US Congress divided on Iran attacks, IRGC statement on Strait of Hormuz

0:00Al Jazeera Podcasts The US Congressional Democrats say the Trump administration's justifications for attacking Iran are falling short. The Senate will vote on the Iran War Powers Resolution, that's on Wednesday. Israel continues to carry out airstrikes across Lebanon. Earlier Israel said it targeted a building belonging to the Palestinian armed group Islamic Jihad. In southern Lebanon, three paramedics were killed and six others injured during rescue operations following explosions. Israel's Defense Minister has authorized troops to take control of additional positions in the South. Right or casualties are mounting in Iran. The Red Crescent says at least 787 people have been killed since that day. Multiple buildings have been targeted, including one in the city of KOM. The host meetings of the Assembly of Experts, and those are the ones that choose the new supreme leader. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has released a statement about the situation in

1:06the strait of Hanoz. It says the ground forces of the revolutionary guards entered the field of war with hostile America and the criminal Zionist regime, with three simultaneous operations and by firing 230 offensive drones. While Iran declared a traffic ban in the strait of Hanoz, it is impossible for oil, commercial and fishing vessels to pass through this passage, more than 10 oil tankers who did not pay attention to these warnings have been hit by various projectiles. An American destroyer, while refueling from an American tanker's 650 kilometers off the coast of Iran, Indian Ocean, was hit by Qadr 380 and Talayir, missiles of the IRGC Navy.