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—🇪🇸❌🇺🇸 NEW: Spain’s government has flatly rejected opening talks with Washington on expanded use of the Rota and Morón bases amid the escalating US–Iran confrontation, contradicting White House claims that Madrid had agreed to cooperate militarily under pressure from President Donald Trump.

➡️ Spanish officials stress there is no new authorization in place and say any use of Spanish-sovereign facilities must remain within existing bilateral agreements and international law.

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—🇪🇸/🇧🇦 FACT: Spain’s PM Pedro Sánchez once lived and worked in Sarajevo in 1999 as head of office to then–High Representative Carlos Westendorp, during the post-war international administration in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

➡️ His last official visit to Bosnia as Spanish premier was in July 2022, when he returned to Sarajevo and Mostar to back the country’s EU path and meet the tripartite presidency and local authorities.

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🇸🇦❌🇮🇷❗️ — URGENT: Saudi authorities have issued a nationwide warning to citizens ahead of possible military operations related to the escalating conflict with Iran.

▶️The government urged the public not to share photos or videos of any military activity inside the Kingdom, warning that such material could expose sensitive information like location data and timestamps that adversaries could exploit.

🇸🇦💬Official message:

“To all citizens, residents, and visitors in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , we stress that in the coming hours images or videos related to military movements inside the Kingdom may circulate. It is strictly prohibited to publish, repost, share, or interact with any such content across social media or messaging platforms. Every photo or video contains hidden digital data including location coordinates, time of capture, and technical details that hostile parties could use to analyze the movements of our armed forces and harm national security. Publishing such material, even with good intentions, is irresponsible and poses a direct risk to the safety of the country and its people. The security of the homeland is everyone’s responsibility. Your commitment to not sharing such content directly supports the efforts of our leadership and armed forces in protecting the nation. We repeat: do not publish, do not forward, do not interact with, and do not spread any military-related content.”
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—🇹🇷❌🇬🇷 NEW: Türkiye has lodged protests over Greece’s latest deployments in the Dodecanese and eastern Aegean, claiming violations of the demilitarized status of the islands under the Treaty of Lausanne and the 1947 Paris Peace Treaty.

➡️ Greek commentators note that Türkiye is not a party to the 1947 Paris Treaty by which Italy ceded the Dodecanese to Greece and therefore has no standing to invoke its clauses, while Athens insists its measures are purely defensive in response to regional tensions.

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—🇦🇱🤝🇦🇿 NEW: Albanian PM Edi Rama has condemned Iran’s drone attack on Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan region, calling it a grave act of aggression against a neighboring country and urging that Iran be classified as a “terrorist state” and isolated internationally.

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—🇮🇱 ✈️ 🇲🇰 NEW: North Macedonia has evacuated a group of its citizens from Israel, with Foreign Minister Timco Mucunski saying they were transferred to Sharm el-Sheikh and then flown to Skopje on a government aircraft under a coordinated operation by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade.

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—🇹🇷🤝🇪🇸❌🇺🇸 WATCH: The ultras of Turkish league club Eskişehirspor dancing to Paquito el Chocolatero as a thank-you to Spain for not allowing the U.S. to use its military bases. It’s completely surreal. ✅ @balkanspectator — the leading Balkan news channel in…
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—🇹🇷🤝🇪🇸❌🇺🇸 WATCH: A Turkish news anchor ended a live broadcast by switching to Spanish and thanking Spain for “standing on the right side of history”, a clip that has already drawn over 1 million views on X.

🔗 Daily Turkic

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—🇺🇦🤝🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 NEW: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Washington has requested Kyiv’s assistance in defending against Iranian-made Shahed attack drones, which both Russia and Iran have repeatedly used in recent conflicts.

➡️ The statement suggests expanding US-Ukrainian cooperation beyond the battlefield in Ukraine to counter Tehran’s drone threat globally.

