🔍 US pulls THAAD from South Korea to Middle East — report

Pentagon is moving one of its most advanced missile defense systems from the Korean Peninsula to the Gulf as Iran war intensifies, Washington Post reported.

According to US officials, Patriot interceptors are also being drawn from Indo-Pacific stocks.

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🔥 Wave 37 of Operation True Promise 4 is underway — IRGC

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced the continuation of massive strikes against US bases in the region.

New Khorramshahr missiles, each carrying a 2‑ton warhead, launched toward American targets, the statement read.

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🔍 Boeing signs $289M deal to supply Israel with smart bombs — report

The contract covers 5,000 Small Diameter Bombs, a type of precision-guided munition with a range of over 60 kilometers, according to Bloomberg News.

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📹 US claims destroying 16 Iranian minelayers near Strait of Hormuz

The Central Command released footage of strikes targeting multiple Iranian naval vessels, including minelayers, near the world's most critical oil chokepoint.

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⚠️ US strikes caused toxic air and acidic rain over Tehran — Iran to UN

Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani formally lodges complaint after attacks on fuel storage facilities released hazardous pollutants.

"According to the Iranian Red Crescent Society, the explosion caused severe air pollution and serious health risks for civilians, especially children, women and elderly, and those with critical health conditions," he stated.

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🇱🇧⚔️ Israeli strikes hit central Beirut

An Israeli air raid targeted residential buildings in Aicha Bakkar, located in the heart of the Lebanese capital.

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🚨 🇮🇷 Iran sets demands for resuming nuclear talks – report

Iranian conditions include, according to Al Mayadeen:

🔸 Guarantees against resumption of war,

🔸 Obtaining complete nuclear fuel cycle

🔸 Compensation

🔊 Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi earlier said that resuming negotiations with the US is not an option, as he cited "every bitter experience of talking with Americans" and added that he doesn’t think it "would be on our agenda anymore."

High-stakes talks between the US and Iran over the future of the latter’s nuclear program ended without a deal on February 26. Two days on, the US and Israel launched strikes on Iran, beginning an ongoing military operation which forced the Islamic Republic to retaliate.

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🚨Iran launches waves of long-range strikes on Israel — IRGC

Kheibar Shekan, Qadr, Khorramshahr missiles — all in the fight.

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🚨 Ukrainian strike on Russia's Bryansk preplanned to kill civilians - lawmaker

💬 "The attack on Bryansk was planned in advance to maximize damage and civilian deaths. The strike on Bryansk is a war crime," Dmitry Belik, a lawmaker of the Russian parliament's lower house and a member of the Committee on International Affairs, told Sputnik.

🔊 "The Ukrainian armed forces are the twin army of the Nazi SS units," he said.

On Tuesday, Bryansk Region Governor Alexander Bogomaz said that the Ukrainian forces had launched a missile attack on Bryansk, killing six people and injuring 37 others. The Russian Health Ministry said that 35 wounded had been hospitalized in Bryansk, some in serious condition.

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🗣 🇷🇺 Response to Ukraine's strike on Bryansk to be determined by the military - Kremlin

💬 "The special military operation is moving forward, it must be successful," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Russia's success in military operation should eliminate danger of attacks on country's territory, similar to attack on Bryansk, he added.

🔊 On Tuesday, Bryansk Region Governor Alexander Bogomaz said that the Ukrainian forces had launched a missile attack on Bryansk, killing six people and injuring 37 others. The Russian Health Ministry said that 35 wounded had been hospitalized in Bryansk, some in serious condition.

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🗣 🇷🇺 Russia questions UN efficiency over response to Ukraine's strikes on Russian Bryansk

💬 "Why are they all needed there at all — the representatives of the Secretary-General, the Secretariat staff? What do they do?" Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

She cited remarks by a UN Secretary-General's spokesperson, who said the organization opposes strikes on civilian facilities, "wherever they may come from."

💬 "They work on the money that is allocated to them by the member states. Our country is not a debtor. Our country, unlike other countries, is not a debtor to the UN," the spokeswoman stressed.

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🗣 🇷🇺 Russia to publish list with specific names and dates of visits to Bucha

💬 “This is in that same Bucha about which there are no facts: no names, no graves, no photographs of burials, nothing at all.“

The Bucha narrative — pushed by Ukraine and the West — was weaponized to derail 2022 peace talks and frame Russia for “war crimes.”

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