⚡️🇮🇷 — Iran is pursuing a three-stage roadmap to reach geostationary orbit (GEO) at 36,000 km, transitioning from "limited experiments in lower orbits" toward operational dominance — Tasnim.

➡️ The strategy centers on developing geostationary-class satellites, orbital transfer stages, and heavy launchers including the upgraded Simorgh, Ghaem 105/120, Qoqnos, Sarir, and Soroush.

➡️ Following successful tests of the "Saman" orbital transfer stage and increased payload capacity, Iran aims to facilitate "satellite constellation development" and regional launch services.

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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇶🇮🇶 — Reports of explosions targeting a US base in Erbil province northern Iraq, — Iraqi media.

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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇶 — Air defense systems were reportedly activated at the U.S. embassy in Erbil, northern Iraq — OSINT.

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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇶🇮🇶 — The C-RAM system was activated in the skies over Erbil northern Iraq following a drone attack, — Iraqi media.

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⚡️🇱🇧🇸🇦🇦🇪 — Riyadh exercised a "pivotal role" in facilitating the President Joseph Aoun’s Washington visit, anchored by a significant phone call between Aoun and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman followed by Saudi envoy communication with Speaker Nabih Berri — Al-Jadeed citing diplomatic sources.

➡️ This Lebanese-Saudi-American activity focuses on stabilizing the Lebanese military’s role and managing the complexities of the withdrawal and the "framework agreement process."

➡️ A meeting between Saudi Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman and UAE Vice President Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan reaffirmed that bilateral ties maintain "deep strategic coordination" despite recent "structural disagreements." Diplomatic sources indicate the encounter signaled that policy differences involve the "management of certain issues and tactical tools used to address them" rather than a divergence in shared strategic objectives.

➡️ UAE Advisor Anwar Gargash and Saudi official Turki Al-Sheikh emphasized a "firmly established partnership," with Gargash quoting "Spears, when united, are unbreakable" to characterize the relationship. Analyst Dawood Al-Sharyan noted that the Saudi-UAE bond utilizes a methodology of managing differences and "principle of competition," ensuring that "geopolitics, Gulf security, and shared regional interests" remain insulated from rumors or tactical discord.

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🚨🇮🇷🇯🇴 — Initial reports about Iranian attacks targeting US military positions in eastern Jordan; alleged documentation of an impact in the Muwaffaq Salti Air Base area — Local media.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 — U.S. CENTCOM fact-check:

«🚫CLAIM: Today, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy claimed that it controls exit and entry to the Strait of Hormuz, suggesting that international mariners can only use routes the IRGC prefers. This is FALSE.

✅FACT: Iran does not control the Strait of Hormuz. The international waterway remains open for transit regardless of IRGC threats and attacks. Commercial vessels continue to use the strait with U.S. military support. Since early May, American forces have helped more than 900 ships transit the strait.»

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 — President Trump on the Strait:

«We won Venezuela.. We are taking tremendous amounts of oil and they are taking tremendous amounts of oil, it's a partnership.. Venezuela is doing better than they've ever done before

In fact, if you combine us and Venezuela, we have about 62% of the world's oil market. We don’t need straits. We don’t need anything.

We don't need the hormuz strait, but we do it because we have to do it because we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.»

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 — President Trump on Iran:

«We are likewise winning in the Islamic Republic of Iran and we are ensuring that they will never ever be able to do to us what they have done to so many..»

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 — President Trump on Iran:

«This is the skirmish we have with the Islamic Republic of Iran. And I call it that because, let me tell you, they're getting hit so hard and they want to make a deal.

But I say they are not ready to make a deal. Because every time they make a deal, they want to change it and everything. They are not ready. They will be ready very soon.»

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⚡️🇬🇧🇮🇷 — BREAKING: The United Kingdom has temporarily withdrawn its diplomatic staff from Iran due to the deteriorating security situation — UK Foreign Office.

➡️ The Foreign Office said the British Embassy in Tehran will continue operating remotely while diplomatic staff have been withdrawn as a precaution.

➡️ The UK has also reiterated its advisory against all travel to Iran, urging British nationals currently in the country to carefully consider the risks of remaining.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇸🇦 — U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and Saudi Minister of Energy HRH Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman officially signed a peaceful nuclear cooperation "123 agreement" alongside a bilateral safeguards agreement — U.S. Department of Energy.

