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🇺🇸🇮🇷 — The MV Ocean Trader Special Warfare Support vessel has been spotted anchored at Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. The MV Ocean Trader is a covert special operations vessel designed to blend in to conventional naval traffic, and can host ~159 special forces troops for insertion/extraction commando missions that can be conducted via various small boats and helicopters present on the ship.
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— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: Hezbollah carried out 26 operations today, the most since the start of the ‘ceasefire’

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— NOTE: Contrary to claims by the Iranian military, there is currently no evidence to support that any U.S. warship ship was hit by projectiles

We will update you if it changes.

Unfortunately despite many attempts to make Iranian media and official statements more reliable, sufficient lessons have not yet been learnt.

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— NOTE: Contrary to claims by the Iranian military, there is currently no evidence to support that any U.S. warship ship was hit by projectiles We will update you if it changes. Unfortunately despite many attempts to make Iranian media and official statements…
— These ‘fires’ on NASA maps as pointed out by some are not actually evidence.

Oman operates gas and oil rigs north of Khasab, they often burn excess gas which causes it to show up on map — same throughout the Persian Gulf in multiple other places.

Also, engine rooms of large ships like the USS Truxton and USS Mason can show up on heatmaps even with no flames.

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Holy Persian Empire
Rare MES L there are pictures of the ship burning
No there aren’t, there is footage of ‘something’ burning in the sea, nobody knows what it was

This is called confirmation bias. It could literally be anything.

We need to step up our media literacy if we ever want to be taken seriously.
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— Lastly, just to close this topic.

I don’t think people truly understand how MASSIVE it would be if a U.S. ship was hit by an Iranian missile or drone.

It’s like a floating military base with hundreds to even thousands of troops, there is simply no way to keep it secret, it would be front page news.

When American soldiers died in Kuwait they also admitted it the same day. If the U.S. could hide it, they would, but they simply can’t.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: President Trump says he’s ‘still waiting’ for Iran’s response to the latest U.S. proposal

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— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧/🇮🇷 NEW: The IDF has begun issuing ‘SMASH’ attachments for rifles en-masse, to counter the threat of FPV drones in Lebanon

The ‘SMASH Handheld’ or ‘Pigyon’ in Hebrew is an attachment for guns that tracks targets and calculates exactly when to pull the trigger to achieve a successful hit.

It has already been used by the IDF in Gaza in limited quantities, where it was observed to increase hit rates by 4x, but it is allegedly even more effective against FPV drones.

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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇷 NEW: Satellite imagery shows that a huge amount of IRGC Navy speedboats are still active in the Persian Gulf

In this image, more than 100+ speedboats are seen in a single formation in the Strait of Hormuz.

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Hezbollah will issue some spicy footage soon, it seems.
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— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: Hezbollah uploaded two videos showing direct FPV drone impacts on Israeli soldiers

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— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NOTE: Hezbollah has also started using FPV drones in settlements and IDF positions in Northern Israel

Due to the constant buzzing and threat of these drones, the IDF has significantly reduced its presence.

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: Iranian mobile launchers were seen moving across various different provinces today

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇷 NEW: The IRGC Navy announces that from now on, any attack against Iranian oil tankers or commercial vessels will be met with a response against U.S. bases / proxies in the region and ships

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— 🇷🇺/🇺🇦 President Putin: ‘I think the war in Ukraine is coming to an end soon’

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇶🇦 NEW: The IRGC Navy struck a bulk carrier (cargo ship) off the coast of Qatar, according to UKMTO

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🇮🇷🇵🇰🇺🇸⚡️ — NEW: Iran sent its response today to the latest U.S. proposal aimed at ending the war through Pakistani mediators, according to IRNA.
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