Netanyahu says he has a “methodical plan” to “eradicate the Iranian regime.” Israel will continue to strike Iran with “all” its “might” to “eradicate the regime” following a “methodical plan,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday night. Israel says it has carried out 3,400 strikes in Iran since the war began.
Nearly 300 dead in Lebanon. Israeli strikes have killed a total of 294 people, according to the latest figures released Saturday by the Lebanese Ministry of Health. Over 450,000 displaced persons have been recorded in the country, according to authorities.
Return of French nationals. At least 4,300 people who were in the Middle East when the war broke out have been able to return to France, including 800 on flights chartered by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, announced Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot on Saturday.
Tribute to American soldiers. Donald Trump took part in a brief ceremony on Saturday for the return of the remains of the first six American soldiers killed in the war against Iran, on the tarmac of Dover Air Force Base (Delaware, northeast).
A new supreme leader this Sunday? The Assembly of Experts, an Iranian body responsible for electing the next supreme leader to succeed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who died on the first day of Israeli-American strikes, is set to meet “within the next 24 hours,” said Hossein Mozafari, a member of the Assembly of Experts, quoted on Saturday by the Fars news agency.
