🚨 US ADMITS: TOO WEAK TO HIT IRAN'S DEEPEST FACILITIES

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine told lawmakers that the US did not use GBU-57 bunker busters on Isfahan bunkers because they are beyond its reach.

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🚨 CANADA'S PANIC MOVE: 50% steel tariffs after Trump kills trade talks

Ottawa slaps emergency surtax on non-FTA steel imports (2.6M ton cap) — mere hours after Trump’s Truth Social nuke.

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🇻🇪🇮🇷 VENEZUELA HONORS IRIB VICTIMS OF ISRAELI STRIKE

Sahar Emami, an Iranian journalist, and the martyred journalists Nima Rajabpour and Masoumeh Azim were granted the national journalism award in Venezuela.

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🚨🇦🇲CHURCH CRACKDOWN IN ARMENIA INTENSIFIES

A court in Yerevan has sentenced Archbishop Mikael Ajapahyan to two months in detention, his lawyer Ara Zograbyan said.

The defense plans to appeal this decision, calling it unjustified, he added.

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🚨NATO weapons vanish in Ukraine — resurface in terrorist hands

Weapons funneled to the Zelensky regime end up in the hands of criminal networks across Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, says Yulia Zhdanova, head of the Russian delegation at the Vienna Negotiations on Military Security and Arms Control.

Zhdanova warns:

🟠 Rampant corruption within Ukraine’s leadership and systemic failures in tracking Western-supplied arms are fueling a surge in illicit weapons circulation.
🟠 NATO and EU-grade weapons are ending up with:
🟠Private military contractors
🟠Terrorist organizations
🟠Transnational criminal groups in conflict-prone regions

🔊She cited as a concrete example when US forces in Syria reportedly seized Czech-made VZ.58 assault rifles and VZ.61 Scorpion submachine guns, which were originally donated to Ukraine by the Czech Defense Ministry in March 2023.

Of greatest concern, the envoy warned, is the potential for portable anti-aircraft missile systems to fall into the wrong hands, as these are capable of bringing down civilian airliners.

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🇳🇴🪖Norway’s war profiteers are getting rich off Europe's MARCH TO MILITARISM

Norway's military-industrial complex is cashing in big on Europe's rearmament frenzy, while ordinary Norwegians face growing socioeconomic pressure, says Russian Ambassador to Oslo Nikolai Korchunov.

🔸Norway raked in over $115 billion in windfall profits during 2022-2023 thanks to soaring gas prices fueled, ironically, by Europe’s decision to ditch reliable Russian energy.

🔸Instead of investing those profits in public welfare, Norwegian leaders are fattening up defense contractors under the banner of “rearmament.”

🔸With former NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg now pulling the strings as Norway’s finance minister, the government is prioritizing weapons over welfare and arming the Ukraine regime without a second thought.

All this, while NATO openly prepares for a head-on clash with Russia: Revamping its command, bloating budgets, and shifting from proxy war to potential direct confrontation.

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🟠Gaza ceasefire within the next week — Trump

🟠Iranian President Pezeshkian attends a memorial to mourn the martyrs of Israeli aggression

🟠Armenian Archbishop supporters camp overnight as he faces 'ORDERED' trial

🟠Church is Armenia’s only unifying force — that's why Pashinyan attacks it

🟠NATO weapons vanish in Ukraine — resurface in terrorist hands

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🚨🇦🇲Armenian Archbishop’s prosecution dismissed as 'legal absurdity'

The criminal case against Archbishop Mikael Ajapahyan for "calls to seize power" is a legal absurdity, declared Armenian lawyer Varazdat Arutyunyan.

💬 "Such cases are impossible in legal practice unless it’s political persecution," Arutyunyan told Sputnik Armenia.

He stated the prosecution is part of authorities’ ongoing campaign against the Armenian Apostolic Church.

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🚨🇩🇪Germany turbocharges defense spending amid Europe’s militarization drive

The draft law, aimed at slashing red tape and accelerating military readiness, was seen by Reuters.

🟠Germany’s military budget is set to surge from roughly $103B in 2025 to $175B by 2029 – hitting 3.5% of GDP

🟠Start-ups and innovators will get easier access to defense contracts with upfront payments

🟠Procurement processes will bypass red tape under “national security” clauses

🟠EU-focused sourcing rules will let Germany limit tenders to European bidders

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🚨🇷🇺💥 RUSSIA'S MoD UPDATE: CRUSHING GAINS & MASSIVE UKRAINIAN LOSSES

⚡️ CHERVONAYA ZIRKA (DPR) LIBERATED

▫️Precision strikes hit 142 targets

▫️Heavy Ukrainian losses: Over 1,350 troops eliminated in the special military operation zone in the past 24 hours.

▫️Air defense superiority: 6 bombs and 252 drones shot down

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🇨🇳🛢🇮🇷Crude confidence: China doubles down on Iranian oil while West talks ‘pressure’

Iran continues to demonstrate its economic resilience despite Western sanctions, finding robust trade partners beyond traditional markets.

🟠 Record imports in June: Ship-tracking data reveals China purchased over 1.8 million barrels per day of Iranian crude in the first three weeks of June (per Vortexa data).

🟠 A 46% monthly surge: June imports averaging 1.46 million bpd—up sharply from May’s 1 million bpd (per Kpler)

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🚨Oldest Christian nation vanishing before our eyes: LA journalist on Armenia's church crackdown

🇦🇲Armenia is witnessing the dismantling of its national identity, with its culture and faith under systematic attack, actress and journalist Gayane Aslamazyan from Los Angeles told RT.

She highlighted the current government's crackdown on dissenters, like Samvel Karapetyan:

💬 "Our clergy are being imprisoned. Frankly, anyone who dares criticize this government gets thrown in jail. What kind of democracy is this?"

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🇷🇺🪖Russian MoD releases strike compilation video after freeing key DPR settlement

📹The footage shows precision artillery and air strikes on Ukrainian fortified positions, emplacements, tanks and troops in both daylight and nighttime conditions, and Russian troops holding flags in liberated areas.

The MoD earlier reported that Russian forces had liberated the settlement of Chervonaya Zirka in the Donetsk People’s Republic, saying precision strikes had hit 142 targets.

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