{"id":526071,"date":"2026-07-05T08:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/526071\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T08:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T08:14:13","slug":"live-updates-latest-from-israel-iran-and-middle-east-65","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/526071\/","title":{"rendered":"Live Updates: Latest from Israel, Iran, and Middle East"},"content":{"rendered":"

Live Updates: Latest from Israel, Iran, and Middle East | The Jerusalem PostMojtaba Khamenei banned from attending father’s funeral over assasination fears \u2022 Trump, Netanyahu discuss possible White House visit \u2022 Former Israeli amb. to US calls MoU ‘massive surrender to Iran’Follow us on Google<\/a>\"USUS President Donald Trump speaks at a Fourth of July rally, marking the 250th anniversary of US independence, on the National Mall in Washington, DC, US, July 4, 2026.(photo credit: REUTERS\/Evan Vucci)<\/p>\n

July 5, 10:53 AM<\/p>\n

No sign of Mojtaba: Khamenei’s three other sons seen at Tehran funeral as second day beginsThe funeral began on Saturday in Tehran with chants of “death to America, death to Israel,” and his body is expected to be taken to Qom, Najaf and Kerbala, the great Shi’ite centers of Iran and Iraq.ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM<\/a>, REUTERS\"Enlarge\"\"MournersMourners gather at the Grand Mosalla to pay their final respects to Iran’s former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran on July 5, 2026. (photo credit: AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)Go to the full article > ><\/a><\/p>\n

July 5, 10:48 AM<\/p>\n

Qatar resumes full maritime navigation activitiesByJERUSALEM POST STAFF<\/a><\/p>\n

July 5, 9:38 AM<\/p>\n

Israel sent Iron Dome system, team to UAE during recent Iran war, Miri Regev confirmsDozens of Iranian missiles fired towards the Gulf state were intercepted by the system.ByYONAH JEREMY BOB<\/a>, GOLDIE KATZ<\/a>\"Enlarge\"\"TheThe Iron Dome fires to intercept incoming rockets launched from the Gaza Strip. Maintaining Israel\u2019s qualitative military edge remains a central issue in future US-Israel security discussions.(photo credit: Menahem Kahana\/AFP via Getty Images)Go to the full article > ><\/a><\/p>\n

July 5, 7:19 AM<\/p>\n

Trump says Netanyahu ‘knows who the boss is,’ as leaders discuss possible White House visit”We get along very good. [Netanyahu] knows who the boss is,” Trump said in a phone interview with Axios.ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN<\/a>\"Enlarge\"\"USUS President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a press conference after meeting at Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, US, December 29, 2025.(photo credit: REUTERS\/JONATHAN ERNST\/FILE PHOTO)Go to the full article > ><\/a><\/p>\n

July 5, 5:52 AM<\/p>\n

Trump says Netanyahu ‘knows who the boss is,’ as leaders discuss possible White House visit”We get along very good. [Netanyahu] knows who the boss is,” Trump said in a phone interview with Axios.ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN<\/a>\"Enlarge\"\"USUS President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a press conference after meeting at Trump\u2019s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, US, December 29, 2025.(photo credit: REUTERS\/JONATHAN ERNST\/FILE PHOTO)Go to the full article > ><\/a><\/p>\n

July 5, 5:52 AM<\/p>\n

Mojtaba Khamenei banned from attending his father’s funeral due to regime’s assassination concernsThe current Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei was one of the main absences in the funeral, while he hasn’t been seen in the public eye since he was wounded at the begining of the war.ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF<\/a>, REUTERS\"Enlarge\"\"DeputyDeputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev pays his respects to Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Tehran, Iran July 3, 2026.(photo credit: Sputnik\/Oleg Molchanov\/Pool via REUTERS )Go to the full article > ><\/a><\/p>\n

July 5, 5:52 AM<\/p>\n

‘Massive surrender to Iran’: Former Israeli ambassador to US Danny Ayalon admonishes US-Iran MoU”What is happening today is massive surrender by the US to Iran; the Iranians are setting the tone, the US is releasing funds to Iran,” he said.By103FM\"Enlarge\"\"FormerFormer deputy minister of foreign affairs Danny Ayalon seen at the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem on October 23, 2012.(photo credit: YOAV ARI DUDKEVITCH\/FLASH90)Go to the full article > ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Live Updates: Latest from Israel, Iran, and Middle East | The Jerusalem PostMojtaba Khamenei banned from attending father’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16097,49,54,21754,35319,83420,42,149244,87,142930,46,57,1486,47,159370,43,2595,157282,157283,1823,114994,3336,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-526071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-ayatollah-ali-khamenei","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-donald-trump","tag-drone-attack","tag-gulf","tag-gulf-states","tag-headlines","tag-hormuz","tag-iran","tag-iran-deal","tag-israel","tag-live-updates","tag-memorandum-of-understanding","tag-middle-east","tag-mojtaba-khamenei","tag-news","tag-oman","tag-operation-epic-fury","tag-operation-roaring-lion","tag-qatar","tag-strait-of-hormuz","tag-tehran","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}