With tensions at a boiling point in the region amid Israel’s war on Hamas, an Iranian official said Sunday that Israeli embassies were “no longer safe.”

It was the latest threat from Iran since an Israeli strike killed 13 people including top officials with the Quds Force, the Iranian military’s foreign operations branch, last Monday.

Israel “will be punished at the hands of our brave men. We will make them regret this crime and the other ones,” Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said the day after the attack.

Israeli officials said they’d be ready, with leaders in the U.S. voicing support even as President Biden is becoming more critical of Israel’s conduct in Gaza.

 The Israeli Defense Ministry said in a Sunday statement that the country has “completed preparations for responses in the event of any scenario that may develop vis-à-vis Iran.”

Herzi Halevi, the chief of general staff, said Israel “knows how to deal with Iran — offensively and defensively.

“We know how to act forcefully against Iran in both near and distant places. We are operating in cooperation with the U.S.A. and strategic partners in the region,” he added.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer condemned Tehran on Sunday.

“They have little regard for peace and they have little regard for their fellow citizens in the Middle East,” the New York Dem said at an unrelated news conference in Midtown.

“I know the president and his team are working hard to prevent escalation and are prepared to defend any attack and respond swiftly if necessary,” he added.

The scope of a potential Iranian retaliatory strike is not clear.

“Iran is not capable of a big confrontation with Israel given its military capabilities and economic and political situation,” Middle East analyst Ali Sadrzadeh recently told BBC News. “But it will have to come up with a response for domestic consumption and to protect its reputation among its regional allies.”

Still, the top U.S. Air Force commander for the Middle East warned last week that Iran-backed militias could resume attacks on U.S. bases in Iraq and Syria. The U.S. denied any responsibility for the attack on the consulate in Syria, though Iranian officials said they blamed Washington, Israel’s most important ally.

The latest developments come after Biden had a widely reported phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday in which the president said future U.S. support of Israel hinges on improving disastrous humanitarian conditions in Gaza.

“President Biden emphasized that the strikes on humanitarian workers and the overall humanitarian situation are unacceptable,” the White House said in a statement. “He made clear that U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action on these steps.”

The call, which came after an Israeli strike killed seven aid workers from the World Central Kitchen last Monday, appeared to mark a shift in Biden’s strong support of Israel’s war on Hamas to date.

More than 33,000 people in Gaza, many of them women and children, have been killed since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel prompted a ferocious military response, according to the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry. Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands in Gaza are at risk of starvation, international organizations say.

 National Security Council spokesman John Kirby shied away Sunday from going into specifics on how the White House might try to pressure Israel on humanitarian steps.

“We’re all focused on the fight in Gaza, as we rightly should be. But they’re facing threats from Iran and from Iran-backed groups all through the region,” he said of Israel on ABC’s “This Week.”

“We’ve got to make sure that they’re ready for this.”

Rep. Michael Turner, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, voiced alarm over Iran’s recent threats.

“Americans in the area remain in danger,” the Ohio Republican said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“Remember, Iranian proxies have continued to attack U.S. troops in the area, again, with the Biden administration being slow to respond … to those attacks,” he added.

In the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attacks, Iranian-backed proxies launched more than 150 attacks on U.S. forces in the region, according to officials, though they appeared to slow down after three American troops were killed earlier this year.

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The remarks came as he was talking about threats to domestic car production but drew condemnation from Dems for their violent tone.

“We’re gonna put a 100% tariff on every single [foreign-made] car that comes across the line and you’re not going to be able to sell those guys if I get elected,” Trump told supporters gathered near Dayton International Airport in Vandalia, Ohio.

“Now if I don’t get elected, it’s gonna be a bloodbath for the whole — that’s gonna be the least of it — it’s gonna be a bloodbath for the country, that’ll be the least of it,” he added.

Supporters of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee insisted he was talking just about the U.S. auto industry, though they voiced some qualms about his choice of words — the latest in a series of ominous statements from Trump.

“The general tone of the speech is why many Americans continue to wonder, ‘Should President Trump be president?’ That kind of rhetoric — it’s always on the edge, maybe doesn’t cross, maybe does depending upon your perspective,” Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

He also took exception with the flurry of news coverage prompted by the “bloodshed” quote.

