Merry Christmas to my Christian followers! May God's blessing be upon you all.

Jesus Christ and his values should be an inspiration for us all, especially during these dark times in the world.

I hope you have a wonderful time with your family & friends the next few days! 🎄✨🎁

— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧 NEW: Throughout the night, Israel carried out a wave of extensive airstrikes against high-value Hezbollah targets; The IDF has sealed off all roads near Lebanon, and the Israeli military is preparing for a significant Hezbollah response - N12 News

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ACT UPON TEACHINGS OF JESUS

Merry Christmas to the oppressed nations of the world, to the Christian nations and the Christians of Iran. Christ was a great messenger whose mission was to establish justice and mercy, and who with his heavenly words and deeds condemned the tyrants and supported the Oppressed

Imam Khomeini
24th December 1979

Via Imam Khomeini TG

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— 🇮🇷 Iran's new twin-launch platform for the 'Tala'eeyeh' anti-ship cruise missile

The 'Tala'eeyeh' anti-ship cruise missile, former designation 'Abu Mahdi', has a range of up to 1000km with pinpoint accuracy against large moving targets, meaning it can cover the Persian Gulf and Arabian Sea.

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— 🇺🇸/🇾🇪 Yemen's Ansarullah: While one of our UAVs was carrying out a routine reconaissance mission, a U.S. warhip fired its weapons frantically; one of its missiles nearly hit a Gabon-registered tanker originating from a Russian port, as it was lawfully transiting through the Red Sea

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Jewish settlers set fire to a Christmas tree in Bethlehem in the West Bank, while under IDF protection

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 UDPATE: Muslim and Christian Palestinians banded together, gathering rocks and attacking the settlers, after which they fled and the fire was extinguished

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— It was a small tree put up by locals, not a big tree or in an official square, for those wondering.

Bethlehem municipality limited all official celebrations and major decorations in solidarity with Gaza.

🇱🇧 Funeral of Martyr Hossein Salameh from Hezbollah in Aitaroun

Aitaroun is located near the border of Lebanon and Palestine and is under daily attacks by Israeli terrorists

While the Israelis are fleeing and the towns are deserted, Lebanese muslims are burying their martyrs enthusiastically.

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— 🇮🇱/🇾🇪 BREAKING: The world's largest shipping company, Maersk, announces it will resume shipping in the Red Sea after the start of the US-led naval coalition

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⚡️🇪🇬🇵🇸 Egyptian authorities have presented a mechanism for the de-escalation that would both insure a complete Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza strip and the return of Israeli detainees to Israel.

Israel has not rejected the proposal, and is supposed to review it in an official capacity on the 25th of December, while the response of Palestinian officials from Hamas and the PIJ is not noted - they were there in Cairo during the talks.

The Egyptian proposal includes "one or two weeks of ceasefire" in exchange for the release of 40 Israeli women, as well as any men above the age of 60 + the ones in dire medical need.

Thus concludes the first stage - the second stage involves an exchange of all bodies between the Palestinian and Israeli side, moving into the third stage - includes an All for All deal - all Israeli military personnel in captivity in exchange for the release of all Palestinians in Israeli prisons, followed by an Israeli withdraw from the Gaza Strip.

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📄 Hamas and other resistance factions are rejecting all current ceasefire and prisoner exchange deals, as they stress that they won't accept a temporary halt to this war.

The demand is to end this war, and that to be followed by the prisoner swap. This was rejected by the Israeli government who is adamant at achieving further damage to Hamas and increase pressure on Gaza to pay less for the hostages.

— 🇻🇦Pope Francis: 'The military-industrial complex and weapons manufacturers are pulling the strings of all wars'

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— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷/🇸🇾 BREAKING: Israeli airstrike on Sayyeda Zainab area in Damascus, reportedly an attempted assassination of the IRGC's main commander in Syria

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— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: One of the IRGC's top generals in Syria was reportedly martyred in the recent Israeli airstrike on Damascus

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— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: Reportedly, the martyred general is Seyyed Razi Mousavi, one of the IRGC's top commanders in Syria who was a personal friend of martyr Qasem Soleimani

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— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 CONFIRMED: General Sayyed Razi Mousavi, coordinating IRGC officer in Syria, was martyred - Tasnim

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸/🇪🇬 NEW: Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have rejected an Egyptian proposal that they relinquish power in the Gaza Strip in return for a permanent ceasefire with Israel - Reuters

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The martyr Razi Mousavi with martyr Qasem Soleimani ❤️

— 🇮🇷 A note to those who claim 'regional tensions will skyrocket' because 'Iran wants revenge'

Yes, Iran wants revenge, and it will avenge, but Iran has rarely openly responded to any such assassinations in the past. The responses have mostly remained unpublicized.

Just a few weeks ago two senior IRGC generals were killed in Syria, and Iran did not escalate or avenge them openly, despite people saying they would.

Iran seeks its revenge in the shadows. There will suddenly be a fire at some chemical plant in Haifa, or a senior IDF commander will be in a suspicious car crash, or Benny Gantz' secretary will turn out to be an Iranian spy.

This is how it's been, and how it will be. Iran rarely responds publicly unless the enemy publicly announces the assassination, such as with Soleimani.

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