—❗️🇮🇱/🇱🇧 UPDATE: There are deaths

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— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧 UPDATE: It was a school trip, and one of the Israeli students decided to put an unexploded artillery shell in his bag after finding it (it exploded).

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: The Iranian Parliament will soon vote on the new Minister of Defense, General Mehrdad Akhlaqi

If he is accepted for the position, it will mark the first time Iran’s Minister of Defense is selected from within the ministry itself, rather than the Army, IRGC, Navy, or Air Force.

He formerly worked for SEPAND, Iran’s ‘Organization for Defensive Innovation and Research’, a secretive agency tasked with developing classified and advanced weaponry. It has been alleged to have worked on the design and development of nuclear weapons.

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— NOTE: SEPAND is by far the most secretive agency in Iran, as it is not obligated to share any info with the parliament or government auditors

In 2024, the Iranian parliament accepted the following articles:

Article 1: 'SEPAND' is established as an advanced weapons research agency, permitted to develop advanced weapons to match the weaponry of the enemy.

Article 2: 'SEPAND' will be an independent weapons research entity as a branch of the Armed Forces, under the Ministry of Defense, and it is exempt from following regulations on transactions reporting, financial or other audits.

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— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: Some Israeli media are now reporting that the ‘explosive device’ found by one of the students in Ramim was a remaining cluster submunition from an Iranian missile that was launched during the war

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇴🇲 NEW: The IRGC Navy has released footage of targeting a VLCC in the Strait of Hormuz early this morning

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Taizz is on its last legs. I expect things to go fast from here. Probably some kind of negotiated handover.

Ansarallah are ripping through Jabal Sabr (mountainous area) without much PLC resistance, despite it being their last major fortification before the city.

‘My theory of victory is simple: We win by defeating the enemy’

I don’t think it’s a very optimistic sign for NATO that they aren’t even considering the possibility of a strategic victory against Russia.

—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 NEW: Ansarallah advance further into Jabal Sabr

Destroyed PLC vehicles can be seen burning on the hills.

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— 🇺🇸/🇺🇦/🇮🇷 President Zelenskyy to Fox News: ‘Everyone understands that diesel prices in the U.S. do not depend on refineries being hit in Russia. They are high because the Strait of Hormuz is blocked.’

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