It is estimated that between 1.2 million and 2 million Iranian Americans currently live in the United States. The majority of Iranian immigrants live in suburban areas such as Los Angeles, Washington, DC, and New York's Long Island, and hold middle-class jobs.

Israel starts allowing outbound flights, restricted to 50 passengers per plane.

The Middle Eastern crisis is a series of interrelated wars, conflicts, and heightened instability in the Middle East that began in 2023 after the 7 October attacks on Israel, which followed a period of rising tensions and increased violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip; the attacks killed about 1,200 people in ...