🚨🇺🇸U.S. LOSES PEACE MASK IN ISRAEL-IRAN CROSSFIRE

"This is a neocon agenda being played out, not a MAGA peace agenda," Ret. Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, ex-Pentagon analyst, tells Sputnik.

As Israel’s war machine escalates in Gaza and strikes Iran with US support, the illusion of neutrality crumbles. Trump’s base may find his “peacemaker” branding impossible to square with this unfolding proxy war.

🔸 The US is already at war with Iran—just like in Ukraine, it's a proxy fight.
🔸 Israel’s strikes don’t happen without US refueling, intel, and bombs.

👉What are the results?
▪️"The complete elimination of any credibility Donald Trump and his administration have regarding peace and 'deals.'"
▪️Like in Ukraine, expect no war declaration by the US, just more weapons to Israel and sanctions against Iran.
▪️The wildcards are global energy shocks and whether other nations seize the moment to confront Israel over its repeated regional offenses.

👉What about Israel's claim it rules over Iran's skies?
That’s good PR, not reality, according to Kwiatkowski:
▪️Houthis managed to temporarily shut down Ben Gurion Airport.
▪️Eilat port is bankrupt due to airstrikes.

"Israel may have created for itself a self-fulfilling prophecy of an existential war, a boy crying wolf until one day the real wolf arrives, and no one believes it, and no one saves the lying country," she concluded.

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🚨Israeli air forces attacked dozens of targets in Tehran area, including air defense infrastructure

The strike zones included dozens of surface-to-air positions, the IDF said.

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✅🇻🇳BRICS+ booms: Vietnam jumps aboard

Vietnam has officially joined BRICS as a partner country, Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the BRICS chair for 2025, said.

"With a population of nearly 100 million and a dynamic economy deeply integrated into global value chains, Vietnam is an important player in Asia," the ministry’s statement said.

The partner country category was created at the 2024 BRICS Summit in Kazan. Current partners include:

🇧🇾Belarus
🇧🇴Bolivia
🇨🇺Cuba
🇰🇿Kazakhstan
🇲🇾Malaysia
🇳🇬Nigeria
🇹🇭Thailand
🇺🇬Uganda
🇺🇿Uzbekistan
🇻🇳Vietnam

The core BRICS members include Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Iran, the UAE, and Ethiopia.

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⚡️🚨IRAN PLANS TO STRIKE U.S. BASES IN THE MIDDLE EAST

This was reported by Fars Agency citing a source familiar with the military command's plans.

Other statements of the Iranian forces cited by Fars:

🔸 Aresh kamikaze drones SMASHED Israeli targets

🔸 Iran intends to continue strikes on Israeli territory, will not limit itself to already taken measures

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🇺🇸💥🇮🇷US armed Israel with HUNDREDS OF LASER-GUIDED MISSILES to blast Iran

The US discreetly supplied Israel with hundreds of Hellfire missiles prior to its unprecedented assault on Iran on Friday, Middle East Eye reveals.

🔶Around 300 Hellfire missiles were sent to Israel on Tuesday as part of a large stockpiling effort ahead of the strike, while the Trump administration was still claiming it was ready to continue nuclear talks with Iran.

🔶The large missile shipment suggests that the Trump administration was aware of Israel’s plans to attack Iran, according to two anonymous US officials who spoke with Middle East Eye.

'Peacemaking' - Trump Version

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⚡️🚨Iran warns US, France, and Britain of bigger strikes on Israel

Iran has warned the Western countries would face consequences if they support Israel, Mehr agency reported.

Iran will target:
🔥Their vessels
🔥Their assets in the Middle East

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📹🇮🇷 Iran’s cities of Tabriz, Khorramabad, and Kermanshah have been targeted by Israeli strikes.

Iranian air defense systems are shooting down Israeli missiles over these cities, Tasnim reports.

The Tabriz oil refinery was not damaged by the attacks, Iranian media reports say.

Video published by Fars news agency.

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🇷🇺🪖 RUSSIAN DEFENSE BRIEFING: DEVASTATING BLOWS TO UKRAINIAN FORCES

🔹Enemy losses in 24 hours:

▪️1,295 Ukrainian troops eliminated
▪️11 armored combat vehicles destroyed

🔹Precision strikes:

▪️Russian forces hit Ukrainian attack drone production workshops and storage facilities

🔹Air defense dominance:

▪️110 enemy drones shot down (including 63 outside the special operation zone)

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🇮🇱🇮🇷 Israeli Defense Minister issues an OMINOUS WARNING to Iran

If [Iran's Supreme Leader Ali] Khamenei continues to fire missiles at the Israeli home front, Tehran will be burned," Israel Katz was quoted as saying by his office.

