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๐Ÿšจ IDF says the Israeli military has launched a wave of strikes in the heart of Tehran

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๐ŸšจIRGC claims it fired four ballistic missiles at the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier ๐Ÿ“ŒSubscribe to @SputnikInt
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธCENTCOM claims Iranian missiles did not hit the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier

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๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช Russian and Emirati foreign ministers call for Iran ceasefire now

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and United Arab Emirates Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan discussed the war on Iran in a phone call, the Russian Foreign Ministry said, stressing the urgent need to end the fighting.

Key statements from the Russian Foreign Ministry:

๐Ÿ”ธ Lavrov said aggression by the US and Israel against Iran was unacceptable.

๐Ÿ”ธ Both ministers stressed the need for the immediate ceasefire.

๐Ÿ”ธ They noted the destabilizing nature of the latest war in the Middle East by the US and Israel.

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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑNetanyahu promises strikes on Iran to intensify after Khameneiโ€™s assassination

Speaking from a rooftop in Tel Aviv, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlined Israelโ€™s next steps in the war with Iran and confirmed the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Key points from his remarks:

โ–ช๏ธNetanyahu said Israel had โ€œeliminated the tyrant Khameneiโ€ along with dozens of senior Iranian military and political leaders.

โ–ช๏ธHe said Israeli forces were striking โ€œin the heart of Tehranโ€ with growing intensity, adding that operations will escalate further in the coming days.

โ–ช๏ธThe prime minister said he had met with the defense minister, chief of staff and head of Mossad, and had instructed them to continue the campaign.

โ–ช๏ธHe acknowledged Israeli casualties in Tel Aviv and Beit Shemesh, expressing condolences to the families of the dead and wishing the wounded a speedy recovery.

โ–ช๏ธNetanyahu said Israel is deploying the โ€œfull powerโ€ of the Israeli Defense Forces to secure its future.

โ–ช๏ธHe also thanked US President Donald Trump for military support, and said their joint efforts enable Israel to โ€œstrike the terror regime hard.โ€

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๐Ÿ“น LIVE: Mourning ceremonies for Ayatollah Khamenei in Tehran

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ'I have agreed to talk': Trump signals possible return to Iran negotiations

US President Donald Trump told website The Atlantic that Iranian leaders are seeking to restart talks โ€“ and that he has agreed to engage.

๐Ÿ’ฌโ€œThey want to talk, and I have agreed to talk, so I will be talking to them,โ€ Trump said. โ€œThey should have done it sooner. They should have given what was very practical and easy to do sooner. They waited too long.โ€


๐Ÿ‘‰Asked if the talks could begin today or tomorrow, he replied: โ€œI canโ€™t tell you that.โ€

Trump noted that many Iranian negotiators had been killed in two days of US and Israeli bombing.

โ€œMost of those people are gone. Some of the people we were dealing with are gone, because that was a big hit,โ€ he said. โ€œThey could have made a deal. They shouldโ€™ve done it sooner. They played too cute.โ€

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๐Ÿ’ต Hormuz Straitโ€™s closure could trigger collapse of dollar system - expert ๐Ÿ‘‰ The US and Israelโ€™s unprovoked attack on Iran and Iranโ€™s retaliatory closure of the narrow Hormuz Strait chokepoint between the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea could have โ€œcascadingโ€ฆ
๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธTrump says he is not concerned about oil prices following the attack on Iran

"I'm not concerned about anything ... I just do what's right. At the end, it works out," he told Fox News.

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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ”ฅ Iran, US and Israel trade blows as war escalates

Latest updates from the region:

๐Ÿ”ธ The death toll from the Israeli bombing of a school in Minab, Iran, has risen to 153. Iran accuses the US and Israel of hitting the girlsโ€™ primary school in Hormozgan province and the Foreign Ministry says the number of dead could reach 160.

๐Ÿ”ธ The Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claims it fired four ballistic missiles at the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier. The US Central Command (CENTCOM) denies the carrier was hit.

๐Ÿ”ธ CENTCOM confirms three US service members killed and five others seriously wounded.

๐Ÿ”ธ The Emirati Defense Ministry says two Iranian drones targeted the Al-Salam military base in Abu Dhabi, adding that it reserves the right to respond.

๐Ÿ”ธ Kuwaiti air defenses reportedly have intercepted 97 missiles and 283 drones. Separate reports say a French military base in Kuwait was struck by an Iranian Shahed drone.

๐Ÿ”ธ Tankers have reportedly been hit in the Strait of Hormuz, with maritime traffic largely halted. The US claims it has sunk the Iranian frigate Jamaran.

๐Ÿ”ธ The Israeli Defense Forces say Israel and the US struck targets in Tehran, including an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps base and a military hospital.

๐Ÿ”ธ The Russian Foreign Ministry calls for urgent de-escalation and condemns what it calls โ€œpolitical assassinations.โ€

๐Ÿ”ธ US Senator Tom Cotton says the US has no plans for a large-scale ground operation but is weighing limited actions, including pilot rescue missions.

