🚨🇮🇷Iran is ready for a long war, unlike Washington - Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Larijani

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🇷🇺🇶🇦 Putin, Qatar’s emir discuss Middle East crisis and de-escalation efforts

Russian President Vladimir Putin has held a phone conversation with Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to address the acute crisis in the Middle East, which the Kremlin said was triggered by the US–Israeli actions against Iran.

Key statements:

🔸 Two leaders discussed the escalating situation in the region.

🔸 Both expressed concern over the risk of the conflict expanding and the danger of third countries being drawn in

🔸 They voiced hope that Iran’s retaliatory actions would not harm civilians or civilian infrastructure

🔸 Putin and the emir expressed hope for swift de-escalation and a return to diplomatic settlement efforts in the Middle East

🔸 Qatari emir thanked Russia for its support of regional states amid the current complex situation

🔸 He emphasized that cooperation with Russia across various sectors remains a priority for countries in the region

🔸 Leaders agreed to continue Russian–Qatari contacts through various channels

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🤔 Why Strait of Hormuz closure could strike back at US economy

It could destabilize the US economy now that more countries start to clinch trade deals in national currencies, “accelerating the US to a process of decadence that may make it difficult to remain in global leadership in the future,” Brazilian political scientist Domenique Marques tells Sputnik.

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🚨🇮🇷Ayatollah Khamenei’s wife succumbs to injuries from US–Israeli attack - reports

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🗣 Iranian targeting information is good, exploits US weaknesses: former Pentagon analyst to Sputnik

🔶 "Three weaknesses of all US wars of the past 30 years are dependence on complex centrally managed war management systems, just in time logistics models for very expensive munitions, missiles and platforms, and of course an assumption that if the wars are short, painless and without economic impact back home, foreign and domestic morale and politics are easily managed," said retired US Air Force Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski.

🔶 "The IRGC has planned for the one thing the US and Israel cannot handle, and that is a multidimensional defensive war that cost effectively can create and sustain serious tiered costs for the US/Israeli and their allies."

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🛰 "The sound of aircraft flying overhead can still be heard": Sputnik reports from Tehran amid missile strikes

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

📹 Watch: Extensive damage to Tehran’s Gandhi Hospital following US-Israeli attack

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🚨 ISNA: US Embassy in Bahrain has announced its closure

Earlier, reports said the US Embassy in Kuwait was also closed

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🇷🇺🇧🇭 Putin and Bahraini King urge immediate halt to Middle East war

📍 Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone conversation with King Hamad of Bahrain, who currently chairs the Gulf Cooperation Council, the Kremlin press service said.

Key statements

🟠 The two leaders stressed the need for a ceasefire in the Middle East to prevent the situation from spiraling out of control

🟠 Putin reaffirmed Russia’s readiness to help stabilize the situation in the region

🟠 Putin and King Hamad agreed to stay in contact

📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt