🇺🇸 ❗️ — 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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🇺🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 ⚡️ — Trump:

Hamas has agreed to give up its weapons, and it must do so, otherwise it will not exist

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🇺🇸 🇶🇦 ⚡️ — Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are in Doha

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🇮🇱 🇱🇧 🇱🇧 ⚡️ — Israeli" airstrikes targeted Mahmoudiyah, in southern Lebanon, claiming targeting of Hezbollah military infrastructure

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🇦🇪 🇮🇱 ⚡️ — Israel Broadcasting Corporation:

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert meets Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan, in the Emirati capital, Abu Dhabi, and refuses to talk about the details of the meeting and its background.

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🇷🇺 ⚡️ — NEW: The first launch tests of the Knyaz Vandal of Novgorod fiber-optic drone from the unmanned boat Skorlupa were successfully completed in the Black Sea.

🔴 The Skorlupa is Russia’s first mass-produced unmanned boat with a fiber-optic control channel and can operate standalone for reconnaissance, patrol, or as a mobile base to launch and control fiber-optic drones.

🔴 Ushkuynik Center CEO Alexey Chadayev said the system was designed as a full-lifecycle product with operator training, technical support, and adaptable fiber-optic control technology.

🔴 Production of the Skorlupa is established, "hundreds of the boats are being produced per month," and a training program is being developed for tactical scenarios common in the special military operation zone in Ukraine.

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🇮🇱 🇱🇧 ⚡️ — continous zionist raid in lebanon

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🇮🇱 🇱🇧 ⚡️ — occupation launches an airstrike on Al-Waziyah in Jabal Al-Rihan, southern Lebanon

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🇸🇬 🇮🇱 ⚡️ — NEW: ST Engineering unveils the EagleStrike loitering munition and a family of AME 5.56mm rifles at Singapore Airshow 2026.

🔴 EagleStrike reached Technology Readiness Level 7; expected production in early 2027 and will undergo further testing and certification this year.

🔴 Munition specs: 12.4‑mile range, 30‑minute loiter time, 67 mph cruise speed, 7‑ounce dual‑mode shaped‑charge optimized for top attack; canister‑launched (pod of 16 canisters vehicle‑carriable).

🔴 AME rifle family based on Colt’s AR‑15 includes AME‑A510 (10.5″), AME‑A514 (14.5″, 32.3″ length, 6.4 lb unloaded), AME‑A514GL (with 40mm UBGL), AME‑A516L (16″, integrated heat sink LMG role) and AME‑A520SS (designated marksman with bipod).

🔴 Rifles feature enhanced barrel harmonics, two‑stage trigger, muzzle brake claiming 20% recoil reduction, ambidextrous controls; aimed primarily at export and international sales already achieved.

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🇱🇧 ✈ — The enemy's warplanes have once again attacked the Mahmoudiyah area, South Lebanon.

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🇮🇷 🚀 — BREAKING: Iran deployed Khorramshahr 4 hypersonic missile with 2000 km range and Mach 16 speed

🔴 Iran's Khorramshahr 4 missile entered service in missile cities

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🇱🇧 🇵🇸 💥 — Moment of an airstrike by the occupying forces on the outskirts of Hermel, northeastern Lebanon.

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🇮🇱 ❌ 🇵🇸 ❗️ — Occupation soldiers throw belongings of displaced families from a residential building near Jenin Camp.

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🇮🇷 🚀 — Iranian television broadcasts footage of the new "Khorramshahr 4" missile, confirming its operational maturity from the new missile cities of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps revealed last night.

🔴 The "Khorramshahr 4" missile reaches a speed of about Mach 16 outside the atmosphere and approximately Mach 8 within the atmosphere.

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