🚨💥Israel poised for strike on Iran – US braces for FALLOUT

Israel is fully prepared to launch an operation against Iran and has already briefed US officials, CBS News reports.

🔸Anticipating potential Iranian retaliation, particularly against American targets in Iraq, the US has advised some citizens to leave the region.

🔸The State Department has ordered non-essential government personnel to evacuate Iraq, citing “heightened regional tensions.”

🔸The Pentagon is allowing military families to voluntarily depart bases across the Middle East, according to a defense official.

What do top officials say?

🗣Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, still plans to move ahead with a sixth round of nuclear talks with Iran in the coming days, the report added.

🗣When asked about the evacuation notice, Trump told reporters: “It could be a dangerous place. We’ll see what happens.”

🗣Iran’s Defense Minister Aziz Nasirzadeh didn’t mince words, warning that if nuclear talks fail and “a conflict is imposed on us,” Tehran will target all US bases in host countries.

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🇬🇧❓UK PM Starmer puppeteered by foreign orders - Errol Musk

"Every time there's any sort of problem that seems to arise, he's off to Davos to go and speak to people in Davos and then come back again," Elon Musk's dad told Sputnik.

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🚨🇺🇸CIA keeps Trump IN THE DARK - Prof. Sachs

The CIA does not tell the Trump administration “a lot of things,” Jeffrey Sachs told Tucker Carlson.

"The CIA has for decades and decades done very, very dangerous things not telling the president,” said the US economist.

The reason, partly, is deniability – “better he doesn't know this, because we need the President to be able to deny this.”

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💪🏻🇭🇺🇬🇪Hungary, Georgia resist EU' blackmail - Orban

"Like the Hungarians, the Georgians are also fighting to be able to decide their own destiny and not become expendable pawns in other people's wars... The Georgians, like us, the Hungarians, are not ready to succumb to the blackmail of the Brussels bureaucracy," Orban wrote on his social media.

He specified that Hungary and Georgia are open to mutual cooperation to make up for the damage "caused by the war and sanctions."

"Brussels blackmail here, Ukrainian threats there, we will develop, grow and become stronger, because that is why the Hungarian and Georgian peoples voted for us," Orban said.

On Tuesday, a protest was held in Budapest against the "On Transparency of Public Life" law, which bans foreign funding for public organizations and media. Similar protests have already taken place in Georgia, where a similar law, based on US legislation, was viewed.

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🇮🇷💪🏻💥Iranian military READY FOR ANY SCENARIO - IRGC Commander

The Iranian military is ready for any scenario, including war, commander of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Maj. Gen. Hossein Salami said.

✅ "The enemy failed to stand against Yemen — and collapsed. How can it possibly confront Iran?"

✅ "I warn them: Do not make a mistake."

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🚨 "The devotion of Russians to their homeland strengthens the country’s power, independence, and sovereignty," Putin emphasized at the ceremony honoring Heroes of Labor and state prize winners.

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🇷🇺🇰🇵North Korea’s Kim Jong-un calls PUTIN 'HIS DEAREST FRIEND AND COMRADE'

Kim Jong-un hailed the BLOOD-FORGED COMRADESHIP between the states, sending congrats on Russia Day.

He noted that Russia is a “fraternal state,” and traditional DPRK-Russia friendship “has been further cemented thanks to the militant comradeship the service personnel of the two countries have forged at the cost of their blood in the just SACRED war to defend the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Russia.”

“I and the DPRK will always stand with you and the Russian Federation,” Kim Jong-un stated.

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⚡️In accordance with the agreements reached in Istanbul on June 2, a group of Russian servicemen was returned from territory controlled by the Kiev regime, in exchange for a group of Ukrainian prisoners of war, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

At present, the Russian servicemen are in Belarus, where they are receiving the necessary psychological and medical assistance; they will be transported to Russia for treatment and rehabilitation.

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🇷🇺🎉WELCOME HOME HEROES! Russian warriors return from Ukrainian captivity

The soldiers are shouting "Russia!" on their way home to the Motherland.

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❗️Russia ready to exchange Ukrainian POWs for Russian military according to schedule agreed in Istanbul on June 2 on daily basis

Unfortunately, Ukraine isn't ready to conduct exchanges in the on-going basis, the Russian Defense Ministry stated.

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🗣‘It is people like you who pave the way to victories’ - Putin

The Russian President is holding a meeting at the Kremlin with participants of the "Time of Heroes" program.

This program was created to ensure that both today's Russia and its future are connected with the country's heroes, Putin emphasized.

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🔥🇮🇷Iran hits back with NEW URANIUM ENRICHMENT CENTER

Iranian authorities order launch of new uranium enrichment center in response to adoption of anti-iranian resolution by the IAEA, media reported.

Iran has also accused the United States and the EU big three of trying to politicize the agency, Tehran's Permanent Representative in Vienna, Reza Najafi, said.

➡️The IAEA has passed a resolution for the first time in nearly 20 years officially declaring Iran in violation of its non-proliferation obligations, Reuters reported.

➡️The agency claimed that since 2019, Iran has repeatedly failed to fulfill its obligations to provide the IAEA with "full and timely cooperation regarding undeclared nuclear materials and activities at numerous undeclared sites in Iran."

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🇷🇺⚡️ RUSSIAN FORCES LIBERATE SETTLEMENTS & ANNIHILATE ENEMY ASSETS

🔹BREAKTHROUGH: Troops of Group "Tsentr" liberated the settlements of Petrovskoye and Alekseyevka in the DPR.

🔹Precision strikes: Russian forces destroyed Ukrainian ammunition depots and UAV production workshops.

🔹Enemy routed: Ukrainian losses reached up to 1,380 troops in past 24 hours.

🔹AIR DEFENSE RECORD:

▪️2 JDAM bombs
▪️1 HIMARS rocket
▪️260 UAVs
shot down by Russian air defenses (incl. 62 in deep rear).

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🗣 ‘My answer is no’

Germany is not considering deliveries of Taurus missiles to Ukraine, German Defense Minister Pistorius said at a joint briefing following a meeting with Zelensky.

Russia has repeatedly stressed that it will consider any strike with Taurus missiles on Russian targets as Germany's involvement in the conflict on Ukraine's side.

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❌🇮🇷Iran eyes WITHDRAWING from Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Iran is ready to consider the possibility of withdrawing from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) if the anti-Iranian trend in the IAEA continues, spokesperson for the Parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Ebrahim Rezaei said.

💬 "While reserving the right to a technical and non-technical response, if this [anti-Iranian] trend persists, the Islamic Republic of Iran will seriously consider it... The Mejlis has the possibility of withdrawing from the NPT," Rezaei said, as quoted by the Tasnim news agency.

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