Contrary to Fars and Tasnim, unfortunately negotiations (albeit through mediators) are most definitely taking place at the sidelines of the UN.

Pezeshkian spilled the beans to NBC and Fox News, admitting Iran’s various weaknesses (no oil selling / limited exports) & intent to reach a deal soon, substantially reducing Iran’s leverage.

This whole circus is a debacle and the trip to New York should have never been authorized in the first place.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian also decided to give an interview to CBS News

It will be aired soon.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: President Trump has rejected Iran’s demands and expects to resume bombing after the midterm elections – WSJ

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: After ignoring several warnings from the Ministry of Culture, and inciting moral corruption among the youth, Iranian singer Parastoo Ahmadi was sentenced to 74 lashes, a 2-year travel ban, and a 2-year ban on audiovisual activities for performing in public without the mandatory Hijab

Eight others, involved in organizing and promoting the event, received the same sentence from the Judiciary.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s Supreme National Security Council:

1. We deny the claim that Iran will retaliate militarily to the recent aerial restrictions that were imposed.

2. Negotiations between Iran and the relevant countries regarding the removal of aerial restrictions are being seriously pursued.

3. There are various non-military responses that can be applied to some regional airports if necessary, but we hope it doesn’t reach this point.

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‘Admin, don’t post this, it will make people have a bad opinion of Iran!’

I could care less what Westerners think about Iran. The opinions of people are not more important to me than Islam.

Laws are laws, rules are rules—if you ignored several warnings then it’s completely your own responsibility for getting punished. Hijab has been a national law in Iran since 1983.

And it’s already being very sparsely implemented, most of the time it only results in warnings. But as a singer, you have a responsibility and a position of influence on the youth, so the sentence is harsher for misguiding people.

Every country has its own clothing restrictions. You cannot be naked in the West either. The only difference is that Western countries base their restrictions on arbitrary rulings (i.e. the vote of the people & what’s accepted in society) rather than divine legislation.

— 🇧🇾/🇱🇻 NEW: Latvian cameras and sensors on the border with Belarus have been sabotaged, with cables being cut and feeds disabled, in what the Latvian authorities call a ‘major act of sabotage’

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—❗️🇷🇺/🇩🇪 NEW: At the request of Germany, the German and Russian Foreign Ministers will hold a meeting at the sidelines of the UN in New York

It will be the first meeting between Russian and German Foreign Ministers since the Ukraine war started in 2022.

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— 🇷🇺/🇩🇪 NEW: The meeting between Russian FM Sergey Lavrov and his German counterpart has started

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇮🇱 A Member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts claims the following:

‘On the day that the Supreme Leader was martyred at his official residence, his son, Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, was injured in this attack too.

When the enemy realized that Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei had been transfered to one of the hospitals in Tehran, they targeted three different hospitals in an attempt to assassinate him.

During the third bombing, Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei was present, and he was pulled from underneath the rubble of the hospital that was targeted.

It was a divine decree that he managed to survive two American-Israeli bombings, and by the grace of God, became our new Leader.’

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