JERUSALEM (AP) — The helicopter crash in which Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the country’s foreign minister and other officials were killed is likely to reverberate across the Middle East, where Iran’s influence runs wide and deep.
That’s because Iran has spent decades supporting armed groups and militants in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen and the Palestinian territories, allowing it to project power and potentially deter attacks from the United States or Israel, the sworn enemies of its 1979 Islamic Revolution.
Bella Hadid goes braless in a thigh
OJ Simpson's time in Hollywood: A look back at The Naked Gun star's hit movie career
How DO you deal with a problem like Gary Lineker?
Saudi Arabia is going to sponsor the WTA women's tennis rankings under a new partnership
Spy agency's surveillance powers too broad, Inspector
Video shows Victim Support worker 'bragging' about smacking his children
Philippines blames China for loss of giant clams in disputed shoal and urges environmental inquiry
In Pictures: Rare celestial event totally eclipsed by thick cloud in Hong Kong