Iran's supreme leader
warns Washington and Jerusalem against attack on
Tehran's nuclear sites; says any aggression will meet
'iron fists'
"You should know
that this nation will not pull back even a
needle's width from the path it is on," he said in
a speech carried live on Iranian state television.
"Why do you damage the agency's dignity because of
America's invalid claims?" he asked.
A pipeline
transporting Egyptian natural gas to
Israel and Jordan was damaged by two
explosions, forcing a halt in exports of
the fuel in the seventh such attack since
February, Egypt’s Oil Ministry said.
The flow
of gas to Israel stopped at about 5 a.m.
Jerusalem time, Maya Etzioni, a
spokeswoman for Israel’s Ministry of
National Infrastructures, said today by
mobile phone.
“A
group of terrorists” set off the
overnight blasts in the northern Sinai
desert, causing a suspension of
exports and interrupting some domestic
supplies, the Egyptian ministry said
in an e-mailed statement. The
explosions underscore Egypt’s
challenge in securing the pipeline and
threaten to worsen its already soured
ties with its eastern neighbor. The
North African country, holder of the
continent’s third-largest gas
reserves, supplied Israel with about
40 percent of its gas needs before an
attack in July on the same network.
A piece of the
monster 'snowicane' that
recently slammed western
Alaska will blast into the
Northwest Friday, with a
parade of other storms to
follow. The weather will
improve across western
Alaska today in the wake
of the storm that
resembled a hurricane with
snow, a 'snowicane,'
Tuesday night into
Wednesday.
Part of that
'snowicane' will swing
into the Alaskan
Panhandle, home to
Juneau, today with rain
and mountain snow, but
not hurricane-force wind
gusts