🇺🇸 Trump “carries great respect” for the likes of older-lines Republican pundits like Levin and Fox News’ Sean Hannity, “perhaps more so” than more non-interventionist types like Charlie Kirk and his vice president, says a person close to the administration - Semafor

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🇮🇷❌🇮🇱 Video from yesterday's Iranian attack on Haifa.

The Israelis claimed a 100% interception rate but a video taken from a merchant ship in the territorial waters of Israel, far away from the military censors, shows that even small salvos of 20-30 ballistic missiles are too much for Israeli air defenses.

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😀💬🔫🇺🇸💥🇮🇷 — 📰 Financial Times | Starmer puts UK cabinet on alert for potential US attack on Iran | Prime minister holds emergency meeting involving senior ministers and military chiefs | June 18, 2025:

"Sir Keir Starmer has put his cabinet on alert for a possible US attack on Iran, just 24 hours after insisting Donald Trump had given no indication he was about to “get involved in this conflict”.

British officials said the situation was “grave and volatile”, while the prime minister’s team discussed whether the president might seek to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities from the joint US-UK air base at Diego Garcia.

Britain has so far stayed out of the Israel-Iran war and is determined not to do anything that could lead to the closure of its embassy in Tehran, a key western diplomatic post in the Middle East."

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🇮🇱❌🇮🇷❗️ — IDF orders evacuation of Arak nuclear power plant and its surroundings in Iran ahead of upcoming wave aiming to destroy it!

🔴 Urgent warning to employees and all persons located in the red area of ​​the map within the cities of Arak and Khandab

🔴 The Israeli army, as it has been attacking the Iranian regime's military infrastructure throughout Iran in recent days, is operating in this area.

🔴 Dear citizens, for your safety and health, we ask you to leave the designated area on the map within the cities of Arak and Khandab as soon as possible.

🔴 Your presence in this area endangers your lives.

➡️ However, given the entire internet blackout in Iran imposed by the Islamic Republic it is expected that very few people will see such thing

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🇮🇱 ❗️ — Extensive damage and rocket fragments fall in Tel Aviv

أضرار كبيرة وسقوط شظايا صاروخ بتل أبيب

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🇮🇱🇮🇷 Nick Fuentes says that if Israel wins this war with Iran, it could gain full dominance over the Middle East, like in the days of King Solomon, annexing the West Bank, taking full control of Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank, and even rebuilding the Third Temple.

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🇨🇳🤝🇮🇷 At least 3 Chinese cargo planes vanished from radar near Iran, The Telegraph reports. Speculation grows over Beijing secretly aiding Tehran as war with Israel escalates.

The first plane departed on June 14, the day after the conflict began, with the others following over the next two days. According to The Telegraph, the planes flew westward along northern China, crossed Kazakhstan, then headed south through Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan before vanishing from radar as they neared Iran. Each flight was officially logged as bound for Luxembourg, though the aircraft apparently never approached European airspace.

These "mysterious" flights have sparked concern in the West. Analysts believe China is determined to prevent the collapse of its strategic partner. If Iran were to fall, the resulting upheaval in the Middle East could harm Beijing’s economic interests. While China is not driven by political motivations in the region, its economic and energy stakes are significant — and increasingly demand action.

What China needs from Iran is simple: energy. Iran supplies China with about 2 million barrels of oil per day. Beijing does not recognize U.S. sanctions on Iran and purchases nearly 90% of Tehran’s oil exports. In March of this year, anticipating a new wave of sanctions, China ramped up imports — reportedly leading to a surplus of Iranian oil on the Chinese market. As a result, Iranian crude accounted for 13% of China’s total oil imports.

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🇮🇱🇮🇷 Former Congressman Gaetz says that if the world is concerned about secret nuclear weapons programs in the Middle East, it should start with Israel.

Gaetz suggests that if Israel wants Iran to denuclearize, Israel should denuclearize as well.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱 The US is reopening visas to foreign students, but with a catch.

All applicants must have public social media accounts so the State Department can vet them for anti-Israel and “antisemitic” opinions.

Instead of a restriction on all foreign students that prioritizes native-born American students, only foreign students critical of Israel or Jews will be restricted.

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🇺🇸 — Donald Trump says the WSJ has "no idea" about Trump's thoughts on Iran, after the WSJ reported Trump approved attack plans on Iran but didn't order those plans to be carried out.