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Trump brokers Hamas disarmament deal as Saudi Arabia plans Houthi offensive - Fox News
World7/31/20261 min read
President Donald Trump announced a deal for Hamas to disarm and Israeli forces to withdraw from Gaza, nine months after a U.S.-brokered ceasefire. While Hamas confirmed the disarmament agreement on Friday, major hurdles, conditions, and long timelines remain …
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- Iran has threatened to retaliate against any U.S. or Israeli strikes by targeting critical energy infrastructure across the region, according to comments published Friday by Iran's state-affiliated Tasnim News Agency.
- A senior Iranian security official dismissed U.S. media reports of possible American and Israeli attacks on Iranian infrastructure as "a kind of madness," warning that Tehran has prepared "extensive response plans."
- The official said those plans include strikes on Israeli critical infrastructure and U.S. energy infrastructure, claiming Iran's armed forces possess both "the capability and the will" to carry them out.
- The warning followed a White House statement to Fox News Digital that President Donald Trump "is not going to stand by and allow this terrorist behavior to occur."
- The administration added that "Iran will continue to pay until they come to the table in, what President Trump deems, a meaningful way," responding to reports of a potential expansion of U.S. military operations against Iran.
The Pentagon is confronting a growing reality after months of fighting Iran: America's stockpile of missile defense interceptors.
It is shrinking so much, military planners are weighing whether they