🔊 US-Israeli aggression on Iran threatens to spiral beyond region's borders — Nebenzia

Permanent Representative Vassily Nebenzia addresses emergency Security Council session as strikes continue.

"Aggression that Iran has been subjected to today threatens to lead to escalation in an already escalated region, and it could go far beyond its borders, particularly given the fact that one of the two initiators of this military venture is far from being a state in the region."

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💬 Trump claims Iranian leader is dead

The president announces on Truth Social that Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in a joint US-Israeli operation, calling it "justice for the Iranian people."

"Working closely with Israel, there was not a thing he, or the other leaders that have been killed along with him, could do."

Iranian media previously denied Israeli and US reports of Khamenei's death, stating that, according to their information, he is currently overseeing the situation on the battlefield.

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📹 Burj Al-Arab is on fire after Iranian strikes on Dubai

The 60-story, 321-meter sail-shaped hotel—built on an artificial island and famously dubbed the world's only "7-star" hotel—has been hit.

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🔊 US-Israel strike is 'a crime against humanity' — Iran's UN envoy

Ali Bahreini delivers a blistering address at the Security Council.

Key points:

◼️ The declared goal of regime change is a violation of Iran's sovereignty.

◼️ This is not a war against Iran—it's a war against international law and the UN Charter.

◼️ US-Israeli aggression does not meet the criteria for self-defense. A US-Israel strike on school killed over 100 children.

◼️ Iran will continue defending itself until the aggression stops.

◼️ Response will be aimed exclusively at US government bases and facilities.

"The war waged by the US and Israel is a war against international law."

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🗣 Europeans and Zelensky united in unwillingness to settle Ukrainian conflict — experts

🟠 While for Zelensky prolonging the conflict in Ukraine is about power and physical security, for Europeans it’s a matter of principle, director of the Center for Geopolitical Studies at the Institute for Innovative Development Dmitry Rodionov tells Sputnik.

🟠 Europe has spent too much on Ukraine and that has already backfired, so they back the conflict hoping to compensate for the expenses, expert at the International Institute for Humanitarian and Political Studies Vladimir Bruter notes.

💬 "They are against a peace agreement that would not allow them to declare themselves victors and us the losers," he adds.

🟠 On February 24, Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service reported the UK and France have plans to secretly transfer nuclear arms to Ukraine in hopes that it could secure more favorable conditions for ending the conflict if it has a nuclear or at least a "dirty" bomb.

👉 Read more about Ukraine's nuclear blackmail HERE

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🇵🇰🇦🇫 Pakistan & Afghanistan don't want war — expert

💬 "Neither Afghanistan nor Pakistan wants a major conflict. By and large, they are equally concerned about the semi-criminal, semi-tribal enclave on the border. Thus, both sides will likely try to defuse the conflict this time as well," military expert Alexei Anpilogov said.

The two sides are unequal, he noted, with Pakistan being a nuclear power with the ability to buy arms, while Afghanistan is in isolation and uses abandoned US-made weapons.

👉 Late Thursday, Afghanistan announced it had launched large-scale military operations against Pakistani forces along the border, in response to recent bombings.

Early Friday, Pakistan retaliated by carrying out strikes on the Afghan capital, Kabul.

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🚨 Iran's supreme leader Khamenei killed in US-Israeli strike — Iranian media

Iranian Tasnim agency confirms the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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🔍 Iran's Fars news agency reveals details of Khamenei's assassination

The Supreme Leader was martyred at his workplace in the Leader's residence in the early hours of Saturday morning.

Contrary to years of Israeli and Western propaganda claiming that he hid in secret locations, the agency stressed that Khamenei was killed while "carrying out his assigned duties" in his office.

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🗣 US operation now aims to obliterate all Iranian military capabilities — Hegseth

"We will not tolerate powerful missiles targeting the American people. Those missiles will be destroyed, along with Iran’s missile production," the Secretary of War stated.

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⚔️ IRGC vows 'the most devastating offensive' in its history

"The most devastating offensive operation in the history of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran will begin in moments towards the occupied territories and the bases of American terrorists," the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in the statement.

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🚨 Iranian media confirms death of top military commanders

Admiral Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of the Supreme National Defense Council, and Major General Mohammad Pakpour, Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, were martyred in the US and Israeli attack on Tehran.

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🇮🇷 Iran's Head of Judiciary will manage the transitional period — reports

State news agency IRNA reports that Mohammad Mokhber, the Head of the Judiciary, and one of the Guardian Council jurists will now head the council that assumes all leadership duties until the Assembly of Experts appoints a new Supreme Leader.

The council consists of: the President, the Head of the Judiciary, and one jurist from the Guardian Council (selected by the Expediency Council).

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⚔️🇮🇶 US base in Erbil on fire after attack

Smoke rises above the American military installation in Iraqi Kurdistan following a reported strike.

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