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Iran's proposal to the US to end the war, according to Al Mayadeen:
- Ending the blockade
- Freedom to export oil
- Ceasefire in Lebanon
- Removing US sanctions
- Iranian control of the Strait of Hormuz
- Unfreezing Iranian assets
https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21576
⭕️ Even the dead are not spared: Israeli settlers force Palestinian family to exhume father hours after burial near re-established Sa-Nur settlement
In one of the most disturbing incidents reported in the occupied West Bank in recent months, a Palestinian family from the village of al-Asasa near Jenin says Israeli settlers forced them to dig up and rebury their 80-year-old father just hours after his funeral on Friday.
The burial had been coordinated in advance with Israeli forces and took place in a long-standing cemetery on privately owned Palestinian land.
Roughly an hour after the funeral, settlers from the recently re-established, illegal Sa-Nur settlement arrived carrying shovels and began digging around the fresh grave, shouting that the body had to be removed because it was allegedly “too close” to the settlement.
Israeli occupation forces were present and confiscated some of the tools, but did not remove the settlers or stop the harassment. Fearing that their father’s remains would be desecrated, the grieving family was forced to exhume the body themselves and transport it to another village for reburial.
The cemetery lies outside the settlement’s official boundaries, but the area is now under increasing pressure following Israel’s re-establishment of Sa-Nur, one of four settlements evacuated in 2005.
Israeli ministers and settler leaders have openly celebrated Sa-Nur’s return as part of a broader drive to expand settlements across the occupied West Bank and eliminate the possibility of a Palestinian state.
The UN human rights office condemned the incident as part of a wider pattern of the “dehumanization of Palestinians.” For many Palestinians, the message was unmistakable: under occupation, not even the dead are allowed to remain in peace.
Is there ever a time where zionists don't behave like "human" insects?
At this point, i'll just come out and say it; give the zionists two options when West Asia is being decolonized: leave, or be shot and/or beat on the streets. You krakkers deserve three times worse than what you do when genociding Palestine, Lebanon, and Iran. Give the same treatment for zionists outside West Asia as well.
❗️Israeli army chief says military urgently needs more soldiers
According to The Times of Israel, Israeli Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in a closed-door session that the army urgently requires additional troops to sustain Israel's so-called "multi-front war."
“I am not dealing with political or legislative processes – I am dealing with multi-front warfare and defeating the enemy,” Zamir reportedly said.
He called on lawmakers to advance legislation to draft ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) men, extend mandatory military service from 30 to 36 months, and increase the defense budget.
— 🇮🇱 It’s now 2026, a reality check for Israel after 3 years of war:
🇵🇸 Gaza front:
– Hamas has not been disarmed after almost three years of war.
– Tunnel infrastructure in Gaza is intact, rocket arrays being slowly rebuilt.
– Al-Qassam has approximately 25,000 fighters, the same amount as before Oct 7th.
– No sign of an interim government, Hamas is still politically in control of Gaza.
🇱🇧 Lebanon front:
– Hezbollah has not been disarmed, neither North nor South of the Litani.
– Hezbollah’s leadership has successfully reorganized and decentralized, and is now more resistant to assassination strikes than before.
– Hezbollah retains the capability to launch long-range and medium-range rockets, drones and missiles into Israel.
– The increasing use of FPV drones has rendered northern Israeli settlements into ghost towns, and significantly degraded the IDF’s freedom of movement in southern Lebanon.
🇮🇷 Iran front:
– The Islamic Republic is still firmly in power, and perhaps even more entrenched than before.
– Iran’s ballistic missile program, drone force, and conventional capabilities are almost entirely intact and capable of threatening Israel.
– Iran still possesses a large stockpile of highly-enriched uranium, nuclear breakout time is still at ~6 months to a year.
– The Strait of Hormuz is now under Iranian control.
– Most U.S. bases in the region have been rendered unusable and Israel’s Gulf allies are in the weakest position they’ve ever found themselves.
🇾🇪 Yemen front:
– Ansarallah (Houthis) still control the majority of Yemen.
– Houthis still possess hundreds of ballistic missiles and thousands of drones, capable of targeting Israel.
– The Bab Al-Mandab can be closed at any moment.
In strategic terms, Israel has achieved nothing in all these three years.
Except the destruction of Gaza’s civilian population and infrastructure.
It's nice to read this reality check after just a barriage of news on the damn Zionists commiting atrocities without any reprisal. Obviously, things are still horrid in Palestine and Southern Lebanon but it's nice to see some aspects of their failures while everywhere on the internet moves to slience their critics and failures.
It's important to remember that atrocities aren't victories. More often they signal impotence and defeat.
