🚨 Alarm sirens blare across Israel

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🔊 US 'lulled Iran to sleep' using nuclear talks as cover for joint strike – Scott Ritter

The diplomacy was never real—it was a ruse to create a false sense of security and enable Israel to strike, Former US Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter told Sputnik.

"This is a joint US-Israeli attack on Iran. The goal has always been regime change... Iran is backed into a corner and will fight to destroy those aligned against them."

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🚨 Iranian Parliament speaker: 'Trump and Netanyahu crossed our red line—they will pay'

Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has issued a stark warning following the death of Ayatollah Khamenei:

🔹 "We will settle accounts with the Americans and Israelis"

🔹 "We will strike you with such terrible blows that you will beg for mercy"

🔹 "We are ready for all scenarios. We have plans for the period after the martyrdom of Imam Khamenei"

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🚨 Iran to form Interim Leadership Council following Khamenei's death

💬 "An Interim Leadership Council will soon be formed until the next leader is elected," Ali Larijani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, announced.

Larijani has emphasized that American bases in the region are not considered the territory of regional countries, stressing that it has no intention of attacking its neighbors.

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🚨 US–Israel attack on Iran: Here’s the latest

◻️ Iranian state media has confirmed the death of the country’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in his compound in the capital Tehran

◻️ More than 200 people have already been killed during the US–Israel strikes on Iran, according to the Red Crescent

◻️ Israeli military carried out a new series of attacks on about 30 sites in the Islamic Republic

◻️ Number of people killed in a strike on a girls’ school in the southern Iranian city of Minab has soared to 118

◻️ Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched a “sixth wave” of missile and drone counterattacks on Israel and US bases in the region

◻️ Iranian drone strike damaged Bahrain International Airport, following Iran’s attacks on two airports in the United Arab Emirates and one in Kuwait

▫️ Large cloud of black smoke was seen over Erbil Air Base in Iraq, home to a contingent of US troops, after Iran’s Fars News Agency reported about heavy explosions in the area

Statements

🔸 IRGC announced the beginning of "the most brutal offensive operation in the history of Iran’s Armed Forces" after the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei

🔸 Assassination of Khamenei is a “big crime” that “will never go unanswered,” Iran’s presidential office warned, pledging that they “will force those who organized and carried out this crime to repent”

🔸 US President Donald Trump warned that Iran would face an even stronger attack if it tries to respond

🔸 Iran was ready for US and Israeli attacks and had “prepared itself for all possible scenarios, even [actions] following the death of the Supreme Leader,” Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf noted

🔸 US and Israeli military operation against Iran was a “true betrayal of diplomacy,” Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vassily Nebenzia underscored

🔸 Iran's Permanent Representative to the UN Amir Saeid Iravani thanked Russia, China, and Pakistan for condemning the US and Israel’s “unlawful act” of military aggression against the Islamic Republic

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🚨🚨🚨 Major General Abdulrahim Mousavi, Chief of the General Staff of Iran's Armed Forces, has been killed, Iranian agency Fars reports

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🚨 Ship tracking imagery shows traffic halted at both ends of Strait of Hormuz

The latest images reveal that most vessels, with the exception of Iranian and Chinese naval ships, have stopped on either side of the strait and are not risking passage through it.

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