🇮🇷🇹🇷🇸🇦🇵🇰⚡️ — Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said that Iran has not received an official invitation to join the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, but has received proposals to hold discussions on regional security with the countries involved.

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🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️ — Russia thinks it is winning – that is not the case.

Ukraine is winning. It is hard to say this against the backdrop of a harsh winter and all your difficulties, but the problems are now greater on the Russian side.

If you just hold on – everything will be fine

– Trump's special envoy to Ukraine, Kellogg.

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🇺🇸⚡️ — The United States will stop importing chips in the future because major manufacturing plants are currently being built in the country, US President Donald Trump said in an interview with WABC radio.

The US will also reduce its reliance on imports of medicines and medical equipment thanks to the construction of new Eli Lilly, Pfizer, and Merck plants in the country, he added.

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🇺🇸🇺🇳⚡️ — The New York Times highlighted problems with three key factors of the global food system: seamless trade, cheap energy, and stable climate, citing Evan Fraser, a professor at the University of Guelph in Canada.

Uninterrupted trade in agricultural products is being hampered by blockades in the Strait of Hormuz and hostilities in the Black and Red Seas, through which food shipments pass. Moreover, crop yields have declined in Europe due to extreme heat and in the US due to drought.

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🇭🇺⚡️ — Earlier today, a Hungarian Air Force JAS 39C Gripen crashed under unknown circumstances near Szolnok Air Base.

The pilot successfully ejected from the aircraft.

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🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — The Russian Ministry of Defense reports that the Russian Armed Forces struck a cargo ship in the port of Odesa, which had delivered military cargo to Ukraine.

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🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️ — Former advisor to Donald Trump, Keith Kellogg, called on Ukraine to begin mobilizing women, citing the fact that his wife served in Grenada and his daughter served in Afghanistan.

For context, Kellogg's wife "served" during the two-day U.S. operation in Grenada as the head of personnel at the battalion headquarters, while his daughter in Afghanistan oversaw the loading of supplies onto aircraft before they were dropped at remote forward operating bases.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — BREAKING: U.S. launches “unprecedented” Operation Economic Outcast against Iran, targeting Tehran and any supporters, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said.

➡️ “We are beginning an economic offensive against Iran’s financial links worldwide,” Bessent stated.

➡️ Goal: sever all economic ties sustaining Iran’s leadership; block revenue streams funding the IRGC, he said, urging world leaders to choose between the U.S. and Iran.

➡️ Iran faces two paths: complete global isolation or a return to normal life, Bessent added.

➡️ Washington announced sanctions on nearly 60 Iran-linked entities, individuals, and vessels tied to nuclear, missile, cyber, and oil sectors.

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🇺🇸🇨🇳🇮🇷⚡️ — NEW: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent declines to say if Chinese banks could face sanctions over Iran ties, saying “no one is above the reach of US sanctions,” Bloomberg reports.

Bessent warned the US will penalize countries that refuse to cut economic ties with Iran.

Pressed on China, he would not specify targets but said entities facilitating Iranian oil-to-cash flows “will be targeted.”

He added the US knows the facilitators and implied enforcement is forthcoming.

China has purchased up to 90% of Iran’s oil exports and maintains broader trade with Tehran.

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🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️ — Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran tried to assassinate one of his sons during a phone interview with Channel 14.

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🇮🇷🇺🇸⚡️ — AFP reports Iran’s economy minister Ali Madanizadeh says the U.S. will face “another defeat,” claiming Tehran has a two-year plan to counter new U.S. sanctions.

➡️ Madanizadeh told IRIB the U.S. “has failed every time” to break Iran’s resolve.

➡️ He said the government has long prepared for Washington’s latest measures.

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🇺🇸🇵🇰🇮🇷⚡️ — President Donald Trump spoke by phone with Pakistan’s army chief Asim Munir last week, a source confirmed to CNN.

➡️ IRIB reported Munir met Iran’s top negotiator in Tehran on Monday, highlighting Islamabad’s potential mediation role.

➡️ Trump posted that Iran is “COMPLETELY COLLAPSING,” but discussed Iran with Munir and asked Pakistan to help restart talks, per reports.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — NEW: The US Department of State has issued a reward of up to $10 million for information on five key IRGC leaders.

It is strange that Majid Khademi was also mentioned, while it has been confirmed that he was assassinated in an Israeli airstrike on April 6.

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🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — The U.S. is not ruling out using military force against Iran in the Strait of Hormuz or elsewhere, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said, Reuters reports.

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🇹🇷⚡️ — Commander of the Turkish Naval Forces, Ercüment Tatlıoğlu:
Our national aircraft carrier will be launched for the first time on 27 September 2027.

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🇦🇲🚫🇮🇱 — In a speech to the Armenian parliament, Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan criticized Israel for the way it announced its recognition of the Armenian genocide, using it as an example of countries cynically exploiting the suffering of the Armenian people for their own purposes. Pashinyan stated the following:

"We decided that international recognition of the Armenian genocide would not be a priority of our foreign policy. And while we were formulating explanations for our society about why we made that decision, the events themselves provided a compelling explanation. Recently, the Israeli government, with incredible persistence, began the process of recognizing the Armenian genocide – and then, with the same persistence, halted that process.

This was another important episode that lifted the veil, and we all saw, were forced to see, what was happening live.

International players – forgive me for the phrasing – are banging their heads against each other, using the remains of our saints (victims), but it is our heads that are hurting.

International players are turning the bones of our saints into weapons, shooting at each other with those weapons, but it is we who are dying – as it was in the late 19th century, in the early and late 20th century, and until recently.

We must put an end to this process of turning the Armenian genocide into a weapon. Because, even if we are naive enough to think that this weapon is in our hands, we are dying again and again from its shots, and we will continue to die again and again."

It should be noted that, despite the Israeli government's decision in late June 2026 to recognize the Armenian genocide, this issue was removed from the Knesset's agenda, and a vote on it did not take place due to strong political pressure from Azerbaijan. Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan is referring specifically to these "ups and downs," which, in his opinion, demonstrate that the reason Israel initially seemed to want to recognize the Armenian genocide was not sincere or genuine, but rather stemmed from a desire to "poke" Turkey under Erdogan, that is, within the context of escalating tensions in relations between Jerusalem and Ankara. In this context, he is undoubtedly correct.

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