“Sometimes the mainstream media, whether they want to or not, can’t resist and they go just a little bit too far, which distracts from what could be the impact,” the lawmaker said.

Rep. Michael Turner, a Republican whose district was the site of the rally, took a similar stance.

“The president’s statements concerning ‘bloodbath’ were about what would happen in the auto industry,” he said on ABC’s “This Week.”

“Certainly, there are statements that he makes that, you know, many Americans would not agree with and many Americans would agree with it,” he added.

For months, Trump has warned of dire consequences if he loses the contest, saying the reelection of President Biden would mark the end of democracy.

He’s also returned to a key theme of his successful 2016 run, the demonization of immigrants.

Trump continued the harsh rhetoric Saturday.

“I don’t know if you call them people,” he said, prefacing the comment with a ramble about members of the MS-13 gang.

“In some cases they’re not people, in my opinion. But I’m not allowed to say that because the radical left says that’s a terrible thing to say,” Trump continued, repeating promises of a massive deportation effort if he returns to the White House.

Turner offered subdued criticism of the “not-human” remarks, saying, “I, of course, have disagreed with those in the past.”

The “bloodbath” comments — and Trump’s praise during the same speech of people imprisoned over the Jan. 6, 2021, siege of the U.S. Capitol — didn’t nudge Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) from his support of Trump.

“I talk in a different format than what the former president does,” he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“I’m endorsing the Republican nominee for the presidency. And if that’s Mr. Trump, then that’s the best choice of the two choices that we have got.”

Trump’s trademark outlandish rhetoric has spawned endless analysis of what he really means.

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said the latest instance is cause for alarm.

“What does that mean — he’s going to exact a ‘bloodbath?’ There’s something wrong here,” she said on “State of the Union.”

“How much more do they have to see from him to understand this isn’t what our country is about?” Pelosi said of voters.

After a series of decisive early Republican primary wins for Donald Trump and with President Biden facing no serious Democratic challenger, Super Tuesday looks like it will be super-predictable.

But there’s a lot riding on the outcome for both candidates, who face major challenges on the way to the November general election.

Biden is hoping to energize his campaign amid persistent questions about whether the 81-year-old is too old for the job. He’ll have a chance to do so during his State of the Union address, which falls on Thursday.

About six in 10 people who voted for Biden in 2020 now say he’s too old to be effective, according to results of a headline-making New York Times/Siena College poll released over the weekend.

Far fewer Trump supporters — only 14% — said the same thing about him, though he’s just four years younger than Biden.

“He’s aged a lot. With the exception of Trump, every president seems to age a lot during their presidency,” one independent voter told The Times.

The issue has even surfaced on “Saturday Night Live.” During this weekend’s cold open, cast members depicting Biden allies made exaggerated claims about his vigor, drawing laughs.

The president has bristled at criticism about his fitness for office, saying at a February press conference, “I know what the hell I’m doing.”

Amid his Manhattan fraud trial and unprecedented criminal investigations, Trump has managed to finish off all the competition in the GOP presidential contest except for former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.

But after his latest wins, including in her home state, she’s widely expected to exit the race before long.

Trump’s campaign expects to lock down the 1,215 delegate votes required for the Republican nomination by March 19 at the latest, according to The Hill.

Haley hasn’t quit yet, though, recently arguing to voters in Colorado that Trump can’t win the general election.

In the same state, Biden is facing another campaign for Dems to vote “noncommitted” this Tuesday in protest of his stance on Israel’s war on Hamas, according to Axios. Last week in Michigan, over 100,000 Democrats voted that way.

Amid a climbing death toll in Gaza and growing outrage over civilian casualties, Biden has been calling for a ceasefire, so far unsuccessfully.

“It is time for the president to use all the levers that he has to get a long-term ceasefire. I think if that ceasefire doesn’t come in, it’s in Israel’s interest for them to pause military activity to solve the humanitarian crisis,” Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”

“But to the extent the president is using additional leverage on Israel, he should do that for national security reasons, not for political reasons,” he added.

Super Tuesday will see voting in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont and Virginia, plus the territory of American Samoa.

The Biden campaign expects to benefit once the race is down to just him and Trump, hoping voters will again see the Dem as the trustworthy choice, The Hill noted.

First Lady Jill Biden went on the attack against Trump on Friday in Atlanta, giving a preview of her role on the campaign trail, according to CNN.

