🚨🇦🇲Armenia arrests 14 in mass crackdown – 90+ raids conducted

Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan faces detention as his lawyer confirms he refuses to testify and denies all the charges

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🚨🇦🇲 ARCHBISHOP CHARGED WITH TERRORISM IN ARMENIA

Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan — a vocal political opponent of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan — has been charged with terrorism, inciting mass unrest, and attempting power usurpation, his lawyer says.​

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🤨Trump compares US strike on Iran to Hiroshima and Nagasaki

🔊At the NATO summit, former President Donald Trump drew a controversial parallel between US military strikes on Iran and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

"That hit ended the war. I don't want to use an example of Hiroshima. I don't want to use an example of Nagasaki. But that was essentially the same thing. That ended that war," POTUS claimed.

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🚨🇷🇺🇨🇳 RUSSIA'S DEFENSE MINISTER MEETS CHINESE COUNTERPART AS TENSIONS REMAIN HIGH IN MIDDLE EAST

🤝 During the meeting with Dong Jun, Russia's Andrei Belousov hailed the “unprecedentedly high” level of bilateral ties

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🚨🇷🇺 Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to attend BRICS Summit in Brazil

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IAEA failed to protect Iran’s nuclear sites from US and Israeli attacks

🗣Iran suspending cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) comes as Tehran realizes that there is simply no benefit on continuing it, Foad Izadi, associate professor at the University of Tehran, tells Sputnik.

While attacking nuclear sites, especially those under the IAEA supervision, is illegal under international law, that did not deter Israel and the US from attacking the Iranian nuclear facilities, Izadi points out.

❓Hence the question: why work with the IAEA at all?

“IAEA has a budget of $35 million, and $22 million out of that $35 million is spent inspecting Iran. So, by suspending the link, Iran is actually saving IAEA money,” Izadi remarks.

📍He also observes that the IAEA does not inspect Israel because it is not a member and is not a party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), hence raising the question whether Iran should withdraw from the NPT too.

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🇮🇷🇮🇱TRUMP: IRAN-ISRAEL CONFLICT IS OVER

“We call it the 12-Day War… just sounded like the right thing,” Trump said after the NATO Summit in The Hague.

“I think it is over. I do not think they are going to be going back at each other.”

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📹Aerial footage shows Gaza's Al-Shifa hospital destroyed by Israeli strikes

New images show the brutal toll of Israel’s war on Gaza — the Al-Shifa medical complex and surrounding neighborhoods lie in ruins.

Once a place of healing, now a scarred battlefield.

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🇦🇲All Armenians united in opposing Pashinyan's ‘traitorous actions’ - MP

Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan has ended up being opposed by virtually all the Armenians, head of the Alliance Party MP Tigran Urikhayan tells Sputnik.

👉Pashinyan’s “traitorous actions” are being rejected by the Armenian society, both within the country and in the diaspora, Urikhayan explains, noting that even people who are not politically savvy rallied against the current Armenian PM.

A “total mobilization” of all the Armenian people will be required to deal with the current crisis, he suggests.

Commenting on the recent arrest of Archbishop Bagrat Galstanyan, prelate of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Urikhayan argues that Pashinyan cracks down on anyone capable of mobilizing people.

🗣“All active citizens, not just politicians but all participants of political process, including archbishops and other people who oppose the current government – all of them will be at risk of being incarcerated,” he remarks.

“They will be oppressed, stripped of rights and liberty, neutralized – all because the government itself is hanging by a threat.”

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🚨CEASEFIRE OR NOT — WW3 IS COMING: DUGIN DIGITAL EDITION

Nuclear deterrence has collapsed: if Israel and now the U.S. can strike atomic facilities with impunity, nothing is off-limits.

AI Dugin explains the Pandora’s box is open — and there's no going back.

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🇮🇱🇮🇷Israel’s war on Iran is a test of BRICS

These wars aren’t just about land — they’re about economic survival, Serbian and Yugoslav film director and musician Emir Kusturica tells Sputnik.

Israel’s strikes on Iran? It's a test of BRICS’ power, he believes.

🗣"Is it built on stone... or clay? If BRICS stands strong, the G7’s dominance crumbles. This is a battle for the future."

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🇮🇷🇮🇱LATEST UPDATES ON ISRAEL–IRAN CONFLICT

Here’s what’s unfolding on Wednesday evening:

◾️ Pentagon still has no clear data on the damage in Iran — waiting on Israeli intel.

◾️ No one likely has “realistic” info on Iran’s nuclear sites, says Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.

◾️ Iran has the knowledge and capacity to rebuild its nuclear infrastructure, according to IAEA chief Rafael Grossi.

◾️ Tehran begins restoring access to global internet after disruption.

◾️ US secretary of state claims Isfahan nuclear facility was “completely destroyed.”

◾️ Iran’s Foreign Ministry blasts NATO chief’s congratulatory message to Trump as “shameful.”

◾️ Trump says Iran-Israel war is over… but may be coming back “soon.”

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🚨POSTMODERNISM AND MESSIANIC APOCALYPSE: Alexander Dugin on Israel-Iran War

🎙Dugin breaks down how the ideologies of the US, Israel, and Iran influence their approach to the current crisis, and explains why the recent ceasefire is likely to be temporary.

