An Israeli minister sought to downplay the deal, but critics said it could spur other regional countries to pursue a nuclear program, and potentially the creation of a bomb.
Nir Barkat, Israel’s minister of economy, in Tel Aviv last year. He has been the most senior Israeli government official to comment on the expected U.S.-Saudi nuclear deal so far.
Seen as closer to Iran, Khalil al-Hayya served as the Palestinian militant group’s chief negotiator with Israel and the Trump administration during the Gaza war.
Senator Lindsey Graham, in 2024 in Washington, leading a Republican news conference to condemn the Biden administration’s decision to pause the delivery of bombs to Israel.
The Strait of Hormuz seen from Musandam, Oman, this month. While the Trump administration has said that a cease-fire would fully lift Iran’s blockade of the strait, that has yet to be borne out.
Analysts expressed skepticism that the vote would take place as planned. In 2021, Mahmoud Abbas, the authority’s leader, scheduled and then canceled a similar election.
Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestinian Authority speaking during a conference in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, in May. His term ended in 2009, but he has since canceled elections.
Crowds gathering around Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s casket in Tehran on Monday. The supreme leader’s body will be taken to several cities before being buried in Mashhad, Iran.
A resolution by the country’s cabinet escalated a long-running conflict between Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the country’s judiciary. A senior government official later walked that back.
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