🇺🇸🇮🇱Need anything bombed? Israel clears Iran’s skies for US

The Israeli Air Force degraded multiple Iranian air defenses just 48 hours before the US strike on Iran's Fordow nuclear facility, Axios reports, citing three US officials.

👉After Netanyahu reportedly asked Trump how Israel can help, the US president responded by requesting airstrikes in southern Iran to clear a path for incoming B-2 stealth bombers.

👉America even provided Israel with a list of air defense systems it wanted eliminated ahead of the strike.

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📈Oil prices SOAR as Israel-Iran feud HEATS UP

➡️In early Asian trade, Brent crude briefly hit the $81 per barrel ceiling, a record high since January.

➡️US WTI futures surged by at least 3% to more than $78 a barrel during the session.

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

With the US joining Israel’s war with Iran, here’s what happened over the past 24 hours as the conflict heats up.

🔸 The IDF attacked six airfields in western, eastern, and central parts of Iran.
🔸 Israel’s advanced Hermes drone was shot down by Iranian air defenses.
🔸 During several retaliation raids, dozens of targets were hit simultaneously in Iran’s Isfahan, Bushehr, and Ahvaz, according to the IDF.
🔸 Russia, China, and Pakistan asked the 15-member UN Security Council to adopt a resolution calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire.

🇮🇷HOW DOES IRAN REACT?
▫️ Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has arrived in Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
▫️ UN envoy Amir-Saeid Iravani slammed the "blatant US aggression," accusing America of staging the attack under an "absurd pretext."
▫️ Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stressed that “the Zionist enemy,” who has made “a big mistake” and “committed a big crime,” is being punished right now.

🇺🇸HOW IS U.S. INVOLVED?
🔸 Trump hinted at the possible "regime change" in Iran, in what came in sharp contrast with what members of his administration said earlier.
🔸 VP Marco Rubio said the possible closure of the Hormuz Strait by Iran will be an "economic suicide" for Tehran.
🔸 The US military used diversion tactic as they deployed the B-2 bombers for the Iran strikes, according to the New York Times.
🔸 The Israeli Air Force helped to ditch Iranian air defenses to clear a path for incoming US B-2 stealth bombers, per Axios.

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🚨Iran to suspend cooperation with IAEA

The parliament prepares to pass a bill, the chairman said.

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🚨Putin held telephone conversation with Iraqi Prime Minister - Kremlin

🔸 The Kremlin expresses deep regret over the new escalation in the Middle East, said Kremlin Spox Peskov, commenting on the US strikes on Iran.

🔸 Russia's help to Iran will depend on what Tehran needs, Peskov added.

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🔊🇷🇺🇮🇷 See Putin's key statements during talks with Iran's FM Araghchi:

🔸 Unprovoked aggression against Iran has NO basis or justification

🔸 Russia makes efforts to assist Iranian people

🔸 Visit of Iranian FM to Russia will allow discussing ways how to get out of current situation in Middle East

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🇮🇷🗣Iran grateful to Russia for condemning actions of Israel, US against Iran - Araghchi

Tehran considers the actions of the US and Israel against Iran illegitimate, the Iranian side has right to defend itself, he said at the meeting with President Putin.

WATCH Russian forces carry out an Iskander missile strike on a Ukrainian training center for mobilized troops in the Sumy area.

Up to 100 personnel and up to 14 pieces of equipment were destroyed, the Defense Ministry said.

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🚨💥🇺🇸 U.S. BASE IN SYRIA TARGETED

A US military base in the Qasruk area in western Hasakah province of Syria was attacked, Iranian state news agency Mehr reported Monday, citing sources.

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🌏💥NATO summit LOSES GROUND amid Mideast turmoil 

Japan's PM Shigeru Ishiba will skip an upcoming NATO summit, the Japanese government stated. The gathering is expected to be attended by FM Takeshi Iwaya. 

Ishiba’s no-show is reportedly due to: 

🔶Escalation of the Iran-Israel conflict 
🔶Vague prospects of having a meeting with Trump
🔶No meeting between NATO members and their partners in the Indo-Pacific region, including Japan, Australia, South Korea, and New Zealand

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung earlier also decided not to attend the three-day NATO summit, due to open in The Hague on June 24.

Asia turning away from warmongering alliance?

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Last night, the Russian Armed Forces carried out a group strike using high-precision weapons and strike UAVs against enterprises of Ukraine’s military-industrial complex in the Kiev region, as well as the infrastructure of a military airfield and the naval mine-torpedo weapons arsenal of the Ukrainian Navy.

✅ The targets were successfully hit. All designated objectives were destroyed.

📍 Units of the "Sever" battle group improved their positions along the front line. They inflicted losses on personnel and equipment of four mechanized brigades, three air assault brigades, and three assault regiments of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the areas of Bessalovka, Yastrebinoe, Novaya Sech, Pisarevka, Khoten, and Sadki in the Sumy region.

💥Strikes were delivered against units of a Ukrainian motorized infantry brigade, two territorial defense brigades, and a National Guard brigade in the areas of Udy, Sliznevo, Ivashki, Neskuchnoye, and Volchansk in the Kharkov region.

◾️ Enemy losses amounted to over 180 personnel, three armored combat vehicles, three vehicles, and six field artillery pieces.

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🗣Some Western politicians are still planning to deliver a strategic defeat to Russia – history teaches them nothing, Putin said at a meeting with graduates of military universities.

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💬 West has come up with spooky story about supposedly possible 'Russian invasion' to scare people, Putin said

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIA ANNOUNCES SERIAL PRODUCTION OF ORESHNIK MISSILE

"Serial production of the latest medium-range missile system 'Oreshnik' is being launched," President Vladimir Putin told a meeting with graduates of military academies on Monday.

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Moment of explosion in Damascus church caught on camera

An eyewitness captured on video the moment a terrorist blew himself up inside the Mar Elias Church in Damascus.

The footage shows the exact moment of the explosion, followed by scenes of panic and chaos.

At least 22 people were killed and another 52 were injured in the attack on Sunday, according to the latest reports.

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🇲🇩 Moldova's opposition PROTESTS against Sandu regime

The protesters gather outside Moldovan parliament in Chisinau to oppose the domestic and foreign policies of the ruling party "Action and Solidarity."

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