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TEHRAN, IRAN - OCTOBER 4: (EDITOR’S NOTE: This Handout image/clip was provided by a third-party organization and may not adhere to Getty Images’ editorial policy.) In this handout image provided by the Iranian Leader's Press Office, Iranian Supreme leader Ali Khamenei (C) with Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf (L) and Judiciary Chief Mohsen Ejeie (R), reading the Koran during the Friday prayer ceremony on October 04, 2024 in Tehran, Iran. Protesters supporting Iran's military position against Isra

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تشتبه إسرائيل في أن ترامب يراهن على ثلاثة مسؤولين إيرانيين، بمن فيهم قاليباف، لإنهاء الحرب

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Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the eastern outskirts of the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tyre on March 24, 2026. Lebanon was pulled into the Middle East war when Iran-backed Hezbollah began firing rockets into Israel on March 2 to avenge the killing of Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Israel has since launched strikes across Lebanon, killing at least 1,039 people and displacing more than a million others, and sent ground troops into the country's south. (Ph

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إسرائيل تحذر وتكثف ضرباتها على إيران ولبنان قبيل محادثات ترامب

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France's President Emmanuel Macron (L) wearing sunglasses shakes hands with Lebanon's Prime Minister Nawaf Salam prior to their meeting at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris, on January 23, 2026. (Photo by Ludovic MARIN / AFP via Getty Images)

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فرصة ضيقة: هل يمكن لضغط لبنان من أجل المحادثات أن يغير حسابات إسرائيل الحربية؟

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An Iranian security force officer stands guard next to a huge billboard of Iran's newly nominated supreme leader Ayatollah Mojataba Khamenei (pointing) during Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day rally, a commemoration in support of the Palestinian people on the last Friday of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, in Tehran on March 13, 2026. On February 28, Israel and the United States launched strikes on Iran, killing its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (photo bottom L) and triggering a war that spread across the M

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إسرائيل ترى طريقاً طويلاً لتغيير النظام في إيران مع تشديد الحرس الثوري الإيراني قبضته

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A banner depicting Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, Iran's new supreme leader and son of slain leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, is displayed on Enghelab (Revolution) Square, Tehran, as people gather for the funerals of commanders from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the army and others killed in US and Israeli strikes on Iran, March 11, 2026.

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إسرائيل ودول الخليج تخشى أن يفقد ترامب اهتمامه بالحرب مع دراسة إيران إمكانية خوض حرب نووية

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Smoke and flames rise at the site of airstrikes on an oil depot, Tehran, Iran, March 8, 2026.

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الوقت ينفد: إسرائيل تصعّد ضرباتها على إيران بينما يدرس ترامب "انسحاباً أنيقاً"

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وكالة المخابرات المركزية والموساد يدعمان الأكراد في إيران، بينما تسعى الولايات المتحدة وإسرائيل إلى إشعال فتيل تمرد عسكري.

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تتوقع إسرائيل احتجاجات مناهضة للنظام في إيران، ومن غير المرجح أن تغزو لبنان.

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An F-18E fighter jet takes off from the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, Sept. 24, 2025.

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إسرائيل "مستعدة" لتصعيد إيران، وتتطلع إلى الولايات المتحدة لتولي زمام المبادرة.

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إسرائيل تخشى أن يمهد ترامب الطريق لاتفاق جزئي مع إيران بشأن المواجهة النووية

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stands amid debris outside the Soroka Hospital in the southern city of Beersheba, after it was hit by a missile fired from Iran on June 19, 2025. Israel's defence minister warned that Iran's supreme leader "can no longer be allowed to exist" after a hospital was hit in an Iranian missile strike on June 19, spiking tensions in the week-old war. (Photo by Marc Israel SELLEM / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MARC ISRAEL SELLEM/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)

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رغم تحذيرات النخبة الدفاعية الإسرائيلية، يواصل نتنياهو الضغط من أجل توجيه ضربة لإيران

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إسرائيل قلقة من محاولة إيران كسب الوقت، لكنها ترى أن الضربات الأمريكية لا تزال ممكنة.

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