I sense a great disturbance in the force.

Something is going to happen, perhaps sooner than some may think.

— 🇮🇷/🇹🇷 NEW: Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and Ali Bagheri Kani, Deputy Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, met in Istanbul on Saturday

No details on the meeting were provided.

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— 🇺🇸/🇦🇪/🇮🇷 NEW: Senior Trump administration officials have encouraged the UAE to become more involved in the war against Iran, including by invading Iranian islands in the Persian Gulf – The Telegraph

Note that Iran and the UAE have an outstanding territorial dispute over the strategic Tunb and Abu Musa islands, located in the middle of the Persian Gulf — currently administered by Iran.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Reporter: ‘We’ve seen in the past and until now that military pressure does not seem to change Iran’s stance in the negotiations’

Marco Rubio: ‘We believe it’s going to work this time. If necessary, we’re willing to go in again and do what’s needed to bring them to the table’

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A list of things nobody cares about:

- Eurovision
- Keir Starmer
- The war in Ukraine
- The World Cup
- Matcha

You’re welcome

— 🇮🇷 On Iranian TV:

Instructor: ‘Ok, now it’s loaded. Fire it.’

Host: ‘Fire it? There’s a bullet inside’

Instructor: ‘Is there? No, we didn’t give you any. There’s no bullet inside.

Host: ‘They gave us two [bullets]’

Instructor: ‘Are you sure?’

Host: ‘Yes’

Instructor: ‘Ok, try it. Yeah, try it’

(loud bang)

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—❗️🇮🇱 BREAKING: Huge explosion in Beit Shemesh, Israel

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— 🇮🇱 UPDATE: Initial reports that it may be a controlled explosion of an unexploded Iranian missile

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—❗️🇮🇱 Hebrew media: ‘Circumstances of the explosion are still under investigation’

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—❗️🇮🇱 NEW: The IDF is preventing ambulances and firefighter from reaching the site of the explosion

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— 🇮🇱 UPDATE: It was a controlled explosion at a military site, according to KANN

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—❗️🇮🇱 NEW: After initially reporting that it was a controlled explosion, Hebrew media now begin to speculate that an explosion took place in Sdot Micha Airbase, around the area where surface-to-air Arrow-3 missiles are stored

It is reporter that one of the storage areas caught on fire and exploded due to mishandling of rocket fuel, and possibly a large amount of interceptor missiles were destroyed in the incident.

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— 🇮🇱 NOTE: There is also a rocket motor testing facility at Sdot Micha Airbase, which has seen explosions in the past due to engine testing

This is also a possibility, as Tomer (the defense contractor) said the explosion was part of a ‘pre-planned experiment’.

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