🇷🇺🪖❗️ — Russian State media reports Putin appointed Oleg Salyukov as Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council.

Previously, the army general held the position of commander-in-chief of the Ground Forces.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/rian_ru/294133

🇺🇸🇶🇦😳📹 — “Nice house!", President Donald Trump says as he tours Al Wajba Palace, home of the Emir of Qatar

🇺🇸🤝🇸🇾🇾🇪 — US President Donald Trump in Qatar:

“This has been an amazing trip…As you know, we are going to give Yemen a chance, and we are going to give Syria a chance”

🔗 Margo Martin (@MargoMartin47)

🇪🇪🇷🇺 The Estonian Navy attempted to detain a crude oil tanker operated by the Russian shadow fleet.

The Russian Air Force deployed an SU-35S as a deterrent, violating Estonia's airspace in the process.

The oil tanker is currently anchored near the island of Gogland in the Baltic Sea.

🔗 OSINTdefender

🇻🇦✝️ Pope Leo XIV has praised Christians in the Middle East who stay in their lands rather than leaving them:

'I thank God for those Christians – Eastern and Latin alike – who, above all in the Middle East, persevere and remain in their homelands, resisting the temptation to abandon them. Christians must be given the opportunity, and not just in words, to remain in their native lands with all the rights needed for a secure existence. Please, let us strive for this!'

🔗 CatholicArena

🇫🇮 Finland looks to increase age of reservists to 65

The proposal, if approved, would mean the number of reservists in the NATO member would reach one million by 2031 — an increase of 125,000.

Finns currently remain part of the reserve until the age of 50 for enlisted soldiers or 60 for non-commissioned officers and reserve officers.

https://insiderpaper.com/finland-looks-to-increase-age-of-reservists-to-65/

🇨🇳📊 China’s manufacturing dominance has very little to do with being “cheap”.

China’s labor costs are rapidly approaching developed economy prices.

Things are made in China because they’ve spent 50 years developing infrastructure, technical expertise, deep supply chains, extensive access to credit, and a conducive environment to doing business for foreigners (at least up until 2019).

If this was all about cheap products, Tesla’s gigafactory would be in Mumbai and not Shanghai.

🔗 Spencer Hakimian

👑👑🤝🇺🇸🇸🇦 — A video from the recent Saudi Arabia summit has gone viral across Iranian social media, showing Iranian-American entrepreneur and Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi in conversation with United Stated President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

➡️ Khosrowshahi, a prominent figure in global tech, hails from a distinguished Iranian entrepreneurial family that rose to prominence during the prosperous and modernizing era of the late Shah of Iran and the Pahlavi Dynasty, the founder of modern Iran — a time when Iran stood on as an economic powerhouse.

➡️ As expected, this once again triggered debates on Iranian internet regarding the brain drain affecting Iran since the Theocratic Shiite rule of the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist was installed in Iran by a coalition of Marxists and Islamists and how Iran could have been in case the Islamic Republic was never been founded.

➡️ Mr. Khosrowshahi is a steadfast supporter of Iran’s current exiled Shah and National Leader, His Imperial Majesty Reza Shah II Pahlavi, and His Majesty's economic vision, the Iran Prosperity Project (IPP) — a bold and visionary initiative aimed at laying the groundwork for a free, sovereign, and prosperous Iran.

💸 The IPP aims to pave ground based on national unity, institutional change, and sustainable development for a post-Islamic regime Iran.

🤑 Recently, on April 30, 2025, Khosrowshahi joined a well-selected and distinguished panel of Iranian entrepreneurs in Washington, D.C. at a major conference hosted by the National Union for Democracy in Iran (NUFDI), where the IPP was formally unveiled before the public.

📈 This event marked a major turning point in articulating a clear roadmap for Iran’s economic renaissance once the nation is liberated from the theocratic grip of the Islamic Republic's Regime.

