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📖Sunday Times bestselling author, 📺TV screenwriter, 📇journalist at The New European, Guardian, Times 📶Economist. ✂️Runs with scissors. LDN, NYC, LA
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Israeli Air Force is currently striking surface-to-surface missile infrastructure in western Iran.
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Netanyahu to ABC: “It's in the US's interest to support Israel in its quest to eliminate Iran's nuclear program.
“Today, it's Tel Aviv. Tomorrow, it's New York. Look, I understand 'America First'. I don't understand 'America Dead'.”
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Definitely.
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Thank you.
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Britain is not expected to provide military support to Israel because it wants to focus on de-escalating the conflict, The Times reports.
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The Iranian state TV building is burning.
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The Israeli military has issued an evacuation warning for citizens in Tehran’s District 3.
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Sorry, I was joking about the Republicans having decency and moral compass.
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Iran has closed the Tehran-Qom freeway.
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Yes.
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Does it come pre-invited to Hegseth's Signal groups, or do you have to pay extra for that?
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Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein is warningof a "global energy crisis" if the Strait of Hormuz is closed.
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Le Monde: a letter from Iranian Nobel Prize winners, directors and more:
“We activists from Iranian civil society…demand the immediate halt of uranium enrichment by the Islamic Republic, the cessation of military hostilities, an end to attacks on vital infrastructure in both Iran and Israel…”
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Imam Khomeini Airport, Tehran.
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One would think.
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And it will “recommend measures to make the country “more sovereign” at a time of intensifying competition between the US and China, Middle East instability and aggression from Russia”.
There are some costs chicanery as the new approach will also help the UK hit the NATO defence spending target.
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The strategy will “align the UK manufacturing, science and technology industries with its national security objectives to an extent not seen since wartime”.
The new definition will take in the economy, food prices, supply chains, street crime and the internet.
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“A senior Iranian diplomat (says) Iran…is ready to abandon uranium enrichment to save the regime, saying, “Our real priority is survival.” …he warned the escalating conflict with Israel is crippling Iran’s military, economy, and public morale. “We do not want to repeat Saddam Hussein’s mistake.””
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Don’t get me started.
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Israel has destroyed a third of the Iranian regime's missile launchers, the IDF says.
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• 90% of the world’s nuclear weapons are held by the U.S. and Russia
• 9 nuclear-armed states are running modernisation programs
• A new arms race is emerging as arms control collapses
• 3,912 warheads are actively deployed—2,100 on high operational alert
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IAEA Chief Rafael Grossi: “No damage has been seen at the site of the Fordow fuel enrichment plant or at the Khondab heavy water reactor, which is under construction.
“I acknowledge the cooperation and exchange of information between the Iranian authorities and the IAEA.”
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There doesn’t need to be a vote for military action, but there’s a convention of a debate if troops are being deployed. But this is overridden if it’s perceived to be an emergency and a debate would compromise operational security.
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The Iranian Parliament is drafting a bill to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. (Al Jazeera)
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This:
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I’m not implying anything.
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Airstrikes hit Narmak and Lavizan in Tehran. Khamenei has his home in the latter.
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Interesting, thanks.
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Trump says he hopes there will be a deal between Iran and Israel, but sometimes "you just have to fight it out."
World’s greatest statesman.
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Evergreen post.
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Think we would have intel by now if that was the case.
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A 2.5 magnitude earthquake was reported at the location of the Fordow nuclear site.
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Good question.
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We’d be into a Syria situation, although in Iran the opposition is abroad.
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Good point.
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Kan News have been briefed by the Israeli government. Beyond that it’s impossible to tell. The UK government line is no aid.
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Israeli Foreign Ministry is closing several embassies and missions worldwide in anticipation of potential attacks, Channel 12 reports.
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Israel’s Channel 14, which is close to Netanyahu, reports Israel is preparing the Dahiyeh Doctrine for Iran — large-scale destruction of civilian infrastructure, as it did in Lebanon.
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Like most authoritarian regimes, it gets stashed around the world.
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They’ve denied every assassination so far, and then admitted them.
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Israel is attacking Iran’s Fordow nuclear facility.
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The regime has bled them dry.
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Strike.