Iran still possesses a large stockpile of highly-enriched uranium, nuclear breakout time is still at ~6 months to a year.
Ted Postol puts it at weeks or months and he knows this stuff.
"Iran's embassies are such funny trolls on twitter"
Iran Embassy in Armenia:
❗️Hezbollah announced 22 operations in response to Israeli violations on Saturday, 9 May:
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Targeted a gathering of Israeli vehicles and soldiers in Bayyada with a rocket barrage.
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Targeted Israeli military vehicle concentrations in Rashaf with artillery shelling.
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Targeted Israeli military vehicle concentrations in Rashaf with a rocket barrage.
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Targeted an Israeli D9 bulldozer near the Abbad site with an attack drone, reportedly scoring a direct hit.
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Targeted an Israeli military vehicle at Khillet al-Raj in Deir Siryan with an attack drone, reportedly scoring a confirmed hit.
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Targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers at Khillet al-Raj in Deir Siryan with an attack drone, reportedly scoring a confirmed hit.
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Intercepted an Israeli drone over Abbasiya with a surface-to-air missile.
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Targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers near the Misgav Am site with an attack drone, reportedly scoring a confirmed hit.
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Targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers in Rashaf with artillery shelling.
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Targeted a gathering of Israeli vehicles and soldiers east of the Khiam municipality with artillery shelling.
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Targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers at a helicopter landing pad in the settlement of Shlomi with an attack drone.
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Targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers in Bayyada with artillery shelling.
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Targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers at the Jal al-Allam site with an attack drone.
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Targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers at Khillet al-Raj in Deir Siryan with a rocket barrage.
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Targeted an Israeli bulldozer in the Khillet al-Raj area of Deir Siryan with an attack drone, reportedly scoring a confirmed hit.
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Targeted a Merkava tank in Bayyada with an attack drone, reportedly scoring a confirmed hit.
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Targeted an Israeli communications Hummer in Bayyada with two attack drones; it was reportedly seen burning.
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Targeted Israeli military vehicle concentrations in Tayr Harfa with an attack drone.
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Targeted Israeli military vehicle concentrations in Shamaa with an attack drone.
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Targeted the newly established Nimr al-Jamal site opposite Alma al-Shaab with a swarm of attack drones.
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Targeted a gathering of Israeli vehicles and soldiers near the swimming pool in Naqoura with an attack drone.
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Targeted a gathering of Israeli vehicles and soldiers in Rashaf with a swarm of attack drones.
People here often don't discuss Armenia, however here is a good example of how utterly captured their prime minister is due to EU anti-Russian interference
🇦🇲Armenia's PM Pashinyan on Karabakh:
They say we lost land. How was that land ours? How was it ours? Please explain, how was it ours?
I don't want to speak behind dead people's backs, but let's say under the control of a few generals who planted wheat there, for instance, let's say, was that it? How was it ours? How? Explain it, how was it?
Did we build a school there, did we build a kindergarten, did we build a factory, did we live there, a settlement... how was it ours? It was not ours. It was not ours.
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Video: https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/183874
Yes you are seeing the leader of a country, who had a piece of land annexed amd ethnically cleansed, argue that the terrirory anexxed wasnt theirs. Why? Becuase he wants to give away more land to Türkiye, the biggest supporter of Azerbaijan who did the ethnic cleansing, (not to mention Türkiye's own history with Armenia) to build a railway.
Absolutely wretched.
I included this because Armenia sits on the border with Iran and historically had a good relationship. Ever since the "velvet revolution" of 2018 (CIA backed coup) they've been less and less amenable.
Jesus Christ this guy is a fucking despicable traitor. How can Armenians tolerate him? Thank fuck that the EU's NGO coup didn't succeed in Georgia.
He's even antagonized the Armenian Church, if you're unaware, Armenia was the first Christian kingdom in history so its Chirch holds a massive cultural significance. Many are absolutely sick of him but unfortunately the EU has put a lot of effort behind anti-Russian and Pro-EU propaganda. It's not helped by the fact that Azerbaijan and Russia have a good relationship show the country had no else else to really turn to.
After, Israel, Türkiye is probably the most provocative entity in the region. Iran could do more to influence Armenia in my opinion, as the Iranians and Armenians are still largely fond of eachother.
Azerbaijan needs a reality check as well, as it gets away with too much posturing.
🇦🇲 Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan called the movement for returning of Nagorno-Karabakh to Armenia a "fatal mistake".
