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🇵🇸 Gaza

• Reports indicate Youssef Akila (Abu al-Walid), identified as a commander in Hamas’ military wing and the former bodyguard of Yahya Sinwar, was killed in a car bombing west of Gaza City.

🇱🇧 Lebanon

• Israeli attacks continued across southern Lebanon throughout September 6.

• Airstrikes targeted Kfar Rumman, Nabatieh, Nabatieh al-Fawqa, Arabsalim, Al-Qantara, and Wadi Zibqin.

• Drone strikes targeted Nabatieh al-Fawqa, Nabatieh, and the area between Choukine and Nabatieh al-Fawqa.

• Artillery shelling hit Wadi al-Hujair, Wadi al-Salouqi, Douhat Kfar Rumman, Barashit, Nabatieh al-Fawqa, Al-Mansouri, Harsh Kounin, Zawtar al-Sharqiyah, Aitaroun, Hadatha, Beit Yahoun, and Wadi Zibqin.

• Additional explosions were reported in Al-Mansouri, Zawtar al-Sharqiyah, Kfar Tibnit, Wadi al-Salouqi, and Aitaroun, while explosive devices were detonated in Harsh Ali al-Taher.

• The latest attacks included artillery shelling on the outskirts of Barashit and machine-gun sweeping toward Hadatha and the outskirts of Ayta al-Jabal.

🇮🇶 Iraq

• The Iraqi government is preparing to send a revised Popular Mobilization Forces law to parliament after removing provisions that had drawn U.S. objections.

• Iraqi political, military, and PMF leaders are expected to meet before the 30 September deadline to discuss bringing weapons under state control, amid warnings about the potential impact of U.S. sanctions on Iraq’s financial situation.

🌍 Regional military activity

• Reports indicate at least three American tankers are operating in the Strait of Hormuz with transponders active, while a U.S. Navy P-8 maritime patrol aircraft departed from Bahrain toward the Strait.

• Extensive NATO reconnaissance flights were also reported over Jordan and the surrounding region as military activity around the Strait of Hormuz continued to increase.

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🇵🇸 🇱🇧 🇮🇷 🇸🇾 🏴 | The children killing count continues to rise across Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, and Syria:

In just the last two weeks, the killing of children across Gaza, Lebanon, Iran, and Syria has reached another horrifying level. Initial reports indicate that American and Israeli attacks are killing an average of around seven children every day across these fronts. Some are killed instantly in airstrikes, shelling, and drone attacks, while many others die later from their wounds, burns, displacement, starvation, or the long-term consequences of war.

Since October 2023, the killing toll from American-Israeli genocidal campaigns, together with the massacres carried out by their regional allies, including HTS terrorists in the occupied Syria, has crossed an initial estimate of 100,000 children.

Gaza alone has witnessed the killing of nearly 50 thousand children. In Lebanon, children continue to die from Israeli airstrikes, drone attacks, and even cluster munitions left behind after bombardments. In Iran, children have also become victims of direct American attacks, including the massacre in Sirik, where an American strike targeted a wedding ceremony and killed children alongside civilians. The massacres in Minab and Lamard added even more innocent victims to this growing list.

The names continue to grow. Muhammad Ali Ibrahim, a child from Haboush in southern Lebanon, was killed after an Israeli cluster munition exploded. Lama Mohammed Habib, a Palestinian child, was killed in an Israeli strike in the Al-Katiba area of western Gaza City while families had gathered only to collect water. A baby was also killed after an Israeli strike destroyed a residential building in southern Lebanon, and many more children remain trapped under rubble or fighting for their lives in hospitals.

This is no longer a collection of isolated incidents spread across different countries. It is one continuous pattern of violence stretching from Gaza to southern Lebanon, from Sirik in Iran to Syria’s devastated towns. Children have become the most vulnerable victims of a war that continues to expand across West Asia under the framework of American and Israeli terrorism, while the world continues to witness the destruction of an entire generation.

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📌 | Dear Mr. Marandi, using the name of a fabricated or propagandistic event (Holofraud) decades later can help preserve the legitimacy of the original narrative, even if that is not your intention. Language shapes how people remember history, and repeating a label without context may normalize the story created by colonial or occupying powers. If the name itself contains a disputed claim or was designed to justify domination, then continuing to use it can unintentionally reinforce that claim, especially for people who are unfamiliar with the plot/agenda & history behind it.

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The problem with this argument is that it imports a political logic that does not really apply to the Islamic Republic. The question should not be whether an official is “more loyal” or “less loyal” to the Leader. State officials are expected to be committed to the values of the Islamic Revolution and to the leadership, while their suitability for a particular position should be assessed on the basis of experience, competence, judgment and the demands of the circumstances.

