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🗣Purpose of US strikes on Iran nuclear facilities was to 'destroy or severely degrade' Iran's nuclear program - Pentagon

Other statements by US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth:

🟠 Strikes on Iran have not been about regime change

🟠 US's overnight strikes on Iran didn't target Iranian troops, people

🟠 The Pentagon chief confirmed that B-2 Spirit strategic bombers and bunker-busting bombs were used in the attack on Iran.

🟠 Any retaliation by Iran will be met with 'force far greater' than overnight strikes

🟠 Strikes on Iran was 'highly classified mission', deception effort known only to 'extremely small number' of people

🟠 Throughout the operation targeting Iran nuclear facilities, us forces retained the element of surprise

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🚨 US strikes on Iran SHAKE global markets

🛢 Crude:
🟠Brent crude +0.40% ➡️ $77.32/barrel
🟠WTI crude +0.73% ➡️ $74.04/barrel
🟠Prices could spike to $80 next week

💸 Crypto:
🟠Ethereum drops 7.7% ➡️ ~$2,200 — lowest since May 9
🟠Bitcoin briefly dips below $101K
🟠More downside expected: ETH ➡️ $2,000 | BTC ➡️ $100K

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🚨🇮🇷Iran agrees to CLOSE the Strait of Hormuz - Parliament

The final decision must be approved by the country's National Security Council.

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🚨🇦🇲Armenian Catholicos slams persecution of businessman as illegal

The Catholicos of All Armenians, Garegin II, called the persecution of businessman Samvel Karapetyan by the Armenian authorities illegal.

💬 The church will continue to defend national interests and people's rights, he added.

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🚨🇷🇺🇵🇰 Pakistan’s Minister for Petroleum just gave an exclusive interview to Sputnik on the sidelines of St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. TIMELINE: (05:47) Rethinking Oil Routes (07:30) Railway Through Iran? (08:56) Joining INSTC? “We support…
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🚨🇷🇺🇵🇰Pakistan-Russia $1B trade turnover is NOT A LIMIT - Pakistani Minister for Petroleum

💬 If you look at the issue of bilateral cooperation in the energy sector, the potential is huge, Ali Pervaiz Malik underscores in an exclusive interview with Sputnik at the SPIEF.


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🇮🇷🧠Iran’s response: Smart. Calculated. Painful

🗣Donald Trump likely decided to attack Iran after yielding to pressure from US war-hawks, political and security analyst Ali Rizk told Sputnik.

Trump “increasingly adopted the Israeli line of thinking” and his insistence that Iran cannot be allowed to enrich uranium essentially torpedoed the US-Iranian talks.

With no tangible evidence or intelligence suggesting that Iran has been working on a nuclear weapon, the US attack hardly seems legitimate.

“But regardless, this is something we're used to,” Rizk notes, with “US presidents pursuing or taking steps that are not in accordance with international legitimacy.”


⚔️Iran’s retaliation—it’s on the way

Iranian retaliation “has to be very smart, very calculated, but at the same time very painful,” Rizk says, arguing that Tehran would prefer to avoid dragging the US further into the Israel-Iran conflict.

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🚨🇷🇺🇵🇰 Pakistan’s Minister for Petroleum just gave an exclusive interview to Sputnik on the sidelines of St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. TIMELINE: (05:47) Rethinking Oil Routes (07:30) Railway Through Iran? (08:56) Joining INSTC? “We support…
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🚨🇷🇺🇵🇰Pakistan supports Putin’s Look East strategy - Minister for Petroleum

💬 “When it comes to the energy trade, […] all these things can be priced in to make way for RUSSIAN CRUDE to be accommodated in Pakistani refineries,” Ali Pervaiz Malik tells Sputnik in an exclusive interview at the SPIEF.


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🚨📹A rally is taking place in Tehran to condemn the US aggression against Iran

🇮🇷Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian also attended the demonstration.

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🗣Trump’s war on Iran may cost him presidency

The US attack on Iranian nuclear facilities was a gamble on Trump’s part, Professor Joe Siracusa, political scientist and dean of Global Futures at Curtin University, tells Sputnik.

