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15:42
France Demands Immediate Release Of Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh
Nasrin Sotoudeh
France has demanded that Iran launch distinguished Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh, who was arrested on April 1 at her residence in Tehran.
“France calls for the immediate release of Nasrin Sotoudeh and all those arbitrarily detained in Iran,” a Foreign Ministry spokesman mentioned.
Mehraveh Khandan, the legal professional’s daughter who resides exterior Iran, mentioned safety forces additionally confiscated Sotoudeh’s private digital units, together with her cell phone and laptop computer.
Reza Khandan, Sotoudeh’s husband, has been in jail since December 2024.
Sotoudeh, who gained awards together with the 2012 Sakharov Prize of the European Parliament and the 2020 Right Livelihood award, has been arrested a number of occasions since 2010.
She has campaigned for a wide range of human rights-related points within the repressive state, together with working to forestall the execution of individuals convicted of crimes dedicated whereas minors.
Her detention has included intervals of solitary confinement, highlighting the challenges confronted by human rights defenders in Iran. Tehran has additional cracked down on dissent throughout its present struggle with the United States and Israel.
“This arrest is yet another illustration of the Iranian regime’s systematic policy of persecuting and intimidating human rights defenders, which must stop,” the French ministry spokesman mentioned.
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13:58
Britain Deploys Its Air Defense System To Kuwait
Britain is deploying its air protection system to Kuwait, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s workplace introduced on April 3, following an in a single day Iranian drone assault on a Kuwaiti oil facility.
Starmer mentioned the deployment of the UKs Rapid Sentry air protection system to the Gulf nation, throughout a name with the crown prince of Kuwait. The dialog occurred simply hours after a drone assault hit the Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery, one of the crucial vital in Kuwait and the broader area.
According to apress launch from Starmer’s workplace,the Rapid Sentry system, which is designed primarily to shoot down drones and different low-flying aerial threats, will shield Kuwaiti and British personnel and pursuits within the area.
The British prime minister condemned the “reckless” in a single day drone assault on the Kuwaiti oil refinery and reiterated that the UK stands with Kuwait and all its allies within the Gulf.
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12:52
WHO Raises Alarm Over Risks To Health Facilities
The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the battle in Iran and the broader area is impacting the supply of well being companies and the protection of well being staff, sufferers, and civilians at well being amenities.
WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus mentioned that for the reason that begin of the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, “WHO has verified over 20 attacks on health care in Iran, resulting in at least nine deaths.”
In a April 2 X put up, Ghebreyesus highlighted injury to the Pasteur Institute of Iran — a number one Iranian medical analysis heart based in 1920 — saying the power had suffered in depth injury and was not capable of ship its traditional well being companies.
While finest recognized for its public well being analysis, together with work on infectious illnesses, the power has confronted worldwide scrutiny previously. In 2007, the Japanese authorities listed it as an entity of concern over potential organic and chemical weapons proliferation.
Iranian President Masud Pezeshkian, a former coronary heart surgeon, condemned the alleged assault on the Pasteur Institute, urging worldwide well being organizations and physicians worldwide to answer this “crime against humanity.”
However, a US official denied that American forces struck the Pasteur Institute, and an Israeli army spokesperson mentioned they have been “not aware” of any IDF strike on the power on that day,in keeping with The Wall Street Journal.
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09:54
US Hit Key Bridge To ‘Eliminate Military Supply Route’
Photos shared on social media confirmed the broken bridge.
A US Central Command (CENTCOM) protection official has instructed RFE/RL’s Radio Farda that US forces struck a key bridge in northern Iran to eradicate a “planned military supply route for sustaining Iran’s ballistic missile and attack drone force.”
The B1 freeway bridge, which hyperlinks Tehran to Karaj within the Alborz Province and has been described in Iranian media as the very best within the Middle East, was hit by two US air strikes on April 2, inflicting vital injury.
Iranian officers mentioned eight individuals have been killed and 95 injured within the assaults, though these figures couldn’t be independently verified. Officials quoted within the Iranian media have mentioned that the bridge was nonetheless underneath building and denied it was getting used as a army provide route.
Posting on TruthSocial on April 2, US President Donald Trump mentioned, “The biggest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, never to be used again.
In his latest warning to the regime, Trump threatened more attacks on Iranian electrical power plants and bridges.
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09:23
Drone Attack Hits Major Oil Refinery In Kuwait
A drone attack hit an oil refinery in Kuwait early on April 3, sparking fires at several of its units, according to the state-owned Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC).
In a statement on X, the KPC said that the Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery had been targeted in a “malicious drone assault,” resulting in fires in several operational units.
Emergency teams were working to contain the blazes and there were no reports of injuries, the statement said.
The Mina Al-Ahmadi refinery is one of the most important oil refineries in Kuwait and the wider Gulf region.
Over a month since the start of US-Israeli strikes on Iran, Tehran continues to conduct drone and missile attacks on neighboring Gulf states, targeting their energy facilities.
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04:54
Trump Warns US ‘Hasn’t Even Started’ To Destroy ‘What’s Left In Iran’
President Donald Trump said the US military “hasn’t even began” to destroy what is left of Iran after a month of devastating attacks and threatened to strike more bridges and electrical power plants in the latest social media posts warning the regime in Tehran.
“Our Military, the best and strongest (by far!) anyplace within the World, hasnt even began destroying whats left in Iran. Bridges subsequent, then Electric Power Plants! New Regime management is aware of what must be performed, and must be performed, FAST!,” Trump wrote onTruth Sociallate on April 2.
A day earlier, Trump warned Tehran to “make a deal earlier than it’s too late” and hailed a US military strike on a key bridge linking the capital to nearby provinces. Iran said eight people were killed and nearly 100 injured in the attack on the B1 Bridge, although the account could not independently be verified.