📝 Dara Khosrowshahi is the grandson of Ali Khosrowshahi, one of Iran’s well-known industrialists and founder of the Minoo Industrial Group — a major conglomerate involved in pharmaceuticals, food, and cosmetics. Like many icons of the prosperous Pahlavi era, his achievements were stolen and destroyed by the regime, which confiscated his company and even appropriated his private mansion in Jamaran — ironically used by Khomeini himself, which was falsely projected as "ascetic cleric" by regime propaganda, after the Islamist revolution. Despite Khomeini’s propaganda of living modestly after 1979, he resided in Ali Khosrowshahi’s confiscated mansion in Jamaran, in northern Tehran, a wealthy neighborhood.

➡️ The Khosrowshahi family was among a generation of Iranian entrepreneurial families, including the Elghanian and Khayami families, who emerged during the prosperity era of the Pahlavi Shahs and helped transform Iran into a regional industrial and economic leader under the Pahlavi Shahs. Their contributions formed the backbone of Iran’s modernization and stand in stark contrast to the decades of decay under the current theocratic and ideological regime.

➡️ Today, as Iran faces historic crossroads, figures like Dara Khosrowshahi and movements like the Iran Prosperity Project offer a beacon of hope—a rallying call to return to the path of progress and national dignity under the unifying leadership of Reza Shah II Pahlavi, the rightful heir to a vision of a modern, sovereign, and thriving Iran.

🇷🇺🤝🇻🇦🤝🇺🇦-Pope Leo XIV has offered to mediate between Ukraine and Russia, according to Bild.

“The Holy See stands ready to facilitate dialogue between the adversaries, helping them face each other to restore a dignified life for the people,” the report quotes the Pope.

🇮🇷☢️❌🇺🇸 — Deputy Foreign Minister of the Iranian Regime, Kazem Gharibabadi, answering a netizen, says the "Right to enrich Uranium" is non-negotiable

Hello dear brother

Our negotiating parties know very well that the Islamic Republic of Iran will never compromise the achievements it has achieved with the blood of martyrs and at great expense!
The right to enrich uranium is our definitive red line!

No halt to enrichment is acceptable.

https://fxtwitter.com/Gharibabadi/status/1923346598509093007

🇻🇪🇻🇪⁉️🇧🇷 — 🇨🇳 A report published by Reuters revealed that oil trading companies may have shipped over US$ 1 billion worth of Venezuelan oil to China disguised as Brazilian product since at least July 2024

➡️ This scheme allows tankers to sail directly from Venezuela to China, bypassing stops in Malaysian waters and shortening the trip by about four days. In addition to reducing costs, the practice helps circumvent U.S. and other international sanctions imposed on Venezuelan oil due to Nicolás Maduro’s regime and its repression.

🔍 One piece of evidence is Chinese customs data, which shows that China imported about 67,000 barrels per day of "mixed bitumen" from Brazil between July 2024 and March 2025, totaling US$ 1.2 billion. However, Petrobras president Magda Chambriard stated in Houston last week that the Brazilian state oil company exports "mainly pre-salt crude oil to China, not bitumen".

Reuters further reported that Brazilian customs data shows no export of mixed bitumen to China since at least 2023. In reality, many of the cargoes labeled as Brazilian mixed bitumen contain Venezuela’s Merey crude, a blend of extra-heavy and lighter oil. This was confirmed by trading sources, Vortexa Analytics, and internal documents from PDVSA, Venezuela’s state oil company.

❌ The investigation used maritime navigation data, satellite imagery, and coastal photographs compiled and analyzed by TankerTrackers.com. Neither the Chinese nor Venezuelan governments have commented on the matter.

Source 🖇

🇦🇱🇮🇹🤣📹 — Albanian Prime-Minister Edi Rama welcomes Italy’s Meloni and kneels before her.

🇻🇦🤝🇺🇦☦️ — Vatican News reported last May 15 that in the Vatican, Roman Catholic Pope Leo XIV received in a private audience the Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav.

Credits for the video: Vatican News