Imam Mojtaba Khamenei’s decision to appoint Mohsen Rezaei should therefore be understood in that context. Rezaei brings decades of experience in security, defence and state affairs, as well as a long record of commitment to the revolutionary cause. His straightforward and serious approach has also made him a target of criticism from reformists and other political camps precisely because he does not generally soften his positions to accommodate political perceptions.

In a war, serious positions require serious and direct figures. The SNSC Secretary is not appointed to satisfy the public’s preferred image of what a secretary should sound like. Nor should an important state position be weakened, delayed or compromised merely because some statements might affect public perception.

There is also a broader problem here. Public perception is not a stable measure of state policy. The same public that demands one position today may demand something completely different tomorrow. If major state decisions are constantly adjusted simply to satisfy immediate public expectations, governance becomes reactive rather than strategic.

The more important issue is the growing tendency across different levels of the state to treat governance as a theatre of messaging, signalling and perception management rather than as the execution of policy. When every institution becomes preoccupied with “giving a message” instead of doing the work, the practical machinery of governance is inevitably weakened.

If Rezaei speaks more directly than his predecessors, that does not automatically diminish the SNSC. What matters is whether his words correspond to the state’s strategic position and whether the institution is capable of turning those positions into action. In wartime, clarity and seriousness can be far more valuable than carefully managed silence.

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🇾🇪 📕 | The story behind Ansar Allah’s missile arsenal is much deeper than “Iran gave them missiles”:

When people look at Ansar Allah’s missile arsenal in Yemen today, it is easy to reduce the entire story to a single sentence: “Iran supplied the Houthis with missiles.” That explanation ignores an entire layer of Yemen’s military history and, more importantly, it ignores the one element that cannot simply be imported: human expertise.

The foundation of Ansar Allah’s missile capability was not created after 2015. For decades, the Yemeni military operated Soviet, North Korean, and Chinese missile systems. These weapons did not arrive alone. They came with training programs, technical education, maintenance procedures, launch protocols, and generations of Yemeni officers, engineers, and technicians who learned how to manage missile systems from storage and servicing to deployment and refurbishment.

A significant part of that expertise was already close to Ansar Allah even before it took control of state institutions. Military units, officers, engineers, and technicians within the Yemeni Armed Forces formed alliances with Ansar Allah during the political and military shifts that preceded 2014. This meant that experienced personnel with years of missile knowledge became part of Ansar Allah’s structure, rather than a completely new cadre appearing after the collapse of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi’s government in Sana’a.

That point became decisive after 2014. When large parts of the Saudi-backed government collapsed and Ansar Allah seized military bases and stockpiles belonging to the Yemeni Army and the Republican Guard, they inherited much more than warehouses filled with weapons. They gained missile platforms, spare parts, maintenance equipment, technical documentation, engineers, and technicians who already understood those systems from the inside.

This is where the real transformation began. Instead of treating the inherited arsenal as a finite stockpile that would eventually run out, Ansar Allah turned it into the foundation of a missile program that could be repaired, rebuilt, modified, and expanded. Some missiles were restored to service, others were overhauled and modernized, while older systems became platforms for experimentation and redevelopment. This also explains why some Soviet-era systems have reportedly been adapted for missions very different from those for which they were originally designed, including the conversion of certain air defense systems into ground attack weapons after extensive modifications.

None of this means Ansar Allah developed everything on its own. As the war continued and older stockpiles were depleted, support from Iran and Hezbollah became increasingly important, particularly in technical development. The relationship is better understood as cooperation between an existing Yemeni military foundation and external expertise that contributed new technologies, components, engineering methods, and approaches to modernization.

In other words, the Yemenis already possessed the basic knowledge of missile systems, while support from the Axis of Resistance added new layers of expertise in upgrading, modifying, improving performance, and reusing equipment that could be salvaged from older arsenals.

That is what makes Ansar Allah’s missile program different from the simplistic claim that it merely received missiles from abroad. Its development is the result of accumulation: a Yemeni missile legacy built over decades, military stockpiles transferred into Ansar Allah’s hands after 2014, experienced personnel who remained within the new military structure, years of war that forced constant maintenance, refurbishment, and innovation, and external technical support that helped transform an inherited arsenal into a more diverse and sophisticated missile force.

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🇮🇷 📕 | Martyred Lieutenant General Hossein Salami recounts the first achievement of technology to destroy aircraft carriers:

Martyred Lieutenant General Hossein Salami:

American aircraft carriers are known as the symbol and embodiment of America’s military power, grandeur, and prestige.

We had to assume that one day we would have to destroy, sink, or capture an American aircraft carrier.

For the first time, we tested an anti-ship ballistic missile, after several failures and setbacks in our earlier tests.