By ordering the strike, Trump ignored “all the advice” from US intelligence agencies who insisted that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon.

“If he gets away with it, if he brings it to an end, he'll be heroic. If he doesn't, then there'll be the end of his presidency,” Siracusa warns.


🇺🇸🇮🇱US and Israel are in cahoots

The academic argues that the US has been “deeply involved in Israeli military planning” for Israeli attacks that began last week.

“I don't think the Israelis did anything without the American green light,” Siracusa says.


🔍What are Iran’s options?

With its large missile arsenal, Iran could strike US military bases in the Middle East or even attack infrastructure of US allies in the Persian Gulf region.

Iranian forces could also “indirectly threaten Americans at embassies around the world” and even conduct cyberattacks against US interests, Siracusa says.

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🚨 Thousands of people took to the streets in The Hague for a demonstration by peace supporters against the upcoming NATO summit and the alliance's policy of militarization.

The demonstrators also called for the end of the war against Iran, a Sputnik correspondent reports.

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🚨More than 15 people have been killed and about 22 more injured as a result of a terrorist attack at Mar Elias Church in Syria's Damascus, media reports say.

The suicide bomber first opened fire on people inside the church, and then detonated himself, a Sputnik correspondent has learned.

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🚨It's been confirmed that 8 people were killed and more than 20 injured in a terrorist attack at a Christian church in Damascus, a Sputnik correspondent reports.

Women and children are said to be among the victims of the attack.

The person who carried out the attack was linked to the Islamic State* terrorist group, SANA reported, quoting the country's interior ministry.

*ISIS (Daesh, ISIL, Islamic State) is a terrorist group banned in Russia and many other countries.

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🗣‘It's purely an act of political theater’ – Scott Ritter on US bombing of Iran's nuclear sites

💬 “If the goal was to deter Iran's nuclear program by destroying critical Iranian nuclear infrastructure, all the president succeeded in doing is bombing three empty sites. Yes, the physical destruction on these sites may be tremendous, but what was in the sites is what should have been destroyed if you're truly seeking to degrade Iran's nuclear capability,” former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and military analyst Scott Ritter told Sputnik.


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🗣Bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites – latest in ‘long list of acts of war by the US’

Israel’s previous air raids against Iran “sufficiently prepared the ground” for America’s attack on Iranian nuclear facilities, Brian Berletic, geopolitical analyst and former US Marine, tells Sputnik.

🟠The Israeli strikes helped the Pentagon scope out and neutralize Iran’s air defenses, allowing the US to “adjust its regional military posture” ahead of its own attacks, Berletic underlines.

🟠Both international and American laws were violated during the US strikes on Iran, which are just the latest “in a long list of acts of war” by America across the world, according to the expert.

🟠The bombing came as “multipolarism appears to be in irreversible ascent leaving the US with a closing window of opportunity to destabilize it and reassert American primacy,” Berletic concludes.

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🚨‘It's economic suicide for them if they do it’ - Rubio on Iran considering Hormuz Strait closure

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🗣Energy price hike and inflationary pressure likely await US for attacking Iran

The US attacks in Iranian nuclear sites “are likely to introduce short-term volatility to global energy markets,” political analyst and Makkah News Paper columnist Faisal Alshammeri told Sputnik.

The actual impact on energy prices, however, will depend more on how Iran is going to respond.

“A symbolic or contained reaction may limit market tremors, while broader escalation could lead to more substantial and sustained price increases,” Alshammeri elaborates.

The fate of Hormuz Strait

It remains to be seen whether Iran would resort to closing the Strait of Hormuz as such a move is difficult to sustain, “given the presence of US naval forces and the likely diplomatic fallout even among Iran’s limited partners.”

The Houthi factor

New attacks by the Houthis on US-linked shipping in the Red Sea may create problems for the US economy in the form of “longer shipping times, higher insurance costs, and inflationary pressure in certain sectors.”

“However, the extent of the damage depends on the scale and duration of these threats,” Alshammeri points out.

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