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Russia-Iran regional cooperation is crucial – Iranian president
The era of US leadership has passed and cooperation between Russia and Iran in the development of a multipolar world will contribute to improving global security, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stated at a meeting with Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergei Shoigu in Tehran, Iran.
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The era of US leadership has passed and cooperation between Russia and Iran in the development of a multipolar world will contribute to improving global security, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stated at a meeting with Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergei Shoigu in Tehran, Iran.
"Russia is among the countries that support the Iranian nation in difficult times,” Pezeshkian said. “The development of relations with this strategic partner is one of the priorities of the foreign policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he added. “It is necessary to accelerate the implementation of the agreements concluded between the two countries."
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Just in time to repulse aggression: Meet Iran’s brand new air and missile defense systems
Iran has developed an array of sophisticated homegrown air defense systems and radars over the years, including several unveiled in 2024. Here’s what we know about them:
9-Dey
🔸 This new short-range air defense system was successfully tested during IRGC Aerospace Force drills in January. Designed to engage low-altitude threats, the 9-Dey missiles’ launcher is mounted aboard a modified Sevom Khordad road-mobile medium-range air defense missile system.
🔸 Making use of the Sevom Khordad’s launch vehicle and radar, the 9-Dey comes with eight 200 kg ready-to-fire missiles with a range of up to 30 km.
Arman
🔸 Unveiled in February, this air defense and anti-ballistic missile system features a sophisticated radar (active or passive, depending on variant) with a 360-degree field of view and the ability to identify and track up to 24 targets at ranges up to 200 km.
🔸 The systems’ road-mobile launchers can be fitted to carry between one and three heavy 1,000 kg Sayyad-2 and Sayyad-3 series interceptors.
Azarakhsh
🔸 Also unveiled in February, this modular short-range, low-altitude air defense system is designed to be light enough to be carried by small trucks, and has 70 kg missiles with a 4.5 kg HE-Frag warhead and a range of up to 10 km.
🔸 The system has four ready-to-launch missiles. Because the platform is modular, in addition to trucks, it can, in theory, also be attached to other vehicles, warships, or stationary sites.
Upgraded Bavar-373
🔸 In April, Iran showed off a new version of the Bavar-373 - the road-mobile long-range surface-to-air and anti-ballistic missile system unveiled in 2019 and touted as the Iranian analogue to Russia’s S-300.
🔸 The upgraded system is said to feature modified Sayyad-4B two-stage solid-fueled interceptor missiles, and to boast the ability to intercept and engage aerial targets at ranges between 300-400 km at altitudes up to 120 km.
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Iran has developed an array of sophisticated homegrown air defense systems and radars over the years, including several unveiled in 2024. Here’s what we know about them:
9-Dey
Arman
Azarakhsh
Upgraded Bavar-373
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Who profits from Venezuela’s energy riches as Maduro mulls expanding BRICS’ share?
President Maduro has revealed that Venezuela’s biggest energy investments are coming from BRICS countries, and warned that if the US and its allies “make the mistake of their lives” by continuing their attempts to destabilize Venezuela, their oil and gas contracts could go to Caracas’s allies.
🔹 Possessing 300 bln barrels of oil and 195 trln cubic feet of natural gas, Venezuela accounts for a whopping 17% of global crude reserves, and about 3% of gas reserves.
🔹 State-owned oil giant Petroleos de Venezuela (PDVSA) is Venezuela’s largest energy producer, with total national output by PDVSA and foreign partners reaching 993,000 barrels per day (bpd) in July, and shipped to Asia, the US, Europe and Cuba.
What contracts does West stand to lose?
🔹 US and European energy giants were largely frozen out of operations in Venezuela in 2019 by US sanctions threats. A 2022 deal enabled their return in an oil-for-debt arrangement designed to minimize cash flowing into PDVSA’s coffers. US oil giant Chevron now pumps up to 200,000 bpd of Venezuelan crude from four joint venture sites, and plans to increase output by another 65,000 bpd by year’s end.
🔹 Spanish oil major Repsol extracts some 20,000 bpd of oil and 40 mln cubic feet of gas daily, and is looking to expand its stake in undeveloped oil fields with a production potential of over 300,000 bpd. Repsol’s output is concentrated at four main sites, including the offshore Perla Field off Venezuela’s northwest coast.
🔹 Italian energy company Eni has also been authorized to resume pumping oil in Venezuela, with a joint venture with PDVSA in the Petrosucre field producing about 2,200 bpd (but able to produce 24,000 bpd or more historically). Eni is also in talks with PDVSA about unfreezing the shallow-water Corocoro crude project, and joining the Perla gas project.
