As Iranian-designed Shahed drones proliferate across battlefields from Ukraine to the Middle East, relatively cheap unmanned aircraft are forcing the use of some of the world's most expensive air defense systems.
The US embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, was hit in an attack on Saturday following strikes that killed two members of a powerful Iran-backed group in the capital, security sources said.
The assessment by the US secretary of defence contrasts with news reports earlier this week suggesting Iran had deployed about a dozen mines in the conduit for a fifth of the world’s oil.
Israel’s military said it began a new “wide-scale” wave of strikes across Iran on Thursday, on the 13th day of the US-Israeli war with the Islamic republic.
Ali Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, wrote on X: “Iran is not afraid of your empty threats. Even those greater than you could not eliminate the Iranian nation.
The US president warned on Friday of further significant strikes on the Islamic Republic, adding that American forces were “totally destroying the terrorist regime of Iran”.
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