NATO air defenses shot down an Iranian ballistic missile heading toward Turkish airspace, Turkey’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday. It was unclear whether the missile was targeting Turkey, a NATO member state bordering Iran. If Turkey was targeted, that would mark a major escalation in a war that has spread across the Middle East and to the Indian Ocean, where a U.S. submarine sank an Iranian warship, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a news briefing. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz threatened “elimination” to anyone selected as Iran’s next supreme leader, as Tehran moved closer to appointing a successor to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed Saturday in U.S. and Israeli strikes.
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