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‼️🇨🇳🇺🇸 US intelligence agencies believe that China is developing a new generation of nuclear weapons and conducting secret tests, — CNN

▪️According to agency sources, Beijing is working on missiles with split warheads and low-yield tactical nuclear weapons. Such weapons, according to Washington's assessments, could be considered by China for use in a potential conflict over Taiwan.

▪️American officials link a possible test with the facility in Lobnor in 2020 and believe that it was aimed at modernizing the nuclear arsenal.

▪️In the US, it is believed that one of the reasons for the resumption of tests is China's lack of practical data on the use of nuclear weapons.

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❗️Saudi crown prince confronts UAE over Sudan and Yemen in 'secret letter'

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman sent a lengthy letter to UAE national security adviser Tahnoon bin Zayed outlining deep grievances over Abu Dhabi’s policies in Sudan and Yemen, according to US and western officials cited by Middle East Eye. The message warned that Riyadh could no longer tolerate the UAE’s alleged support for Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and stressed that Yemen remains within Saudi Arabia’s sphere of influence.

The letter also framed Saudi Arabia’s military actions in Yemen as essential to national security and described Emirati backing for southern separatists as a “red line.” Tensions have escalated in recent months, with Saudi forces targeting an alleged Emirati-linked weapons shipment and moving to sideline UAE-backed factions. Officials said the correspondence appeared crafted with Washington in mind. US President Donald Trump publicly acknowledged the rift for the first time this week, saying he could resolve the dispute “very easily.”

⭕️ Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, in a tweet following remarks made by US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee during an interview with Tucker Carlson, in which he said it would be fine if Israel took over the entire region because it is land God gave to the Jews.

⭕️ US envoy Steve Witkoff on Trump and Iran, during a Fox News interview on Saturday, 21 February:

• “I don’t want to use the word ‘frustrated,’ because [Trump] understands he has plenty of alternatives, but he’s curious as to why they haven’t… I don’t want to use the word ‘capitulated,’ but why they haven’t capitulated.”

• “Why, under this pressure, with the amount of seapower and naval power over there, why haven’t they come to us and said, ‘We profess we don’t want a weapon, so here’s what we’re prepared to do’? And yet it’s sort of hard to get them to that place.”

⭕️Reportedly, a source familiar with the Iran-US talks said that when Omani mediators presented Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi with an envelope from the US containing missile-related proposals, he declined to open it and sent it back unopened.

(Reuters)

⭕️ UAE foils organized cyber attacks as daily breach attempts reach 200,000

The United Arab Emirates announced on Saturday, 21 February, that it had successfully thwarted coordinated cyber attacks targeting the country’s digital infrastructure and key sectors.

According to its state news agency, the attacks involved attempts to breach networks, deploy ransomware, and conduct systematic phishing campaigns against national platforms, with perpetrators reportedly using artificial intelligence to enhance offensive capabilities.

Authorities did not identify those responsible for the attacks.

The development comes amid a sharp surge in cyber threats across the UAE, where officials say between 90,000 and 200,000 breach attempts are blocked daily. The UAE Government Cybersecurity Council confirmed that 128 cyber incidents have targeted entities nationwide since the start of 2026, with 71.4 percent of confirmed cases linked to state-sponsored groups.

Critical government systems and strategic infrastructure remain primary targets, prompting intensified monitoring, AI-driven threat detection, and coordinated federal-local response mechanisms to safeguard the country’s rapidly expanding digital ecosystem.

(Reuters, UAE Government Cybersecurity Council)

❗️Iran condemns US envoy’s ‘Nile to Euphrates’ remarks

Iran has strongly condemned comments by US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, who said during an interview with Tucker Carlson that it would be acceptable for Israel to “take it all” and expand “from the Nile to the Euphrates,” calling the remarks proof of Washington’s complicity in Israeli expansionism.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said, “Mike Huckabee's postulation that ‘It would be fine' if Israel 'took it all,’ and expand from the Nile to the Euphrates, is a bold testament to American active complicity in Israeli regime's expansionist wars of aggression as well as its colonial genocide of Palestinians,” adding that Iran, alongside the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), condemns “such extremist ideological rhetoric” that would embolden Israel’s “atrocity crimes and illegal measures” against Palestinians and its “constant aggression” in the region.

