🇺🇸💣🇮🇷US STRIKES IRAN. WHAT'S KNOWN SO FAR?

🟠 US warplanes bombed several Iranian nuclear facilities – the Fordow fuel enrichment plant, the Isfahan nuclear technology center, and the Natanz enrichment complex.
🟠 America reportedly used the GBU Massive Ordnance Penetrator, a powerful bunker-busting bomb, during the strikes.
🟠 The US contacted Iran via diplomatic channels to claim the strikes were all it intended to do and that "regime change efforts" were "not planned."

🇮🇷HOW DOES IRAN REACT?

🟠 Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi said that the US attack would have far-reaching consequences, with Iran reserving the right to self-defense.
🟠 The US “has committed a grave violation by attacking Iran's PEACEFUL nuclear installations,” Araghchi stressed.
🟠 Iran attacked Israel, targeting Ben Gurion Airport, a biological research center, and decision-making centers, the IRGC stated.
🟠 Iran used the Kheibar ballistic missile against Israel as part of the 20th wave of Iran's large-scale missile and drone operation.

🌍WHAT DOES THE WORLD SAY?

▫️ The UN chief called the US strikes against Iran a “dangerous escalation” and a direct threat to world peace and security.
▫️ The IAEA reported no increase in radiation levels outside Iran's nuclear facilities.
▫️ The Houthis condemned the US’s “brutal and cowardly aggression” against Iran.
▫️ The US attacks are a WAR CRIME, the chairman of Pakistan’s Senate defense committee said.
▫️ Saudi Arabia, Iraq denounced the strikes, warning they could lead to a dangerous escalation.

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🚨🇺🇸US strikes only partially damage Iran's Fordow nuclear site

🔊No smoke or fire was reported in the vicinity, Iranian Tasnim news agency said.

Local officials denied Trump's allegations that the facility had been destroyed, saying it was only partially damaged.

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

⚡️PEREBUDOVA (DPR) LIBERATED

⚡️PETROVSKOYE (Kharkov region) LIBERATED

▫️ Heavy Ukrainian losses: Over 1,355 troops eliminated in the special military operation zone in the past 24 hours.

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🇷🇺Putin honors fallen soldiers on the 84th anniversary of the Great Patriotic War start

On June 22nd, 1941, Nazi Germany attacked the Soviet Union without declaring war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin paid tribute to those who died in the fight against the Nazi invaders by laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin Wall.

The President also laid flowers at the memorials of Hero Cities that suffered most during the war.

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🗣Trump's arrogant claim for Iran to surrender 'completely ridiculous'

The US strikes were rather ineffectual, Tim Anderson, academic and Director of the Centre for Counter Hegemonic Studies, told Sputnik.

💬 "Trump claimed to have destroyed these nuclear sites; apparently, there's very little damage, but it's a symbolic act, and he was looking for some sort of psychological impact on the Iranians," he said.

🟠Netanyahu wants war—and Trump’s green light just handed him the keys.
🟠Iran won’t back down—expect more strikes on Israeli military & infrastructure.
🟠Israel won’t stop until it faces a real military defeat—and by then, who knows how far this will escalate?

The US and Iran were against the escalation, Anderson noted. But Netanyahu’s obsession with confrontation + Trump’s blind support = a ticking time bomb.

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🚨🇮🇷‘The US betrayed diplomacy’ – Iran’s FM Araghchi

Here are the highlights of his statement following US bombing of Iranian nuclear sites:

🟠 The US government bears full responsibility for the serious consequences of this aggression

🟠 Trump betrayed diplomacy and succumbed to the criminal ambitions of a country accustomed to exploiting the lands and wealth of nations to achieve Israel's goals

🟠 We call on the International Atomic Energy Agency to fulfill its legal duties in response to the dangerous attack on our peaceful nuclear facilities

🟠 The Security Council, the Secretary-General of the Organization and the IAEA must respond to the clear violation of international law by the United States

🟠 The UN Security Council should hold an emergency meeting and condemn the US action

✈️🇷🇺 Mr. Araghchi also said that he will fly to Moscow later in the day to have “serious consultations” with President Putin on Monday, June 23.

