🇷🇺 Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces Oleg Salyukov has been dismissed from his position.

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—❗️🇮🇱/🇾🇪 BREAKING: About 45 minutes ago, a Yemeni ballistic missile targeted Ben Gurion Intl. Airport in Tel Aviv

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— 🇮🇱/🇾🇪 Sirens in Tel Aviv

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— 🇮🇷/🇺🇸 Iran's Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi: 'No Iranian nuclear site will be dismantled'

During an interview with the Iranian press, Seyyed Abbas Araqchi stated:

'No nuclear facility in Iran will be dismantled. If they were capable of destroying our sites by military means, they would have surely done so. But they can't – and that's why they wanted to negotiate.

Some people complain about our military capabilities, specifically our missile program, saying we should limit this too, because it will be an 'obstacle' for a deal. But I say to them, if it wasn't for these missiles and our defense capabilities, we wouldn't be negotiating in the first place – they would have destroyed us.'

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇸🇾/🇹🇷 NEW: In a meeting with Syrian Foreign Minister Hassan Al-Shaibani in Turkey, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated that he welcomes 'Syria's call for peace' with Israel

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The United States is reportedly willing to agree on a 'loose framework' of a nuclear deal with Iran, rather than a fully detailed comprehensive agreement

According to the Wall Street Journal, Trump wants a deal and he wants it fast – with details being sorted out later. 'It's not like I have to give you 30 pages, they just can't have a nuclear weapon,' he said in Doha.

U.S. officials have repeatedly warned of a 'vague deal' with Iran, stating that the 'devil is in the details' and that a vague deal would strongly favor Iran. – Wall Street Journal

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Vague framework = Iran dragging out the subsequent negotiations as long as we want

Which is positive for us.

We want negotiations (because it prevents / postpones war) but we don't want a deal.

— ❗️🇮🇱/🇸🇾 BREAKING: Syria and Israel are officially holding talks on normalization

According to the Times of Israel and Hebrew Channel 12, citing informed sources in the Israeli government, Israel has been holding secret talks with Syrian officials in recent days regarding the possibility of Syria joining the 'Abraham Accords'.

Reportedly, a meeting took place in Azerbaijan in recent days. The Israeli side was represented at the meeting by the IDF Chief of Operations Directorate, Maj. Gen. Oded Basyuk. He met with Syrian officials and Turkish representatives in Baku.

Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa (Al-Jolani) was urged by U.S. President Trump in Riyadh to normalize ties with Israel, to which Al-Sharaa reportedly said 'yes' – days after confirming that Syrian officials were talking to Israel about the situation in southern Syria.

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—❗️🇮🇱/🇵🇸 BREAKING: Israel begins massive military operation in Gaza – with bombings from land, sea and air

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— 🇮🇱/🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Israeli officials believe the 'emerging agreement' between Iran and the U.S. is problematic and express concerns that the U.S. is not 'automatically adopting Israel's position' – Jerusalem Post

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— 🇺🇸/🇦🇪/🇮🇱 NEW: Trump was taken to the local Synagogue in Abu Dhabi at the 'Abrahamic family house'

During the visit, President Trump stated: 'That's great, as you know I'm part Jewish, and I love Jewish people a lot.'

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: President Trump officially confirms that Iran has 'received a proposal' for an interim nuclear deal

Aboard Air Force One, he stated: 'They have a proposal and now they have to move quickly or something bad is gonna happen'.

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— 🇮🇷/🇲🇨 NEW: Iran's Parliament Speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, is visiting Indonesia – where he met with university students and professors in Jakarta today

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— 🇷🇺/🇺🇦 NEW: The direct Ukraine-Russia talks in Istanbul have ended – with 'zero results', according to the Russian side

The meeting ended after Russia demanded the full withdrawal of all Ukrainian forces from the 4 new regions Russia currently claims control over in Ukraine. After Ukraine refused, the Russian delegation walked out. – Axios

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—❗️🇮🇱/🇾🇪 BREAKING: Initial reports of imminent Israeli airstrikes on Yemen – the jets are currently over Eilat

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