“I’ve been so proud of how Joe has placed women at the center of his agenda. But Donald Trump?” the outlet quoted her as saying.

“He spent a lifetime tearing us down and devaluing our existence. He mocks women’s bodies, disrespects our accomplishments and brags about assault. Now he’s bragging about killing Roe v. Wade.”

For his part, Trump has repeated the kind of outlandish statements that characterized his 2016 and 2020 runs.

“Biden’s conduct on our border is by any definition a conspiracy to overthrow the United States of America,” he said Saturday in Greensboro, N.C., according to The Washington Post. “He talks about democracy. He is a danger to democracy.”

Alpha Diallo, 28, had just hung up the phone with his sibling when, according to police, he was shot in the right arm as a fight between groups of teens spiraled out of control at the Mount Eden Ave. station around rush hour.

The sister, who didn’t want her name published, said she’d been speaking with her brother to make sure he got on the right train to Harlem just before the mayhem began.

Diallo quickly called her back, the sister said.

“He didn’t know he was shot,” she recounted. “He thought his hand had touched something electric.”

“He was screaming, crying, holding his hand,” the sibling added.

Panic and confusion set in as other victims reeled from gunshot wounds and crowds scrambled out of the station.

“He said, ‘Oh, I’m bleeding!'” Diallo’s sister recalled. “But he didn’t know where the blood was coming from. He was in shock.”

The man was one of three victims taken to St. Barnabas Hospital. While Diallo was in stable condition, one of the other victims, a 35-year-old man, was pronounced dead there, according to police.

Diallo’s call with his sibling got cut off, leaving her in a state of panic. Authorities later called her family and said the man had been taken to a hospital but didn’t say which one. They split up and tried several sites before tracking him down, according to the sister.

Diallo’s relatives gathered in a St. Barnabas waiting room on Monday night.

About six hours into their wait, they were yet to see the victim or get an update on his condition from medical professionals.

Diallo’s sister remained distraught as she waited.

“I was shocked. I was scared,” she said.

“Curtis said that the man was a migrant and that he was shoplifting. Fox News has since spoken to the NYPD. Apparently the statement made by Curtis that the man is a migrant is not true and the man was given a summons for disorderly conduct,” Hannity said Thursday night.

In the middle of a Tuesday interview with Hannity, Sliwa stunningly directed the camera to a takedown of a man in the middle of Times Square, saying the target was a “migrant” and a “shoplifter” — claims the NYPD later refuted, explaining that the man was a 22-year-old Bronxite who had done no shoplifting. He still received a summons for disorderly conduct.

“On this show, we always want to set the record straight,” Hannity said Thursday night.

Sliwa admitted to the Daily News earlier Thursday that he’d been wrong about details of his initial accusations, but newly claimed the 22-year-old had punched a female member of his vigilante group in the breast.

That member filed a harassment complaint against the 22-year-old at the NYPD’s Midtown South Precinct on Thursday night, records showed.

Prior to that, a cop source told The News that Sliwa had been completely off the mark during Hannity’s Tuesday show.

Surveillance and bodycam footage show the 22-year-old was simply trying to make his way through Times Square at the time of the confrontation, the source said, adding that Sliwa was “just babbling” when he made the initial allegations.

Video contradicts Curtis Sliwa account of Guardian Angels ‘migrant’ beating of Bronx man on Fox News: NYPD source

Sliwa did not immediately answer a News request for comment on the Hannity correction late Thursday.

Meir — whose luxury real-estate company HFZ Capital Group collapsed amid plans to build $2 billion luxury towers near the High Line — was set to be extradited to New York after being arrested in Miami earlier this week.

Four of Meir’s alleged accomplices were arraigned Wednesday in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Roy Galifi, John Mingione and Kevin Stewart — executives with a construction company that worked with Meir — were accused of grand larceny, conspiracy and criminal possession of stolen property and falsifying business records, charges they denied.

Meir’s colleague Anthony Marrone was hit with the same charges and pleaded not guilty.

Meir, 49, is accused of orchestrating schemes that ripped off $86 million from investors, contractors and the city, according to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

An ambitious project to build a mega-development near the High Line allegedly warped into a hotbed of fraud and theft under Meir’s leadership of HFZ, where he was the managing director.