➡️ The "decades-long, multi-billion-dollar partnership" establishes the legal foundation for U.S. commercial access to the Saudi nuclear energy program. These agreements integrate American industry and supply chains while ensuring adherence to "highest standards of nuclear safety" and international nonproliferation benchmarks.

➡️ Rooted in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, the deal aligns with a presidential executive order on "Promoting American Nuclear Exports" to restore competitive edges in civil nuclear markets. Secretary Wright stated the move facilitates an "American nuclear renaissance" intended to deliver "prosperity at home and security to our allies."

➡️ The partnership aims to expand nuclear technology exports and create high-paying U.S. jobs while reinforcing "global non-proliferation standards" and regional security posture. The finalized documentation has been officially transmitted to the U.S. Congress for statutory review.

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🚨🇸🇦 — UKMTO Warning 095-26 reports a tanker struck by an unknown projectile 70 nautical miles southwest of Al Shuqaiq, Saudi Arabia, precipitating an onboard fire currently suppressed by the crew with no casualties or environmental damage reported as Saudi authorities conduct an investigation — UKMTO.

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🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 — Multiple explosions reported across Khuzestan, Hormozgan, and Bushehr provinces amid reports of US kinetic activity — Tasnim / Farsna citing field reports.

➡️ Deputy Governor of Khuzestan confirms "points in Ahvaz city" targeted by US missile strike, specifically identifying impact at "one-story asphalt warehouse" near Ramshir.

➡️ Successive detonations recorded around Ziarat village, Sirik city, including supplemental explosion at 00:50; Bushehr residents report hearing two distinct blasts in city vicinity.

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🚨🇮🇷🇺🇸 — Area in Bushehr targeted by a US attack early Thursday morning, with the regional Governor reporting "no reports of casualties" so far — Mehr News Agency.

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⚡️🇺🇸 — U.S. House of Representatives passed the $1.15 trillion National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (H.R. 8800) in a 216-212 vote late Wednesday — Official results & documents overview.

➡️ Section 219 establishes the "United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative" for industrial integration in AI, quantum computing, and directed energy, authorizing $750 million for cooperative programs. The framework facilitates "military-to-military integration" via joint R&D and co-production of autonomous and counter-drone systems, including extensions of war reserve stockpiles for Israel.

➡️ Leadership attached the "SAVE America Act" rider requiring "documentary proof of U.S. citizenship" for federal voter registration and photo ID for balloting. Provisions also ban TRICARE funding for "gender transition procedures," prohibit biological males from women's sports at DoD schools, and authorize troop pay raises alongside military healthcare reforms.

➡️ The package prioritizes "great-power competition with China," nuclear modernization, and unmanned systems, passing with 6 Democratic "yes" votes and 7 Republican "no" votes, including Rep. Thomas Massie. Senate negotiations are expected to focus on "contentious add-ons" related to election policy and the depth of U.S.-Israel bilateral technological and industrial integration.

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🚨🇺🇸🇮🇷 — U.S. CENTCOM statement:

«At 5:30 p.m. ET today, U.S. forces began launching more strikes against Iranian military targets at the Commander in Chief's direction. The mission will continue to further degrade Iran's ability to threaten civilian mariners and commercial vessels transiting regional waters.»

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⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 — House of Representatives adopted a Republican-only $95 billion budget proposal in a 216-214 vote to fund the Iran war and White House priorities — AP.

➡️ The package allocates $60 billion for the Pentagon and $13 billion for national security to support kinetic operations, described by Rep. Jodey Arrington as "bullets and bombs to finish the job." This occurs as Congress remains at a "standstill" over the use of force, which remains formally unauthorized despite ongoing military strikes and polling suggesting most Americans disapprove of Trump’s Iran strategy.

➡️ Funding includes $12 billion for farmers struggling under tariffs and $10 billion for voting law changes mandated by the "SAVE America Act" and "proof of citizenship requirements."

➡️ Speaker Mike Johnson navigated the measure through GOP divisions regarding the lack of "offsetting budget cuts," though the strategy faces uncertainty in the Senate following the strictly partisan House vote.

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