“We are being accused of losing territories. But I want to clearly say that we did not lose territories. In fact, the territories the loss of which we are being accused for never belonged to us"
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https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/183865
🇦🇲Armenia will choose between the EAEU and the European Union when the time comes - the head of the republic's Foreign Ministry
"The Armenian people have European aspirations, but for now, Yerevan remains in the EAEU," stated Ararat Mirzoyan.
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https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/183864
Just because you are Christian does not make you white. You are just another dirty astatic like the rest of West Asia in the eyes of the imperialists.
I hope Armenia can free itself from the delusion of western guarantees.
🇦🇿💬🇦🇲🇪🇺Aliyev criticized EU observers on the Armenian-Azerbaijani border.
If we fire even once, they'll just run away as fast as they can, and there'll be no trace of them left. But they're behaving as if they're protecting Armenia from us. There's no need to protect Armenia from us. We've achieved what we wanted.
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Azerbaijan continues to be a chihuahua country, but in this case the threat is somewhat credible. Which also makes Pashinyan's attempts to be diplomatic with them even more egregious.
I wish Iran would force Baku to behave. Get these pan-turk nationalists to stay in their own lane.
🇮🇷🇫🇷| Macron, after Iran's threat to hit French ships if they enter Strait of Hormoz:
“France has never considered deploying warships in the Strait of Hormuz for now.”
Video in https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21572
🇫🇷 🇮🇷 France to cooperate with Iran in Strait of Hormuz
France is planning a mission to ensure the security of the Strait of Hormuz in coordination with Iran, French President Emmanuel Macron said, adding that there is no talk of a military deployment.
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https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/183883
Very funny to me for some reason
🇺🇸🇮🇷| BREAKING: A US F-35 is squawking the 7700 emergency alert, while it was flying over the Strait of Hormoz.
It flew towards the UAE where its transponders where cut off. Either the plane landed in the UAE or crashed.
🇮🇷🇮🇱| Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence says it thwarted an assassination attempt & dismantled 2 terrorist cells affiliated with Mossad & 1 traitor
• A 4-member operational cell affiliated with Mossad in West Azerbaijan province was identified and arrested before they could carry out terrorist operations against sensitive centers & an assassination in Tehran.
During the operation, one terrorist was killed in a clash & rest arrested.
• Additionally, through intelligence monitoring by in the provinces of Kerman and Alborz, another operational cell was identified and arrested before they could take any action.
Several micro-drones, along with a special transport vehicle, 3 handguns with silencers, bulletproof vests, a Winchester rifle, a scoped rifle, a large amount of ammunition, and Starlink equipment were discovered and seized from these terrorists.
• According to the statement, a traitor named “Masoud T,” who intended to take classified information from one of the military centers in Qazvin province out of the country, was also identified and arrested at one of the country’s northern borders.
🇱🇧🇮🇱| Hezbollah struck an Iron Dome battery
In a newly released footage, 2 Hezbollah FPV drones struck an Iron Dome platform AND its crew at the Jal Al-Alam site on the border.
https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21569
Impressive footage!
🇮🇷| The IRGC Navy announced in its official statement that from now on, any attack on Iranian oil tankers will be responded to with an attack on US military bases.
@FotrosResistancee
https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21554
💠 Geopolitical analyst and former U.S. Army officer:
🔹 It is unlikely that Trump will restart the "Freedom Project," as on Monday three U.S. Navy destroyers, just like the Abraham Lincoln carrier on the first day of the war, were heavily attacked by Iranian subsonic cruise missiles and had to use their Phalanx point-defense systems to shoot them down at close range.
🔹 What most people don't realize is that Iran has not yet deployed its supersonic and hypersonic anti-ship missiles, and if they wanted to, they could have easily sunk our three destroyers in the Persian Gulf.
🔹 Iranian leaders are by no means crazy; rather, they act with restraint and demonstrate that they have maintained their dominance over the United States without escalating real tensions.
🇮🇶❌️🇮🇱 — Satellite imagery has documented the dried-up lake in the Al-Nukhaib desert, where the Israeli army constructed a temporary airstrip approximately 1.7 km long, located 44 km south of Al-Nukhaib and 70 km from the Iraqi-Saudi border.
31.66697°N, 42.44864°E
According to satellite imagery and mapping websites that tracked the location, the airstrip first became clearly visible on June 3rd, suggesting it was constructed between June 1st and 6th.
@SimurghRes
https://t.me/SimurghRes/4663?single
A US Air Force E-11A BACN aircraft is currently conducting operations near the Israeli military site close to al-Nukhaib in the Iraqi desert.
- The aircraft, which took off from Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia, has been operating over the same area for more than four days.
@SimurghRes
https://t.me/SimurghRes/4665?single
💠 MS NOW Network: CIA report reveals Trump's bluffs about Iran
🔹 CIA intelligence indicating that Iran has retained 70% of its missiles and 75% of its launchers does not align with the triumphant image Trump presents.
