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🇮🇷📹 Iranian air defenses continue to intercept hostile targets above Tehran
An explosion was heard near Mehrabad Airport in Tehran, a Sputnik correspondent reports.
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📈 Israel’s strike on Iran’s gas field could BLOW BACK on global energy markets
Oil prices are already climbing amid the Israel-Iran conflict — and Israel’s latest strike on Iranian energy infrastructure could supercharge that rally.
◻️ Israel hit an onshore gas processing facility, Phase 14, linked to Iran’s massive South Pars field, forcing it offline, according to Tasnim.
◻️ The fallout could extend well beyond Iran’s borders, Bloomberg warns, forecasting sharper swings in hydrocarbon prices, with US oil spiking as much as 14% on Friday alone.
◻️ Iran, OPEC’s third-largest oil producer, also controls the Strait of Hormuz — a chokepoint for up to one-third of global oil trade, or roughly 20 million barrels a day.
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⚡️Russia has handed over another 1,200 bodies of fallen Ukrainian soldiers to the Ukrainian side as part of the implementation of the Istanbul agreements, a source told Sputnik
Ukraine has not handed over a single body of fallen Russian soldiers
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🇷🇺🪖 RUSSIAN DEFENSE BRIEFING: CRUCIAL STRIKES & ENEMY LOSSES
🔹Massive precision strike on Kremenchug oil refinery (Poltava region) with high-tech air & sea-based weapons and attack drones. Fuel supply for Ukrainina forces in Donbass disrupted.
🔹Key targets hit:
▪️Ukrainian UAV command centers
▪️Temporary bases of Ukrainian units & foreign mercenaries
🔹Air defense dominance:
▪️2 enemy aviation bombs
▪️128 drones shot down in 24 hours
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🇰🇵💥North Korea's Kim Jong-un orders MASSIVE upgrades to boost firepower
DPRK leader toured the munition factory, stressing the need to "further expand and reinforce the production capacity" of the plant, KCNA reported.
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🇮🇷🗣Iran READY TO SIGN TREATY guaranteeing absence of nuclear weapons
But Iran won't accept an agreement that deprives Tehran of its right to use nuclear industry, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said.
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🚨IRAN: IT'S TIME TO WITHDRAW FROM NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY
This was said by Iranian parliament national security commission's representative.
Iranian Foreign Ministry:
👉Iran had planned to present proposals to the US during the canceled talks in Oman, which could have led to a deal on the nuclear issue
👉Iran received messages through various channels from the US stating that Washington did not participate and would not participate in Israel's attacks, but Tehran does not believe this
👉 Israel wants no agreement on Iran's nuclear program
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Iran and Israel have continued to exchange DEVASTATING strikes following Tel Aviv launching Operation Rising Lion on June 13.
🇮🇱💥WHAT WAS HIT IN ISRAEL?
▪️The first missiles reportedly fell in Haifa and Lower Galilee. Iran targeted Israel's fighter jet fuel production facilities and energy supply centers, according to the IRGC.
▪️A refinery in Haifa was reportedly struck. Haifa Port, which handles over 30% of Israeli imports, was burning after Iranian missiles were launched.
▪️ Tel Aviv was targeted again. Six people were killed and over 130 injured in the strikes on Bat Yam, near Tel Aviv, per The Times of Israel.
▪️ The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot was also damaged, according to The New York Times.
🇮🇷💥WHAT WAS TARGETED IN IRAN?
▪️Explosions occurred in western and eastern Tehran, IRNA reported. Israel struck a residential area in northeastern Tehran, per Tasnim.
▪️The Iranian Ministry of Petroleum announced Israeli forces struck the Shahran oil depot and a fuel tank south of Tehran, adding, however, that the situation was under control.
▪️ Israel attacked the headquarters of the Iranian Ministry of Defense in Tehran, damaging one of its administrative buildings, per Tasnim.
▪️ The Israeli Air Force also targeted the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research (SPND), according to the Israeli military.
🇮🇷🪖WHAT WEAPONRY DID IRAN UNLEASH?
