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Independent, but not unbiased, striving for a multipolar world. Mainly focused on Iran & Resistance Axis.

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🛳️🇬🇷🇮🇷 — Greek Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis:

"A Greek-affiliated cargo ship was attacked by Iran near the Strait of Hormuz.

It remains unclear whether the vessel has been seized following the attack".

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❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s Parliament Speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf:

‘A complete ceasefire only makes sense if it is not violated by the maritime blockade and the hostage-taking of the world’s economy, and if the Zionist warmongering across all fronts is halted; reopening the Strait of Hormuz is impossible with such a flagrant breach of the ceasefire.

They did not achieve their goals through military aggression, nor will they through bullying. The only way forward is to recognize the rights of the Iranian nation.’

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🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump on Truth Social:

‘Very good news! I have just been informed that the eight women protestors who were going to be executed tonight in Iran will no longer be killed.

Four will be released immediately, and four will be sentenced to one month in prison.

I very much appreciate that Iran, and its leaders, respected my request, as President of the United States, and terminated the planned execution. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP’

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❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: President Trump has informed Israel that Sunday is the deadline for Iran agreeing to a deal – Channel 12

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🇮🇷 NEW: During the war, Iranian missile crews started to pump the liquid propellant missiles with fuel inside the underground bases, in order to avoid having to fuel them outside, which takes several hours

Pumping fuel into the missiles while laying horizontally, rather than vertically, is an extremely dangerous and precise task which requires significant expertise. Even then, it carries an elevated risk of explosion.

The technique has allowed Iranian missile crews to quickly fire and return to their tunnels, preserving launchers from destruction.

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❗️🇮🇱/🇸🇴 BREAKING: Somalia announces a ban on all Israeli ships passing Bab Al-Mandab

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❗️🇮🇱/🇸🇴 BREAKING: Somalia announces a ban on all Israeli ships passing Bab Al-Mandab @Middle_East_Spectator
Look, if there’s one country that knows how to deal with ships, it’s Somalia.

(Watch Captain Phillips fyi)
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❗️🇮🇱/🇸🇴 BREAKING: Somalia announces a ban on all Israeli ships passing Bab Al-Mandab @Middle_East_Spectator
🇮🇱/🇸🇴 NOTE: The announcement is slightly symbolic, because Somalia does not control the territory bordering Bab Al-Mandab anymore (it is now occupied by Somaliland seperatists)

They therefore cannot actually engage in harassing the ships.

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🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Iran placed about 20 naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz in order to direct shipping into its own corridor, and these mines could take 6 months to clear – Washington Post

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❗️🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: Hezbollah announces it targeted an Israeli Humvee in Qantara, southern Lebanon, with an FPV drone, achieving a direct hit

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❗️🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: Hezbollah announces it targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers in the town of Qantara, southern Lebanon, with a suicide drone

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The status of Lebanon is weird.

Israel has significantly limited its strikes, and has entirely refrained from striking Beirut or the Beqaa, but still carries out occasional artillery shelling and assassination strikes.

Hezbollah, while previously ignoring these ‘minor’ ceasefire violations, is now responding to these violations with attacks on Israeli forces in Lebanon.

Israel can no longer act with impunity in Lebanon. That choice has been made.

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More and more Hezbollah statements coming, another one posted just now where they downed 4 enemy surveillance drones in Mansouri.

I’m not gonna cover all of them. Will report if there is anything important.
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🇱🇧🇱🇧🇮🇱 — WATCH: Hezbollah released footage of an FPV drone strike on an Israeli Merkava tank in the town of Bayada, southern Lebanon, on April 6.
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🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘YOU CAN’T COMPROMISE ON SANITY AND COMMON SENSE!’

(Nobody knows what that means)

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❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 White House: ‘The President has not set a 3-5 days deadline, that is incorrect’

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❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 White House: ‘Iran is going to give the enriched uranium to us. They have to do that.’

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🇺🇸/🇮🇷 White House spokeswoman, Karoline Leavitt:

‘The President chose to extend the ceasefire because it’s Iran that needs to get its act together.’

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❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇶 NEW: Drone attack against Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan

Interception attempts ongoing.

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