Iran has executed a man convicted of involvement in the killing of a security forces volunteer during anti-government protests, the judiciary announced. According to the judiciary’s Mizan Online website, “Mehrab Abdollahzadeh’s death sentence was carried out this morning after completing the legal formalities.”
In other developments, two foreign activists from a Gaza-bound flotilla, who were brought to Israel for interrogation, appeared before an Israeli court. A rights group defending them informed AFP that Spanish national Saif Abu Keshek and Brazilian Thiago Avila were taken to court in Ashkelon.
Meanwhile, Israel’s military has issued new evacuation warnings in southern Lebanon for villages beyond the area it occupies, despite a truce with Lebanon aimed at halting fighting with Iran-backed Hezbollah. The warning covers over 10 villages and towns, including several in the Nabatieh district, north of the Litani River, where Israel has stationed troops.
Iranian authorities plan to transform a bombsite at a university in central Iran into a museum dedicated to showcasing the impact of US-Israeli strikes, an official stated. Zafarollah Kalantari, head of Isfahan University of Technology, said, “The current damaged site will be preserved as a war museum at the university to remain a document of the country’s scientific oppression in history.”
On the diplomatic front, US President Donald Trump indicated that the United States would withdraw more troops from Germany than previously announced by the Pentagon. “We’re going to cut way down, and we’re cutting a lot further than 5,000,” he told reporters Saturday, without elaborating. NATO had earlier sought more information on the US decision.
Trump also expressed skepticism regarding a new Iranian peace deal, despite Iranian media reports that Tehran had submitted a 14-point proposal to mediator Pakistan. “I will soon be reviewing the plan that Iran has just sent to us, but can’t imagine that it would be acceptable in that they have not yet paid a big enough price for what they have done to Humanity, and the World, over the last 47 years,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform. Iran’s Tasnim and Fars news agencies reported the proposal includes ending conflict on all fronts and enacting a new framework for the crucial Strait of Hormuz.
In Lebanon, the state-run National News Agency reported that Israeli strikes across southern Lebanon on Saturday killed three people in Sammaiyeh in the Tyre district. The Israeli military claimed it carried out strikes dismantling “approximately 70 military structures and approximately 50 Hezbollah infrastructure sites” across southern Lebanon.
A Catholic charity condemned what it termed a “deliberate act of destruction against a place of worship” after a convent in Lebanon was damaged by Israeli forces. The Israeli military confirmed a “religious building” was damaged by troops operating in the village of Yaroun and “houses located in a religious compound” were “damaged” during an operation to “destroy terrorist infrastructure.” French Catholic charity L’Oeuvre d’Orient stated that troops “destroyed” a convent belonging to the Salvatorian Sisters, a Greek-Catholic religious order affiliated with the charity.
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