🇮🇷 ⚡️ — BREAKING: Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy says it seized two vessels near Farsi Island carrying more than one million liters of fuel

🔴 IRGC Navy Public Relations Department alleges the ships were part of a smuggling network active for several months

🔴 Seizure credited to monitoring, intelligence work and IRGC naval operations

🔴 The 15 foreign crew members were referred to judicial authorities

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🇺🇸 ⚡️ — Trump:

I firmly believe that I deserve to go to heaven. I may not be the perfect candidate, but I have done a great deal of good for many people.

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🇮🇱 🇪🇬 ⚡️ — Netanyahu:

The power of the Egyptian military is on the rise. Despite our relationships and interests, it's essential that we keep a close watch on the situation to prevent any significant increase in Egypt's military strength.

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🇮🇱 🇵🇸 🇦🇺 🇬🇧 ❗️ — Satellite images and witness testimonies indicate that Israeli forces have bulldozed parts of the Gaza War Cemetery in Tuffah, Gaza City, damaging graves of British, Australian, and other Allied soldiers from World War I and II.

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🇺🇸 ⚡️ — NEW: Donald Trump says Renee Good and Alex Pretti were “no angels” but their shootings “should not have happened” and admits “I don’t think we’re good at public relations”

🔴 Trump told NBC Nightly News interviewer Tom Llamas he answered “No” when asked if the shootings were warranted and called the incidents “very sad”

🔴 He defended ICE and law enforcement, saying “we have to back them” and warning “if we don’t back them, we don’t have a country,” while conceding his administration could use a “softer touch” on immigration

🔴 The comments come amid protests in Minneapolis after Good was killed on January 7 and Pretti on January 24; Tom Homan said about 700 federal agents will withdraw, leaving roughly 2,000 operatives in the city

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🇵🇸 ⚠️ — Ynet has learned that two months ago, Lieutenant Colonel M, along with his forces, observed suspicious activities in the sector he was responsible for in the yellow line area south of the Gaza Strip. The battalion commander immediately caught two reservists while they were transporting cigarette boxes in a supply truck heading deep into the sector.

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🇮🇱 🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇷 🚀 — Israeli Media: In Iran, a new missile is revealed: "It will reach Israel within 12 minutes"

🔴 Iran presents a new ballistic missile that, according to the Fars news agency, can reach Israel within a few minutes.

🔴 Reports indicate Iran's willingness to discuss with the US issues previously considered a “red line,” including support for proxies and the regime's ballistic missile system.

🔴 The Iranian army continues to threaten: "American bases in the region are vulnerable."

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🇮🇱 ❌ 🇵🇸 ⚡️ — Israeli forces conducted artillery shelling west of Rafah city in southern Gaza Strip

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🇺🇸 🇸🇦 ⚡️ — NEW: Lockheed Martin to open a command-and-control software factory in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

🔴 Joseph Rank, chief executive for Lockheed in Saudi Arabia and Africa, calls the facility a "long-term development platform" to let Saudi engineers and companies design, develop and integrate software into Lockheed Martin systems.

🔴 Lockheed says the factory will enable integration of third-party applications, host‑nation development, and Saudi‑owned intellectual property; company cites interns and SAMI Advanced Electronics Company integrating commercial aircraft location data into CommandIQ in under two weeks.

🔴 Lockheed previously contracted Saudi firms to make THAAD subsystems in 2024; analysts say the move supports Saudi localization and Vision 2030 goals to build sovereign defense software and systems integration capacity.

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🇮🇷 ⚡️ — Spokesperson for the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian Parliament:

"We will not negotiate on our ballistic missile program; this is a red line. Uranium enrichment is also a red line.

If America approaches these negotiations the same way as before, they will fail."

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🇵🇸 ❗️ — Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza: This is not a fleeting image or a temporary scene in a news bulletin; these are remains of humans... separated bones, nameless limbs, and bodies that did not return as they left their homes, but as the killing intended them to be erased.

🔴 Recently, 54 bodies arrived at Al-Shifa Medical Complex, accompanied by 66 boxes containing human remains and body parts, released through the Red Cross.

🔴 But what is really being delivered? Bodies? Or what remains of human dignity? Today, we stand before closed boxes, searching inside for the features of our sons and daughters, in the absence of forensic tools, DNA tests, or the minimum medical and forensic capabilities that enable us to identify or document them as befits a human being.

