ℹ️☪️The Kiswah is not an ordinary piece of cloth. It is the black silk covering of the Kaaba in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site and the direction toward which more than a billion Muslims pray every day.

Each year, the Kiswah is replaced in a ceremony of immense religious significance. Historically, pieces of the old Kiswah have been preserved or presented as gifts because of their sacred status.

For many Muslims, it is difficult to imagine a more profound desecration than one of Islam’s most revered religious relics being associated with a convicted sex offender and accused trafficker.

⚽️ FIFA president Gianni Infantino is moving to sell off pieces of the World Cup itself — literally.

His plan: spin FIFA's competitions (World Cup, Club World Cup) into a new for-profit entity called FIFA Forward Enterprise, valued at $20 billion, and sell minority stakes to private investors. Leading the investor hunt — Thrive Capital, the venture firm run by Joshua Kushner, brother of Jared Kushner. FIFA is working with JP Morgan on the deal, and the Trump administration has reportedly been briefed.

Infantino himself stands to walk away with tens of millions — he's positioned to become "commissioner" of the new entity once his FIFA presidency ends in 2031, with a salary rumored to match NFL commissioner Roger Goodell's $64 million.

The backlash escalated fast. UEFA's 55 member associations held an emergency meeting Thursday and voted to boycott future World Cups if the plan goes through — meaning reigning champions Spain, along with France and England, would sit out 2030. UEFA's statement: "We unanimously and unequivocally reject Fifa's proposal to transfer ownership interests in the World Cup and other Fifa competitions to private investors. The World Cup is not for sale."

CONCACAF and the AFC have also voiced anger at being blindsided. Even Infantino's own predecessor, Sepp Blatter, said Trump's financial ties to FIFA are now "deeply damaging football."

Infantino, undeterred, is reportedly pushing for accelerated funding by October — trying to lock the deal in before opposition can organize further. Member associations vote by September 19.

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⚡️🇺🇸🇷🇺🇮🇷 — A growing body of U.S. intelligence indicates that Russia is providing crucial financial, intelligence, and military support to Iran, using rising global energy prices and sanctions relief to stabilize its own war economy while prolonging conflicts in both the Middle East and Ukraine, — According to Time magazine.

➡️ ​Recent reports highlight that Moscow has been sharing satellite imagery of American installations with Iranian forces to enhance missile precision, while systematically upgrading Tehran's military capabilities with Su-35 fighter jets, attack helicopters, and advanced cyber technology. In exchange, Tehran has provided drone manufacturing blueprints for Shahed loitering munitions to be produced inside Russia, linking the logistical supply chains of both battlefields.

➡️ ​The dual conflicts have yielded massive financial windfalls for both nations via elevated oil prices, buffering Russia against severe domestic economic strains—including capital flight, skilled labor migration, and high inflation. In response to the deepening alliance, the U.S. Senate overwhelmingly passed a comprehensive bipartisan sanctions package aimed at choking off the joint military and energy supply chains sustaining both Moscow and Tehran.

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🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia's coalition gamble echoes US failures in the Middle East

Saudi Arabia is scrambling to assemble a multinational military coalition for the Red Sea after its own airstrike on Yemen provoked Houthi retaliation, forcing Saudi Arabia to confront a crisis it helped create, Al-Monitor reports.

Last week, Saudi-backed forces struck Sanaa International Airport in Yemen. The Houthis retaliated by imposing a maritime embargo on Saudi exports through Bab al-Mandeb and firing missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia and its ships.

👉 Now, around 50 countries have been invited to join the Saudi-led initiative, which aims to counter Houthi threats to Red Sea shipping and prevent a repeat of Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. The coalition could be announced as early as Thursday, with Egypt, Sudan, Djibouti, and Somalia already on board. But the initiative's success hinges on American participation – and the US has yet to decide whether to join.

The US is the key player, but the current administration is focused on enforcing a naval blockade of Iran and may be reluctant to divert forces toward Yemen.

