— 🇮🇷/🇦🇲 BREAKING: Iran will reportedly establish military bases inside Armenia, as part of the new arms deal

The deal also involves extensive intelligence cooperation and the training of Armenian troops by Iranian advisors.

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I won't believe any of this until a non-opposition outlet confirms it. I am very skeptical of Iran International.

Treat this news as extremely preliminary. If it was real, it would've been the government that announced it first.

⭕ Elon Musk in the corridors of Congress: I came as a guest of Netanyahu.

🇺🇸⚡️- Netanyahu’s speech to Congress opens with a 3 minute standing ovation.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the U.S. Congress:

'In the Middle East, the Iranian Axis of Terror faces America, Israel and our Arab friends. This is not a clash of civilizations.

For the forces of civilization to triumph, America and Israel must stand together against the Iran-led Axis of Terror.'

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🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Netanyahu: "Iran is funding the anti-Israel protesters outside this building [The Capitol.]"

The obsession is unreal

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Netanyahu: "The war in Gaza has one of the lowest combatants to non-combatant casualties in the history of urban warfare."

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 Benjamin Netanyahu: 'Not a single innocent Palestinian civilian was killed by the IDF in Rafah'

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in U.S. Congress:

'Iran is behind all the terrorism, all the turmoil, all the chaos, and all the endless killing. And that should come as no surprise.

When he founded the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Khomeini said 'we will export the Islamic revolution to the entire world.'

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 Benjamin Netanyahu: 'Iran blatantly said it will assassinate Donald Trump, and it has killed Americans in the Middle East and beyond'

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 Benjamin Netanyahu:

'For Iran, Israel is first, America is next. When Israel fights Hamas, we're fighting Iran. When we fight Hezbollah, we fight Iran. When we fight the Houthis, we fight Iran. And when we fight Iran, we're fighting radical terrorism.

We are not just protecting Israel, we're protecting the United States. Our enemies are your enemies. Our fight is your fight. Our victory is your victory.'

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu officially proposes an anti-Iran alliance in the Middle East, to be called the 'Abraham Alliance', consisting of Israel, the United States and regional (Arab) countries

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 The Abraham Alliance: Reality or Work of Fiction?

If the United States tried to form this alliance 10 years ago, I would have said that Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Jordan and Egypt would have likely joined. With the Syrian war ongoing, fears about the Nuclear Program and anti-Iranian sentiment at a boiling point, Arab nations felt like they had something to prove.

However, in the Middle East anno 2024, with Iran as an emerging force that has imposed hard power equations upon its neighbours, and following the Iran-Saudi peace deal, I think such an alliance is not feasible. In the very best case scenario, the Kingdom of Jordan and Bahrain would join such an alliance.

Saudi Arabia is openly interested in closer Iran-ties, the UAE mostly follows Saudi policy & is heavily dependent on Iranian imports, and Egypt has a history of refusing alliances and has bigger problems than Iran. None of these countries will be excited at the prospect of an anti-Iran alliance at a time when Iran is rapidly emerging as the pre-eminent geopolitical power in the Middle East.

Jordan, due to its dependence on NATO and the United States, is the most likely to be up for it. They were the only Arab nation to open their airspace to the Israeli Air Force when Iran launched its missile strikes against Israel in April of this year.

Bahrain, which houses the U.S. Persian Gulf fleet, while possiby interested in joining, has also openly voiced its interest in persuing a re-establishment of diplomatic ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran.

In short: the 'Abraham Alliance' will likely end up as a shell of what it could have once been. It will be an empty, shallow alliance, consisting mostly of the United States and Israel, similar to operation Prosperity Guardian, which is widely seen as a flop.

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🇮🇱🇺🇸 - Netanyahu: "No no dont applaud.. Listen."

Even he is tired of it. This is genuinely pathetic..

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Observers counted a total of 58 standing ovations for Benjamin Netanyahu during his speech to Congress – that's one standing ovation per minute

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— For comparison; a friend of mine checked the average amount of standing ovations during Kim Jong Un's speeches in North Korea – which averages about 1 standing ovation per 4 minutes of talking

Benjamin Netanyahu, the leader of a foreign nation, receives 400% more standing ovations in the United States than Kim Jong Un inside his own personal dictatorship.

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No disrespect to my guy Kim btw.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 Netanyahu speech summary: more applause than a DPRK Party Congress

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