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⚡️ Russia has handed over another 1,200 bodies of fallen Ukrainian soldiers to Ukraine, a source told Sputnik.

▪️Ukraine has not handed over a single body to Russia on Saturday, the source added.

▪️A parity prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine is taking place on Saturday.

▪️Russia and Ukraine have started indefinite sanitary exchanges under the Istanbul agreements, with both sides exchanging the wounded.

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⚡️Another group of Russian servicemen has been returned from the territory controlled by the Kiev regime, in exchange for a group of Ukrainian POWs, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The servicemen are now in Belarus and are receiving assistance.

All the returned Russian servicemen will be transported to Russia for treatment and rehabilitation in medical facilities.

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🇺🇸🕵🏻NATO’s high-tech excuse to step up spying on Russia

NATO is teaming up with US surveillance firm Planet Labs to supercharge its satellite spying capabilities under a new initiative called SINBAD — Smart Indication And Warning Broad Area Detection. This was announced by NATO commander Pierre Vandier, Bloomberg reported.

The real target? Russia.

👉What SINBAD does:
▪️ Constantly scans vast areas, including Ukraine and Russia’s western borders
▪️ Uses AI to flag movements and issue warnings
▪️ Monitors battlefields, maneuvers — even the Arctic

The justification? Vandier claims “Russia will not stop at Ukraine.”

Same tired narrative. Same fear-driven excuse. Moscow has repeatedly dismissed NATO’s alarmism as provocation and propaganda.

Meanwhile, NATO’s militarization of space surveillance looks less like defense — and more like digital imperialism.

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🇮🇷🆚🇮🇱 Iran–Israel Conflict: what’s known so far

Tensions continue to escalate after Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, prompting Tehran’s response under Operation True Promise III.

Casualties

🔸78 Iranians killed, 320 wounded — mostly civilians — in Israeli strikes, according to Iran’s UN envoy.

🔸At least 3 dead and 91 injured in Israel, per media reports.

Nuclear Sites & Scientists

🔸IDF claims it killed nine key Iranian nuclear scientists, including Ali Bakhouei Karimi, Mansour Asgari, and Saeed Barji.

🔸Israel’s strikes caused limited damage to Fordow and Isfahan nuclear sites. IAEA confirmed no radiation leaks.

Iran’s Retaliation

🔸Iran launched at least four waves and 200+ missiles.

🔸Tel Aviv suffered serious damage, IDF's HQ hit.

🔸Iran struck Nevatim and Ovda airbases, key to Israel’s C2 and EW systems, per Tasnim.

🔸Israeli defenses failed to intercept ~25% of Iranian missiles, per Times of Israel.

Ongoing Israeli Strikes

🔸Explosions hit Tabriz; oil refinery was targeted, according to Press TV.

🔸Ballistic launch sites in Asadabad hit; blasts in Khorramabad and Kermanshah.

🔸Four Israeli drones downed near Khorramabad (IRIB).

🔸Three IRGC soldiers killed in Zanjan, Tasnim reports.

🔸Machinery plant hit in western Iran, per Nour News.

🔸Iran extends airspace closure until June 15.

Statements & Threats

🔸Iran’s UN envoy: Israeli strikes are “state terrorism” and a declaration of war.

🔸Tehran warns US, France, UK: their facilities in the Middle East will be targeted if they help Israel, per Mehr.

🔸Israel vows to expand operations, Israel Foreign Minister Gideon Saar says strikes could last “days or weeks”.

🔸Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz threatens to “burn Tehran” if Iran keeps retaliating.

🔸Iran’s Foreign Ministry said US actions had rendered nuclear talks with Tehran meaningless.

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🚨🇮🇷✈️Iran may have SHOT DOWN another F-35 Israeli fighter jet

The jet was shot down in the western part of the country, Press TV reports.

The pilot ejected, and his fate is currently unknown.

According to Nour News, Iranian forces have captured the pilot.

The IDF, however, has denied claims of its fighter jet having been shot down in Iran.

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🇮🇷 Iran sees NO POINT in continuing dialogue with US while Israel continues its attacks — Iranian Foreign Ministry spox

"Undoubtedly, in the current conditions, until the Zionist regime's aggression against the Iranian nation has not stopped, the participation in the dialogue with the party which is a key sponsor and partner of the aggressor is pointless," Esmaeil Baqaei said.

At the moment, Iran is focused on countering Israel's actions, the spokesman added.

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