Report: Iran prepares for war - and enlists more soldiers | Live updates

A report in the Wall Street Journal says Iran is preparing for war and recruiting additional soldiers, alongside threats of a broader response against the US and its Gulf allies. Meanwhile, Trump attacked China and Russia for aiding Iran, the IMF warned of a hit to global economic resilience due to dwindling oil reserves, and Poland accused Israel of a crime against the state in the Pegasus affair.

A report in the Wall Street Journal says Iran is preparing for war and recruiting additional soldiers to its military ranks. Alongside this, Tehran is threatening a broader and harsher response against the US and its Gulf allies. Donald Trump wrote on Truth Social that he does not believe China and Russia are helping Iran, and attacked the radical left in the US. The International Monetary Fund issued a warning that emergency oil reserves are dwindling and government budgets are stretched, so the resilience limits of the global economy may soon be tested. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk accused Israel of a crime against the state in the Pegasus spyware affair. The Houthi Al-Masirah channel reported four Saudi strikes in Yemen overnight. The Ma'alot-Tarshiha municipality announced that Elazar Yair Vilensky, a 9th-grade student, is the fatality from the unexploded ordnance explosion during an annual trip in the Ramim Ridge in the north. A West Bank infiltrator previously involved in attacks was arrested after filming at an underground station of the light rail in Bnei Brak while posing as an Israeli.