🔹 Iran has managed to largely preserve its critical infrastructure and defense systems against extensive attacks.
🔹 Whistleblowers warn that continuing this approach and ignoring Iran's real resistance capabilities could lead to strategic miscalculations for the US and push the situation toward a costly and prolonged military stalemate.
sepahnews.ir | Sepah News
❗️Washington sanctions Chinese satellite firms in an attempt to blind Iranian intelligence operations
The Trump administration escalated its economic warfare against Beijing on Friday by blacklisting three Chinese satellite firms accused of providing Tehran with critical intelligence. Washington alleges that Meentropy Technology, The Earth Eye, and Chang Guang Satellite Technology provided high-resolution imagery used to coordinate strikes against US forces during "Operation Epic Fury." This latest round of restrictions also targeted entities in Belarus and the UAE, signaling an attempt by the US to sever the technological lifelines assisting resistance efforts in West Asia.
State Department officials led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio claim these firms operated at the direct request of the Iranian Ministry of Defense to track US troop movements across the region. The move comes as China boasts the largest commercial imaging program outside the US. While western firms like Planet Labs have historically acquiesced to White House demands to censor imagery, Beijing maintains that such unilateral sanctions are illegitimate and has instructed its domestic industries to ignore them.
The timing of these designations appears calculated to exert maximum pressure ahead of next week’s high-stakes summit in Beijing between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping. By targeting the aerospace sector, Washington aims to undermine the growing strategic partnership between the Islamic Republic and the People’s Republic.
❗️Ebrahim Azizi, head of the Iranian parliament’s National Security Commission:
"We warn governments, including microstates like Bahrain, that siding with the U.S.-backed resolution will bring severe consequences. The Strait of Hormuz is a vital lifeline; do not risk closing it on yourselves FOREVER."
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/59269
🇮🇷| Iran is considering to treat undersea internet cables passing through the Strait of Hormoz as a strategic asset.
According to Fars, the authority Iran is establishing in the Strait of Hormoz will also include global internet cables deep down in the Strait.
These cables carry global internet traffic and financial data. Iran is looking to require permits, charge fees, and have Iranian laws applied to foreign companies, and give Iranian firms technical control over cable management and repairs.
🇮🇱🇮🇶🇮🇷| The ‘Israelis’ built a secret military base inside of Iraq to support Iran attacks.
No comment …
@FotrosResistancee
https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21553
Hezbollah’s difficult war: How southern Lebanon rewrote the rules of battle
The traditional and even contemporary definitions of warfare struggle to explain what has happened and is still happening in southern Lebanon
❗️Global pressure secures the release of activists Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Avila following abduction from Gaza flotilla
Legal teams have confirmed that Saif Abu Keshek and Thiago Avila are set to be released from Israeli custody today. The two activists were abducted by Israeli forces in international waters on 30 April while participating in the Global Sumud Flotilla, a mission aimed at delivering humanitarian aid and breaking the long-standing Israeli blockade on the Gaza Strip.
Following their seizure, they were unlawfully transferred and imprisoned, where they reportedly faced severe mistreatment—including prolonged isolation, physical abuse, and threats—prompting both men to launch a hunger strike in protest of their arbitrary detention.
The release follows intense international pressure from the United Nations, as well as the Spanish and Brazilian governments, who condemned the interception as an act of "abduction" in violation of international law. According to the legal rights group Adalah, Abu Keshek and Avila will be transferred to immigration authorities for immediate deportation proceedings.
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/59262
🇮🇷| The Iranian marine, addressing the US destroyers in the video, says:
“Yeah go ahead and flee! Here is the cradle of the earth and the land of the Iranians, here is a piece of Islam"
Video in https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21551
😂 cussing out an american destroyer as it flees from you, must have felt pretty badass
He's yelling at them "They're running away. You fucking morons! You liars! You have no shame. You will never defeat the lionhearted people of Iran! This is the territory of Islam! The territory of Iran! That's right, run for your lives!"
"their cowardice is legendary"
❗️Gaza Ministry of Health:
– “Total number of cases received at Gaza Strip hospitals over the past 48 hours:
- Martyrs: 5 (including 4 newly reported and 1 recovered from under the rubble)
- Injuries: 15”
– “Since the ceasefire (11 October):
- Total martyrs: 850
- Total injuries: 2,433
- Total bodies recovered: 770”
🇮🇱❌🇱🇧🇵🇸🇮🇷 — Israeli Broadcasting Authority quoting a security source:
We are facing a dead end on all fronts in Iran, Lebanon, and Gaza, and the Israeli army is on high alert.
