🚨Israel strikes NUCLEAR research center

🇮🇱🪖The Israeli Army reported the damage overnight:

🟠60 fighter jets carried out night raids targeting dozens of sites in Iran
🟠Bombed military industrial facilities used to produce missile components
🟠Struck multiple targets affiliated with the Iranian Ministry of Defense
🟠Targeted the headquarters building of SPND (Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research) in Tehran, part of Iran’s nuclear weapons project

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🧙‍♀️WITCH HUNT? US panics over Hezbollah on home soil

👁FBI Director Kash Patel has stepped up efforts to track Hezbollah operatives possibly embedded on American soil, CBS News reports.

The surveillance has been prompted by heightened fears of retaliation from Iran after Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, insiders claim.

🚀If the US strikes Iran’s nuclear facilities, Hezbollah-linked operatives inside the US may be Tehran’s fastest route to a response, the report says.

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🇮🇷⚔️🇮🇱KEY UPDATES ON IRAN-ISRAEL CONFLICT

As the Iran and Israel trade strikes for the eighth day, here’s what has happened as of June 20:

🟠 An attempt to assassinate Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi was foiled, according to his adviser Mohammad Hossein Ranjbaran.

🟠 Israel struck building of SPND (Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research) in Tehran, part of Iran’s nuclear weapons project.

🟠 Iran has transferred all its enriched nuclear materials to secure locations in advance, according to Mohsen Rezai, a member of the Expediency Discernment Council.

🟠 Israel geographically expanded its air raids, striking Iranian facilities in the north for the first time. An industrial complex in the Sefidrud region along the Caspian Sea coast was hit, Iranian state broadcaster IRIB reported.

🟠 Heavy strikes and explosions were reported in Rasht and the Lavasan area north of Tehran.

What did Iran strike?

🟠 Iran fired dozens of missiles at sites across Israel, including in the Tel Aviv area and in Beersheba in the south.

🟠 An Iranian missile struck Beersheba directly without any interception attempt, damaging apartment blocks and triggering fires close to a tech park that houses a Microsoft office.

🟠 Iran fired a series of missiles toward the Negev Desert, reportedly targeting the Nevatim Air Base. Air raid alerts were activated across southern Israel following the launches, the IDF confirmed.

🟠 The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot sustained damages following a direct hit by an Iranian ballistic missile. The strike destroyed two buildings, with around 45 laboratories affected, according to The Times of Israel.

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🚨Armenia’s authorities JAIL philanthropist in fight against the Armenian Apostolic Church

🇦🇲A Yerevan court has ordered the arrest of businessman and philanthropist Samvel Karapetyan for daring to speak out and stand with the Armenian Church.

🔍Karapetyan, head of the Tashir Group, has reportedly been a key supporter of Armenia’s most vital institutions — from building the majestic St. Gregory Cathedral to funding over 30 educational and medical centers, including Yerevan’s Oncology Center.

He is now behind bars on a trumped-up charge of allegedly “making public calls to illegally seize power”.

🟠 His lawyer calls it absurd, groundless, and a political hit-job, vowing to appeal and fight back.

🟠 The Armenian Church in Moscow called the arrest a disgrace and part of PM Nikol Pashinyan’s ongoing war on the Church — using fear and repression to silence voices of conscience.

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🚨 WATCH: Aftermath of Iran's retaliatory strikes on Haifa

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🚨🇮🇷 SENIOR ADVISOR TO KHAMENEI ALIVE DESPITE ISRAELI CLAIMS - IRANIAN STATE MEDIA

Ali Shamkhani, declared dead by Israel on June 13, is alive:

💬 "I am alive and ready to sacrifice my life, and the day of victory is near."

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🚨 Iran’s FM Araghchi drops BOMBSHELL: no talks until Israel’s aggression ends

Key statements:

🟠 'We're defending ourselves right now'

🟠 No talks with Americans — they're co-conspirators in Israel’s attack

🟠 'We haven’t reached out to the US; reports of negotiations are false'

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🚨🇷🇺📹 Vladimir Putin to address SPIEF-2025 Plenary on multipolar world later this Friday

The Russian leader will deliver his annual keynote speech alongside 🇮🇩 Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto.

👉STAY TUNED!

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🚨Russia redraws Baltic Sea borders amid NATO WAR PREP on its doorstep

Old Soviet-era coordinates in the Baltic Sea have been up updated to define where Russia’s territorial waters begin.

