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*War Death Toll Mounts: Israel, 23; US, 13 Soldiers,Civilians In Gulf Bases; Iran, Over 1900; Over 20,000 Injured; Lebanon, Nearly 1100 Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis have confirmed that they launched an attack on Israel for the first time since the outbreak of the Israel-US war on Iran, marking their entry to the conflict just hours after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the US expected to conclude military operations within “weeks, not months." While Israel was again hitting targets across Iran’s capital, Tehran, today, it identified what it said was a missile launched from Yemen. The Houthis said the attack…

Saudi Arabia has urged the US to ramp up attacks on Iran, a Saudi intelligence source has confirmed, while it is weighing a decision on whether to join the fight directly. The Saudi source confirmed reporting in the New York Times that said the kingdom’s de facto leader, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman al Saud, has urged Donald Trump not to cut short his war against Iran, and that the ongoing US-Israeli military campaign represented a “historic opportunity” to remake the Middle East. The intelligence source said Riyadh was not just calling for the military campaign to be continued, but…

*Duo To Be Assassinated Days Ago, But Pakistan Told US Of Their Importance In Ongoing Peace Negotiations -Source *Strait Shutdown Responsible For Rising Global Oil Prices Israel said yesterday that the Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC ), Navy, Admiral Alireza Tangsiri, had been killed in an airstrike, the latest senior Iranian official targeted in a relentless hunt-and-kill campaign. Later, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed the killing and said that in addition to Tangsiri, the strike also killed the IRGC Navy’s intelligence chief, Behnam Rezaei, and the rest of the Navy’s top leadership. The military did not…

*'It's US, Not Iran, That Seeks Talks' *How Real Were The Said Talks? *Israel Claims Hits On IRGC Hqtrs Iran’s Parliament Speaker, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, said today that “no negotiations” were held with the United States (US) after President Donald Trump announced talks were ongoing. “No negotiations have been held with the US, and fake news is used to manipulate the financial and oil markets and escape the quagmire in which the US and Israel are trapped,” Ghalibaf said in a post on X. It came as Trump announced “very good” talks today with an unidentified Iranian official after abruptly…

*Tehran Instantly Vows Retaliation US President onald Trump has posted this on Truth Social in the past few minutes: “If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST! Thank you for your attention to this matter.” Iran has effectively closed down the strait by attacking ships and reportedly laying mines in the waterway, causing a major crisis in global energy markets and triggering a jerk-up in petrol prices across the…

*Gear Up For Fresh Protests To 'Finish The Job' *Thankful To US For Fighting Regime *January Protest Crackdown Horror Tales Of Splattered Intestines, Brains *Say Authorities More Brutal Since American Airstrikes *Await Protest Signal From Son Of Ousted Shah Two Iranian protesters who survived the regime’s brutal crackdown in January told The New York Post that it’s only a matter of time before the people take back their government. “The protest that will happen will be something extraordinary, because the hatred people have for [the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] after the massacre is extremely intense,” a woman currently living in…

For the first time since 1967, al-Aqsa mosque – Jerusalem’s most sensitive holy site – will be closed at the end of Ramadan today, with tensions rising among Palestinians as Israeli authorities keep the complex shut, forcing worshippers to hold Eid prayers as close as they can to the sealed site. On Friday morning, hundreds of worshippers were forced to pray outside the Old City, as Israeli police barricaded the entrances to the site. Because of security concerns related to the US-Israeli war on Iran, on 28 February Israeli authorities had effectively sealed off the mosque complex to most Muslim…

*Hundreds In Canada, Australia Iranian leaders call the US the “Great Satan” and burn effigies of President Donald Trump in the streets — but that doesn’t stop them sending their kids and relatives to the United States (US) to learn, reports The New York Post. The children of regime leaders and bigwigs are spread across prestigious universities including University of Massachusetts, New York’s Union College and George Washington University, the newspaper added. According to the paper, sources said allowing people linked to the regime, which is currently at war with the US, to assume such influential positions could present a…

*The 3 Killings Suggest Israel Retains Detailed Intelligence On Movements Of Iran’s Leadership *Israel Strikes Iran's Largest Gas Field, Sparking Retaliation Against US' Gulf Allies *Oil Price Hits $110/pb Iran confirmed the death of the country's Intelligence Minister, Esmail Khatib, a known right hand man of new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, after Israel said it had killed him in an overnight strike, Wednesday, making him the third senior Iranian figure assassinated in 24 hours. Khatib’s death follows those of National Security Adviser, Ali Larijani, and Commander of the feared Basij militia, Gholamreza Soleimani. Taken together, the three killings suggest Israel…

*'Which Side Are You On?' *US/Israel Killed Supreme Leader, Commanders, Civilians And You Only Watched, Iran Laments *As War With US/Israel Intensifies Iran's National Security Adviser, Ali Larijani, has written a letter to "Muslims of the world" in what is seen as part-rebuke, part-theological indictment, and part-strategic appeal. The letter, posted on X by the Iranian Embassy in India, according to a report on NDTV, does not dwell on battlefield details as its target is something else - the conduct of Islamic governments during what Larijani describes as an ongoing "deceptive aggression" by the American-Zionist axis against Iran, one he…