Exclusive: Supreme Leader's military adviser says Iran's response will be 'against military sites'
Updated 1324 GMT (2124 HKT) January 5, 2020
The military adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader said Sunday that his country's response to the killing by the United States of one its most influential commanders will certainly be a military response "against military sites."
In an exclusive interview with CNN in Tehran, Hossein Dehghan, the military adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, said: "The response for sure will be military and against military sites."
Dehghan, a former defense minister, is the main military adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and is very close to the Supreme Leader.
'Unprecedented': Firestorms destroy scores of properties across NSW
By Matt O'Sullivan and Peter Hannam
Hundreds of properties are likely to have been destroyed in the firestorms that have devastated vast tracts of NSW, leaving large numbers of people homeless and in desperate need of assistance.
After a "horrendous" weekend on the state's South Coast, the Southern Highlands and the Snowy Mountains, milder weather conditions offered firefighters and residents a brief reprieve before hotter temperatures and gusty winds are forecast to return later this week.
Making of a martyr: how Qassem Suleimani was hunted down
The drone strike on Iran’s enforcer could radically transform the Middle East
For Qassem Suleimani, the 62-year-old head of Iran’s Quds Force, and one of the most powerful men in the Middle East, the short flight from Damascus to Baghdad late on Thursday was routine. Travelling by private charter, the architect of Tehran’s strategic efforts from Lebanon through Syria and Iraq to Yemen would have avoided all formalities at one of the world’s most securely guarded airports.
As his plane touched down just after midnight on Friday morning after reportedly disappearing from commercial flight trackers shortly before landing, two cars were waiting to greet the burly general at the aircraft steps.
On the tarmac was a familiar face, Suleimani’s long-time associate Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the Iraqi leader of the Iranian-backed Shia militia Kata’ib Hezbollah, whose supporters had laid siege to the US embassy in Baghdad for two days last week in retaliation for US airstrikes that killed 25 militia fighters on 29 December.
Life After the Synagogue AttackA German Jewish Congregation Searches for Normalcy
Three months after the right-wing extremist attack on the synagogue in Halle, in which a gunman tried and failed to enter the building, the Jewish community in the city is still wrestling with its consequences.
By Felix Bohr and Timo Lehmann
There are days in life that will always remain unforgettably vivid, like an endless yesterday. For Nelli R., one such day is Oct. 9, 2019. "It was unbelievable," says the 21-year-old (who prefers that her last name not be used for fear of being targeted). Sitting on a folding chair in the prayer room of the Halle synagogue, where she narrowly escaped death three months ago, the student says she constantly feels like she is under threat.
The bullet holes are still visible in the wooden door leading to the synagogue's front courtyard. Around noon, Nelli R. was celebrating Yom Kippur together with 50 other Jews when a heavily armed right-wing terrorist, Stephan Balliet, tried and failed to shoot open the door.
Al-Shabaab claim attack on Kenya base used by Kenyan and US military
Jihadists from Somalia’s Al-Shabaab group on Sunday attacked a military base used by US and Kenyan forces in Kenya’s coastal Lamu region, the army spokesman said.
The strike on the base known as Camp Simba in Manda Bay is the latest by the group in Kenya since Nairobi sent troops across the border in 2011.
Kenya’s army spokesman Colonel Paul Njuguna said in a statement that at 5:30am “an attempt was made to breach security at Manda Air Strip.”
“The attempted breach was successfully repulsed. Four terrorists bodies have so far been found. The airstrip is safe. Arising from the unsuccessful breach a fire broke out affecting some of the fuel tanks located at the airstrip.”
Hackers deface U.S. government website with pro-Iranian message
The homepage for the U.S. Federal Depository Library Program was briefly altered Saturday evening to show a pro-Iranian message and an image of bloodied Donald Trump being punched in the face.
A line at the bottom read: "Hacked by Iran Cyber Security Group Hackers. This is only small part of Iran's cyber ability! We're always ready."
The website was not accessible soon after the image appeared.
CBS News could not confirm who was responsible. Several experts who track cyber activity were not aware of a group called Iran Cyber Security Group Hackers, and its affiliation with Iran could not be confirmed.
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