He allegedly used funds intended for the project covering a whole square block of Chelsea — from W. 17th to W. 18th Sts. and 10th to 11th Aves. — to shore up HFZ’s other struggling projects. Meir and his accomplices hid the fraud through phony invoices and forged bank statements, prosecutors said.

In all, $37 million was allegedly stolen as the project reportedly went into foreclosure in 2021. Other developers took over and opened it as One High Line last year.

Similar schemes played out involving projects from Midtown to San Francisco, according to Bragg’s office.

All told, the frauds entailed over $86 million in stolen funds, prosecutors said. That included $15 million in city property taxes that allegedly went unpaid.

Meir was reportedly arrested at a swanky Miami hotel on Monday.

It marked a stunning fall from grace for a man who’d stood out for his aggressive approach in the city’s cutthroat real-estate business, according to Curbed.

“These indictments depict allegations of widespread fraud within the real estate industry primarily spearheaded by one man: Nir Meir,” Bragg said in a statement.

Along with the six men, HFZ and an affiliate plus the construction company, Omnibuild, were hit with charges. The businesses pleaded not guilty.

“Even though Omnibuild is in the same indictment as HFZ, three counts of that indictment allege that HFZ stole from Omnibuild and others,” an Omnibuild spokesperson said in a statement.

“This is in addition to the three other indictments charging HFZ alone. We reiterate that Omnibuild is a victim of, and not acting in concert with, HFZ.”

The construction company previously filed a lien against HFZ saying it was owed $100 million in unpaid bills, according to The Real Deal.

Following Wednesday’s arraignments, Stewart, 48, was released without bail, Galifi, 62, paid $100,000 bail, Mingione, 54, coughed up $500,000 to be freed and Marrone’s wife promised to pay his $300,000 bail.

An additional defendant, former HFZ project manager Louis Della-Peruta, 69, was expected to surrender to authorities on Thursday.

Meir himself is set to appear in court later this month, prosecutors said.

“There will be more action taken to respond to the … tragic death of the three brave U.S. service members,” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said on ABC’s “This Week,” referring to Iran-backed militias’ deadly drone strike in Jordan late last month.

“We have to prepare for every contingency,” he continued. “And I would just say, from the perspective of Tehran, if they chose to respond directly to the United States, they would be met with a swift and forceful response from us.”

The comments came after the U.S. and U.K. struck militants in Yemen for the third time in two weeks on Saturday. They were targeting drones, radar facilities and weapon launchers that Iran-backed Houthis have used to attack military and commercial ships in the Red Sea since Israel launched its war on Hamas. The militants say they’re attacking the vital route out of solidarity with Gazans.

From the start of Israel’s fierce response to Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, Washington has feared the prospect of a wider conflict in the Middle East. President Biden has insisted he doesn’t want that.

Pressed on the Iran question on Sunday, Sullivan told NBC’s “Meet the Press,” “I’m not going to get into what we’ve ruled in and ruled out from the point of view of military action.”

“The president is determined to respond forcefully to attacks on our people,” he added. “The president also is not looking for a wider war in the Middle East.”

With some Republican hawks calling for U.S. strikes within Iran, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said the White House should take a tougher approach to the regional power.

“We should not be appeasing Iran. That’s what the Biden administration has been doing for the last three years. We are projecting weakness on the world stage,” he said on “Meet the Press,” adding that the U.S. should “decimate the Iran Central Bank,” among other steps.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has been leading the chorus of Republican hawks.

“If the goal is to deter Iran, you’re failing miserably. If the goal is to protect American troops, you’re not achieving your goal,” he said on “Fox News Sunday.”

Biden wouldn’t need congressional authorization to target Iran, he added.

“President Biden has all the authority … to protect troops in the field,” the senator said.

Meanwhile, U.S. aid to Israel and other causes has been stalling in Congress.

After a Republican bill that both gave billions to Israel and cut the IRS budget died in the Democrat-controlled Senate in November, Johnson is promising new legislation with no such cuts.

The $17.6 billion price tag actually marks more funding than Biden previously requested. But Dems have been trying to push through funding for multiple causes, like supporting Ukraine, all at once.

