🇮🇷⚡️- The 14th Presidential Election has begun in Iran.

The race is currently narrowed down to three likely winners:

Saeed Jalili
Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf
Masoud Pezeshkian

In admin's opinion, Jalili is the likely winner.

Updates will follow throughout the day.

🇮🇱⚡- The International Criminal Court (ICC) has postponed its decision to issue arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister, Yoav Galant.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- American officials claim they are preparing the evacuation of American citizens in Lebanon, "in coordination with allies."

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- The Israeli Defense Forces, IDF, claim they have only destroyed 16% of the houses across the Gaza strip.

The United Nations earlier claimed over 60% of houses and buildings had been destroyed.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces advanced 1,300 meters south-east of Synkovka, reaching Petropavlovka's reservoirs – Kharkov-Kupyansk direction.

🇫🇷🇳🇨🇦🇿⚡- Victor Maamaatuaiahutapu, Secretary General of Independent Front for the Liberation of Polynesia, has conveyed his appreciation to Azerbaijan for its support in the "liberation of French overseas territories in Polynesia".

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- "The government encourages the annexation of millions of Palestinians, which harms our future and leads to the end of the Zionist dream." – Israeli Labor Party.

🇺🇲🇧🇴🇷🇺⚡- During the failed Bolivian coup "employees of American PMCs were seen in the ranks of the rebel army," – 'Velikaya', Russian media.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- The USS Wasp amphibious assault ship, which is currently being deployed to the Mediterranean, is apparently carrying elements of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit in preparation to be deployed to Israel and Lebanon to prepare an evacuation of American citizens.

🇮🇶⚡- Pro-Hezbollah Iraqi factions have begun training in anticipation of a possible regional war. New weapon systems and equipment are seen arriving from Russia and Iran.

🇺🇲🇹🇼🇨🇳⚡- "US doesn't need China's permission to talk to allies in Taiwan," – Congress approves amendment lifting limits between US and Taiwan.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- Turkey arrests their own commander, General Bilal Cokay, who has been convicted of being involved in the Syrian slave trade and organ trafficking, in the Turkish-controlled regions of northern Syria.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, dismisses normalizing relations with Turkey, if Turkey does not completely withdraw from the north of Syria.

🇸🇾🇹🇷⚡- "There is no reason not to establish diplomatic relations with Syria. We have no intention of intervening in Syria's internal affairs. The Syrian people are a brotherly community." – Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey.

🇷🇺⚡- "Russia will consider slowing down the speed of YouTube instead of blocking it completely," – Anton Gorelkin, State Duma Deputy.

🇱🇧⚡- The Foreign Ministries of Jordan and Australia have now also warned their citizens not to travel to Lebanon.

🇺🇸⚡️- White House officials: "Biden is committed to running as the Democrat candidate and he is also well committed to participate in the 2nd debate which is scheduled for the 10th of September."

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Pentagon official Sabrina Singh told Al-Mayadeen: "The goal of sending the “WASP” attack ship to the eastern Mediterranean is to reduce tension."

🇧🇾🇺🇦⚡- Belarus is bringing multiple rocket launch systems to the Gomel-Chernigov border with Ukraine.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ukrainian forces are allegedly preparing to withdraw from Krasnogorovka (Mariinka direction). Over the past two days Russian troops advanced greatly in several of the city's districts.

— 🇮🇷 NEW: Voting locations are now officially closed, people who got inside before 00:00 will still be allowed to cast their vote

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