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🇮🇱 🇺🇸 ❌ 🇮🇷 ⚡️ — The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Commander stated:

"Our main goal is to expel America from the region; if the United States attacks Iran, we will strike Israel first and target all American bases. Washington returned to negotiations out of fear of the Iranian people's capabilities."

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❗️ —

Reporter: You mentioned our new weapon. That 'Discombobulator.' What is it exactly?

Trump: Yes, the Discombobulator. I'm not supposed to talk about it at all, just saying that suddenly nothing worked for them. That's what it is. I invented that name for it, and I'm quite proud of it. In short, everything there immediately became 'discombobulated.' Because they were ready! But when we arrived, they couldn't do anything.

Reporter: You watched all this on video, right?

Trump: Everything there was just 'discombobulated'! Everything!

Reporter: And nothing worked? Including the live force?

Trump: Let's just say, we had no losses at all. And they are excellent fighters. And the location was not pleasant at all. It was a military base! The largest, by the way, in South America. The residence was inside the base. And under such harsh conditions, we suffered no losses, neither in personnel nor in equipment.

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🇬🇧 🇸🇩 ⚡️ — NEW: UK sanctions six senior commanders from the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), including Hussein Barsham and Abu Aqla Mohamed Kaikal, over atrocities in Sudan

🔴 The measures target RSF and SAF commanders accused of mass atrocities, ethnic violence, forced displacement and the use of rape as a weapon of war, and individuals accused of recruiting foreign fighters and facilitating arms purchases.

🔴 Hussein Barsham is named for mass atrocities especially in Darfur; Abu Aqla Mohamed Kaikal is identified as a SAF commander and leader of the Sudan Shield Forces linked to atrocities in early 2025 in Gezira.

🔴 Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper, after visiting the Sudan-Chad border and meeting survivors, said the sanctions aim to “dismantle the war machine,” press for a ceasefire and secure unhindered humanitarian access.

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🇺🇸 ❗️ — Trump is essentially describing an electronic warfare weapon that allegedly managed to completely wipe out Venezuelan systems.

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🇮🇷 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇹🇷 — NEW: Iran’s army spokesperson Brig. Gen. Mohammad Akraminia says the military is ready for war if the enemy chooses.

🔴 He announced addition of 1,000 drones and said “if the enemy chooses the option of war, we are ready for any option in war conditions,” warning conflict would “encompass the entire geography of the region and all US bases.”

🔴 Iran’s Revolutionary Guards seized two oil tankers with foreign crews in Gulf waters for “smuggling fuel,” Tasnim reported; nationalities and flags of the vessels were not immediately clear.

🔴 Iranian and US officials will meet in Oman for mediated talks Friday; Israeli Air Force chief Maj. Gen. Tomer Bar said Israel is strengthening preparedness in defense and offense, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged leaders to proceed with talks.

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🇺🇸 🇮🇷 🇷🇺 ⚡️ — Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov: We are ready to contribute to resolving the issue of enriched uranium stockpiles in Iran if Washington and Tehran reach an agreement.

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🇮🇱 🇵🇸 ⚡️ — UPDATE: Bezalel Zini, brother of Shin Bet chief David Zini, was indicted on charges including assisting the enemy during wartime over a Gaza smuggling ring.

🔴 Zini was charged alongside Aviel Ben David and Amir Dov Halperin; prosecutors say the ring smuggled 26 crates into Gaza in Aug–Sep 2025 for NIS 3.9 million.

🔴 Zini, an IDF reservist who headed Gaza logistics, is suspected of moving 14 crates on three trips and earning NIS 365,000; other defendants allegedly moved phones, batteries, cables, car parts and cigarettes, some classified as dual-use.

🔴 The case is being handled by the Israel Police; David Zini is not suspected of wrongdoing and more indictments are expected.

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🇮🇱 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 ⚡️ — NEW: IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir personally pressed US military and diplomatic officials to make Iran's ballistic missiles the central issue in US‑Iran talks.

🔴 Zamir met US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine in Washington and briefed US Envoy Steve Witkoff in Jerusalem; he also dispatched IDF Intelligence Chief Maj. Gen. Shlomi Binder to make the case.

🔴 Israel warns Iran has rebuilt and expanded its ballistic missile program since June 2025, could reach production of ~300 missiles per month and totals of 6,000–10,000 in 2027–2028, risking overwhelm of Israel's air‑defense.

🔴 Tehran altered tactics in June 2025—wider targeting of civilian sites, longer‑range launch locations, faster salvo launches and cluster bomblets—36 missiles in one attack killed 28 Israelis and damaged ~13,000 residences.

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