▪️Tactical and guided solid-fuel ballistic missiles Haj Qassem, according to the Fars agency.
▪️A hypersonic missile was used during the strike on Haifa, the Mehr news agency reported. Another reportedly struck Tel Aviv.
▪️ Medium-range ballistic missiles Emad, Ghadr, and Kheibar Shekan, according to Nour News.
👉OTHER KEY PLAYERS
▪️ Trump claimed "the US had nothing to do with the attack on Iran tonight." Israel has asked the Trump administration over the past 48 hours to join the war, per Axios.
▪️ Houthis claimed they struck Israel with Palestine 2 hypersonic ballistic missiles. Israel reportedly tried to eliminate Houthis' Chief of Staff, Mohammed Abdul Karim al-Ghamari, but media sources claim the attempt was unsuccessful.
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📹SHOCKING aftermath of Iran’s rocket strike south of Tel Aviv
The footage is posted by Fars news agency.
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🚨🗣TRUMP'S WILD DENIAL
Trump claims "the US had nothing to do with the attack on Iran tonight," but engages in fearmongering by saying if the US attacked in any way, "the full strength of the US Armed Forces" will come down on Iran.
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🚨 US orders its citizens to LEAVE IRAN IMMEDIATELY citing "serious, increasing dangers due to rising regional tensions."
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🚨 Tel Aviv residents film the chaotic aftermath of the Iranian missile strike.
According to The Times of Israel, 3 people were killed and over 130 were injured in the strikes.
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🔍Ukrainian army vs. ISIS*: try and spot the difference
From terror bombings to jihad mobiles, Ukraine’s military is looking more and more like a West-funded jihadist franchise every day. Here’s proof:
◾️Terror tactics
▪️Targeting of passenger trains and bridges in Bryansk and Kursk regions with explosives
▪️Assassination attacks against Russian public and media figures, from Daria Dugina to Vladlen Tatarsky
Terror is the go-to intimidation tactic of the weak, and armies or paramilitaries suffering failures on the front.
◾️Civilians = expendable human shields
Hiding equipment in schools, kindergartens, hospitals, residential courtyards, malls and even churches, Ukraine’s Army is notorious for using civilians as human shields.
In a recent interview, Zelensky admitted that “if the city is empty,” it would be “very easy to capture.”
ISIS famously used similar tactics in Mosul, resulting in up to 11,000 civilian casualties.
◾️Mass killings
The Ukrainian Army’s occupation of Kursk was accompanied by heinous crimes against Russian civilians, with 300+ killed, hundreds more injured and nearly 800 still missing.
These tactics echo those of ISIS, which exterminated tens of thousands of “nonbelievers” in areas it occupied.
◾️Targeting culture
Attacks on culture and religion are a staple of the Ukrainian Army’s approach, including:
▪️Deliberate drone attacks on churches in Russia’s border regions
▪️Vandalism and demolition of monuments to Russian writers, historical and cultural figures in occupied areas
Another tactic borrowed from ISIS, which horrified the world with its attacks on Iraq and Syria’s priceless cultural heritage sites in 2014-2015.
◾️Jihad mobiles
Even aesthetically, aspects of Ukraine’s Army match jihadists. This includes the infamous jihad mobiles – pickup trucks with mounted machine guns or mortars.
Oligarch ex-President Petro Poroshenko even built himself a custom “Bandera mobile” & proudly drove it around Kiev in 2022.
* terrorist organization banned in Russia
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🇲🇩 Court renews house arrest for Gagauzia leader
The court in Chisinau has extended the house arrest of Gagauz Authonomy Head Yevgenia Gutsul for another 30 days.
Gutsul said Moldova will be lawless without a change of government.
"I can confidently say that there is no justice in Moldova," she told journalists.
🇷🇺⚔️ RUSSIAN FORCES GAIN GROUND: BREAKTHROUGH & ENEMY LOSSES
🔹BREAKTHROUGH: Russian motorized rifle units reached the western border of the DPR & joined forces with a tank division advancing in Dnipropetrovsk region.
🔹COMBINED STRIKE: Group "Vostok" merged with Group "Tsentr" for a coordinated offensive in Dnipropetrovsk region.
