🔴 Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and his Austrian counterpart Beate Meinl-Reisinger held a telephone conversation on Thursday to discuss the latest bilateral, regional, and international developments.

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🔴 U.S. Imposes 100% Tariff on Drone Imports

🔹 The White House announced that Trump has raised tariffs on imported drones to reduce the U.S. dependence on foreign suppliers. The measures include a 100% tariff on sensitive drones, a 25% tariff on smaller drones, and tariffs of 10% to 15% on imports from certain trading partners like the UK.

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🔴 Oil Tanker Hit by Drone in the Strait of Hormuz

🔹 UKMTO: An oil tanker was struck by a drone while exiting the Strait of Hormuz in waters near the eastern port town of Al Khasab.

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🔴 Moment U.S.-Israeli Strike Hits Hospital in Southern Iran: Nurses Save Newborns

🔷 The footage shows courtyard of Persian Gulf Martyrs Hospital in Bushehr, southern Iran, is targeted during the U.S.-Israeli war, forcing brave nurses to evacuate admitted newborns through the windows.

🔷 In a remarkable twist of fate, a baby was born at that exact same hour.

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🔴 MQ-9 Drone Shot Down in Southern Iran

🔹 IRGC’s advanced defense systems shot down an MQ-9 drone over the skies of Hormozgan province.

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🔴 Iran, Austria Foreign Ministers Hold Phone Call

🔹 Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Austrian Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger held a phone call on Thursday, discussing bilateral relations and regional and international developments.

🔹 Araghchi said the current situation resulted from the illegal aggression by the U.S. and Israel against Iran, and said Washington’s violations of a June 18 understanding, maritime sanctions and attacks on Iranian military and civilian targets had escalated tensions and insecurity in the Strait of Hormuz.

🔹 He also condemned Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and Lebanon, criticizing the European Union’s “passive” stance and European support for Israel, and called for a review of the bloc’s approach to West Asia.

🔹 Araghchi further condemned the EU’s interventionist stance toward Iran and its support for anti-Iran terrorist elements.

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🔴 Paris Urges Israel to Arrest and Prosecute Settlers Behind Siege of Palestinian Homes in West Bank Village

🔹France condemns the escalating settler violence in the occupied West Bank, calling for legal accountability and an immediate end to the blockade of residential properties in the village of Qusra.

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🔴 People staged a protest at Greece’s Piraeus port on Friday, opposing the docking of the Crown Iris cruise liner, which was carrying Israeli tourists.

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🔴 Iran: Resistance Defeated Force-Based Calculations

🔹 Iran's Deputy FM Kazem Gharibabadi said ion amessage that Islamic Resistance Day (14 August) recalls standing against aggression and defeating force-based calculations.

🔹"Regional developments over two decades show popular resistance remains decisive in regional equations," he stated.


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🔴 Hezbollah SG: Resistance Will Not Accept Submission, Retreat From Defending Lebanon

🔹 Sheikh Naim Qassem condemned Israel's conditioning of the Lebanese army's deployment on the approval of affiliated fact-finding committees, describing the move as a flagrant humiliation of Lebanese sovereignty.

🔹 He further criticized the Lebanese government's passive response to the "arrogant positions" of Israeli officials, noting that banking on enemy approval has effectively auctioned off the country's honor and credibility.

🔹 Qassem urged the Lebanese state to draw lessons from recent developments in Gaza and Syria, calling for an immediate reversal from a "humiliating trajectory."


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🔴 Hezbollah Chief: Israel's Large-Scale Aggression on Lebanon Was a Pre-Planned War

🔹 Sheikh Naim Qassem said that Israel's extensive assault on Lebanon was a pre-designed campaign that would have occurred regardless of the Resistance's response.

🔹 Qassem stated that the Resistance launched missile operations in reaction to the martyrdom of the martyred Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, and in response to 15 months of continuous Israeli violations.

🔹 He condemned the Lebanese government's acceptance of the so-called "framework agreement", drafted under U.S. pressure, as sheer capitulation to Israeli dictates and a retreat from national sovereignty.

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🔴FM Deputy: Strait of Hormuz Can Only Be Closed or Reopened by Iran

🔹Kazem Gharibabadi rejected Trump’s remarks about declaring the Strait U.S. territory, saying Iran “will not be intimidated” and that the Strait “has been, is, and will remain Iranian.”

🔹 Iran will continue its blockade until the U.S. accepts its “strategic defeat.”

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🔴 Bloody Shooting in Michigan Leaves 6 Dead

🔹 At least six people, including the suspected gunman, were killed and one person was injured following a shooting in Missaukee County in northern Michigan.

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🔴 A maritime incident reported near Strait of Hormuz.

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🔴 Saudi Artillery and Rocket Strikes Hit Several Areas in Yemen

🔹 Yemeni sources reported that the Saudi army carried out artillery and rocket attacks on the Al-Dhahir area in Saada province and the Bani Sayyah area in the border district of Razih.

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🔴 Lebanon's Ministry of Health announced that the Israeli regime's airstrikes on Deir ez-Zahrani town left 2 martyred and 9 others wounded.

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🔴 Iranian Commander: 3 Iranian Pilots Captured Alive by Qatar After Fighter Jet Crashes

🔹 Brigadier General Baqerzadeh, commander of the Missing Persons Search Committee of Iran’s Armed Forces General Staff, said three Iranian pilots were captured alive by Qatari forces after their Su-24 fighter jets crashed during the March attacks.

🔹 Javad Salehi, Abdolmajid Dashtian and Emran Baroushian have been held by Qatari forces for six months, with Qatar denying them contact with their families and Iranian officials.

🔹 Baqerzadeh said the International Committee of the Red Cross should visit the Iranian pilots in Qatar as soon as possible under the Third Geneva Convention, assess their health and work to secure their release.

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