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🇷🇺Russia's 'Vostok' battlegroup liberated the settlement of Perebudova in the DPR in less than 3 days, the Russian Ministry of Defense said, showing footage of the battles for the village.

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🚨🇷🇺🇵🇰 Pakistan’s Minister for Petroleum just gave an exclusive interview to Sputnik on the sidelines of St. Petersburg International Economic Forum.

TIMELINE:

(05:47) Rethinking Oil Routes
(07:30) Railway Through Iran?
(08:56) Joining INSTC? “We support Putin’s ‘Look East’ vision”
(15:11) Message to Russian Investors: Pakistan is open, untapped, & ready

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🚨🇮🇷IRGC WARNS TRUMP: Iran is preparing response to US that will make it regret bombing nuclear sites

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🗣Purpose of US strikes on Iran nuclear facilities was to 'destroy or severely degrade' Iran's nuclear program - Pentagon

Other statements by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth:

🟠 Strikes on Iran have not been about regime change

🟠 US's overnight strikes on Iran didn't target Iranian troops, people

🟠 The Pentagon chief confirmed that B-2 Spirit strategic bombers and bunker-busting bombs were used in the attack on Iran.

🟠 Any retaliation by Iran will be met with 'force far greater' than overnight strikes

🟠 Strikes on Iran was 'highly classified mission', deception effort known only to 'extremely small number' of people

🟠 Throughout the operation targeting Iran nuclear facilities, us forces retained the element of surprise

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🚨 US strikes on Iran SHAKE global markets

🛢 Crude:
🟠Brent crude +0.40% ➡️ $77.32/barrel
🟠WTI crude +0.73% ➡️ $74.04/barrel
🟠Prices could spike to $80 next week

💸 Crypto:
🟠Ethereum drops 7.7% ➡️ ~$2,200 — lowest since May 9
🟠Bitcoin briefly dips below $101K
🟠More downside expected: ETH ➡️ $2,000 | BTC ➡️ $100K

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🚨🇮🇷Iran agrees to CLOSE the Strait of Hormuz - Parliament

The final decision must be approved by the country's National Security Council.

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🚨🇦🇲Armenian Catholicos slams persecution of businessman as illegal

The Catholicos of All Armenians, Garegin II, called the persecution of businessman Samvel Karapetyan by the Armenian authorities illegal.

💬 The church will continue to defend national interests and people's rights, he added.

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🚨🇷🇺🇵🇰Pakistan-Russia $1B trade turnover is NOT A LIMIT - Pakistani Minister for Petroleum

💬 If you look at the issue of bilateral cooperation in the energy sector, the potential is huge, Ali Pervaiz Malik underscores in an exclusive interview with Sputnik at the SPIEF.

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🇮🇷🧠Iran’s response: Smart. Calculated. Painful

🗣Donald Trump likely decided to attack Iran after yielding to pressure from US war-hawks, political and security analyst Ali Rizk told Sputnik.

Trump “increasingly adopted the Israeli line of thinking” and his insistence that Iran cannot be allowed to enrich uranium essentially torpedoed the US-Iranian talks.

With no tangible evidence or intelligence suggesting that Iran has been working on a nuclear weapon, the US attack hardly seems legitimate.

“But regardless, this is something we're used to,” Rizk notes, with “US presidents pursuing or taking steps that are not in accordance with international legitimacy.”

⚔️Iran’s retaliation—it’s on the way

✅Iranian retaliation “has to be very smart, very calculated, but at the same time very painful,” Rizk says, arguing that Tehran would prefer to avoid dragging the US further into the Israel-Iran conflict.

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🚨🇷🇺🇵🇰Pakistan supports Putin’s Look East strategy - Minister for Petroleum

💬 “When it comes to the energy trade, […] all these things can be priced in to make way for RUSSIAN CRUDE to be accommodated in Pakistani refineries,” Ali Pervaiz Malik tells Sputnik in an exclusive interview at the SPIEF.

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