The IOC refused to suspend athletes from the USA and Israel, because "sport should remain a beacon of hope".

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Learning to speak like Olympians!

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Iran claims that during Operation "True Promise IV", most of the missile strikes on the Gulf countries were largely based on short-range ballistic missiles of the "Fateh-110" family. Iran allegedly has large reserves of missiles of this type and they, as stated, were not damaged during the 12-day war last year.

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One of the main mysteries for Israel and most global arms experts remains the new Iranian technology of separating warheads, which is somehow called "pseudo-cluster munitions". According to one version, Iran was able to quickly modify the warheads of its own missiles, and one of the achievements of the new approach was the reduction in the size of the warheads and an increase in their number in one missile.

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Qatalum of Qatar, supplier of 9% of global aluminium supply, has initiated a controlled shutdown aluminium production due to the gas production shutdown. The smelter will take six to twelve MONTHS to fully restart.

Trump 4d plan in effect…. 😂

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The US Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed that B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers were deployed for the first time to strike targets in Iran as part of Operation "Epic Fury".

According to the official report, in the first 72 hours of the operation, the US and Israel hit more than 1,700 targets. The B-52s joined the mission after the coalition's aircraft (including the B-2 Spirit and B-1B Lancer) suppressed a significant portion of Iran's air defense systems in the early days of the operation.

CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper noted that the use of the B-52s was made possible by establishing "local air superiority". While the stealthy B-2s carried out precision strikes on nuclear and highly protected targets, the B-52s are now being used to systematically destroy military-industrial infrastructure.

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JD Vance:

"I certainly empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East.

I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents..."

👀

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This could be a translation error so I’m cautious about putting it directly on SLG until we have better confirmation. The translation reads:

The moment of the destruction of the American-Israeli fighter jet north of Tehran.

Will likely just forward it there for now.

Russia could benefit from Trump's war in Iran, Forbes writes, agreeing with Bloomberg's theses.

Due to the war in the Middle East, oil prices are rising, which will help the "suffering" Russian economy and allow it to further finance the war with Ukraine.

Iran will continue to buy Russian weapons. Russia has been and remains the dominant arms supplier to Iran - a third of all weapons purchased by Tehran since 1979 were Russian.

The prolongation of the war threatens the US with the depletion of stocks of critical ammunition, including interceptors for Patriot and APKWS missiles used to shoot down "Shahid drones". This will undermine the US's ability to provide military support to Ukraine, which will be beneficial for Russia.

"Moscow can once again adapt and hedge its bets, using the turmoil to achieve its broader strategic goals," Forbes believes.

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British Maritime Authority: We have received a report of an incident 10 nautical miles east of Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.

A British maritime authority: The oil tanker was subjected to a powerful explosion, and debris from an unknown projectile was found on its surface.

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—❗️🇮🇷 Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, Friday Imam of Tehran and senior member of the Assembly of Experts:

'Leadership candidates have been identified and we are close to selecting the new leader.

The new leader will be chosen at the earliest opportunity, but the current situation is wartime so we are taking all precautions.'

@Middle_East_Spectator

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Lawmakers given classified briefings Tuesday evening on the U.S. military conflict in Iran expect President Donald Trump will ask Congress for emergency cash to finance the war.

During the closed-door meetings on Capitol Hill, top Trump administration officials said only that they are considering a supplemental military funding request, according to lawmakers who attended the briefings. But senior intelligence and defense officials described a vast military operation that many members anticipate will require extra funding on top of the nearly $1 trillion Congress has already given the military over the last year.

“I think there will be a supplemental coming,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told reporters upon leaving his classified Senate briefing. “We’ll have to approve that.”

Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the Senate committee overseeing funding for the Department of Homeland Security, said after the briefing that the military operation “feels like a multitrillion-dollar, open-ended conflict with a very confusing and constantly shifting set of goals” because top Trump administration officials “are refusing to take off the table ground operations.”

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) also described the U.S.-Iran conflict as “a massive operation” that’s “rapidly changing.”

“It sounded very open-ended to me,” he added.

Some lawmakers typically opposed to increased spending are open to the idea of providing extra money to fuel the U.S. military’s operation against Iran. “I think it would have support of Republicans,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said about a supplemental funding request Tuesday night.

Any supplemental spending package to support the Iran war effort would come on top of the more than $150 billion the Pentagon got from the party-line tax and spending package Republicans enacted last summer and nearly $839 billion in regular funding Congress cleared last month.

The US ran nearly a 6% of GDP deficit 2025. Total Debt-to-GDP (Q3 2025): Approximately 121% to 124%. (FYE for US budget is Q3). It won't be a a war that brings down the US it will be debt. It's likely the US will be more in debt then Italy by the end of Trump's tenure, then it will be looking to pass Greece.

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Targeting a joint American-Bahraini base in the Al-Sakhir region with an Iranian drone.

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"We'll see it all at gas stations". Europe will very soon feel the war in Iran

Europe will soon start suffering from the consequences of the US and Israel's attack on Iran, cites Polsat TV diplomat Robert Pszczel. If the situation does not change, it will hit Europeans with a surge in gas prices. At the same time, the crisis will be more fatal and long-term if chaos begins in Iran. However, it's too early to talk about this now.

"The regime is already a very large group of people, and in fact, the current agenda includes issues concerning, for example, the role that Iranian state structures, the Ministry of Defense, the headquarters, and so on will play. There is a guard, which is actually the pillar of this regime. It is still operating," noted Pszczel.

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Trumpism • Air Defense Bluff

Donald Trump: The US has an unlimited supply of medium and high-level interceptor missiles.

Media:
- Lockheed Martin proudly reported that it has increased the production of Patriot air defense missiles to 620 (six hundred and twenty) units per year. Over the next three years, it is expected to increase production to 1,970 units per year. Ukraine needs that much in a week.

- Lockheed Martin proudly reported that it has produced 96 (ninety-six) THAAD air defense missiles per year. The plan is to increase production to 400 missiles per year in seven years.

There is no publicly available information on Iran, but the fact that the US is having trouble with missile production is a reality. Otherwise, they wouldn't be hiding in underground parking lots in Dubai and withdrawing troops. And the aircraft carrier Lincoln was stationed in the middle of the Strait of Hormuz.

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