— 🇮🇱/🇦🇹/🇮🇷 NEW: Two Israeli women went missing in Austria on Friday, and Mossad is investigating the possibility of Iranian involvement

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: According to his former wife Marla Maples, President Trump carries a copy of the Book of Pinhas, a section of the Zohar (part of Jewish Kabbalah) under his clothing near his heart, for protection and healing – Channel 12 / i24 News

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— 🇹🇷 NEW: A Turkish F-16 crashed during a training exercise, the pilot managed to eject

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— 🇮🇷/🇦🇲 WATCH: Iranian ‘Majid’ (AD-08) air defenses in service with the Armenian Armed Forces

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇮🇱 PBS Reporter: ‘Does Iran want to destroy Israel?’

IRGC Brigadier General Naqdi: ‘We are not saying we are going to nuke them, OK? But yes, we would certainly prefer the Zionist regime to permanently cease existing.’

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— 🇮🇷 Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, Major General Mohsen Rezaee:

‘Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Indonesia bear the collective responsibility of taking steps towards achieving the unity of the Islamic world.’

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— 🇰🇼 NEW: Kuwait announces it foiled a ‘terrorist plot’ to target vital facilities in the country with drones

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

‘The U.S.A. has total control over the Strait of Hormuz. I THINK WE WILL KEEP IT! Our Naval Blockade is being called, by everyone, “A WALL OF STEEL,” and there is nothing Iran can do about it.

They have no Navy, they have no Air Force, their remaining soldiers are unpaid, the IRGC is decimated and fleeing, and their “Leadership” is uncertain, at best! They have No Money - Their country is “shot.” All they have is FAKE NEWS and 300% INFLATION, and getting worse!

Iran is all talk and no action, the Bully of the Middle East No Longer. Praise be to Allah!’

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— 🇵🇰/🇮🇷 NEW: The Pakistani Minister of Interior visited Iran and assured FM Araqchi that the ‘Mecca Defense Pact’ is not intended as an alliance against Iran

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln are experiencing a mental health crisis, with some sailors trying to jump overboard, per The Guardian

The aircraft carrier has been deployed at sea for more than 250 consecutive days—over 9 months in total—without making land, due to the ongoing war with Iran.

Families of the 5000 sailors are raising the alarm, saying that conditions aboard are ‘hellish’, with almost daily attacks, dwindling supplies, and limited rations.

One spouse of a sailor said that her husband had texted her one day saying ‘he hopes he doesn’t wake up tomorrow’. Various suicide attempts have been thwarted, and U.S. CENTCOM commanders warn of an impending mutiny if conditions about the ship don’t change for the better.

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— Meanwhile, the average Iranian soldier or police officer, whose ration is a piece of bread, half a potato, some eggs, and likely has not received a salary in months, still does not complain and carries out his duties without any defects.

Love for the homeland cannot be bought or sold. Americans are used to luxury wars, but times have changed. This is not 2001 anymore.

Iranians have the longest breath.

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇦🇪 NEW: UAE government jets have been coming and going to Tehran for the past 2 days, staying less than an hour each time

The jets are likely carrying cargo shipments full of cash and gold.

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🇺🇦‼️🇺🇸 WSJ: Ukrainian drone units decisively beat a U.S. armored brigade in a major exercise in Germany.

Ukrainian operators quickly detected U.S. vehicles, then simulated destroying them with explosive and FPV drones—so effectively that U.S. units had to repeatedly “respawn.”

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Persian Gulf Strait Authority:

‘The repeated claims and Tweets by U.S. officials regarding the Strait of Hormuz being open do not change the reality:

The Strait of Hormuz remains closed and will not be reopened until all of Iran’s conditions are met.’

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— President Trump’s hiding place during ‘Operation Taco’, where he secretly moved from Air Force One to a different plane by hiding in a food and beverage cart.

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—❗️🇮🇷 Iran’s Khatam Al-Anbiyaa Central Command:

‘The false claims of by United States regarding the normal passage of vessels through the Strait of Hormuz, which show the desperation and helplessness of the U.S. military, are nothing more than lies and falsehoods.

We announce that the Strait of Hormuz remains, as in the past, under the complete supervision and control of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and no commercial ship or tanker without the permission and guidance of the powerful Iranian Armed Forces has had and will have the possibility of safely transiting this strait.

America is constantly seeking evil and insecurity in the region, and its false and baseless threats, in the face of the all-encompassing preparations of the heroic warriors of Islam in the Armed Forces will result in nothing but further misery and helplessness for them.

The glorious Armed Forces of Islamic Iran are monitoring all movements of the American-Zionist enemy in the region, and under the wise and intelligent command of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief, His Holiness Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, they have not and will not have the slightest hesitation in realizing the rights of the nation, national sovereignty, and defending the ideals of the Islamic Revolution and our beloved country of Iran.

And we will respond to any threat, of any kind and at any level, with an even more crushing and severe response than before.’

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇱🇧/🇸🇾 BREAKING: Iran informed Syria through Turkey that 100s of locations would be targeted with drones and missiles throughout Syria, including the Presidential Palace, if the Syrian Army intervened in Lebanon against Hezbollah – Tasnim

Following the warning, which took place weeks ago, Syria tuned down its anti-Hezbollah rhetoric and privately reassured Tehran and Beirut that it would not intervene in Lebanon.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The USS George Washington (CVN-73), USS Shoup (DDG-86) and USS Robert Smalls (CG-62) have transited the Singapore Strait westbound

The George Washington carrier may replace the USS Abraham Lincoln, currently deployed for 9+ months against Iran, with its crew increasingly desperate and suicidal.

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—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 BREAKING: Yemeni drone attack against Aramco facilities in Jazan, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The U.S. has lost 25% of all its MQ-9 ‘Reaper’ drones in the war with Iran

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