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President Maduro has revealed that Venezuela’s biggest energy investments are coming from BRICS countries, and warned that if the US and its allies “make the mistake of their lives” by continuing their attempts to destabilize Venezuela, their oil and gas contracts could go to Caracas’s allies.
What contracts does West stand to lose?
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Argentina to send gold abroad while others repatriate it
The West’s freezing of nearly the half of Russia’s $640 billion gold and foreign assets prompted many countries to repatriate their bullion from foreign banks abroad. But in June Argentina did the opposite and sent $450 million-worth of gold abroad.
According to the Invesco’s survey in 2023, 68% of national banks maintain part of their gold reserves in their own country, compared to 50% in 2020. For 2027, this number is expected to rise to 74%.
What Countries have successfully repatriated their gold?
⚡️ Venezuela’s BCV: 160 tons from US and Europe in 2011-2012
⚡️ Germany’s Bundesbank: 674 tons from New York and Paris in 2013-2017
⚡️ The Netherlands’ DNB: 122.5 tons from New York in 2014
⚡️ Hungary’s MNB: 28.4 tons from the UK in 2018
⚡️ Romania’s BNR: 18 tons from London in 2019
⚡️ Poland’s NBP: 100 tons from London in 2019
⚡️ Turkiye’s CBRT: 220 tons from US and UK in 2019
⚡️ India’ RBI: 100 tons from London in 2023
Countries that hold the majority of gold reserves of foreign countries:
⚡️ USA, United Kingdom, Switzerland, France and Canada.
Countries with gold frozen abroad
⚡️ Russia: in 2022 US, EU, UK, and other Western nations froze an estimated $300 billion worth of Russia's gold and foreign exchange
⚡️ Zimbabwe: the US imposed sanctions, including an embargo of the country’s gold exports, in 2003
⚡️ Libya: the UN Security Council imposed sanctions freezing assets and gold reserves in 2011
⚡️ Iran: the US froze $100 billion in gold in 2018
⚡️ Afghanistan: 2021, the US froze $7 billion in assets and a portion of gold reserves in 2021
⚡️ Venezuela: The Bank of England has refused to return $1.95 billion in gold since 2020
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The West’s freezing of nearly the half of Russia’s $640 billion gold and foreign assets prompted many countries to repatriate their bullion from foreign banks abroad. But in June Argentina did the opposite and sent $450 million-worth of gold abroad.
According to the Invesco’s survey in 2023, 68% of national banks maintain part of their gold reserves in their own country, compared to 50% in 2020. For 2027, this number is expected to rise to 74%.
"We did have it held in London,” said one central bank, quoted anonymously. “But now we've transferred it back to own country to hold as a safe haven asset and to keep it safe."
What Countries have successfully repatriated their gold?
“The repatriation of our gold was an act of financial prudence and sovereignty,” said former president of the central bank of Venezuela Nelson Merentes in 2012.
Countries that hold the majority of gold reserves of foreign countries:
Countries with gold frozen abroad
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📹 China uses anti-aircraft guns to seed clouds in arid and desert regions
The guns seen in the video are loaded with chemical mixtures, primarily silver iodide, to precipitate rainfall from clouds.
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The guns seen in the video are loaded with chemical mixtures, primarily silver iodide, to precipitate rainfall from clouds.
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Details of the investigation of the Trump assassination attempt have become sensational - Zakharova
Investigative journalists from The New York Times gained access to the correspondence of the Pennsylvania police and found out something “frankly wild,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova posted on her social media.
⚡️ A couple of hours before the shooting, the police exchanged photos of Thomas Matthew Crooks, who walked around the are and appeared to measure the distance of the vicinity
⚡️ On the eve of the assassination attempt, AGR warehouse No. 6 was excluded from the guarded perimeter, of which Crooks fired from as he positioned himself on its roof. One even didn’t have to go through any security checks to get there.
⚡️ It was the US Secret Service, whose leadership was appointed by Joe Biden, that excluded the building from the perimeter.
⚡️ The Secret Service refused a requested meeting with the local police, who suspected Crooks on the eve of the assassination attempt.
⚡️ Facts detailing that on the eve of the incident, Crooks searched for information about the distance between Lee Harvey Oswald and John F. Kennedy, and that he had his own drones, which he launched on the eve of the rally in Pennsylvania, are “mind-blowing.”
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Investigative journalists from The New York Times gained access to the correspondence of the Pennsylvania police and found out something “frankly wild,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova posted on her social media.
“Maybe the US special services should take down a couple hundred people who are trailing Russian diplomats everywhere in a vain attempt to persuade them to cooperate, and patch up real security holes with them? At least the top officials of the US political arena,” Zakharova said.
