Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Janine Hurst. Gulf states are reporting new missile and drone attacks today as Iran widens its campaign.

Tehran is telling people to evacuate from three major ports in the United Arab Emirates and Israel announced new missile strikes on Iran today.

All this as security forces in Iran are intensifying a crackdown

on civilians as the U.S. Israeli war in Iran enters its third week. And here's Arzhu-Rasvani has more

on the repression campaign. People all over Iran are now routinely stopped at an increasing

number of checkpoints, where security forces are often checking people's

phones to see who they're communicating with and what videos or photographs they're sharing.

That's according to the Norway-based Hangau Organization for Human Rights, which has a network

of independent sources inside Iran. The group says it has seen and verified text messages

civilians are regularly receiving from Iranian authorities, warning them not to share information with foreign media.

Since the start of the war, Iran state media reports that dozens of people across the country have been arrested on suspicion of spying.

Those detained have been accused of providing Israel with information about military and security

sites that the U.S. and Israel have been striking. Arzirzvani, NPR News, Urbiel, in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.

Ukrainian President Zelensky says the EU is pressuring him to reopen a Soviet-era oil pipeline in Ukraine that sends Russian oil to

two EU member states, Kremlin allies, Hungary, and Slovakia. If you're as Joanna Kikis's

reports, the pipeline was badly damaged earlier this year by a Russian attack.

Zelensky made the comments in Kiev during a private meeting with several media outlets,

including NPR.

He said that while Ukrainian crews need months to finish repairing the Drushpa pipeline,

he does not want to reopen it. If the EU threatened to withhold weapons to Ukraine, he says,

then he will be forced to restore the pipeline, but called this blackmail. The Hungarian government is blocking new

EU sanctions on Russia and also a $100 billion loan to Ukraine. The U.S. has also temporarily

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