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❌ ‘We're NOT looking for a ceasefire’ – Trump
💬 “We're looking for a total, complete victory. Again, you know what the victory is. No nuclear weapon,” Trump insisted.
🌍🌍🌍 Symbolic BRICS banknote with 200 denomination presented at SPIEF 2025
At the 2025 St Petersburg International Economic Forum, a symbolic BRICS banknote with a denomination of 200 was shown to attendees.
The banknote features birds from the member countries of the bloc, while the reverse side displays the flags of the participating countries and the bloc’s partners.
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🇮🇱 Israel could pull off USS Liberty-style FALSE FLAG if Iran campaign falters - experts
💬 “The US is already assisting Israel with supplies, intel, refueling support, etc.,” former Pentagon analyst Karen Kwiatkowski told Sputnik. “If Trump doesn't comply with Israel's demand” and simply join its aggression voluntarily, “a false flag may be needed,” Kwiatkowski fears.
🗣Futurist predicts a decentralized AI future at SPIEF
Sci-fi writer and futurist Chen Qiufan predicts a shift to decentralized AI with open-source models like DiffSeq leading the charge. No longer dominated by giants like Meta or OpenAI, every country and company will tailor AI to their needs.
The future of AI isn't uniform — it's diverse across borders. From China to the US, the AI we see will reflect local realities, even in the battle over deepfake narratives, he believes.
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🚨IRAN LAUNCHES SEJJIL MISSILES AGAINST ISRAEL FOR THE FIRST TIME - REPORT
Iran has just used its Sejjil missiles with a 2,000 km range in an attack on Israel, Tasnim reports, citing the IRGC.
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📹🇲🇩 When the video speaks for itself
Sputnik Moldova has released footage it says captures the essence of today’s events: a regime cracking down on Orthodox crosses, with police blocking people carrying icons.
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🚨 The IDF claims it has struck an Iranian refueling aircraft at Mashhad Airport in eastern Iran
This marks the most long-range strike (approximately 2,300 kilometers from Israel) carried out by the Israeli Air Force since the beginning of the operation.
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📹🪖 An Iskander missile strike hits command post of the Ukrainian army's 'Lugansk' operational-tactical group near Druzhkovka in Donetsk People's Republic - Russian MoD
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🇺🇸🗣 Trump is "open" to Putin acting as a mediator in resolving the Israel-Iran conflict.
"He [Putin] is ready. He called me about it. We had a long talk about it, " Trump told ABC News.
He also did not rule out US involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict in the future.
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🚔🇲🇩 Moldova tries currying favor with EU by persecuting Christians
The Moldovan government’s crackdown on Orthodox Christians who protested against the recent LGBT* parade in the country was meant to show Brussels that Moldova, an aspiring member of the EU, holds on to all of the bloc’s “woke values,” explains Dr. George Szamuely, senior research fellow at the Global Policy Institute.
“It's making this demonstration for the sake of Brussels. ‘Look, how tolerant we are. We don't tolerate these expressions of bigoted, orthodox opinions’.”
🇮🇷 Think you're the smartest in the room? IRAN OUTDOES ISRAEL WITH DECOY BLITZ
Tehran outmaneuvered Israeli forces using deception tactics, Iranian media reports.
"Iran was expecting these attacks. It may have implemented a deception operation along with the precautions, and Israel may have bombed different facilities," retired General Fahri Erenel, professor at Istanbul Istinye University, tells Sputnik.
"If the Israeli attack is ineffective as a result of the deception operation implemented by Iran, and no results are achieved, Netanyahu and his government may come to an end," notes Erenel.
🇮🇷🇮🇱 Iran launches a third wave of strikes against Israel - state TV
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☦️ Russian Orthodox Church сondemns violence against Moldovan clergy protesting LGBT* parade
🔸 "We categorically condemn the violence against the clergy of the Orthodox Church of Moldova who protested the gay pride parade. The imposition of gender ideology on Moldovan society, aimed at destroying the traditional family, is not a political issue, but a moral one. Both the Church and other healthy social forces must unite against this anti-Christian project," the ROC representative said.
🔸 "We know that what started as supposedly defending the rights of minorities has ended in Western countries with the adoption of children by same-sex couples, the introduction of anti-family lies into school education, and, finally, children changing their gender," he added.
🔸 "I hope that Moldovan believers will not allow such things to happen in their homeland. We pray for those of our fellow believers who are not allowing the spiritual heritage of the Moldovan people to be destroyed," he said.
*banned in Russia as extremist
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🇮🇱📉 Iran-Israel conflict HITS Middle Eastern markets HARD
Regional stock indices have slid amid Iran-Israel escalation prompted by Tel Aviv's strikes, Bloomberg reports.
🔸Israel's Tel Aviv Stock Exchange 35 Index went down 1.5% at the open on June 15, exacerbating the previous decline.
🔸Saudi Arabia's Tadawul All Share Index slid 2.5%
🔸Egypt's EGX 30 Index plunged 7.7%
The Israeli currency, the shekel, slipped the most in 11 months on June 13, whereas oil prices went up 7%. The intensifying conflict rattled financial markets, triggering a flight to traditional safe-haven assets like gold.
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🇲🇩📹 Police are BLOCKING the march of anti-LGBT protesters in Moldova’s Chisinau
A man holding a small child is being forcefully pushed into a bus by police.
Detentions of anti-LGBT* protesters have begun, Sputnik Moldova reports.
Police also threw a priest to the ground — he was participating in the anti-LGBT* march.
* recognized as extremist and banned in Russia
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🤡 Trump claims the Iranians now ‘want to meet’
💬 "They should've made that deal. I had a great deal for them. They should've made that deal. In the end, they decided not to do it — and now they wish they did it," Trump boasted.