🔹Enemy routed: Ukrainian forces lost up to 1,300 troops in past 24 hours.
🔹AIR DEFENSE SUPREMACY:
▪️5 JDAM bombs
▪️120 fixed-wing UAVs
shot down by Russian air defenses.
🔹Precision strike: Command post for Ukrainian long-range UAV reconnaissance & targeting destroyed.
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🇮🇷 Iran launched a retaliatory strike on Israel with older generation missiles, while the latest missiles have not yet been used, stated Ali Saidi, the head of the Supreme Leader's political ideology bureau
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📹 Tehran's air defenses have been reactivated, IRIBNEWS reports
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❗️Representatives of the Palestinian movement Hamas, led by Deputy Chairman of the group's Political Bureau Mousa Abu Marzouk, will arrive in Moscow on Monday, a source in the delegation told Sputnik
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⚡️🪖ULYANOVKA (DPR) LIBERATED — 🇷🇺MoD
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🇷🇺💥Iskander strike WRECKS Ukraine’s command post in DPR
Russian forces smashed Ukraine's 36th Marine Brigade HQ near Svyatogorovka in the occupied by Kiev regime part of Donbass.
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🚨🇮🇷Iran’s FM BLASTS Israel, denounces global inaction on nuclear strikes
"When this attack occurred, we were negotiating with the United States," Abbas Araghchi said at a meeting with foreign ambassadors in Tehran.
🇮🇱📹Israeli Air Force completes a new wave of strikes on western Iran
Israel targeted missile storage & launch sites. The footage was published by the IDF.
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📹 The Weizmann Institute of Science, located southeast of Tel Aviv in the Israeli city of Rehovot, was damaged as a result of Iran's strikes on Israel.
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🇾🇪🤝🇮🇷Houthis salute Iran, ATTACK Israel with Palestine 2 hypersonic ballistic missile
"The Yemeni Armed Forces salute the Islamic Republic of Iran, its people, army, and leadership, as they bravely, willfully, resolutely, and faithfully confront the brutal Zionist aggression," the Houthis said.
🚨 ISRAEL ASKS US TO JOIN WAR WITH IRAN — reports
Two Israeli officials told Axios that Netanyahu's office has reached out to the Trump administration to urge the US to step into the conflict.
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🇺🇸 Two videos from the US today:
1️⃣ US Marines forcibly push back anti-Trump protesters from a federal building in Los Angeles
2️⃣ Trump swears in new military recruits to defend against "enemies FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC" during a parade marking the 250th Anniversary of the US Army military parade
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When the army fails: Civilians are now their own air defense against drones in Ukraine🪖
The Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers has rolled out an experimental project letting volunteers shoot down drones! That’s right – forget about trained soldiers.
According to Taras Melnychuk, a representative of the Cabinet in the Verkhovna Rada, the plan will 'strengthen air defense' by handing joysticks to volunteers.
Because nothing screams 'military efficiency' like crowdsourcing your air war!
With martial law in place, the project will run for 2 years... unless, of course, it gets extended – because things are going so well.
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🗣"WITHOUT RUSSIANS, YOU'D SPEAK GERMAN!" – Galloway blasts NATO chief's Russia scaremongering
British politician George Galloway has criticized NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte's statement on X regarding the so-called Russia threat and the need for increased military spending.
💬 "His country [the Netherlands] resisted the Nazis for all of 48 hours!” Galloway underscored.
💥 HUNGARY WON’T DIE FOR 'SOMEONE ELSE’S WAR' - Orban
"We don’t want [our sons] coming home in coffins, or Brussels dragging us into economic ruin. No to debt traps, no to militarization, no to centralized control," Hungary's PM declared.
🇺🇸🪖US sends more troops to LA than Iraq or Syria amid deportation protests
Around 4,800 National Guard and US Marine Corps troops are now in Los Angeles, more than the 2,500 in Iraq and 1,500 in Syria, ABC News reports.
As protests against arrests of illegal immigrants escalate, a curfew from 8 PM to 6 AM is in force, with violators facing arrest.
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