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  • IMPERIAL BEACH, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 17: A U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Border Patrol agent stands at Border Field State Park with the US-Mexico border wall in the background on August 17, 2025 in Imperial Beach, California. (Photo by Kevin Carter/Getty Images)
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    Dozens of Iranians to be deported from US to Iran, Tehran says
  • US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) participate in a press conference in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, DC on September 29, 2025. Gaza residents would not be forcibly displaced and President Donald Trump would head a transitional body under a peace plan released publicly Monday by the White House. (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP) (Photo by ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)
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  • Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly at the UN headquarters in New York City on September 24, 2025.
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    European nations hit Iran with ‘snapback’ sanctions over its nuclear program. Here’s what that means
  • Israeli police advised citizens to "remain vigilant" as hundreds allegedly received recruitment calls from Iranian intelligence on Saturday.
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    Hundreds of Israelis receive recruitment calls from Iranian intelligence, police say
  • TOPSHOT - Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a joint press conference with the US Secretary of State at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 15, 2025. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Washington would provide "unwavering support" to Israel in the war in Gaza as he called for the eradication of Hamas during a visit to the US ally on September 15. (Photo by Nathan Howard / POOL / AFP) (Photo by NATHAN HOWARD/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)
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    Live Updates UN delegates walk out on Netanyahu’s speech as Israeli assault on Gaza City intensifies
  • Israel and Iran flags are seen in this illustration taken June 18, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
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    American-Israeli citizen arrested in Israel on suspicion of spying for Iran
  • Footage shows emergency response in Eilat, Israel on September 24.
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    Yemen drone attack injures more than 20 in Israeli city of Eilat, including two in serious condition
  • US President Donald Trump speaks during the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City on Tuesday, September 23, 2025.
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  • Chinese honour guards at the Beijing Capital International airport on September 2, 2025 as foreign dignitaries fly in for an upcoming parade.
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    Leaders of China, Russia, North Korea and Iran gather in Beijing for huge military parade in challenge to the West
    Sep 2, 2025
  • Yemen's Houthi-led government's Prime Minister Ahmed al-Rahawi pictured last year.
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    Yemen’s Houthis say prime minister of rebel-controlled government killed in Israeli airstrike
    Aug 31, 2025
  •  An of overview of Iran's nuclear Fordow facility on Friday, June 27.
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    France, Germany and UK begin process of reimposing UN sanctions on Iran over nuclear program
    Aug 28, 2025
  • Smoke billows after an Israeli airstrike on Yemen's Houthi-held capital Sanaa on Sunday.
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    Israel strikes Yemen after Houthis fire new type of missile
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  • <p>Watch CNN's Fred Pleitgen describe how a building in the Iranian capital was badly damaged by an airstrike and speak to residents who witnessed the blast.</p>
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    Sep 24, 2025
  • <p>Fareed asks former Mossad Director Yossi Cohen about the future of the Iranian regime and whether it will persist in the long term.</p>
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    Video On GPS: Former Mossad director on the Iranian regime’s survival 4:32
    Sep 21, 2025
  • <p>As the IAEA looks to start inspections in Iran, the EU triggers a sanctions snapback mechanism, giving Iran and the EU 30 days for diplomacy. International Atomic Energy Agency chief Rafael Grossi discusses it with Becky Anderson.</p>
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