iran a 10-day pause on energy site strikes after a 7-day request, even as Tehran warns US-linked sites could be targeted and the month-long US-Israel conflict pushes the Middle East death toll into the thousands.

Israel's Defense Forces said Thursday that Iranian naval commander Alireza Tangsiri has been killed in a "precise strike" in the port city of Bandar Abbas.

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Israel’s air force continued efforts to strike infrastructure across Tehran and central Iran that the regime uses to produce weapons, the Israeli military said Thursday. More than 60 fighter jets and 150 munitions were used to target several facilities,

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Israel said it killed the naval commander, Alireza Tangsiri, in an airstrike on Thursday morning. Iran has not commented.

Israel said that Alireza Tangsiri, the naval commander it said was killed in overnight strikes, took charge of the seafaring wing of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in 2018, having previously been its first regional commander.

Israel's defence minister said a number of other "senior Navy command officials" have also been killed. Iran has not yet commented.

The biggest annual political conference for American conservatives, normally a spotlight for unity around President Donald Trump and his policies, is showing cracks of dissension as the war in Iran nears its fifth week.