— 🇾🇪/🇮🇱 As for why the impact of the Hatem-2 (Iran's Kheybar Shekan-2) was limited, there are four main theories:

1. Yemen lightens the warheads of its ballistic missiles to increase the range, as Yemen is much further from Israel than Iran. This would lead to a lesser warhead and less impact.

2. Yemeni production of Iranian missiles are lesser quality, both in terms of the materials used and the production methods applied. The missile might have disintegrated shortly before impact, due to the immense heat.

3. An Israeli air defense intercepted the missile just before impact, and the small craters / fires are a result of the shrapnel falling down.

4. Yemen somehow used a cluster warhead. This is unlikely because this specific missile hasn't been seen with a cluster warhead before, and its warhead is already relatively light.

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— 🇮🇷/🇺🇳 NEW: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian will travel to New York next week to attend the annual UN General Assembly meeting.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇺🇳 An American journalist asked Iran's Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York:

'What do you think of the attempted assassination of Presidential candidate Donald Trump?'

'I don't care, and I don't respond to the requests of U.S. media.'

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— 🇾🇪/🇺🇸 NEW: Preliminary reports of Yemen's Ansarullah shooting down an MQ-9 'Reaper' drone making it the 10th U.S. drone shot down since Prosperity Guardian.

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— 🇸🇾 President Bashar al-Assad dissects Neoliberalism in only two minutes.

— 🇮🇱 NEW: Israel is reportedly offering permanent residency to African asylum seekers who enlist in the army to fight in Gaza, according to Haaretz.

Currently, there are about 30,000 African asylum seekers in Israel, including 3,500 Sudanese with temporary status.

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— 🇺🇸 NEW: The U.S. Navy plans to have a chaplain on each destroyer by 2025 to provide emotional and spiritual support to sailors during long missions at sea.

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— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧 NEW: Israeli media reports that Netanyahu is looking to fire Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for his opposition to an attack on Lebanon

Israeli national broadcast Kann says Gallant is Israel's main line of communication with the White House, and dismissing him will harm relations with the U.S.

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— 🇮🇷/🇪🇬 President Pezeshkian: 'The Islamic Republic of Iran is actively persuing diplomatic relations with Egypt; we want to have good relations with them, and they want to have good relations with us'

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Iran's new moderate President Masoud Pezeshkian says Iran is not fundamentally opposed to having relations with the United States, including a return to the Nuclear Deal, but only if the U.S. shows that it is not hostile to Iran

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— 🇮🇱/🇺🇸 NEW: U.S. special envoy to the Middle East Amos Hochstein landed in Israel today

During his stay, he is expected to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.

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🇱🇧/🇮🇱 In an alarming change of tone and statement, Israel abandons the path of possible diplomacy to the end of the battle in Lebanon.

Israeli Defense Minister Galant met with US President's envoy Amos Hochstein and announced:

"The only way left to return the residents of the north to their homes is military action"

This coincides with yesterday's news that Netanyahu is planning to approve a battle plan inside Lebanon and the will to carry a ground invasion.

— 🇷🇺 NEW: President Vladimir Putin ordered the size of the Russian army to increase by 180,000 troops to 1.5 million soldiers in total.

Putin gave the order in an executive Presidential decree published on the Kremlin's press release.

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— 🇮🇱 NEW: Netanyahu plans to add Gideon Sa'ar's 'New Hope' faction to the coalition, adding 4 seats to his Knesset majority, and adding a Minister to the War Cabinet

Sa'ar is a vehement opponent of a hostage deal with Hamas, and many moderate to left-wing Israelis don't trust him, even Netanyahu's inner circle.

Stocks fell and gas prices spiked amid expectations of the government reshuffle.

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