🚨 No final decision made on Iran – Trump
💬 "I have ideas as to what to do, but I have not made a final one. I like to make the final decision one second before it is due because things change, especially with war," US President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, adding that "in a little while" he had a meeting in the White House War Room on the matter.
🔸 IRAN LAUNCHES SEJJIL MISSILES AGAINST ISRAEL FOR THE FIRST TIME - REPORT
🔸 ‘Ulterior motives’: Israel’s aggression isn’t about Iran’s nuclear program, but reformatting the region
🔸 No evidence? No problem: Trump’s desire to be ‘on winning side’ blinds him to truth about Iran’s nuclear program
🔸 SPIEF 2025: SPUTNIK WELCOMES YOU TO THE ST.PETERSBURG INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC FORUM
🔸 Trump’s support would evaporate if he goes ahead with Iran strikes - Larry Johnson
🔸 From 'hero' to zero? Zelensky's G7 groveling fails to move needle
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💻 CYBER DEFENSE AGAINST GAS INFRASTRUCTURE ATTACKS SHOWCASED AT SPIEF
Dmitry Ushakov, Business Development Director at Standoff, Positive Technologies, revealed at SPIEF how their digital mock-ups simulate hacker attacks on critical infrastructure like gas transmission networks.
The models train defenders to identify vulnerabilities, map potential attack scenarios, and prepare them for real-world cyber battles to protect essential systems from disruption. With increasing threats, training teams to detect sophisticated cyberattacks is more vital than ever.
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🚨WATCH: ALLEGED NEW IRANIAN MISSILE DANCES IN THE SKY
Iranian media report that Iran may have unleashed a new generation of missiles in a fresh wave of attacks on Israel.
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🇮🇷🇮🇱 Israel, beware: Iran has not used its newest weapons yet
An advanced guided ballistic missile, called Haj Qassem, was likely used to strike Haifa in response to Israel's Operation Rising Lion, Alexei Borzenko, veteran military journalist, tells Sputnik.
"At that moment, Haifa was hit by 40 rockets. But the Iron Dome couldn’t handle it, and many missiles broke through," the expert says.
"Until now, Israelis haven’t faced missiles this heavy," Borzenko says.
"I believe Tehran still holds back even more powerful weapons than what it used in Haifa. Its newest ones haven’t yet been used. The real escalation is still to come," the pundit notes.
🇷🇺🇨🇳Putin sends a telegram to Xi Jinping warmly congratulating him on his birthday and wishing him all the very best - Kremlin
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🇮🇷🇮🇱 Israel claims it hit Iran’s missile defenses
The IDF released footage which they claim was taken during an airstrike on Iran’s surface-to-surface missile launch sites, surface-to-air missile infrastructure, and detection radars.
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🚨Shiite group Kataib Hezbollah threatens US bases if Washington enters Iran-Israel war
"While Iran bravely and steadfastly resists Zionist aggression, we are closely monitoring the movements of the hostile American army in the region. If America intervenes in the war, we will not hesitate to act directly against its interests and bases scattered throughout the region," the group's leader stated,” the group’s leader Abu Hussein al-Hamidawi said in a statement, obtained by Sputnik.
🚨🇲🇩POLICE CRACKDOWN ON CHRISTIANITY: Western woke agenda forces Moldovans to reject traditional values
"The Orthodox believers of Moldova have the right to express their disagreement with attempts to change the spiritual identity of the Orthodox majority in Moldova and to impose gender ideology, ultimately aiming to abolish the concept of the traditional family," Vachtang Kipshidze, Moscow Patriarchate representative, tells Sputnik.
"The fact that Moldovan enforcement bodies sided with the Pride parade further proves that such events receive UNDISGUISED support from the Moldovan authorities," Kipshidze stresses.
🇮🇷🇮🇱 Rockets are striking Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Ashkelon, according to the state broadcaster IRIB
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🥴 Europe’s PERVERTED logic: Israel has the ‘RIGHT’ to attack, Iran is ‘GUILTY’ for defending itself
European leaders have effectively blamed Iran for being attacked, Responsible Statecraft reports.
No legal basis for self-defense
Israel’s strike violated article 2(4) of the UN Charter — it was launched with no legal basis for self-defense, per RS. But instead of condemning it, Europe parroted Israeli justifications.
The claim that Iran is building nuclear weapons was dismissed by US intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard in March: “Iran is not building a nuclear weapon.”
Still, EU leaders leaned on a June 12 IAEA resolution accusing Iran of Non-Proliferation Treaty violations to rationalize Israel’s actions.
What do European leaders say?
🔸Macron: "France has repeatedly condemned Iran’s ongoing nuclear program... In this context, France reaffirms Israel’s right to defend itself and ensure its security."
🔸Merz: "[Iran's] nuclear program violates the provisions of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty... We reaffirm that Israel has the right to defend its existence and the security of its citizens."
🔸Ursula von der Leyen: "I reiterated Israel’s right to defend itself and protect its people."
None of these leaders addressed the legality of Israel's initial strike. None acknowledged Iran’s right to defend its own sovereignty.
Double standards in the making🤡
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📹🇮🇷 An explosion takes place in the Valiasr street in Tehran
Tasnim news agency shares footage of the aftermath of the Israeli attack in the area.
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🇲🇩📹 Moldovan activists from the Pobeda bloc staged another demonstration in the capital Chisinau, opposing LGBT* propaganda.
👉 Police blocked the march, preventing it from proceeding, Sputnik Moldova reports.
* recognized as extremist and banned in Russia
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📹 Who is the REAL bogeyman?
"Combined NATO force is 10 times the force of Russia. And yet they paint Russia, as some sort of threat. Which it cannot possibly be. So obviously it's a case of making bogeymen to keep the population in check," Errol Musk told Sputnik.