When this missile was launched, it had to strike a target on the sea that was many times smaller than an aircraft carrier. The target was stationary on the water, and this ballistic missile, built for the first time by the engineers and scientists of the IRGC Air Force, had to keep its line of sight aligned with the target along the missile’s longitudinal axis. This meant the missile’s control fins had to make frequency corrections hundreds of times every second to keep it directed toward the target.

Using a telemetry system, we monitored the missile’s flight and target tracking on a television screen. Everyone who had worked on the project, dozens of people, stood tightly packed together, staring at that screen.

When the tracking process was completed, everyone held their breath. We were all waiting to see whether we were witnessing a technological revolution.

The missile moved closer and closer to the target. On the television screen, the target appeared larger and larger until, for the first time, the missile landed at an extremely short distance from it.

When the missile landed just a few meters away, less than 10 meters from the target, it was an extraordinary level of accuracy for our technology at that time. It felt as if the entire room exploded. Everyone shouted with joy because we had achieved a great success. It was one step, but it was a huge step.

That missile showed, for the first time, that we had taken a major step toward the destruction of aircraft carriers, beyond the enemy’s capability to neutralize such a system. It was a tremendous achievement.

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📌 | Don’t post your children’s pictures or videos online. Publicly shared media can be permanently copied, scraped, tracked, and manipulated, including through AI-generated deepfakes. Images can also reveal faces, voices, school uniforms, home details, routines, and locations, making children easier to identify or track.

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🇮🇷 | Iran Ministry's Spokesman Email Baghaei warns South Korea against involvement in America’s actions:

- Baghaei: Iran warned South Korea against participating in any American military actions in the region.

The Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Iran values its relationship with South Korea but warned that any participation by South Korea, or any other country, in America’s military or interventionist actions in the region would amount to complicity in a clear act of military aggression.

Baghaei added that Iran has not issued a formal public position but has conveyed its warning to South Korean officials through its embassy in Seoul, stressing that countries should avoid becoming instruments of American aggression.

- Baghaei says Hormuz insecurity is the result of American actions

Esmaeil Baghaei: The term “Tanker War” does not accurately describe the current situation in the region.

He said the Strait of Hormuz and the Persian Gulf became insecure after America’s military aggression and Israeli attacks, not because of Iran’s actions. Baghaei accused America of initiating attacks on ships in the region and said recent Iranian defensive actions against American warships were used as a pretext for America to target Iranian commercial vessels.

He described attacks on Iranian commercial ships as violations of international law and acts of terrorism, adding that America’s continued economic war, naval blockade, and attacks on Iranian shipping constitute an ongoing military aggression against Iran.

Baghaei said Iran’s actions are purely defensive and are carried out under its right to self-defense.

- Baghaei says America’s operation failed

Esmaeil Baghaei: America’s military operation failed to achieve its objectives and only further damaged America’s credibility.

Responding to reports that the Pentagon instructed personnel not to use the term “Operation Epic Fury,” Baghaei said American media initially referred to it as “Operation Epstein Fury” before it became known as an “epic failure.”

He said the operation was unsuccessful and further exposed America for violating international law and international humanitarian law.

- Baghaei defends Iran’s strikes on American military targets

Esmaeil Baghaei: Iran’s strikes on American military bases and warships fall within its legitimate right to self-defense.

He said it is not an achievement for a country that calls itself the world’s greatest superpower to retaliate against attacks on its warships by targeting commercial vessels or civilians, including children at a wedding.

Baghaei rejected the American narrative and said Iran’s defensive strikes are consistent with Article 51 of the UN Charter.

- Baghaei says Israel’s threats expose expansionist ambitions

Esmaeil Baghaei: Israel’s repeated threats against regional countries demonstrate its expansionist ambitions.

He said there is no longer any doubt in the region that Israel seeks dominance over the Middle East and aims to intimidate neighboring states. Baghaei added that Israel’s threats against countries, including Turkey, should serve as a warning for regional governments to recognize the main threat to regional peace and security.

- Baghaei says America is responsible for Hormuz tensions

Esmaeil Baghaei: The insecurity in the Strait of Hormuz is a direct consequence of America’s military aggression.

He said Iran is falsely being portrayed as the source of instability, while the real cause is America’s military actions, its use of Gulf states’ territory, the naval blockade, and attacks on Iranian commercial vessels.

Baghaei said the strait cannot become secure as long as those actions continue.

- Baghaei rejects reports of a new agreement with America

Esmaeil Baghaei: Iran’s position on regional security and the Strait of Hormuz remains unchanged.

He said America must end its military aggression, intervention, sanctions, and naval blockade if it wants to remove the insecurity it imposed on the region.

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