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🇷🇺❌🇮🇱🇺🇸 — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov:

Russia will do everything to create an atmosphere that will make US and Israel operation against Iran impossible

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—🪖🇬🇷 NEW: An X post by commentator Peter B calling the Greek military “the most underrated in the world” and “the beacon of bravery and hope during WW2” has gone viral, drawing tens of thousands of views and sparking debate over Greece’s wartime record and modern military reputation.

➡️ The post highlights Greece’s resistance against Nazi Germany and references historical praise of Greek soldiers’ bravery, resonating strongly with Greek users and diaspora accounts amplifying the message.
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🔗 Peter B

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Cypriot monastery shelters evacuees amid drone crisis
https://orthochristian.com/176121.html

After receiving the blessing of His Eminence Metropolitan Athanasios of Limassol, the community opened its available spaces to displaced families, housing each in a separate room.
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—🇷🇸🤝🇮🇱 NEW: Republika Srpska has reinforced security measures across the entity to ensure a rapid response to potential terrorist threats, with particular focus on the Jewish Cultural Center in Banja Luka and other Jewish community sites. ​ 🔗 Dunav Intel …
—🇷🇸🤝🇮🇱 NEW: Authorities in Republika Srpska have deployed gendarmerie units and introduced heightened security measures after intelligence warnings of a potential terrorist threat allegedly originating from the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, with armed patrols, sniper teams, drone surveillance and vehicle checks reported in parts of the entity and security tightened around Jewish cultural and community sites in Banja Luka.

🔗 Dunav Intel

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—❗️🪖🇬🇷🤝🇧🇬 NEW: Greece has extended its anti-ballistic “umbrella” to Bulgaria, with the Hellenic Defence Minister telling his Bulgarian counterpart in a phone call that Greek forces will protect Bulgarian airspace and territory from any potential Iranian ballistic missile attack, building on Athens’ longstanding role in NATO air policing over the southern Balkans.

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—🪧🇽🇰 NEW: Kosovo feminist groups will hold a Women’s Day protest on 8 March in Prishtina, targeting what they describe as “colonialism” in the Middle East and Kosovo’s role in Trump’s Board of Peace, of which the country is a founding member.

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—🇭🇷 ✈️ 🇦🇪 WATCH: A Croatia Airlines plane, organized by the Croatian government and foreign ministry, has landed in Dubai to evacuate the most vulnerable groups of Croatian citizens for repatriation to Croatia, the MFA announced.

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—❗️🇮🇱✈️🇷🇸 NEW: A Challenge Airlines IL Boeing 747-412F (flight LOY731, reg. 4X-ICK) departed Tel Aviv, landed in Belgrade this morning, and has now taken off again towards Tel Aviv amid reported Serbian munitions deliveries to Israel. ➡️ The Israeli Ministry…
—❗️🇮🇱 ✈️ 🇷🇸 NEW: Israeli cargo Boeing 747-412F (flight LOY732, reg. 4X-ICK) operated by Challenge Airlines IL flew from Tel Aviv to Belgrade yesterday before returning to Tel Aviv shortly after departure from Serbia, in what Dunav Intel flags as a new possible delivery of Serbian ammunition to Israel amid the ongoing Israel–Iran war.

➡️ The same aircraft type and route have previously been associated with confirmed Serbian munitions shipments that continued on to Beersheba’s Nevatim air base, though that base is reportedly unavailable due to current operations against Iran.

🔗 Dunav Intel

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🇺🇸🇮🇱❌🇮🇷❗️ — President Donald Trump has privately expressed serious interest in deploying U.S. troops on the ground inside of Iran, according to two U.S. officials, a former U.S. official and another person with knowledge of the conversations

📝 Trump has discussed the idea of deploying ground troops with aides and Republican officials outside the White House while outlining his vision for a post-war Iran in which Iran’s uranium is secure and the U.S. and a new Iranian regime cooperate on oil production similar to how the U.S. and Venezuela are, the sources said.
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