— 🇮🇷 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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—❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇸 BREAKING: In the past few hours, the IRGC Navy has begun substantially escalating its targeting of violating vessels in the Strait of Hormuz

Anti-ship cruise missiles and drones were launched at various vessels. Simultaneously, fast-attack boats of the IRGC Navy are engaging hostile tankers with guided rockets, Dushka machine guns, and small arms.

According to reliable reports, at least 3 vessels have been struck so far, and a fourth one has decided to turn around. Some reports even mention that up to 6 vessels were struck (unconfirmed).

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More than 10+ anti-ship cruise missiles have been launched so far tonight.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: At least some of the missiles fired tonight into the Strait of Hormuz carried naval mines

Iran is once again laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, this time apparently in the illegal Omani route.

It is unclear how many of such mines were launched by Iran, and if their deployment was successful.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: Iran has seized another advanced American AUV (Autonomous Underwater Vehicle), the REMUS 600, that was conducting surveillance in the Strait of Hormuz

Iranian engineers are currently working to recover its data and begin reverse engineering efforts.

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