—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: 'Israel believes it is capable of attacking Iran's nuclear program without direct U.S. participation, and the Israeli military leadership is pushing for this in the short term' – Israeli Officials

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived at the White House, and was received by President Trump

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 WATCH: Donald Trump serves as a personal assistant to Benjamin Netanyahu for the second time.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: President Trump claims the United States will hold important 'direct talks' with Iran on Saturday – Iran has not yet responded to this claim

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 There are only two options:

1. Trump doesn't understand the definition of 'direct talks', and thinks that communicating via Oman as a mediator means 'direct'.

2. He's simply lying in order to pressure Iran or to make Iran issue a rejection of his claim, which would make Iran seem like the 'bad guy' for refusing negotiations.

This is all a political game.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Iran's Foreign Ministry says it has only agreed to 'indirect negotiations', rejects Trump's claims – Tasnim

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran's Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi: 'Iran and the United States will meet in Oman on Saturday for indirect high-level talks'

This contradicts President Trump's statement, who claimed Iran had agreed to hold direct talks.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱 NEW: Microsoft has fired two employees who disrupted the company’s 50th anniversary celebration to protest its support for the Israeli military's indiscriminate murder of civilians

Israel ranks among Microsoft’s top 500 global customers for cloud services and AI, with costs for 'engineering support and consultancy' alone exceeding $40 million since October 2023.

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— 🇮🇱 NEW: Hebrew media reports that a settler bus has overturned in 'Rishon LeZion,' south of Tel Aviv, resulting in 22 injuries.

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— 🇹🇷/🇮🇱/🇸🇾 NEW: According to unconfirmed reports, Turkey and Israel have established a communication line to avoid conflict in Syria

This follows Netanyahu's visit to the White House yesterday, where he told Donald Trump that he does not want Syria to be 'used' by Turkey.

Approximately two weeks ago, the Israeli Air Force struck the 'T-4' base in Syria, thwarting a planned visit by Turkish officials intending to inspect the site for moving Turkish assets.

Additionally, Israel is reportedly lobbying the U.S. to block the resumption of an F-35 sale to Turkey.

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— 🇮🇷/🇷🇺/🇨🇳 NEW: Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Duma, has ratified the 20-year strategic partnership with Iran, signed on January 17

Additionally, consultations on the nuclear program between Iran, Russia, and China will be held in Moscow today.

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— 🇮🇳/🇮🇱 NEW: The Israeli Aerospace Industries has announced that the 'Barak-8' medium-range SAM, jointly developed with India, has completed its final tests by the Indian Army.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇮🇷 Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: 'A Nuclear Deal with Iran is only acceptable if it is a 'Libya-style' full disarmament, meaning we go in, the nuclear facilities are dismantled and blown up under American supervision. Otherwise, the only remaining option is a military strike.'

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What is this guy smoking?