—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: After monitoring and tracking, the IRGC Air Defense Forces shot down an American MQ-9 ‘Reaper’ drone over the Strait of Hormuz before it could pose a threat to Iranian territory

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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇶 NEW: Iran’s 23rd Takavar Special Brigade carried out 14 missions inside Iraqi Kurdistan, including Erbil and Sulaymaniyah, in the past four months—eliminating various Kurdish separatist leaders

The brigade successfully returned to base after each mission, suffering zero casualties, according to an Iranian Army spokesman.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump on Truth Social:

‘Iranian Leadership is unbelievably duplicitous! They ask for a meeting, some would say “beg,” talks begin, with more scheduled in the immediate future, and they say, openly and proudly, that they’re not having any discussions, that nothing is being talked about, and they’re only dealing with “Oman.”

They then go on to give their usual blather in saying, the Strait of Hormuz will be operated powerfully by them, when it is already completely controlled by the United States Navy and our “Blockade” or, as some say, “The United States Wall of Steel!” Nothing gets through to Iran, unless we want it to, and nothing will get through, unless a Deal, or Total Surrender, is accomplished.

Whether Iran wants to admit it or not, we are, in fact, talking of a solution to a problem that they have caused, for decades. It is very simple, IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON! Thank you for your attention to this matter.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇵🇰 NEW: Pakistan has confirmed no negotiations are scheduled between Iran and the United States, despite Trump’s claims

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iranian Foreign Ministry: ‘No ceasefire currently exists between Iran and the United States’

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— 🇮🇱 NEW: Bar Asraf, a 30-year old Israeli who survived the Nova Festival attack on October 7th, killed himself at the grave of his girlfriend

The girlfriend, Liron Barda, was killed on that day at the festival almost three years ago during operation Al-Aqsa Flood.

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Dear subscribers

Due to a combination of work, private life matters, and legal challenges, you may have noticed a decrease in quality or frequency of content posted on the channel in recent days.

This is also partially due to the fact that not many things are happening, and I’d like to preserve my energy to report on things when they really hit the fan (we can certainly expect a new war soon).

I hope you guys understand, and we hope to get back to the normal posting schedule within a few days, inshaAllah.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘Iran is begging for a deal, we’re talking to them now. But this is their last chance.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘We have total control over it [the Strait of Hormuz], there’s a thing called the blockade. They call it the United States Wall of Steel.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump on the alleged talks with Iran:

‘They’re gonna go quickly, one way or the other. It’s not very complex.

We’re talking about the opening of the Strait, having it open, literally by tomorrow. Completely open.

That’s Phase 1. Phase 2 is, we’ll talk about the nuclear, the de-nuclearization of Iran.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘Almost all of them [Arab leaders] asked us not to attack Iran. They all wanted to give this a last chance.

This is the last chance. It’s a last chance for them to sign a good document.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: President Trump says Iran begged him not to attack, that it would’ve been the biggest attack since World War ll, and there would have been ‘very little left’ of Iran

He also called leakers (Axios, WSJ, CBS) ‘sleazebags’ and said there should be a stronger punishment for leaking to the press.

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇦 Official military advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader, IRGC Major General Mohsen Rezaee:

‘We had prepared to strike three different locations in Ukraine, but after they publicly apologized for striking our vessel, we decided not to escalate.’

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— 🇮🇷/🇺🇸 Official military advisor to Iran’s Supreme Leader, IRGC Major General Mohsen Rezaee:

‘Right now, no ceasefire exists. But all of our operations have a purpose.

For example, under no circumstances will we allow a second corridor to be opened in the Strait of Hormuz.

Even if an American warship tries to pass through, we’ll hit it.’

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇰🇼 BREAKING: Drone attack on Kuwait, impacts reported

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—❗️🇰🇼/🇮🇶 UPDATE: The drones may have come from Iraq

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇴🇲 NEW: Iran struck a cargo vessel 20 nautical miles off the coast of Oman, per UKMTO

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇶 NEW: Shahed-136 impacts in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, and Sulaymaniyah

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The U.S. has used ‘virtually all’ of its long-range ground to ground missiles, such as ATACMs and PrSMs, according to Reuters

These missiles, which allowed the U.S. Army to carry out precision strikes against targets in southern Iran from a safe distance, will take years to fully replenish.

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