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Fresh developments across the Middle East on Saturday pointed to rising strain in the wider Iran war. Iran said Qatar was holding three of its pilots who had been missing since March, while the United Arab Emirates accused Iran of attacking a vessel in the Strait of Hormuz. In Yemen, the Iran-backed Houthis struck the Red Sea port of Mokha.
In southern Lebanon, Israeli airstrikes killed nine people in two villages in some of the deadliest violence since a shaky truce between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah came into effect on June 20….