— 🇷🇺/🇮🇷 NEW: President Vladimir Putin states that Russian-Iranian relations are strengthening, supported by the Supreme Leader, Imam Khamenei.

Putin also said he plans to meet Iran's President Pezeshkian privately during the BRICS Summit in Kazan on October 22-24, and that Moscow anticipates a separate visit from Pezeshkian to sign a new strategic partnership agreement.

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— 🇮🇷/🇧🇾 NEW: An Iranian government plane, carrying a high-ranking delegation including a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader to Iran's Supreme National Security Council, landed in Belarus

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Gotta be honest, I don't buy it.

No visual confirmation, even if there was a security perimeter, there should've been a smoke cloud visible from miles away. Neither was any explosion sound recorded.

It's not impossible, but it seems very unlikely to me. It's even more unlikely for this to get leaked by European sources and not Israeli ones, considering many Israeli outlets would have loved to publish it in order to get rid of Netanyahu.

— 🇮🇱 CONFIRMED: IDF Chief-of-Staff, Herzi Halevi, will submit his resignation in December

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: According to a Washington Post investigation, the killing of American citizen Ayşenur Eygi by Israeli forces was intentional.

Key factors include the timing of the shooting, which occurred over 30 minutes after confrontations had ended, and the distance involved, as protesters had retreated more than 200 yards and posed no immediate threat.

Eygi was also directly hit, contradicting IDF claims that they were targeting an 'instigator.'

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— 🇺🇸/🇻🇪 NEW: The Biden administration announced it is imposing U.S. sanctions on 16 individuals associated with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

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— 🇺🇸 NEW: Donald Trump says he will not participate in any more debates before the 2024 election.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: A man self-immolated right across the street from the Israeli Consulate in Boston last night, according to reports and surveillance footage. His current condition is unknown.

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— 🇺🇸 NEW: The USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier and two destroyers in its strike group, USS Daniel Inouye and USS Russell, have left the Middle East. The USS Abraham Lincoln carrier remains in the region.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: The U.S. State Department has approved a potential sale of heavy-duty tank trailers and related equipment to Israel, valued at $164.6 million.

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