🚨 ISRAEL’S IRON DOME FIRES INTO THIN AIR — AGAIN

Israel’s air defense lights up the sky but fails to intercept Iranian rockets, according to social media footage

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🚨 NOW: TEL AVIV REPELS ANOTHER WAVE OF IRANIAN STRIKES

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📹 The moment Iranian missiles were fired toward Israel tonight

Footage shared by Tasnim News

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🚨 NOW: Israeli army says it plans to strike Tehran's 18th district, tells people to evacuate

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🚨 Explosions in Tehran after IDF issued evacuation notice for the residents of the city's 18th district, according to social media footage

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🚨 Iran uses Fattah-1 missiles in the 11th wave — IRGC

Introduced in 2023, Iran's Fattah-1 hypersonic missile has a range of 1,400 km and can carry a payload of 350–450 kg.

"This nighttime missile attack demonstrated that we have complete control over [Israel's] airspace," the IRGC statement read.

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🚨 IRON DOME OVERWHELMED — WaPo

Israel only has enough missiles to defend itself for 10 to 12 days against Iranian strikes, according to the Washington Post, which cites US and Israeli officials.

Continuous Iranian strikes deplete Israeli stockpiles, so Israel may soon have to ration its defensive munitions and intercept fewer missiles.

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🔥 Senator Ted Cruz EXPOSED at interview with Tucker Carlson:

🔶 Accidentally slips that the US currently helps Israel bomb Iran

🔶 Talks about overthrowing Khamenei but doesn't know Iran's population

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🔊 Regime change in Iran is STRATEGIC MISTAKE — Macron

"Anyone who has wanted in the past to change regimes through strikes or military operations has made strategic mistake," he told reporters at the G7 summit.

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🚨 SPIEF 2025 KICKS OFF IN ST. PETERSBURG

From June 18 to 21, the 28th St. Petersburg International Economic Forum will take center stage under the theme: 'Shared Values – Foundation for Growth in a Multipolar World.'

What to expect:

🔶 Innovation Territory zone

🔶 'Buy Russian!' national brand expo

🔶 Forums on SMEs, youth, pharma security & creative industries

🔶 Urban Hub by Roscongress

🔶 Cultural fest St. Petersburg Seasons + traditional SPIEF Sports Games

🇷🇺 Putin’s agenda? Fully booked. Peskov reports that the president will remain in the city all week for high-level meetings and major announcements.

Last year’s SPIEF attracted $73 billion in deals and hosted 21,000 guests from 139 countries. This year’s event is already on track to break previous records.

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🇮🇱🤬SYRIAN JOURNALIST SLAMS ISRAEL FOR ATTACK ON IRIB BUILDING

Ibrahim Shire, a Syrian journalist in Tehran, in an interview with Sputnik calls Israel’s strike on Iran’s IRIB TV building a "strategic blunder."

🔸The attack on a civilian building during peak hours shows Benjamin Netanyahu is out of targets and resorting to chaotic strikes to intimidate Tehran.

🔸The building had no military ties, making the attack entirely unjustified.

🔸Shire believes Netanyahu, shaken by recent Iranian hits on strategic sites in Haifa and Tel Aviv, is trying to send a message — but it won’t work. Iran will respond even harder.

🔸Crossing this line would have catastrophic consequences, warns Shire. The war’s not over, and Iran’s retaliation is coming.

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🚨US signals high-stakes diplomacy ENDGAME with Iran – report

The next 24 to 48 hours could make or break diplomacy with Iran, according to US officials quoted by ABC.

🗣Donald Trump may ditch talks and lean toward military action if things don’t shift fast, according to insiders.

🇮🇷If Iran is pushed back to the table and forced to scrap all nuclear enrichment, a high-stakes meeting led by Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and VP JD Vance could happen as early as this week, the report added.

➡️Earlier, Trump demanded “unconditional surrender” from Iran, claimingthe US has “complete and total control of the skies over Iran."

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SPIEF welcomes its first visitors 🎉

The forum opens today and will run until June 21, with the theme: "Shared Values as the Foundation for Growth in a Multipolar World."

✔️Some 20,000 representatives from 140 countries and territories have confirmed their participation.

Stay tuned for more updates!

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🇮🇷🇮🇱KEY UPDATES ON THE IRAN-ISRAEL CONFLICT

As the conflict between Israel and Iran rages for a sixth straight day, here is what’s happened as of June 18:

🟠More than 50 Israeli Air Force planes carried out an attack targeting an alleged “centrifuge production site” and “several weapons productions sites” in Iran, the Israeli military said.

🟠Warplanes also attacked manufacturing plants involved in the production “of raw materials and components” for assembling surface-to-surface and surface-to-air missiles, per the IDF.

🟠Israel struck Imam Hussein University in Tehran, with local media reporting active air defense in the Iranian capital.

🟠The IDF issued an evacuation notice for residents of Tehran’s 18th district, followed by explosions in Iran’s capital.

🟠As Tel Aviv repelled another wave of Iranian strikes, Israel’s Iron Dome again failed to intercept missiles from Iran, according to social media footage.

🟠Iran deployed its Fattah-1 hypersonic missile in the nighttime 11th wave of its attack, per the IRGC, claiming the weapon broke through Israeli air defenses and that it now has “complete control over [Israel's] airspace."

🟠Iranian missiles caused fires in an area of central Israel, with one of the targets the Meron air base in northern Israel, Iran’s Fars News Agency reported.

🟠Iranian missile strikes caused a fire in Lod, where Ben Gurion Airport is located.

🟠Israel is running low on defensive Arrow interceptors, which could impact the country’s ability to shoot down long-range ballistic missiles from Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported.

🟠The IRGC detained a "group of terrorists" working for Mossad in a suburb of Tehran. According to Tasnim News, they were transporting a significant amount of explosives and combat drones.

🟠Israeli attacks have killed at least 585 people across Iran and wounded 1,326 others, Washington, DC-based group Human Rights Activists in Iran says.

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🇷🇺SPIEF 2025 OFFICIALLY BEGINS

St. Petersburg is hosting the global economic dialogue until June 21.

✔️Stay tuned for updates from one of the biggest economic events of the year!

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