Headlines- Iran's late supreme leader Ali Khamenei's plane was destroyed overnight at Tehran's Mehrabad airport, according to the Israeli military.
- Six drones have been intercepted and destroyed in the Eastern province of Saudi Arabia, according to the country's Defense Ministry.
- Tehran has not requested the US "for a ceasefire," Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says.
- Iraq claims that five rockets injured five people on Sunday at the Baghdad airport.
- The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has threatened to keep searching for and killing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
- Iranian allegations that the United States is attacking Gulf nations with one-way drones, according to U.S. Central Command, are a "lie."
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