— 🇮🇷 BREAKING: Iran’s supreme leader has issued an order for Iran to strike Israel directly following the assassination of Ismael Haniyeh in Tehran

Khamenei gave the order at an emergency meeting of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council on Wednesday morning, according to three Iranian officials briefed on the order - New York Times

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— NOTE: I'm only posting this because it's being circulated.

For the record, there is NO way anyone would know this, even extremely close sources in the government.

Iranian high ranking officials do not talk to any media, especially not American media. I'm not saying it won't happen, but I think the story is entirely made up.

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— 🇮🇷/🇱🇧 NEW: Milad Baydi, an Iranian military advisor working for the IRGC-QF alongside Hezbollah, was martyred with Fouad Shokr in the Israeli airstrike in Beirut

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— 🇮🇱/🇯🇴 NEW: The IDF is currently holding secret consultations with the Jordanian Royal Air Force and U.S. CENTCOM regarding a joint air defense effort in case of another Iranian missile attack against Israel

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— 🇮🇱 NEW: An IDF soldier opened fire on his superiors, killing 3, and then he shot himself, at a military base in southern Israel

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— 🇮🇷/🇵🇸 The coffins of Hamas leader Ismael Haniyeh and his martyred companion

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— 🇮🇷 BREAKING: Three NOTAMS (Notice To Airmen) have been published regarding the closure of Iranian airspace

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: The issued NOTAMs are related to a limited airspace closure of a radius of 2km in Tehran, where Imam Khamenei will lead Ismael Haniyeh's funeral prayer tomorrow

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— 🇮🇷 The deployment of additional air defenses in the Iranian capital Tehran earlier

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— 🇮🇷/🇸🇦/🇶🇦 NEW: The Iranian Foreign Minister has phoned the Saudi and Qatari Foreign Ministers with an 'important message'

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— 🇮🇷 EXCLUSIVE: An intelligence source tells us that Iran likely won't wait as long to retaliate as it did after the Damascus embassy attack, because a significant portion of that time was spent making 'risk assessments' and identifying proportional targets that would not trigger a full-scale war; after the April 14 strikes, Iran has a clearer picture of the Israeli red lines, and realizes that Israeli territory can be targeted & that Iran posesses a significant enough deterrence power to carry out a major strike

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— 🇮🇷 EXCLUSIVE: The same source tells us that Iran delayed its April 14 attack and telegraphed it a lot to see which countries would come to Israel's aid in the 'worst case scenario'; Iran wanted a virtual scenario to see how tight the Israeli air defense umbrella would be & what countries would participate, so that the next strike could be adjusted accordingly – Iran now has a 'virtual map' of all Israeli air defenses and the possible weaknesses in the canopy

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