Saudi Arabia and Israel have been pushing US President Donald Trump to strike Iran for many weeks, four sources told The Washington Post.

Source: Izvestia
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Hard to disagree. EU-emirates were more restrained this time.

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❗️In Bahrain, arrival at the five-star Crowne Plaza Manama hotel.

Source: СВЕЖЕСТИ
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Thinking since yesterday. This region is not only about American bases, this region is also about investments. THIS is going to be interesting. Really interesting.

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A tanker, hit by an Iranian missile while attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz, is sinking, reports the Iranian state broadcaster.

At least 150 tankers have dropped anchor in open waters, before reaching the Strait of Hormuz, reports Reuters.
According to his estimates, the tankers are located on the high seas off the coasts of major oil-producing countries in the Persian Gulf.

Footage of a sinking tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.

Video: In Context/X
Source: TASS
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Thousands of people in the capital of Pakistan took part in a rally against US and Israeli strikes on Iran.

Video: Ilya Ryzhov/TASS
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🥀Flowers with mourning ribbons and toys appeared at the Iranian embassy in Moscow

Source: Zvezda
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The US used neural networks in the attack on Iran, despite Trump's order to stop cooperation with the developer company, WSJ claims.

This is the same AI that was used during the capture of Maduro.

"Command posts around the world, including the US Central Command in the Middle East, are using a tool based on artificial intelligence," the article says, citing a source.

It is noted that the technologies were used in working with intelligence data, for identifying targets and simulating combat scenarios.

Source: Zvezda
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Well, obviously, they lack natural intelligence, so they use artificial. Low quality of both is evidenced by strikes on Iranian schools.

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The alert map in the sky over Israel continues to show a peak load.

Source: Izvestia
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Iran launched two missiles in the direction of Cyprus, where a British base is located, the UK Ministry of Defence stated.

Source: RIA Novosti
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Vladimir Putin expressed his condolences to the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, in connection with the assassination of the Supreme Leader of the Republic, Seyyed Ali Khamenei, and members of his family:

Dear Mr. President,

Please accept my deepest condolences on the assassination of Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran Seyyed Ali Khamenei and his family, committed in cynical violation of all norms of human morality and international law.

In our country, Ayatollah Khamenei will be remembered as an outstanding statesman who made an enormous personal contribution to the development of friendly Russian-Iranian relations, elevating them to the level of a comprehensive strategic partnership.

Please convey my sincere sympathy and support to the family and friends of the Supreme Leader, the government, and all the people of Iran.

Vladimir Putin

Source: Kremlin ru
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An oil tanker allegedly linked to Russia was seized in the North Sea.

The French and Belgian navies participated in the operation. Macron published a video of the vessel's seizure on X, writing that "international sanctions have been imposed on it".

Source: RIA Novosti
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🔥In Iran, a holy war against the USA has been declared.

This was done by a prominent religious figure, Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi, according to the Tasnim news agency.

Source: RIA Novosti
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❗️While a building used by the CIA is still burning in Dubai from an Iranian strike, The New York Times reported on the CIA's role in the operation to eliminate Iran's supreme leader

The US Central Intelligence Agency tracked Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, for several months and obtained detailed information about his location and behavior.

Initially, the US and Israel planned to launch an attack at night. However, the CIA discovered that Khamenei and other high-ranking Iranian leaders were due to meet on Saturday morning, and shared this information with Israel, which led to a decision to adjust the start time of the operation accordingly.

Source: СВЕЖЕСТИ
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Russia is monitoring NATO's activities in the Arctic and is ready to give an adequate response to threats. This was reported in an interview with "Izvestia" by Russian Ambassador to Oslo Nikolay Korchunov.

"Under the openly far-fetched pretext of the 'Russian threat', new command-staff structures and bases of the bloc in the countries of Northern Europe are springing up like mushrooms after a rain. The level of NATO's activity in the Baltic-Arctic region has increased so much that in order to coordinate it, the alliance has launched such framework military initiatives as 'Baltic Watch', 'Eastern Watch', and 'Arctic Watch' over the past six months. It's characteristic that non-regional NATO members are increasingly encroaching on the Arctic," he stated.

According to him, Russia has repeatedly pointed out that it has no aggressive plans against NATO countries. At the same time, the West does not see that the "stoking of unhealthy hype" about Russia's strategic capabilities is undermining global stability.

