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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: A man threw Molotov cocktails at pro-Israel protesters in Pearl Street Mall, Boulder, Colorado, injuring some people with burn scars approximately one hour ago
Kash Patel, the Indian-American FBI chief, has called the incident a 'targeted terror attack,' and the suspect is in custody.
Police have responded that they will support the Jewish community with additional security if needed.
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🇸🇾📞🇮🇱 — Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa in an interview with The Jewish Journal, when asked about future relationship with Israel said:
The era of endless tit-for-tat bombings must end. No nation prospers when its skies are filled with fear. The reality is, we have common enemies, and we can play a major role in regional security.
Peace must be earned through mutual respect, not fear. We will engage where there is honesty and a clear path to coexistence — and walk away from anything less..Читать полностью…
— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 WATCH: Al-Qassam Brigades have published footage of eliminating several undercover Israeli agents and collaborators east of Rafah, southern Gaza.
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— 🇮🇱/🇾🇪 NEW: Footage of the Yemeni ballistic missile being intercepted, likely an exo-atmospheric interception, therefore intercepted by Arrow-3 or THAAD
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— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Two separate rocket attacks from Gaza have been reported in the past two hours, targeting surrounding settlements.
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🔥🇺🇸🇸🇾WHO REALLY LOBBIED TO LIFT SYRIA SANCTIONS? (Hint: it’s all about $$$)
A bombshell report by Intelligence Online (linked to French intel) exposes the shadowy group behind the U.S. decision to drop sanctions on Syria.
KEY PLAYERS
🔴 Syrian-American Alliance for Peace & Prosperity (SAAPP) – A low-profile but powerful org led by businesswoman Alia Natafgi.
🔴Trump-linked developers & Saudi cash – Key figure Tarek Nayemo (close to Trump & Riyadh’s investment fund) pushed for Syria’s reconstruction—even pitching a "Trump Tower Damascus"
HOW THEY DID IT:
🔴Backchannel GOP ties – SAAPP arranged the first U.S. delegation to Damascus in years (with Reps. Mills & Stutzman).
🔴Profit over politics – Trump’s call to lift sanctions came after Saudi talks, with zero demands on Syria’s regime. As IO notes: "For Trump, business trumped geopolitics.".
⚡️The Irony:
France is shook – their intel circles call this a "revelation" on U.S. lobbying power.
Chaos in D.C. – while some officials cozy up to Damascus, Secretary of State Marco Rubio warns of the regime’s "imminent collapse".
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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Wendy Sherman, former U.S. chief negotiator during the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran:
'I was the head of delegation during the negotiations with Iran in 2015, and I have personal experience with Araqchi. Convincing Iran to stop uranium enrichment is impossible. It's desirable, but simply impossible.
If Iran wouldn't agree to zero enrichment in 2015, they certainly won't agree to it now — with industrial enrichment capacity and existing stockpiles that are dozens of times larger than 10 years ago.'
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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 Israeli Minister of Defense:
'We will only allow the bare minimum amount of humanitarian aid into Gaza. We will not let Hamas use this aid.
We will make sure that this humanitarian aid is no more than the food required to survive. Our objectives in Gideon's Chariots will be achieved, Hamas will be destroyed.'
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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: Trump has decided not to rename the Persian Gulf to the 'Arabian Gulf', after Iran reportedly threatened to pull out of the negotiations – CNN
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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇸🇦 NEW: President Trump has walked back his previous rhetoric of attacking Iran during a visit to Saudi Arabia, stating: 'If they don't reach an agreement, we won't let them sell any oil'
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Russian forces have completed the capture of Bahatyr and have advanced along this entire section of front.
14.8 sq km
— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump on Iran: 'They're acting very intelligently'
Trump: 'Soon I'm heading over to the Middle East, and we'll see what we'll do in regards to Iran. I think you have some very good things happening there.
They can't have a nuclear weapon, but I think they're talking very intelligently. We are in the midst of talking to them, and they're acting very smart and very intelligent.
We want Iran to be wealthy and wonderful and happy and great, but they can't have a nuclear weapon, it's as simple as that. But I think they're being very reasonable so far'.
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—❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 BREAKING: Interceptions in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan
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—❗️🇵🇰/🇮🇳 NEW: Pakistan now claims 6 Indian aircraft were downed in total, including 1 unmanned drone
The five downed fighter jets, according to preliminary Pakistani reports, are the following: 3 Dassault Rafales, 1 Su-30, and 1 MiG-29.
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— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 WATCH: Saraya Al-Quds have released footage of blowing up a 'D9' military bulldozer in Khan Younis and detonating explosives against an Israeli infantry force in Shuja'iyya, northern Gaza.
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— 🇵🇸/🇮🇱 WATCH: Al-Qassam Brigades have released footage of sniping an IDF soldier and detonating an explosive against three others in the Shuja'iyya neighborhood of northern Gaza.
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— 🇮🇱/🇾🇪 NEW: The IDF announces that the missile has been intercepted
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— 🇸🇦 NEW: Saudi Arabia will officially allow the sale and production of alcoholic beverages in 600 locations across the kingdom by 2026, in line with 'Vision 2030'
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— 🇮🇱/🇾🇪 NEW: A Yemeni ballistic missile was intercepted above Tel Aviv
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— 🇦🇹/🇮🇱 NEW: The winner of the Eurovision 2025 contest, Austrian singer Johannes Pietsch, says he hopes next year's contest will be 'without Israel.'
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— 🇮🇱 WATCH: Moshe Feiglin, Israeli politician and leader of the 'Zehut' party, says, 'Every child, every baby in Gaza is an enemy. The enemy is not Hamas.'
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— 🇮🇱/🇾🇪 NEW: The IDF has announced that the missile has been intercepted.
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— Signing arms deals and betraying Palestine is one thing, but making your own women shake their hair and dance for Trump?
Where is the Arab and Islamic dignity? Absolutely pathetic. A nation of bootlickers.
The only official Trump policy: Go with the flow.
Читать полностью…Russia is advancing at a very fast pace the past few days.
Читать полностью…— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Earlier today, Iranian drones carried out reconnaissance flights in the Persian Gulf, monitoring U.S. military movements
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🇵🇰🇮🇳⚡️ Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif:
We won the war.
— 🇮🇱/🇾🇪 WATCH: Panic among the Zionist settlers, as they run away from the beaches in Tel Aviv amid the Yemeni missile alert
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— 🇮🇱/🇾🇪 WATCH: The Port of Hodeidah can be seen burning following the Israeli airstrikes
A Yemeni man is heard commenting: 'You're failing, 'O Zionists, you're miserably failing – we'll never stop supporting Gaza.'
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