— 🇮🇷/🇪🇬 NEW: Iran's Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, had dinner in Cairo yesterday

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— 🇮🇱/🇸🇾 WATCH: Footage of the two BM-21 'Grad' rockets launched from Syria landing in an open area in the Golan Heights earlier

Israel has assessed that an 'independent faction' was responsible for the launches from Syrian territory, not government forces.

The IDF is currently striking southern Syria with artillery.

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—❗️🇸🇾/🇮🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: The Islamic Resistance Front in Syria, an Iran-backed resistance faction consisting of Shia Muslims and some SSNP, has taken responsibility for the attack

They provided evidence of their claim, showing two improvised launchpads with BM-21 'Grad' rockets being aimed at Israel.

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— 🇮🇷/🇺🇸 On the recent New York Times report on the latest U.S. nuclear proposal

There seems to be a lot of optimism on social media and in U.S. reporting about this latest proposal made by America towards Iran.

I can assure you, based on Iranian diplomatic sources, this proposal (which is mentioned by the NYT) does not sufficiently addresses Iran's demands.

Contrary to what is being reported in the media, this is not a 'revised' proposal — it is the same proposal that was presented by Oman's FM Al-Busaidi in Tehran last week, and Iran already called it 'delusional and one-sides' and has practically rejected it.

The proposal states that Iran will be allowed to temporarily enrich uranium on its soil, up to 3.67% purity necessary for civilian use, but that gradually Iran would fully dismantle its existing nuclear infrastructure and the enrichment for Iran's fuel for its nuclear powerplants would be supplied by a regional 'enrichment consortium' in the Gulf.

Iran is not against the creation of a regional uranium enrichment consortium, but will never agree to dismantle its existing nuclear infrastructure or accept temporary 'ceremonial' 3% enrichment — because that's all this U.S. proposal is.

According to the proposal, once Iran starts receiving 'benefits' from the deal (i.e. sanctions relief), it would have to fully give up its domestic enrichment, and receive fuel for its nuclear reactors only from the regional consortium, which will likely be US-supervised (even if located on Iran's Persian Gulf islands).

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Uhh...

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 WATCH: Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the pro-Israel lobby Anti-Defamation League (ADL), calls for strict censorship on social media platforms like X, Instagram, and TikTok. He says it's time for the companies to 'knock the anti-Zionists off the platform once and for all.'

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: The IDF has announced the death of Master Sgt. Alon Farkas, 27, from the 6646th Reconnaissance Battalion, 646th Brigade, who was killed in northern Gaza

Another soldier was 'severely injured' in the same incident.

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🇮🇷| Imam Khamenei, regarding Uranium enrichment

“Now, in the nuclear industry, there is one key point that functions like the master key: Uranium enrichment.

Our enemies have fixated on this enrichment—they’ve put their finger exactly on this. A vast nuclear industry, without the ability to enrich uranium, is essentially useless. Why? Because for our power plants, we’d have to stretch out our hand and ask others for fuel.

It’s like having oil in your country but being forbidden from building refineries or producing gasoline—you have crude oil, but you have to buy gasoline from someone else. And that country might sell it to you at whatever price they wish—or they might just refuse altogether, making up an excuse. That’s how they behave.

Even if we had 100 nuclear reactors, without enrichment, they’d be useless—because nuclear power plants require fuel. If we can’t produce that fuel ourselves, we’d have to go begging to the US, and they might set dozens of conditions just to give us fuel.

We already experienced this in the 2000s, when we needed 20% enriched uranium. The US president at the time sent 2 heads of state—so-called friends—to act as intermediaries and told us: ‘Give us part of your 3.5% enriched uranium, and we’ll give you the 20% fuel you need.’ Our officials agreed, and an exchange was planned.

I said the exchange must be done like this: They bring the 20% enriched fuel to Bandar Abbas, we test it to ensure it’s genuine, and then we hand over the 3.5% in return. When they saw that we were serious and insistent on inspecting the 20% fuel first, they backed out of the deal and broke their promise.

Meanwhile, amid all this political back-and-forth, our scientists produced the 20% enriched uranium domestically, right here inside this country.”

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇸 Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei:

'Iran is a strong nation, an independent nation. Our nuclear industry is one of the most advanced in the world, and we employ thousands of scientists, researchers, and other workers. Should we give all of this up? Should we make all of them jobless? Are we insane?

You [United States] have nuclear capabilities. You have atomic bombs. You possess devastating weapons.

What right do you have to question whether the Iranian nation should have nuclear enrichment or not, or a nuclear industry or not? We are a sovereign nation, we have the right to decide our own future. It has nothing to do with you. This is the principle of our independence.

The latest American proposal is 100% against our doctrine and against our positions.'

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇸 Supreme Leader of Iran: 'From here on, I pledge to the Iranian nation, with the help of God, we will strengthen our national power as much as we can'

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