🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡️- Multiple red alerts in northern Israel

— 🇮🇷 The election, based on the expected turnout, will be EXTREMELY close.

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🇺🇸🦁⚡️- President Trump has disavowed Project 2025.

🇱🇧🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Hezbollah officials reportedly told Reuters that a Gaza ceasefire means a Hezbollah ceasefire, "from hour one."

🇭🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Hungarian PM Viktor Orban has been added to the Ukrainian Myrotvorets "Kill List" after meeting with Russian President Putin.

— 🇮🇷 NEW: Voter turnout has surpassed 51% – exceeding the turnout of the 2021 Presidential election – with half an hour left

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🇺🇸⚡️- Joe Biden tweeted today that he intends to stay in the 2024 presidential race.

🇮🇷⚡- Reformist candidate, Masoud Pezeshkian, leads in the second round of the presidential elections – Reuters.

🇮🇷⚡- Masoud Pezeshkian is expected to win Iran's presidential election with nearly 16 million votes – Raja News, a pro-Jalili news outlet.

🇮🇷⚡- Raja News estimate 13 million have so far voted for Saeed Jalili.

Note, these are not official figures.

🇮🇷⚡- The first official count:
Masoud Pezeshkian: 1,263,874 votes
Saeed Jalili: 1,244,640 votes

— 🇮🇷 Final results:

Total votes counted: 30,530,157 votes

Pezeshkian: 16,384,403 votes

Jalili: 13,538,179 votes

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🇮🇷⚡️- Masoud Pezeshkian (Reformist) has been elected the 9th president of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

🇧🇬⚡- "I sincerely believe that we should advocate peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia, and Bulgaria will act as a mediator. And this is what I will offer, there are no problems," – Caretaker Prime Minister of Bulgaria, Dimitar Glavchev, at the NATO Summit 2024.

🇺🇲🇪🇺🇮🇳⚡- "NATO is not present in India, but the 'Alliance' is interested in creating a secure Indo-Pacific bloc in this region." – Eric Garcetti, US Ambassador to India.

🇺🇦🇬🇧⚡- "Delighted to have a telephone conversation with the new Prime Minister of UK Sir Keir Starmer. We discussed an unprecedented 100-year agreement between Ukraine and Great Britain." – Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskyi.

🇺🇲🇪🇺⚡- "Since the start of Russian aggression against Ukraine in 2014, NATO has radically transformed. Today we have 500,000 troops on high alert; more advanced capabilities, including fifth-generation aircraft; two new members: Finland and Sweden." – Jens Stoltenberg, NATO Secretary General.

🇨🇳🇧🇾⚡- Chinese military has arrived in Belarus for joint exercises.

🇮🇷⚡- Ayatollah Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran, has hailed the success of the Iranian elections.

🇮🇷⚡- Ayatollah Khamenei has urged President-elect Masoud Pezeshkian to use the country's capacities for the comfort of the Iranian people and advancement of the nation.