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The Israel Defense Forces announced the elimination of the commander of the Radwan special forces' battalion, as part of the combat wing of the Hezbollah movement in southern Lebanon, and showed footage of the strike.
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"Say 'No' to WhatsApp" — Maduro calls on Venezuelans to delete the app
Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro urged the country's youth to use Telegram and WeChat, instead of WhatsApp which "threatens" Venezuela:
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Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro urged the country's youth to use Telegram and WeChat, instead of WhatsApp which "threatens" Venezuela:
"They are using this app to threaten... all of Venezuela. The first step is the voluntary, progressive and radical withdrawal of WhatsApp. There are other apps, messaging systems like Telegram and Wechat. Let's all do this!"
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For the first time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces used ATACMS cluster missiles, which are capable of striking at a distance of up to 300 kilometers, to bombard the civilian infrastructure of Lugansk.
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The purpose of the July 31 assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, is “to prolong the war [in Gaza] and expand its scope," Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told Sputnik.
He also said that:
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At the moment, there is actually a power vacuum in the country, as the interim government has not yet been formed. The leaders of the student protests suggest that the Nobel Prize winner in economics, Muhammad Yunus, will be the main adviser in it.
In the video: demonstrators demolish the monument to Mujibur Rahman, the first head of state, and father of the retired prime minister.
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❗️The Armed Forces of Ukraine tried to break into the territory of the Russian Kursk region, but the fighters of the FSB Border Guard Service and the Russian Armed Forces did not allow a breakthrough, the acting governor said.
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History according to Joe: US, Japan were on same side throughout centuries Here's the REAL timeline of events in US-Japan relations: ▪️1850s – The US sends warships under Commodore Mathew Perry to coerce Japan into opening up its economy to American business.…
See no elephant in the room? Japanese PM fails to mention US role in atomic bombing of Hiroshima
Tuesday marks the 79th anniversary of the US' atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which claimed the lives of about 140,000 Japanese, mostly civilians.
Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has not thought twice before remaining tight¬lipped about the fact that it was the US who dropped a nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in August 1945.
He went even further by referring to an alleged “nuclear threat” from Russia, which purportedly makes “the situation surrounding nuclear disarmament all the more challenging.”
About 140,000 people were killed as a result of the US' atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Three days later, the Americans dropped another atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing an additional 74,000 people. The US remains the world’s only country to have used a nuclear weapon against a population center.
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Tuesday marks the 79th anniversary of the US' atomic bombing of Hiroshima, which claimed the lives of about 140,000 Japanese, mostly civilians.
Japan Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has not thought twice before remaining tight¬lipped about the fact that it was the US who dropped a nuclear bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima in August 1945.
“Seventy-nine years ago today, an atomic bomb deprived people, said to number well more than 100,000, of their precious lives. It reduced the city to ashes and mercilessly deprived people of their dreams and bright futures,” Kishida said in an address at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony on Tuesday.
He went even further by referring to an alleged “nuclear threat” from Russia, which purportedly makes “the situation surrounding nuclear disarmament all the more challenging.”
About 140,000 people were killed as a result of the US' atomic bombing of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. Three days later, the Americans dropped another atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Nagasaki, killing an additional 74,000 people. The US remains the world’s only country to have used a nuclear weapon against a population center.
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❗️A series of explosions sounded in Russia's city of Belgorod, Sputnik correspondent reports.
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18 people were killed, and more than 150 were hospitalized, as a result of the arson of a hotel in the city of Jessore by rioters in Bangladesh, local media reported.
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Ukraine conflict to end this year? Zelensky announced intention to create basis for peaceful settlement
Moscow has repeatedly offered to resolve the conflict peacefully, but the Kiev regime has imposed a ban on them at the legislative level.
In mid-June, Russia's President Vladimir Putin presented a peace proposal to bring the conflict to an end. He stated that in order to start negotiations, Ukraine must withdraw troops from the territory of the new Russian regions and abandon its intention to join NATO.
Zelensky's office rejected Putin's proposals.
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"Our constant goal is to prepare a real basis for a just end to the conflict this year," Zelensky said, despite constant refusals to hold talks with Russia.
Moscow has repeatedly offered to resolve the conflict peacefully, but the Kiev regime has imposed a ban on them at the legislative level.
In mid-June, Russia's President Vladimir Putin presented a peace proposal to bring the conflict to an end. He stated that in order to start negotiations, Ukraine must withdraw troops from the territory of the new Russian regions and abandon its intention to join NATO.
Zelensky's office rejected Putin's proposals.
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