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🇮🇷 NEW: Modernized M-60s, renamed as the 'Soleiman-402', were officially introduced to Iran's Artesh Ground Forces today

The upgrade improves the tank's armor with a fully new armor package, new targeting sights, new 'Shtora'-like IR jammer, new Comms systems, and new RCWS.

According to Brigadier General Kyoumars Heydari, all Iranian M-60 tanks will eventually be upgraded to the Soleiman-402.

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— NOTE: The biggest upgrade on the Soleiman-402 are probably the cameras and sensors, providing added situational awareness and night-vision capability for the gunner (red box) commander (blue box) and driver (green box).

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🇮🇱 BREAKING: The Federation of Israeli Trade Unions will hold a general strike on Monday

Almost the entire country will lay down its work in a hope to push Netanyahu into a ceasefire deal.

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🇷🇺 NEW: Russia will make changes to its nuclear doctrine in response to the West's actions over the conflict in Ukraine, the TASS state news agency cited Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.

Ryabkov said the decision is "related to the escalation course of our Western adversaries" in connection with what Russia calls its special military operation in Ukraine.

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🇪🇬/🇮🇱 NEW: The Egyptian Government has once again asked Israel to leave the Philadelphia Corridor; Israel refused

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🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: A group of Israelis protested for the release of the hostages in front of the White House in Washington.

The protesters called for the signing of an immediate deal. Some pro-Palestinian protesters mounted a counter demonstration.

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🇮🇷 M-60 (right) vs Iran's new upgraded Soleiman-402 (left)

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🇮🇱 NEW: Hundreds are intermittently blocking a central Tel Aviv highway and lighting bonfires.

The police is using a water cannon and mounted policemen to disperse protesters. In some areas, violent clashes have broken out between police officers and the protesters. 15 protesters were detained.

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🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇮🇱 U.S. State Department: 'We are still waiting for the Iranian response, and we believe it is coming, but it is hard to estimate when or how'

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🇮🇷/🇮🇱 NEW: An IRGC Commander says that Iran 'reserves the right to respond' to Haniyeh's assassination in Tehran, and that Iran is conducting psychological warfare by making the entire world wait and guess

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🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Al-Qassam Brigades have released a new video announcing that they will show the final messages from the six Israeli hostages who recently died.

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📹 Hezbullah released footage of their successful Almas ATGM on an Israeli army checkpoint KfarYuval.

Several civilian cars used by the Israeli army were parked there. Two soldiers were injured, one critically and one moderately.
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🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Al-Qasaam Brigades release the final message recorded by Israeli hostage Eden Yerushalmi before her death.

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🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Saraya Al-Quds ambush Israeli forces in the 'Netzarim' corridor by detonating a minefield. A helicopter can be seen evacuating IDF casualties towards the end.

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🇾🇪 NEW: Yemen's Ansarullah announce that they targeted the 'BLUE LAGOON I' shuttle tanker ship with missiles and drones, achieving direct hits.

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🇬🇧/🇮🇱 NEW: Britain is suspending the sale of various arms components used by Israel in Gaza, citing 'possible breaches of international humanitarian law.'

U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy announced that 30 licenses, including parts for fighter jets, helicopters, and drones, will be immediately halted.

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🇷🇺/🇺🇦 In August, Russia expanded its control over 477 square kilometers of Ukrainian territory, the largest monthly increase since October 2022, based on data from the Institute for the Study of War and analyzed by AFP.

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🇺🇸/🇻🇪 NEW: The United States has seized a Dassault Falcon 900EX aircraft used by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, asserting that its purchase violated U.S. sanctions.

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🇹🇷/🇺🇸 NEW: Two U.S. military personnel were assaulted by members of the 'Turkey Youth Union,' a nationalist group, in the port city of Izmir, Turkey. Turkish authorities subsequently detained fifteen suspected assailants.

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