More than a dozen Arab and Islamic governments, along with the OIC, Arab League, and Gulf Cooperation Council, issued a joint statement denouncing the comments as “dangerous and inflammatory,” saying they violate the UN Charter and undermine efforts to de-escalate the Gaza war and pursue a comprehensive political settlement.

⭕️ Five days into Ramadan: Over 100 Palestinians detained by Israel in escalating West Bank crackdown

Since the start of Ramadan, Israeli occupation forces have arrested more than 100 Palestinians across the West Bank, including women, children, and former prisoners, amid a declared escalation in arrest campaigns that are shielded by settler attacks and aimed at entrenching control, according to the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club.

The arrests have spanned most governorates, including Jerusalem, where many detainees are later barred from Al-Aqsa Mosque, while field interrogations, described as collective retaliation, have intensified alongside widespread reports of severe beatings, home raids and destruction, confiscation of property, hostage-taking of family members, use of detainees as human shields, field executions, and settlement expansion under the cover of security operations.

The Prisoners' Club stressed in its statement that these measures represent a continuation of longstanding policies targeting Palestinian presence, with the key shift since the start of the genocidal war being the scale and intensity of abuses; since then, roughly 22,000 arrest cases have been documented in the West Bank.

In recent days, the U.S. and Israeli-backed opposition, after their failed insurgency attempt last month, has tried a new method of starting protests, this time among students and universities.

However, unlike last time, they are not the only ones coming out to protest. Patriotic fellow students are immediately coming out in response to these disruptive attempts, carrying flags of the Islamic Republic and shouting pro-Iranian slogans.

— 🇮🇱/🇮🇶/🇮🇷 WATCH: An Israeli Channel 12 film crew was making a documentary in Iraqi Kurdistan, when they stopped an Iranian truck driver to interview him

They ask the driver what he thinks of Iran. He says 'it's the best country' and 'I love Khamenei!', which creates visible shock and confusion on the Israeli host's face.

@Middle_East_Spectator

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran's Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi: 'A nuclear agreement could be within reach, and it may be better for us than the 2015 agreement (JCPOA)'

@Middle_East_Spectator

There is a good chance to have a diplomatic solution — Iranian FM Araghchi

When we meet in Thursday in Geneva again, we can work on [certain] elements — Araghchi

Earlier, it was reported on Axios that US negotiators are ready to hold another round of talks with Iran on Friday in Geneva

US REVOKES VISA OF CHILEAN TRANSPORT MINISTER, sanctions him and 2 other state officials

Minister of Transportation, Juan Carlos Muñoz; the Undersecretary of Telecommunications, Claudio Araya; and the Chief of Staff of Subtel, Guillermo Petersen also fell under Rubio's SANCTIONS for 'undermining US security' because of their cooperation in building nation's cable plan with China

Chile became the 2nd strongest electric bus network worldwide thanks to building with China on cooperation with telecoms cables to engineer the infrastructure

But developing your own country's capacities and NOT becoming an underdeveloped, neoliberalized sh*thole operating under US dictates "undermines US Security"

NYT media analysis of satellite images CONFIRMS Muqfa al-Salti Airbase in Jordan has been MAJOR hub of fighter jets pointed at Iran

More than 60 strike aircraft appear at base

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Tehran could seriously consider a combination of exporting part of its highly enriched uranium stockpile, diluting the purity of its most highly enriched uranium, and the establishment of a regional enrichment consortium in exchange for the recognition of Iran's right to peaceful nuclear enrichment." - A senior Iranian officials told Reuters.