🇺🇸🇮🇷JD Vance on Iran:

So long as we achieve Trump's objective to make it clear that Iran can't build the bomb, I think Trump will be happy with the outcome.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷JD Vance on Iran:

Even some international organizations that usually don’t agree with the United States were very clear that Iran’s only purpose in building these underground highly enriched facilities was to build a nuclear weapon.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷JD Vance:

Whatever happens with the regime in one form or another, it's incidental to Trump's primary objective here — which is to make sure the Iranian terrorist regime does not build a nuclear bomb.

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🇺🇦Ukraine has received the first tranche from the IMF as part of a new four-year program.

According to Prime Minister Sviridenko, 1.5 billion dollars have already been credited. The total volume of the program is 8.1 billion dollars

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🇷🇺A terrorist attack was prevented in Yekaterinburg, where a Russian, acting on the orders of Ukrainian special services, was supposed to blow up the car of a defense industry company's manager, the Russian FSB's Central Operational Service reported.

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🇰🇼🇺🇸The US Embassy in Kuwait announced it's closed until further notice

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🇷🇺🇺🇦A Ukrainian handler blew up the saboteur during an attempt to arrest him in Yekaterinburg.

FSB officers discovered that a Russian citizen was preparing a terrorist attack against the head of one of the defense industry enterprises in the Sverdlovsk region.

He rented an apartment using a fake passport and retrieved a bomb from a hiding place. At the time of his arrest, he was in contact with his handler from Ukraine, who remotely detonated the bomb.

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📝An Expensive Pleasure📝
On the cost of intercepting Iranian "ballistic" volleys

After reviewing the Russian segment online, we concluded that many are interested in the question of how much it costs to repel an Iranian attack. Since exact figures don't exist online, this generates speculative estimates with a wide range.

Therefore, we decided to conduct an analysis based on specific official data from the UAE Armed Forces on the number of intercepted missiles. There is no information about the quantity and type of air defense missiles, so we examined three scenarios: two PAC-3 from "Patriot" per target, four PAC-3 per target, as well as THAAD for every fifth target.

Taking into account the cost of interceptors ($7.5 million for PAC-3 and $20 million for THAAD) and 169 officially intercepted Iranian missiles, the figures come out to between $2.5 and $3.2 billion. And this is only three days of war, not even accounting for the cost of intercepting drones.
📌 For perspective: depending on the scenario considered, repelling Iran's attacks cost the UAE budget two to four Burj Khalifa skyscrapers. Someone locally joked that it would have been more beneficial to build them on the coast and stretch a net between them.

But the Persians' strikes were also repelled by air defense systems of the USA, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and Jordan. And knowing the price range from the UAE example, one can easily project and calculate the total air defense costs over 3 days. This could be over $100 billion.
❗️In general, someone will have to spend very well to replenish arsenals. And given the limited production capacity in the USA, this means a shortage of Patriot missiles and a queue for them, where someone will be pushed to the back. For example, the so-called Ukraine.

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🇮🇱⚔️🇱🇧 The Israeli Army says its troops have been deployed at “several locations” in southern Lebanon.

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🇺🇸💬🇬🇧 "Starmer is pandering to Muslim voters" - Trump is upset with Starmer

In a hammer blow to the PM, the President heaped praise on France and Germany, adding: “This was the most solid relationship of all. And now we have very strong relationships with other countries in Europe.”

Blasting Sir Keir Starmer directly, the President said: “He has not been helpful.

“I never thought I’d see that. I never thought I’d see that from the UK.

“We love the UK.”

And he blamed the PM’s botched deal to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius as the centre of their fall out, adding: “We call it the woke island”.

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🇶🇦Qatar has a sufficient supply of Patriot interceptor missiles, the country's authorities have stated.

Earlier, Bloomberg claimed that the emirate would only have enough missiles for four to five days.

🐻 Zelensky doesn't like this kind of statements - too painful

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🇺🇦Zelensky stated that he would not hold elections during a possible ceasefire.

According to him, this will only happen after the full resolution of the conflict with Russia.

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🇴🇲Several drones attacked a tanker in the port of Duqm in eastern Oman, according to the ONA agency.

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🇺🇦 Zelensky said that escalation in the Middle East could leave Ukraine short of air defense missiles.

He told Corriere della Sera that Kiev may face difficulties obtaining missiles and weapons to protect its airspace, as the United States and its allies might redirect supplies for their own needs. Patriot systems and other missiles, purchased under the PURL program with European funds, could be prioritized elsewhere.

Zelensky recalled that during the June 2025 confrontation between Israel and Iran, missile deliveries to Ukraine were slowed.

“It hasn’t happened yet, but I fear it could happen again,” Zelensky said.

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🇬🇧📈 Wholesale gas price has risen by 93% in the UK since the start of the war in the Middle East, according to Sky News.

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🇮🇷Iran has carried out new missile strikes on US and Israeli targets in the Middle East, according to the Iranian state television and radio company

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🇷🇺💬Vladimir Putin is making every effort to help ease tensions in the Middle East, Dmitry Peskov said.

Other statements by the Russian President's press secretary:

➡️It's unlikely that we can talk about the possibility of a meeting in Abu Dhabi on Ukraine these days;

➡️ There is currently no clarity on the timing and location of a new round of negotiations on the Ukrainian settlement;

➡️ There are currently no plans for a conversation between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump

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