— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump on Truth Social:

‘Axios just released a story that “Trump” offered Sanctions Relief and Frozen Funds to Iran. This is untrue. I offered them NOTHING!

Axios’ story, like most others, is a HOAX, used only for purposes of satisfying their Trump Derangement Syndrome. They should withdraw this fake story, IMMEDIATELY!’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, is leaving New York and heading back to Tehran

No breakthrough was reached in the negotiations, so he’s leaving earlier than expected.

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— 🇮🇱/🇦🇪/🇸🇦/🇧🇭/🇲🇦/🇪🇬/🇴🇲/🇰🇼/🇱🇾 NEW: The MbZ-Netanyahu meeting in Abu Dhabi took place in an ‘expanded format’ that included various other Arab states, and some that have no official ties with Israel

Representatives from Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Kuwait, Bahrain, Libya (Haftar), Oman and Egypt also attended the meeting on Sunday, according to Israeli Channel 14.

Netanyahu and MbZ initially met privately before officials from the other countries joined the expanded session. The discussions focused on Iran, closer cooperation between Israel and the Gulf states, economic issues and Israeli defense systems.

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— 🇺🇸/🇬🇧 NEW: The three vans found outside RAF Fairford two days ago did not contain any ‘viable explosives’, according to UK police

There is a suspicion the men were engaging in other forms of criminal activity, such as fuel smuggling.

What is known for sure, however, is that RAF Fairford entered the ‘DELTA’ security level the evening before the vans were detected, and that an attack was considered imminent.

Either the British intelligence services misinterpreted the threat, or a true attack was indeed about to happen but avoided due to capturing the wrong guys—in which case an alleged terrorist squad may still be on the loose.

U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, claimed today that a ‘foreign actor’ was ‘clearly involved’ in the incident.

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—❗️🇮🇷 NEW: Hamid Rasaee, an influential conservative Member of Parliament, has been sentenced to 10 months in prison by the Judiciary

He is being accused of ‘spreading rumors without evidence’ about Iran’s Parliament Speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf.

The incident took place a long time ago, when Rasaee claimed that Qalibaf purposefully changed parliamentary records without authorization or informing others.

Gholamhossein Eje’i, Iran’s Chief Justice, is known for being a staunch Qalibaf ally, and having good ties with the Pezeshkian administration.

The real reason that Rasaee was sentenced to prison is likely his opposition to the Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding and his frequent criticism of the current administration.

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇮🇱 Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, when visiting an airbase today: ‘There are signs that the enemies are planning to attack us before the election.’

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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱 IRGC Colonel: ‘Israel wants to attack us before the election, because Netanyahu knows if he loses the election he will go to prison’

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—❗️🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has summoned opposition leader Yair Lapid to a security briefing tonight

A limited security cabinet meeting will also take place, reportedly to discuss ‘developments involving Iran’.

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