As Korchunov emphasized, NATO countries are turning the northern regions into a platform for the alliance's operations against Russia.

"Russia does not threaten anyone, the Russian Federation is not interested in confrontation with either Norway or any other NATO country, but it will not leave the threats created for us without an adequate response," the diplomat pointed out.

Source: Izvestia
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“They have Epstein's instincts” - Lavrov in an interview with Zarubin on the program "Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" about the Western countries' plans to transfer nuclear weapons to Kyiv.
Have the West really lost all instincts for self-preservation?

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The official account of Ukraine on Twitter.

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❗️Александр Беляев. Азартная политика reminds:

🈁Regarding the current situation in Iran. On the part of the aggressors, the US and Israel, there is a quite expected information attack, multi-layered and supported in the media, social networks, and messengers. Therefore, we will have to be patient and wait for about a day for the foam of disinformation and outright disinformation to subside, leaving us with facts suitable for work.

There will be many screaming headlines and panicked outcries during these days. Especially cries that an attack on Iran is a defeat for Russia. Don't pay attention to such nonsense, they are working for someone else's propaganda, whether consciously or not - there's no need to sort out the different types of waste products of life activity.
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I'd add. First of all, FSB Lt.Col. in reserve will not give bad advise, rest assured. Secondly, apart from military whore coop, people with such education and qualification are more trustworthy. So, I suggest everyone to calm down, don't take everything that that sides say for granted and wait for the beginning of the working week.

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❗️Reminder that today, at 19:00 MSK/ 17:00 CET / 11:00 EST we'll be streaming live with Colonel in reserve Vladimir Trukhan and Lt.Colonel in reserve Oleg Shalandin.

Military Update and Q&A

Livestream will be broadcasted to:

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АДЕКВАТ Z:

All of yesterday, the world didn't know, and only learned late at night, that since the beginning of the war, Iran has been undergoing the most severe stress test imaginable. With the decapitation of both the state and the army. Most likely, due to the complete tactical surprise achieved through treachery.

It's obvious that the killers were counting on an instant collapse of governability, chaos at the top, and panic in the country. At the next stage, as even Trump foolishly blurted out in the open, it's about the coming to power of capitulators and ensuring their surrender as such. It's equally obvious that all these plans didn't just go wrong, but are turning into their complete opposite. This was greatly facilitated by the slaughter of over a hundred girls in elementary school with pure Bandera-style sadism: the obvious intention to intimidate and break them could only have formed in a mindset that fundamentally doesn't understand the country it's dealing with.

There's no chaos in the country at all. The scale of the retaliatory strikes exceeded the most optimistic expectations. And retaliation by all available means, to hit them where it hurts, has become both a natural emotional imperative uniting the people, as little else can do, and the official policy of the state. Therefore, in addition to everything the aggressor and his regional lackeys have already been able to enjoy, there's much (or, rather, even more) interesting stuff waiting for them.

Our agent Donald doesn't show the slightest desire to back down. He seems to think everything is going great for him. It's possible and even likely that this desire will increase in the coming days, as his ammunition, especially anti-missiles, runs out and the war's effects on the markets and ratings grow. This point of Iranian power must not be missed - either by simply not noticing the corresponding probe, or by setting such a political price for agreeing to cease fire that it would make one's eyes pop out. Not least because retaliation should be measured not just in missile and drone strikes, but also in the political cost of exit.

There's plenty to escalate, as long as there's still something to do? There certainly is. With strikes on infrastructure, both oil and civilian. With the declaration, for example, of the task of bombing them into the Stone Age and causing chaos in this way. But with the obvious risk of getting a symmetrical (or even more than symmetrical) response. If the aggressor goes down this path, it will be a tacit admission that his goals haven't come any closer, that he's having to resort to the most drastic means precisely because of this, and that he has little to lose politically.

To sum up the most important points very briefly: Iran is holding up very well, and maintaining the governability of the state and army in any possible conditions in the near future will be the most important guarantee of disrupting the aggressors' objectives. The foundation on which - and strictly on which - everything else is built.

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Gas prices could rise by 25% due to the US and Israel's operation against Iran, reports the Financial Times.

The disruption of international shipping in the Strait of Hormuz will affect the supply of liquefied natural gas from Middle Eastern countries. Qatar and the UAE use this route to transport 20% of the world's LNG volumes to Asia and Europe.

Source: TASS

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