Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Iran's supreme leader is ‘unconscious’ - Times
The Times reports that Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei is unconscious and receiving treatment in the city of Qom, citing a US–Israeli intelligence memo shared with Arab allies.
According to the report, the memo states that Khamenei is currently unable to govern and is undergoing treatment in the religious center south of Tehran.
The newspaper said the information has been circulated among regional partners and may represent the first indication of Khamenei’s location since the war began.
Khamenei has not appeared publicly since the conflict between Iran, the United States and Israel erupted more than five weeks ago.
Iran urges UAE, Saudi Arabia, to stop use of territory against it
Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations has called on Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to respect principles of good neighborliness and prevent their territory from being used against Iran.
In two separate letters sent to the UN Security Council and the UN secretary-general, the envoy warned against the continued use of the two countries’ territory for actions targeting Iran.
85 arrested over aiding US-Israel strikes, Iran police says
Iran’s police chief said on Tuesday that authorities had arrested 85 people after identifying an alleged enemy-linked network in 25 provinces.
Police Commander Ahmadreza Radan accused the detainees of collecting and sending the locations of sensitive sites, including checkpoints and security forces’ positions, for use in strikes by the US and Israel.
He said the authorities had also seized “specialized electronic equipment, Starlink devices, weapons and ammunition.”
Kurdistan region says drones that killed couple in Erbil were launched from Iran
The Iraqi Kurdistan region’s counter-terrorism service said on Tuesday that drones which struck a civilian home in Erbil overnight, killing a couple, were launched from Iran.
In a statement issued early on Tuesday, the agency said the one-way attack drones targeting Erbil had taken off from inside Iranian territory.
The presidency of the Kurdistan region called on the Iraqi federal government to take responsibility to prevent such attacks and stop what it described as repeated violations against the region and its civilians.
The governor of Erbil said multiple drones and missiles were fired toward the city overnight.
He said the deaths of the couple brought the total number of people killed in attacks on the Kurdistan region since Feb. 28 to 16.