—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi: 'We continue to warn against any attack on Iran and its sovereignity, and we affirm that our response will be swift and decisive'

@Middle_East_Spectator

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Trump's Special Envoy for the Middle East, Steve Witkoff, offered to visit Tehran or meet with Iranian government officials in a neutral country; Iran rejected the proposal, stating that Witkoff is an 'irrelevant person' and that Iran 'is not interested' in directly meeting with the Americans

@Middle_East_Spectator

—❗️🇮🇷/🇫🇷/🇺🇸 BREAKING: 'War with Iran is almost inevitable, if there is no Nuclear Deal soon' – France's Foreign Minister, after a rare Defense Cabinet meeting on Iran in Paris

@Middle_East_Spectator

— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Sirens in Sderot, rockets incoming from Gaza

@Middle_East_Spectator

— NOTE: False reports are currently circulating that Iran has closed its airspace, this claim has allegedly been attributed to Mehr News.

1. Mehr News has not reported such a thing at all.

2. Iran's airspace remains open.

3. The claim originates from a shady Ukrainian Twitter account.

@Middle_East_Spectator

— 🇺🇸 NEW: Donald Trump has revealed the details of 'Liberation Day' tariffs.

@Middle_East_Spectator

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: The Trump administration has suspended research grants totaling $210 million to Princeton University due to 'antisemitism.'

@Middle_East_Spectator

— ❗️🇸🇾 Statement by the Islamic Resistance Front in Syria:

'Cells of the Islamic Resistance Front in Syria are currently confronting an incursion of the Israeli occupation forces on the Nawa and Tasil axis, engaging them with appropriate weapons, inflicting direct casualties among their ranks in addition to downing an enemy drone.

Indeed Allah is the Guardian of the Oppressed, and the Supporter of the Wronged.'

@Middle_East_Spectator

— NOTE: While there are several groups currently claiming to be fighting against Israel, especially the newly formed 'Islamic Resistance Front in Syria', there is no solid proof that these groups have any significant forces or influence on the ground.

As of now, they likely consist of small amounts of hideout cells aligned with the former government, but there is no meaningful large-scale or organized resistance. The lack of visual footage uploaded by the groups, in addition to claims of engagements usually only surfacing after clashes already took place, indicates this could be mostly false claims of responsibility.

While some previous instances of fighting between local Syrians and the IDF in Daraa seemed to be carried out by this group, the current clashes are likely a result of calls for popular mobilization by several mosques throughout villages in southern Syria today.

@Middle_East_Spectator

TLDR; Yes, resistance groups against Israel do exist in Syria, but the ongoing clashes are a result of local armed residents confronting the Israelis after calls for mobilization from mosques throughout villages today.

— 🇺🇸 NEW: The S&P 500 index, a representation of the U.S. stock market and the top 500 companies, declined by almost 4% immediately after the implementation of Trump's tariffs, marking a new 6-month low

@Middle_East_Spectator

— 🇺🇸 NEW: Trump has imposed 10% reciprocal tariffs on the 'Heard and McDonald Islands', an Australian territory in the Indian Ocean with a population of 0, but a large penguin and endangered bird population

@Middle_East_Spectator

Bro imposed tariffs on an iceberg

— 🇭🇺/🇮🇱 NEW: Hungary has announced its withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC), just hours after hosting Israeli Prime Minister and international fugitive Benjamin Netanyahu.

@Middle_East_Spectator