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War in the Middle East: latest developments Paris, France, April 4 (AFP) Apr 04, 2026 The latest developments in the Middle East war:
An attack near the Bushehr nuclear power station killed one of the facility's guards but caused no damage, the official IRNA news agency said. The UN's IAEA nuclear watchdog said no increased radiation levels had been detected. The strike happened just minutes before Russia started the evacuation of 198 more of its workers from the Bushehr plant, which it helped build and assists in operating. An attack on a petrochemical hub in the southwestern port city of Mahshahr wounded five people, the Fars news agency said. Iranian media said a strike on a trade terminal in Khorramshahr, on the border with Iraq, killed one person. The ISNA news agency said the fatality was an Iraqi driver, and two Iranian workers were wounded. Another strike hit a cement factory in the southern port of Bandar Khamir, Tasnim news agency said. Iran's science minister, Hossein Simai Sarraf, said that "more than 30 universities" had been targeted since the war began.
Turkey said a second Turkey-flagged ship also went through the strait. On Friday, tracking data showed one French-owned ship and one Japanese-owned vessel had passed through. Iran's Revolutionary Guards also said on Saturday they targeted an Israel-linked ship in a drone attack in a Bahrain port, setting it on fire. They said the ship was called the MSC Ishyka.
Earlier, Lebanon's health ministry said Israeli airstrikes in Tyre that wounded 11 people damaged several buildings, including a major hospital.
The PMF -- now part of Iraq's regular army but containing pro-Iran factions -- has been repeatedly targeted since the outbreak of war on February 28.
They were the latest in a series of executions targeting the banned People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK). Four other members were executed earlier in the week.
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said the blast occurred inside a UN facility near El Adeisse on Friday. Indonesia said there was an "urgent need to strengthen protection for UN peacekeeping forces". A UN security official told AFP that Israeli forces had in 24 hours destroyed 17 surveillance cameras linked to UNIFIL's headquarters in southern Lebanon. The bodies of the three Indonesians arrived back in their home country on Saturday.
Israel's emergency services said a 45?year?old man was treated for minor injuries from glass shrapnel in the central city of Bnei Brak.
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