🔴 President Trump still cannot decide whether to intensify strikes against Iran or choose the diplomatic path

🔴 Recent reports indicate fear among Israeli authorities that Trump won't press hard enough against Iran until the November midterm elections due to rising oil prices and public discontent with the war

🔴 "Marking time" is being compounded by conflicts within the US military leadership. While Adm. Brad Cooper, head of US Central Command, favors escalating bombings on Iran's military infrastructure, Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is calling for a more cautious approach amid dwindling US air defense missile stocks

Other invitees have their own complications

➡️ European countries are waiting for the US to respond

➡️ Egypt, which has reportedly agreed to join the coalition, may be having second thoughts after a recent attack on a US-bound LNG tanker in the port of Damietta – a stark reminder that any country participating in the Red Sea coalition could find itself in the crosshairs

➡️ Oman prizes its mediating role in Iran talks and is unlikely to risk that position

➡️ Turkey, a rising military power, will hardly take orders from Saudi Arabia

➡️ Even the UAE has not yet been invited, despite being a key regional player

Saudi Arabia's rush to form a coalition is a direct consequence of its own recklessness – striking a civilian airport and expecting no consequences. Now Saudi oil exports, which rely heavily on Bab al-Mandeb after the Hormuz crisis, are at risk, forcing its oil tankers to make a giant reroute across the whole of Africa. The Houthis, meanwhile, are threatening to impose fees on ships passing through the strait, copying Iran's tactics.

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📝Khabarovsk spy📝

Recently there has been a parade of activity by intelligence services from the Asia-Pacific region, in which Russian citizens are implicated one way or another. Last week it was the Japanese, and now it's the turn of the New Zealanders — three days ago in Khabarovsk they detained an agent working for this country's special services.

©️Why New Zealand's leadership needs spies in Russia, how local special services monitor Russian partners in the region and who could be the real customer — we analyzed this on our channel on MAX.

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🇾🇪🇮🇶 Tens of thousands gathered in Saada, Yemen, carrying Iraqi flags in a mass rally titled “Response with Escalation.”

The demonstration comes amid heightened regional tensions and follows recent strikes in Iraq, with participants expressing solidarity with the Iraqi people and condemning attacks on Iraqi territory.

GLORY TO THE YEMENI AND IRAQI PEOPLE!!!

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🇮🇷 IRGC: The Strait of Hormuz is closed, and any passage will only be possible with the coordination of the IRGC Navy.

CENTCOM is falsely claiming that passage through the Strait of Hormuz is ongoing, and that shipping companies can pass through the strait without problems and with U.S. escort.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱⚔️🇪🇸 American Enterprise Institute fellow and Iraq War architect Michael Rubin, as well as other Zionists, is now calling for Morocco to "liberate" Ceuta and Melilla — reviving 1975's Green March rhetoric — and framing Spanish sovereignty as illegitimate "occupation."

By Rubin's own "return occupied land" logic — should the US deoccupy Native American land? Should Israel deoccupy Palestinian land? Funny how that principle only ever seems to apply to US geopolitical rivals, never to Washington or its allies.

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ℹ️The history does not back him up. Melilla was taken by Castile in 1497, decades before the Alaouite dynasty that rules Morocco today even existed. Ceuta was taken by Portugal in 1415, then ceded to Spain in 1668 under the Treaty of Lisbon — Portuguese presence alone predates the Alaouites by two centuries. When France and Spain carved up Morocco under the 1912 protectorate arrangement, Ceuta and Melilla were explicitly excluded and treated as pre-existing Spanish sovereign territory, not colonial acquisitions carved from Morocco.

Morocco's claim isn't new — Istiqlal Party leader Allal al-Fassi laid out the "Greater Morocco" doctrine in 1956, at independence, explicitly including Ceuta and Melilla. Rabat even petitioned the UN to add both cities to its list of non-self-governing territories awaiting decolonization. The UN refused — and still refuses. Western Sahara has sat on that list since 1963. Ceuta and Melilla never have. Both are autonomous cities of Spain, with elected assemblies, Spanish citizenship, and full representation in Madrid and Brussels — legally no different from any other Spanish region.

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