⚡️BREAKING: Multiple Iranian outlets — including IRIB and IRNA — report possible deaths of IRGC chief Gen. Hossein Salami, Gen. Gholam Ali Rashid, Dr. Tehranchi, and Dr. Fereydoon Abbasi.

‼️Official confirmation still awaited.

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📹 Battlefield clean-up: Russian troops annihilate Western armor 💥

While clearing a buffer zone near the village of Basovka in Ukraine’s Sumy region, Russian forces destroyed a large number of Ukrainian armored vehicles — including some produced by the US and other NATO states.

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🗣‘Get the hell out’: Dem lawmaker attacks Hegseth after deranged rant about ‘Russian invasion of NATO’

Given the opportunity to question the secretary of defense at a House armed Services Committee hearing Thursday, California Democratic Representative Salud Carbajal used up all his allotted time on generic attacks targeting Russia and members of the Trump administration.

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⚡️Iran holds US complicit in Israeli strikes on Iran, says spokesman for Iranian armed forces

🇺🇸 Meanwhile, U.S. Secretary of State previously stated that Washington was not involved in the Israeli attacks.

📹Video of thick black smoke allegedly rising from Natanz nuclear facility after Israeli strikes

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🚨IRAN’S SUPREME LEADER REACTS TO ISRAELI STRIKES:

‘Israel showed its evil nature like never before by striking residential areas.’

He warned the enemy to expect “severe punishment.”

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‼️📹 ISRAEL STRUCK IRANIAN OIL FACILITY IN TABRIZ

Mehr agency released footage of thick smoke billowing after explosions

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🚨 IRANIAN MILITARY CHIEF MOHAMMAD BAGHERI KILLED IN ISRAELI ATTACKS, Iranian state TV reports

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🚨🇮🇷🇮🇱ISRAEL’S STRIKES ON IRAN: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

Israel has launched UNPRECEDENTED strikes on Iran, targeting its nuclear program and senior military leaders. Netanyahu said that Operation Rising Lion will last many days, targeting “the heart of Iran’s ballistic missiles program.”

📍 WHAT WAS TARGETED:
▪️Dozens of locations across Iran linked to its nuclear program
▪️Iran’s main enrichment facility in Natanz (confirmed by the IAEA)
▪️Long-range missile capabilities (per Israeli reports)

⚔️IRANIAN TOP MILITARY KILLED IN THE STRIKE:
▪️General Hossein Salami, the commander-in-chief of IRGC
▪️Major General Gholam Ali Rashid, commander of the central headquarters of the Iranian Armed Forces
▪️Major General Mohammad Bagheri, the chief of staff of Iran’s armed forces
▪️Nuclear scientists Dr. Tehranchi, Dr. Fereydoon Abbasi

🗣WHAT HAS IRAN SAID?
▪️Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called the attack a violation of the UN Charter and a clear aggression.
▪️Iran has the legal and legitimate right to respond to this aggression.
▪️Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said that “showed its evil nature like never before by striking residential areas.” He warned the enemy to expect “severe punishment.”
▪️Iran HOLDS US COMPLICIT in Israeli strikes on Iran, said spokesman for Iranian armed forces.
▪️Iran has since shut down its airspace and signaled that a military response is imminent.

🇺🇸US RESPONSE:
▪️Trump said he was aware of the strikes AHEAD of time but was not involved militarily and hopes Iran will return to the negotiating table.
▪️Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US isn't involved in strikes against Iran and their "top priority is protecting American forces in the region."

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📹THROWBACK: US planned to destroy Iran?

Gen. Wesley Clark spilled the plan years ago, after 9/11 – the Pentagon planned to take out Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan… and Iran last.

Now Israel hits Iran, and the US throws up its hands: “We weren’t involved!”😏

Just history casually checking off its to-do list…

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🚨Iran is taking ALL NECESSARY defense, political, legal measures to respond to Israeli strikes, Tehran stated

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🚨🇮🇷🇮🇱Israel’s strike on Iran ‘almost certainly’ coordinated with US – analyst

👉Proof?
▪️Withdrawal of non-essential personnel from US embassies in Iraq and around the Persian Gulf on the eve of Israel’s strikes was a clear indication that Washington was kept in the loop, says Dr. Greg Simons, professor of Journalism at Daffodil International University.

👉 Israel’s strike aimed to KILL US-Iran nuclear diplomacy
▪️“They did the same thing with the JCPOA [Iran nuclear deal],” says Simons, and while they got Trump to do that during his first presidency, now his geostrategic priorities have changed.
▪️The US wants to focus on China, but “their vassals and client states in Ukraine and Israel are causing problems for them by running their own agenda,” he said.

👉This is NOT SELF DEFENSE for Israel
▪️US hawks' rhetoric about Israel's right to self-defense is “garbage, but it’s what you'd expect from this clown show,” says Simons.
▪️There was no threat – they’re just lying, like their patron, the US.

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🚨🗣Israel’s Netanyahu CLINGS TO WAR to evade justice – analyst

Netanyahu is “banking on remaining in a perpetual state of war,” believes Dr. Greg Simons, professor of Journalism at Daffodil International University.

“I think more and more Israelis are beginning to understand this, especially in the military structures,” he noted.

Why? Because as soon as war finishes, he is likely to be arrested – not for genocide, but for his “dirty style of politics and corruption,” says Simons.

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💬 Iran will unleash its vengeance with no limits – Iranian politician

“The Israeli regime must be punished at the highest level. Netanyahu and his accomplices will be held accountable for their crimes,” Mahmoud Abbaszadeh, former member of Iran’s parliamentary committee on national security, told Sputnik.

Abbaszadeh also noted that despite the US distancing itself from supporting Israel, the recent strike has cast a shadow over indirect Iran-US talks:

“You can’t negotiate with a country while watching the attack on its territory.”

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❗️Russia concerned, condemns sharp escalation between Israel, Iran

The Russian Foreign Ministry will soon release detailed statement on situation between Israel and Iran based on President Putin's instructions, Kremlin Spox Dmitry Peskov said.

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📹 IDF shows the destruction of Iranian ballistic missiles

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