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America's Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, said that a U.S. Navy submarine sank an Iranian

warship in the Indian Ocean.

He called it America's first sinking of an enemy

ship with a torpedo since the Second World War. Meanwhile, America's Senate rejected a measure

that would require Congress to approve Donald Trump's military operations in Iran. The outcome was expected. The House of Representatives

will vote on Thursday. Turkey's defense ministry said that NATO air defense systems in the

Mediterranean shot down an Iranian ballistic munition that was headed towards its airspace.

Debris from the missile interceptor landed in southern Turkey. No one was hurt.

Iran is expanding its strikes against American allies across the region.

Thus far, Turkey has not allowed America to launch strikes from its territory.

Reports suggest that Moitabha Harmoné, the 56-year-old son of the late Ayatollah Ali Hamene,

has emerged as the front-runner to become Iran's supreme leader. The country's assembly of experts, a group of 88 senior clerics,

met on Tuesday to deliberate ahead of the former supreme leader's funeral.

Israel's defense ministry, Israel Katz, said that, quote, any leader chosen by the regime

would become a target for elimination.

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