(00:00) Schrödinger’s Ceasefire
(01:31) World War III Has Begun
(02:19) Nuclear Red Lines Crossed
(04:21) Quantum War Logic
(06:39) Narratives Replace Reality
(09:59) Ceasefire or Illusion?
(12:19) Postmodern War Strategy
(16:59) Trump’s Surfer Foreign Policy
(20:38) AI and Ontological Shift
(26:38) Israel’s Messiah Politics
(33:33) Iran and Shia foreign policy
(38:11) Orthodox vs. Christian Zionism
(43:47) The Schofield Bible Agenda
(48:44) Quantum Geopolitics Defined

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🇮🇱ISRAEL'S BIG DADDY: West lets Tel Aviv commit crimes and get away with it

Tel Aviv's killing of innocent children in Palestine, the attacks on Lebanon, Syria and Iran, the killing of Iranian nuclear scientists – all of this is an “international aggression that must be condemned in accordance with the international law,” international relations expert Sayed Bilal Fatemi tells Sputnik.

👉Yet Israel keeps getting away with it because it is being protected by its “master”, Fatemi says, apparently referring to the United States.

“Western countries engage in double-dealing with international laws,” Fatemi remarks. “Israel’s attack was not condemned. IAEA’s lie about the uranium Iran allegedly possessed was not condemned. But when Iran retaliated – that was condemned.”

Western countries, Fatemi suggests, use international organizations and laws only to achieve their own goals.

The world turns a blind eye on Israel’s crimes

Israel provided ample demonstration of its cruelty through numerous attacks on “civilians, medical personnel, scientists and children,” former Iranian MP Mohammad Javad Jamali Nobandegani notes.

👉Yet how did the world react to this barbarism and wanton destruction?

“Did the UN, the US, France or Britain condemn these crimes? No, not only did they not condemn them – they justified them under the pretext of ‘self-defense’,” Nobandegani says.

This is a sort of covert encouragement of such crimes against civilians, he adds.

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🔸 TRUMP: IRAN-ISRAEL CONFLICT IS OVER

🔸 IAEA failed to protect Iran’s nuclear sites from US and Israeli attacks

🔸 'IT HIT ME IN THE CHEST – I FELT THE HEAT': Tehran Civilian on Israeli bombing raid

🔸 'TRUMP, HELP US!' – Ukrainians protest corruption in Kiev

🔸 ARMENIA'S HOLY WAR: Top cleric detained amid alleged anti-government conspiracy

🔸 All Armenians united in opposing Pashinyan's ‘traitorous actions’ - MP

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❗️ Rossiya's special flight squadron plane took off from St. Petersburg and landed in New York, according to the Flightradar24 portal.

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🔥AUTOPEN PRESIDENCY: Sputnik exposed this Clinton loyalist before US lawmakers did

Former White House Staff Secretary Neera Tanden has testified that she used the presidential autopen between October 2021 and May 2023.

🗣“I was... authorized to direct that autopen signatures be affixed to certain categories of documents," Tanden stated, denying misuse.

The hearing was part of the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into whether Joe Biden knowingly approved the autopen’s use — and whether he was cognitively capable of doing so.

US lawmakers have identified at least eight executive orders signed via autopen while Biden was physically present at the White House, raising questions about why the device was needed at all.

Who named names first?

While American commentators were locking horns over who actually directed autopen use, Wall Street analyst and Sputnik pundit Charles Ortel pointed the finger at Tanden — a longtime confidant of Hillary Clinton — as early as May 20.

👉According to Ortel, Tanden was embedded in both the Obama and Biden administrations to safeguard the Clintons’ political interests.

Now the big question: who’d been signing documents from May 2023 through the twilight of Biden’s presidency?

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🗣 Witkoff: BIG ANNOUNCEMENT ON NEW ABRAHAM ACCORDS MEMBERS

"We are going to have big announcements on countries coming in to the Abraham Accords," the US special envoy told CNBC.

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😒Truce or excuse? Israel breaks Iran ceasefire 'when convenient'

While the Israeli-Iranian War seems to be over (or at least on pause), Tel Aviv continues its usual behavior — finding justifications to break the ceasefire and launching attacks whenever convenient, says Salem Al-Yami, former adviser to Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry.

Saudi-Iranian rapport

The improvement in relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran was showcased during this conflict when Riyadh once again reaffirmed its condemnation of the Israeli aggression.

Attack on Al Udeid

The Iranian strike on the US airbase Al Udeid in Qatar elicited mixed reactions abroad.

Whereas Qatar regarded it as a breach of its sovereignty, others deemed it a forced move on Iran’s part that was aimed at the US and not at Qatar.

The attack, Al-Yami points out, also did not aggravate the relations between Iran and Qatar, with both countries maintaining contact with one another.

Bipolar Trump

By ordering a B-2 strike on Iranian nuclear sites, Trump tried portraying himself as a strong leader capable of doing things that no one else can, suggests Mohammad Stouhi, head of the Front Com media company.

At the same time, he notes, Trump seeks to style himself as the champion of peace and to avoid dragging the US into new wars that could result in American military casualties and cost him support at home.

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🔊 Trump calls to stop 'WITCH HUNT' on Netanyahu

"Bibi Netanyahu’s trial should be CANCELLED, IMMEDIATELY, or a Pardon given to a Great Hero, who has done so much for the State," he wrote on Truth Social.

Israel's current prime minister is charged with fraud, bribery, and breach of trust.

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🇮🇷Tehran recovers after withstanding countless Israeli strikes

Teaching is finally resuming at the Iranian capital’s universities after the threat of further Israeli attacks seems to have passed, says Dr. Nourani, a university professor.

🔊At the same time, Nourani notes, many universities and academic centers were targeted by Israel and sustained serious damage, and many scientists were killed.

Damage to the Iranian economy

The Israeli aggression caught the Iranian government unprepared from the economic standpoint, claims Mohammad, an economy expert at one of Iran’s media outlets.

🔊Many did not expect an attack on Iran and when it actually happened, the country endured a severe economic shock, he says.

Iran, just like other countries, should prepare economic contingencies in case of crises or some other unforeseen turn of events, Mohammad suggests.

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