🇮🇶🇮🇱⚡- "Prepare the army, the day of revenge is coming. Mobilize the soldiers to beat the funeral." – 'IRD', media affiliated with the Islamic Resistance of Iraq.

🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- In the next 72 hours, Iran and its affiliates will launch a large-scale attack on Israel – Pentagon tells CNN.

— 🇮🇷 NEW: The NOTAMs are related to a limited airspace closure of a radius of 2km above Tehran, where Imam Khamenei will lead Ismael Haniyeh's funeral prayer tomorrow

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🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- American and European diplomats are holding urgent discussions in the Middle East in an attempt to avoid a regional war – Financial Times.

🇮🇷🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- The future of the conflict depends on Iran's calculations more than Israel’s calculations – Financial Times.

— 🇮🇷/🇸🇦/🇶🇦 NEW: The Iranian Foreign Minister has phoned the Saudi and Qatari Foreign Ministers with an 'important message'

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— 🇮🇷 EXCLUSIVE: An intelligence source tells us that Iran likely won't wait as long to retaliate as it did after the Damascus embassy attack, because a significant portion of that time was spent making 'risk assessments' and identifying proportional targets that would not trigger a full-scale war; after the April 14 strikes, Iran has a clearer picture of Israeli red lines and resolve

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🇷🇺🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The only way to achieve peace in the region may be through a full-scale war," – Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia's Security Council.

🇺🇲🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- The assassination of Haniyeh makes our mission difficult in the ceasefire negotiations – American Official to Politico.

🇻🇪🏴⚡️- PMC Wagner patch spotted on a soldier with Venezuelan security forces at an election riot in Venezuela.

🇵🇸⚡- Khalid Meshaal is likely to replace Ismail Haniyeh as Head of Hamas – Reuters.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Israeli right-wing media claim a huge build-up up pro-Iranian militants along the western bank of the Euphrates river.

🇮🇷🇵🇸⚡- Ismail Haniyeh's funeral has begun, with Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, leading the prayers.

🇻🇪🇷🇺⚡- The entire video of what quite clearly looks like a Wagner personnel.

In 2019 Reuters claimed Wagner is present in Venezuela to train combat units and provide security for Venezuelan President, Nicolas Maduro.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Russian forces have captured Timofeevka (Pokrovsk direction) – Ukrainian sources confirm.

Russian troops also advanced 1,200 meters east of Serheevka.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "There cannot and will not be any territorial concessions in Donbass and Novorossiya," – Valentina Matvienko, Chairwoman of the Russian Federation Council.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- Ilya Ponomarev, former Russian State Duma member, was targeted by Russia in a drone strike in Ukraine. Ponomarev survives but with injuries. Ponomarev is the leader of the National Republican Army, an anti-Putin, ethnic Russian group that was responsible for the killings of Darya Dugina and Vladlen Tatarsky.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "There is no doubt that sooner or later the southern neighbors of the United States will recover the territories that were stolen from them," – Nikolai Patrushev, Russian Presidential Aide.

🇺🇸🇷🇺⚡- "We should begin referring to Alaska as ours," – Larisa Shkhagosheva, Member of the Russian State Duma.

🇳🇬⚡- Large protests in Nigeria, mainly Lagos, against the Government.

🇷🇺🇯🇵⚡- Two Russian bombers flew within Japan's air defense zone, the Defense Ministry scrambled fighters in response – Japan's Ministry of Defense.