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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Mass protests erupt in Indiaโ€™s Jammu and Kashmir following the death of Iranโ€™s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei

A Sputnik correspondent reports from Srinagar

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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ’”Zahra Mohammadi Golpayegani, the 14-month-old granddaughter of Iranโ€™s Supreme Leader, was reportedly killed in the US-Israeli attack

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๐Ÿ“ˆ Forget crude: natural gas prices are about to go through the roof if Hormuz isnโ€™t reopened soon

๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œGas prices may rise, because approximately 20% of the worldโ€™s LNG transits through the Strait of Hormuz, including all of Qatarโ€™s production,โ€ Igor Yushkov, a top Russian energy expert, told Sputnik, commenting on the Persian Gulf crisis.


๐Ÿ—ฃ โ€œQatar is one of the largest producers of LNG in the world, second only to Australia and the US. If thereโ€™s a shortage of LNG on the global marketโ€ฆthe exchange price could easily exceed $1k or even 1.5k. Weโ€™ve seen similar prices in Europe even without such a shortage. So the price could skyrocket.โ€

๐Ÿ“ According to Yushkov, โ€œeverything will depend on how long the tension in the Strait of Hormuz lasts,โ€ including not only Iranโ€™s readiness to reopen it, but gas producersโ€™ willingness to resume transit.

๐Ÿ‘‰ โ€œIn any case, we will see higher shipping costs, higher insurance costs for ships,โ€ with the situation โ€œfurther exacerbatedโ€ by the fact that the Northern Hemisphere is still in the heating season, with Europeโ€™s underground gas storage facilities being gradually depleted.

๐Ÿ’ฌ โ€œEven though Qatar gas physically goes primarily to Asian markets, the exchange price will rise everywhere,โ€ same as oil, Yushkov clarified. Qatar itself also has no alternative to Hormuz. โ€œTherefore, if it is unable to export LNG, Qatar will simply have to stop production.โ€


๐Ÿ“จ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Message to China

๐Ÿ—ฃ The present crisis is also โ€œa major wake-up call for China,โ€ Yushkov says.

๐ŸŸ  โ€œChina is being shown that anything coming from the south is unsafe. Passage through the Strait of Hormuz may be interrupted today as part of the current conflict, but tomorrow the Americans could close it off to Qatari LNG supplies to the Chinese market.โ€

๐ŸŸ  โ€œOr they could close the Strait of Malacca, through which all the hydrocarbons going to China from Africa and the entire Middle East flow. Therefore, this is a signal to China that anything coming from the north is much safer, and much more difficult to shut down,โ€ the observer summed up.

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๐Ÿšจ IRGC says it launched missile strikes against three US and UK tankers in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz

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๐Ÿšจ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ'I have agreed to talk': Trump signals possible return to Iran negotiations US President Donald Trump told website The Atlantic that Iranian leaders are seeking to restart talks โ€“ and that he has agreed to engage. ๐Ÿ’ฌโ€œThey want to talk, and I have agreedโ€ฆ
๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ทIranโ€™s FM Araghchi on resolving the conflict with the US through talks: "We have had a bitter experience negotiating with Washington"

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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท๐ŸšจStrike on girls' school in Iran is a WAR CRIME - FM Araghchi to ABC

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๐ŸšจAhmadinejad's spokesman denies death reports

Press secretary for former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in a comment to Sputnik, refuted reports of his death:

"News that the respected Ahmadinejad has been killed are false. He is healthy and safe."

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธโš”๏ธ Trump seems to prefer launching his military campaigns on weekends

๐Ÿ”ถ On February 28 โ€” a Saturday โ€” the US struck Iran, killing Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

๐Ÿ”ถ On January 3 2026, also on a Saturday, US forces kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolรกs Maduro.

๐Ÿ”ถ In October 2019, overnight from Saturday to Sunday, US special forces killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria.

๐Ÿ”ถ On April 13 and 14 2018, Friday night into Saturday, the US, UK and France launched joint strikes on Syrian targets.

๐Ÿ”ถ In January 2020, the US drone attack that killed Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps General Qasem Soleimani took place late on a Thursday โ€” not the weekend, but timed as markets were closing.

๐Ÿ“ One viral theory suggests Trump deliberately attacks when oil markets are closed, letting tradersโ€™ nerves cool off before trading resumes.

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๐Ÿšจ New footage shows Israeli strikes on Tehran

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธTrump says the US has destroyed and sunk nine Iranian naval ships and largely destroyed Iranโ€™s naval HQ, vowing to target the remaining vessels

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๐Ÿ“นMourning processions are taking place in Tehran for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

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๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท Iranโ€™s state broadcasting company in Tehran was hit by US and Israeli strikes, though broadcasts are reportedly continuing as normal

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