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04:02
UN Security Council Delays Vote On Use Of ‘Defensive’ Force In Strait Of Hormuz
The UN Security Council has delayed a vote on a draft resolution to allow the use of “defensive” force to protect shipping from Iranian attacks in the crucial Strait of Hormuz.
The vote was scheduled for April 3 at 11 a.m., but late on April 2 the vote was postponed, with the reason given that it was the Good Friday public holiday. A new date hasn’t been set.
Earlier Jamal Alrowaiei, the UN ambassador for Bahrain — which presented the draft resolution — said: “We can’t settle for financial terrorism affecting our area and the world, the entire world is being affected by the developments.”
Iran has effectively blocked one of the worlds most important shipping lanes — creating a bottleneck of oil and natural gas tankers and threatening global fuel supplies — in retaliation for US-Israeli strikes that have blasted the country since February 28.
The UN Security Council is scheduled to vote on a resolution allowing ‘defensive’ force in the Strait of Hormuz. (file photo)
The head of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) backed the call for UN approval of force to protect the strait from Iranian attacks.
“Iran has closed the Strait of Hormuz, prevented business vessels and oil tankers from transiting, and imposed situations on some to cross by the strait,” GCC Secretary-General Jasem Mohamed AlBudaiwi said.
“We name upon the Security Council to imagine its full accountability and take all mandatory measures to guard maritime routes and make sure the protected continuation of worldwide navigation,” AlBudaiwi said.
The GCC comprises Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and Oman.
Bahrans text has gone through several amendments and is supported by the United States, but it faces some opposition in the Security Council, especially by Russia and China — both of which hold veto power.
“The use of drive can’t deliver peace. Political settlement is the elemental means ahead,” Chinese Ambassador Fu Cong told the Security Council.
“Authorizing member states to make use of drive would quantity to legitimizing the illegal and indiscriminate use of drive, which might inevitably result in additional escalation of the state of affairs and result in severe penalties,” he added.
AFP reports that a sixth and final draft would allow member states — either individually or as “voluntary multinational naval partnerships” — to use “all defensive means mandatory and commensurate with the circumstances.”
Russia, a close ally of Iran, has denounced what it calls one-sided measures against Tehran.
The resolution applies to the strait and adjacent waters to “safe transit passage and to discourage makes an attempt to shut, impede or in any other case intervene with worldwide navigation by the Strait of Hormuz.”
The measure would last for a period of at least six months and emphasizes the defensive nature of any intervention — a stipulation that seems to have eased earlier French concerns.
With reporting by AFP
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01:50
UN Chief Says World On Edge Of A ‘Wider War,’ Urges End To ‘Spiral Of Death’
Amid vows by the United States and Iran to intensify attacks, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on April 2 called for an end to the “spiral of loss of life and destruction” in the Middle East.
“We are on the sting of a wider struggle that might engulf the entire Middle East with dramatic impacts across the globe,” Guterres told reporters in New York.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres (file photo).
Guterres cited the dangers of the situation in the Strait of Hormuz, where Iran has brought shipping to a near standstill, creating a bottleneck of oil and natural gas tankers, which has led to a global energy crisis
“When the Strait of Hormuz is strangled, the world’s poorest and most weak can’t breathe,” Guterres said.
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23:18
2.4.2026
Zelenskyy Offers Freedom Of Navigation Expertise To Aid Hormuz Shipping
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has offered to provide Kyiv’s expertise in dealing with freedom of navigation in the Black Sea to countries considering ways to keep the crucial Strait of Hormuz open amid conflict in the Middle East.
In his nightlyvideo addresson April 2, Zelenskyy said Foreign Minister Andriy Sybiha had participated in a virtual meeting convened by Britain devoted to reopening the strait, which has effectively been blocked by Iran.
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Kyiv can help partners with its navigation expertise. (file photo)
“Ukraine has related experience regarding sea waterways, in regards to the protection and reopening of maritime visitors,” Zelenskyy said without providing details.
“If [our] companions are able to act we are going to contemplate how we will strengthen them, how we will apply our experience, data and technological potential.”
During the conference, British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper condemned Iran’s “recklessness” for stopping nearly all shipping through the strait — causing global economic chaos as flows of oil, gas, and other vital commodities have come to a halt.
Kyiv has developed technology — including sea drones — that has enabled it to score dramatic successes over Russian ships in the Black Sea, preventing Moscow from controlling the waterway.
Zelenskyy traveled to the Middle East, meeting with leaders as part of efforts to provide them with defense technology it has developed in four years of fighting against the Russian invasion.
With reporting by Reuters
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17:55
2.4.2026
Key Bridge In Northern Iran Hit By Strikes
A photo shared on social media showing apparent damage to the bridge.
The Fars news agency, which is close to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, has reported that the B1 highway bridge in northern Iran was damaged in US and Israeli air strikes.
Images on social media show significant damage to the bridge, which links Tehran to Karaj in the Alborz Province.
There were reportedly two strikes, the second coming about an hour after the first. Neither the US nor Israeli militaries have confirmed the attack.
Iranian media have described the bridge as the highest in the Middle East. There were conflicting reports as to whether the bridge was still under construction or had already been inaugurated.
According to Fars, the Alborz governorate said two people were killed and several others injured in the first attack on the bridge.
UPDATE: Posting on TruthSocial, President Trump has said, “The greatest bridge in Iran comes tumbling down, by no means for use once more — Much extra to observe!”
UPDATE 2: An area Iranian official later mentioned eight individuals have been killed and 95 injured in two rounds of assaults on the bridge, Iranian media reported. The account couldn’t be independently verified.
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