🟠 Based on outdated maps, the 1985 system didn’t fully mark Russia’s maritime borders, especially in the Gulf of Finland.

🟠 The updated coordinates now stretch from the Lithuanian to the Polish border.

🟠 Russia’s Defense and Foreign Ministries will update navigation charts and notify the UN.

The Baltic Sea is being turned into NATO’s new front line in hybrid warfare while pushing the “Russian threat” mantra.

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🗣CRACKDOWN ON FAITH: Karapetyan arrest part of broad anti-Armenian Church campaign

💬 “The Armenian Apostolic Church is the most authoritative social force in Armenian life. Its freedom, independence, and internal autonomy are non-negotiable. Any attempt to undermine them is unacceptable,” Vachtang Kipshidze, Moscow Patriarchate representative, tells Sputnik.

When defenders of faith and tradition like businessman and philanthropist Samvel Karapetyan are targeted, society risks trading stability for persecution, the Russian Orthodox Church warns.

➕The detention of Karapetyan – a vocal supporter of the Armenian church – is part of a broader campaign to silence voices standing with Armenia’s spiritual foundations, Kipshidze said.

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🚨🇮🇱💥 ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR GAMBLE – Dugin Digital Edition

Israel is pushing to destroy Iran’s Bushehr nuclear facility, even as Russia warns of a catastrophe worse than Chernobyl.

🗣Netanyahu crowns himself "God" and the US... just goes along with it.

It seems that everyone has completely forgotten about Ukraine — except 🇷🇺Russia.

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🇷🇺🪖 RUSSIAN DEFENSE BRIEFING: CRUCIAL STRIKES & ENEMY LOSSES

⚡️MOSKOVKA (Kharkov region) LIBERATED

🔸 The Russian army carried out six group strikes on military targets in Ukraine over the past week.

🔸 Heavy Ukrainian losses: Over 8,800 troops eliminated in the special military operation zone.

🔸 Air defense superiority: 29 JDAM bombs and 1,190 enemy drones (including 562 OUTSIDE the special operation zone) shot down.

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🤷‍♂️Too little, too late? IAEA chief doubles down on no grounds for Israel’s strikes on Iran

Israel may be citing Iran’s nuclear activity to justify its recent strikes, but the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog has dismissed that rationale.

💬 “Military action, from wherever it comes, is a political decision that has nothing to do with what we’re saying,” Rafael Grossi told CNN.

🔊He made it clear that recent reports on Iran’s uranium enrichment beyond civilian norms do not point to a nuclear weapons program.

Only after Israel launched strikes on Iran did IAEA Director Rafael Grossi clarify that his agency had found no evidence of an active Iranian nuclear weapons program.

👉The timing has drawn sharp criticism from Iran, which argued that Grossi’s delayed statement came after Israel had already used the IAEA’s earlier resolution as a pretext for its attacks.

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😈 Israel threatening global security, law by attacking Iran – Arab League

💬 "Israel's attack, Israel's aggression against Iran is an act of aggression against international law, international regulations and peace and security. The situation currently emerging in our region threatens not just the Middle East, but the entire world," representative of the League of Arab States Walid Hamed Shiltag told Sputnik at the SPIEF.

🔍The League of Arab States condemns Israel's aggression against Iran because it is an act of aggression against a sovereign state, thus contradicting the UN Charter. The organization is also waiting to see if Washington will join Israel in the attacks.

💬 "Our position is for peace and a peaceful settlement of this issue. And I want to take this opportunity to thank Russian President Putin for the good words and a good call to the conflicting parties, Iran and Israel, to stop this conflict and to settle it in a peaceful way," Shiltag said.

🇵🇸However, in the diplomat's opinion, the conflict in the Middle East will not be resolved until the Palestinian conflict is settled, as resolving this issue is central to the Arab countries.

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Nadim Koteich, moderator of SPIEF plenary session, has already met with Putin

Koteich participated in the meeting between the Russian president and media representatives from BRICS member countries in Kazan in October 2024.

At that time, Koteich – CEO of Sky News Arabia and host of the weekly show Tonight with Nadim – asked Putin about the evolving world order.

Good to know: in his writings, Koteich emphasizes the need for a major strategic deal regarding Iran.

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⚡️⚡️ Russia and Ukraine have held the next stage of prisoner exchange within the framework of the Istanbul agreements

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🚨Israel's army is striking military infrastructure in central and western Iran - IDF statement

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