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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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The U.S. has sent a new proposal to Iran, including the following points:

1. The U.S. will not pay any damage compensation to Iran.

2. Transfer of the enriched uranium to the U.S.

3. Only one nuclear facility will remain operational inside Iran.

4. Less than a quarter of Iran’s frozen assets will be released.

5. The cessation of war on all fronts is conditional on holding negotiations in Islamabad.

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