“This partisan bill provides no funding for Ukraine to defend itself against Putin’s aggression, the Indo-Pacific, humanitarian assistance for Palestinian civilians, or border security,” House Minority Whip Katherine Clark (D-Mass.) emailed Dems on Sunday, according to Axios.

“The White House is strongly opposed to this bill,” she added.

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Andre Eugene, 36, was held in custody following a Thursday arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court on charges of second-degree murder and aggravated cruelty to animals.

He allegedly killed Donna Hyman, 58, in her Starrett City apartment last Friday.

Eugene’s merciless stabbing targeted her heart and airways, causing her death, Brooklyn prosecutors said.

The woman’s poor dog Gigi was apparently tossed from the 11th-floor scene of the carnage, with a veterinarian later determining the pooch suffered stab wounds all over its body, according to the criminal complaint.

Officers responding to a 911 call at the building on Hornell Loop near Pennsylvania Ave. found Eugene, a public school paraprofessional, naked and covered in blood in the lobby around 7 p.m., authorities previously said.

He claimed to cops that Hyman had “committed suicide” and that the dog had fallen “from the balcony,” the complaint stated.

Officers found Eugene stabbed in the chest — wounds police believe to have been self-inflicted.

“His story is that the dog bit him, he stabbed the dog, [and] mom stabbed him,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny previously said at a news briefing.

Eugene was immediately suspended from his paraprofessional job at a Williamsburg public school, according to the Department of Education.

Naomi Broomes, 33, was remanded on charges of second-degree murder and failure to report the incident following her arraignment over the Jan. 11 death of Shakira Serrano, 24.

A criminal complaint described a vicious attack outside NYCHA’s Pink Houses in East New York, where Serrano lived.

Broomes repeatedly tried to run over the victim and, once her target fell to the ground, drove her vehicle “over Serrano’s entire body,” according to witnesses and recordings cited in the complaint. Video previously obtained by the Daily News showed the car was a mid-size sedan.

Broomes, who also lives in the Pink Houses, drove off while the victim lay on the ground, the complaint stated. Suffering from “severe head and body trauma,” Serrano was taken to Brookdale University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Serrano had been arguing with her boyfriend prior to the incident, surveillance video showed.

He has not been charged with a crime. Details of the relationship between the two women remain unclear.

A lawyer for Broomes could not immediately be reached. The defendant was expected back in court later this month.

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Seattle man David Crowe, 33, was arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court on a charge of second-degree criminal contempt.

That charge — stemming from his arrest outside Swift’s house on Wednesday — sits on top of earlier counts of stalking and harassment brought after Crowe was nabbed on Saturday and on Monday in separate approaches to the home.

Judge Marisol Martinez Alonso ordered Crowe to jail under a New York law meant to protect crime victims from people who violate court orders. He was also ordered to undergo a psychiatric exam requested by his defense lawyer.

As officers led him from the courtroom on Thursday afternoon, Crowe started mumbling something which was not very clear but ended with the word “survival.”

He wore a beige hoodie that had the words “Love does not just sit there” printed at the back.

Crowe had been released from custody Wednesday after he was arraigned on charges of trying to break into Swift’s Franklin St. apartment on Monday.

Immediately upon his release, he walked 10 minutes from the courthouse back to the pop star’s pad, where he was seen acting erratically, according to police sources.

Prosecutors say that by returning to Swift’s house, Crowe made clear he was unable to obey a court order.

Crowe’s visits to Swift’s house since Saturday were not his first.

A security worker at Swift’s building previously told police he encountered Crowe there around 30 times between Nov. 25 and Monday, hoping to speak to the “Bad Blood” singer, and was told to leave at least 10 times, according to a criminal complaint.

The incidents included a Saturday episode in which cops found Crowe at the address, gave him a summons and sent him to Brooklyn Criminal Court to answer an outstanding warrant from several years ago, a police source previously told the Daily News.

Swift has been victimized by a crazed fans and stalkers for years.

In July 2022, 35-year-old Joshua Christian of Brooklyn allegedly shouted threats into the intercom at Swift’s Tribeca townhouse, warning that he would “hurt her if they weren’t together,” a police source said.

Other incidents involved a “super-fan” in 2021, a stalker in 2019 and a musician looking for career help in 2016.

Stalkers have also tried to get into Swift’s other properties, including her home in Beverly Hills and her mansion in Rhode Island.