— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: They're basically bringing the entire U.S. Air Force across the Atlantic; aerial refuelers continue to move into the region

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: An Iranian F-4 pilot attained martyrdom after his jet crashed during a night-time training mission in Hamadan Province. His co-pilot survived. The cause for the crash is currently under investigation.

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: Iranian EW / secure communications systems were seen moving around earlier today

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— 🇮🇷/🇪🇬 NEW: Iran and Egypt have agreed to restore full diplomatic ties and to open embassies in their respective countries

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham: 'If Iran goes down, Jews will be able to live safely for the first time in 47 years'

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The best piece of advice I can give you, is to treat all media reports regarding the U.S. or Iran, what will happen, what are both sides saying, as nothing more than public theatre.

Both sides already know what is going to happen, the only objective behind media reports now is misleading the other side.

— 🇮🇷 NEW: The martyred F-4 pilot, Mahdi Firouzman, was killed after he decided to remain in his airplane to steer it away from residential areas during the rapid descent

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran's Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi: 'In 2-3 days, we will have an initial draft agreement ready to submit to Steve Witkoff. We will need another session to talk about that draft—and then use that as a basis for further talks to work on details and progress towards a serious agreement'

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: President Trump says he's considering a 'limited strike' on Iran

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— 🇺🇸 BREAKING: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 that President Trump's tariff policies are illegal; the Trump administration is obliged to return all revenues collected from tariffs, upwards of ~$100 Billion

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> Be China
> Do nothing
> Win

I haven't even read it yet but wtf

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iranian conservative Member of Parliament, Dr. Amirhossein Sabeti:

'If until today there were a thousand reasons not to negotiate with America under the current circumstances, Trump’s threat last night and his setting of a 10-to-15-day deadline for an agreement with Iran is the thousand-and-first reason proving that negotiations with America will be fruitless.

The fact that Trump says Iran has only 10 to 15 days left to reach an agreement with America means one of two things:

1. Either Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran is already final, and he once again wants to use the cover of negotiations so he can blame everything on Iran and say that because Iran did not sign an agreement, America was forced to carry out a military campaign.

2. Or he is saying this to apply more pressure on Iran in order to receive greater concessions in the negotiations.

In either case, negotiating with America under such conditions is neither honorable nor beneficial for the country.

I wish the President, the Foreign Minister, and the decision-makers in the Nuclear Committee of the Supreme National Security Council would, for once, abandon this repetitive and failed recipe (negotiating with the U.S. under any circumstances).

In my opinion, we should announce the end of negotiations, and make it clear to the U.S. that this time the war may not last 12 days — it could last 120 days.

The way to prevent war is not to negotiate with America at any cost and under the shadow of threats. The real way to prevent war with the United States is to convey a message of power and to prove readiness for a long war of attrition. This is something Trump absolutely does not want, and the prospect of a long foreign war will certainly influence his decisions.'

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: 'As of now, the chances of an agreement are extremely low' – Informed Iranian source to MES

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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: Israeli-funded media continue to build justification for strikes on Iranian hospitals

This is exactly the same 'Hamas has a command center underneath Al-Shifa Hospital' narrative that enabled the IDF to indiscriminately bomb Gaza's hospitals.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: 'Iran has now come to the conclusion that the only way that they can stop this cycle of war is to draw blood and to inflict significant harm on the U.S. and Israel, even if that comes at a very high price for themselves' – Associated Press

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