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Iraq has slammed US airstrikes following Friday's attack - warning that the "aggressive strike" puts the region "on the brink of the abyss".

  THE AP REPORTING: American authorities seized a range of Iran’s state-linked news website domains they accused of spreading disinformation, the U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday, a move that appeared to be a far-reaching crackdown on Iranian media amid heightened tensions between the two countries. The Justice Department said 33 of the seized websites were used by the Iranian Islamic Radio and Television Union, which was singled out by the U.S. government last October for what officials described as efforts to spread disinformation and sow discord among American voters ahead of the 2020 presidential election. The U.S. says three other seized websites were operated by the Iraqi Shiite paramilitary group, Kata’ib Hizballah, which more than a decade ago was designated a foreign terrorist organization. The group is separate from the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group whose news websites remained operational. The website domains are owned by U.S. companies, but despite the sanctions...

  Iran’s only nuclear power plant has undergone an unexplained temporary emergency shutdown, state TV reported on Sunday… Relying more on the official ‘government’ word about this:  An official from state electric company Tavanir, Gholamali Rakhshanimehr, said on a talk show that the Bushehr plant shutdown began on Saturday and would last “for three to four days.”Without elaborating, he said that power outages could result.  Here is more we know from official reporting: This is the first time Iran has reported an emergency shutdown of the plant, located in the southern port city of Bushehr. It went online in 2011 with help from Russia. Iran is required to send spent fuel rods from the reactor back to Russia as a nuclear nonproliferation measure… Most of the media is still not reporting much on  Bushehr ..  BUT they also have not reported on another still developing incident at the Taishan nuclear plant in China.. Just as some are beginning to speculate...