Last week, Israel received information indicating that Trump is inclined to resume attacks on Iran and has prepared for this.
@SimurghRes
🇧🇭| Bahrain has resumed its brutal crackdown on Shia Bahrainis.
They are carrying out mass house raids, arresting them, stripping them from their citizenship, and torturing them as well.
The Bahraini Ministry of Interior claims they are arresing “IRGC-linked” individuals, but that’s just a pseudonym cover to arrest the shia religious individuals.
Footage shows masked men raiding a house in Bahrain.
Video in https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21543
🇧🇭| Until now 39 religious figures & clerics have been confirmed to be detained by Bahrain’s dictatorship.
This includes 2 sons of Sheikh Isa Qassim.
There are reportedly more arrests.
https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/21544
— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: Hezbollah carried out 26 operations today, the most since the start of the ‘ceasefire’
@Middle_East_Spectator
⭐️French presidential candidate, Jean-Luc Mélenchon:
We will leave NATO. NATO is useless. It serves only one thing - putting us under American supervision.
Israel is the most dangerous country in the region today. It is Israel that attacks all its neighbors. It is Israel that starts wars. It is Israel that commits genocide. When I say Israel, I mean the Netanyahu government.
Breakdown of imperialist alliances is great, but I wonder how much this statement really means anything.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon is a trot/sucdem but he is fairly anti-imperialist (though I imagine he has shit takes of french colonialism) and has a reasonable shot at being president so him saying this is a good thing.
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🇱🇧❌🇮🇱 — N14 Israel Correspondent:
The government and the General Staff must conduct an internal review to find out who is lying to the public or who is deliberately withholding the truth and trying to mislead us, the residents of the north, with "false targets."
At the same time as the sirens sounded in Arab al-Aramshe, a loud explosion was heard in the Shlomi area, and smoke was seen rising from the location.
As for the footage we published earlier, it was rejected at the request of the censors, who ultimately did not allow its publication for several reasons that became clear moments later—and rightfully so—so it was deleted.
Now: If it was a false target, according to the IDF spokesperson, and an interceptor missile was launched at it—how do they explain to the residents of Shlomi what happened in their area at that moment?
Because it doesn’t make sense to me that the interceptor missile’s fragments would fall in the Shlomi area without sirens being activated beforehand out of fear of interceptor debris, as happened, for example, in Hanita according to the aerial path in the smoke area and then in Shlomi.
Is it possible to have transparency in this country instead of feeding us lies?
The residents of the north are not stupid.
@SimurghRes
— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧/🇮🇷 NEW: The IDF has begun issuing ‘SMASH’ attachments for rifles en-masse, to counter the threat of FPV drones in Lebanon
The ‘SMASH Handheld’ or ‘Pigyon’ in Hebrew is an attachment for guns that tracks targets and calculates exactly when to pull the trigger to achieve a successful hit.
It has already been used by the IDF in Gaza in limited quantities, where it was observed to increase hit rates by 4x, but it is allegedly even more effective against FPV drones.
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https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/31915?single
You know this is just going to be used to further divorce settlers from the guilt of the genocide they are committing "The gun told you to shoot the infant child it isn't your fault"
🇮🇷The deputy from Bushehr Province, "Jafar Pourkhabazani":
It was reported in the media that Iran released oil into the sea because its tanks were full. This claim is false and is part of the enemy's psychological warfare operations. The spots observed in satellite images around Kharg Island are the result of oil and contaminated ballast water from oil tankers, which were dumped into the sea by a European tanker, causing serious damage to the environment.
🇮🇷The Iranian Army:
On the morning of Friday, May 8th, while the US Navy was attempting to move its three attacking destroyers with air support from the Strait of Hormuz towards the Sea of Oman, the Iranian Navy launched a joint attack using missiles and drones, employing 8 cruise missiles and 24 suicide drones. As a result of this operation, and despite the US Navy's vigorous efforts to repel the attack, one cruise missile and three suicide drones successfully hit the US destroyers, causing a fire. It should be noted that this operation was named after the famous commander of the Jamaran destroyer of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Captain "Amir Behzad Majd", i.e., the Operation Martyr Majd.
America announces the imposition of new sanctions on 10 individuals and companies for assisting the Iranian military.
https://t.me/naya_foriraq/74977
🇺🇸🇮🇷🇧🇾🇨🇳| The US has issued sanctions against 3 individuals & 9 companies affiliated with Iran under the pretext of “preventing arms proliferation” (lame).
The 3 sanctioned individuals are nationals of Iran, China, and Belarus. All the sanctioned companies are based in Belarus and China.
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