—❗️🇮🇷 BREAKING: The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, will reportedly hold an 'important speech' this Friday

Today, the Supreme Leader sent his personal representative to meet with all the religious clerics and authorities in the holy city of Qom.

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— 🇮🇷/🇦🇪 NEW: An Iranian reconnaissance drone has been active in the Persian Gulf, monitoring the UAE for the past few hours

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— 🇮🇱/🇸🇾 NEW: Hebrew media reports that Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs Ron Dermer and Syrian Foreign Minister Al-Shaibani will meet in Paris tonight.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇷🇺/🇺🇦 NEW: President Trump confirms in an interview with Fox News that he will not deploy U.S. troops on the ground in Ukraine, but is 'open' to providing American air support to European forces stationed in Ukraine

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: Various Iranian media are now denying that the Supreme Leader will give a speech on Friday

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—❗️🇯🇵/🇺🇦 NEW: Japan will participate in Ukraine's security guarantees in case of a peace deal

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Hebrew media reports a 'security incident' in Rafah, southern Gaza.

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— ❗️🇮🇱/🇸🇾 NEW: Hebrew media reports an 'exceptional security incident' in Mount Hermon, occupied Golan Heights, where seven Israeli soldiers were injured, including four in 'critical condition' from an old Syrian Arab Army bomb explosion.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Israeli helicopters evacuate IDF casualties after Palestinian factions ambushed a 'Kfir' Brigade outpost in Khan Younis.

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— 🇮🇷/🇧🇾 NEW: Following President Pezeshkian's arrival in Minsk, Iran and Belarus have signed several cooperation agreements, including in the 'military-technical' sector.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Hebrew media has published a photo of the remains of a destroyed Israeli 'Namer' armored personnel carrier in Gaza.

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— 🇮🇷/🇨🇭NEW: Chairman of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, met with Switzerland’s National Security Adviser, Gabriel Luchsinger, who reportedly conveyed a message from U.S. Envoy Steve Shitkoff.

For many years now, Switzerland has been handling U.S. diplomatic affairs inside Iran, ever since the American Embassy in Tehran closed in 1979.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇳🇱 NEW: The Trump administration continues to retaliate against the International Criminal Court (ICC) for its issued arrest warrants against Israeli leaders by sanctioning an additional four ICC judges: Nicolas Yann Guillou of France, Nazhat Shameem Khan of Fiji, Mame Mandiaye Niang of Senegal, and Kimberly Prost of Canada.

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— 🇦🇺/🇮🇱 NEW: Australia's Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke has responded to Israeli criticisms of Aussie PM Anthony Albanese, stating: 'Strength is not measured by how many people you can blow up or how many children you can leave hungry'

Australia recently banned Knesset member Simcha Dan Rothman just hours before a scheduled visit, as well as denying entry to former Israeli official Ayelet Shaked and pro-Israel lobbyist Hillel Fuld prior to that.

In response, Israel revoked the residency visas of Australia’s representatives to the Palestinian Authority.

Australia has also announced that they will recognize a Palestinian state in September.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NEW: Today, the Al-Qassam Brigades carried out a 'martyrdom operation' against IDF occupation forces in Gaza, with a fighter detonating himself amid an enemy rescue force after an ambush, blowing up a group of soldiers and killing several of them

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 Details of today's complex Al-Qassam ambush against an Israeli outpost in Gaza:

– A unit of 18 Hamas fighter emerged from a tunnel near a temporary IDF outpost in southern Khan Younis.

– The unit jumped over the dirt barrier and entered the outpost, targeting several Israeli Merkava IV tanks with Yassin-105 RPGs and IEDs from close range.

– One of the fighter managed to snipe the commander of a Merkava IV tank, fatally injuring him.

– Subsequently, the fighters began assaulting a building that housed IDF troops, with machine gun fire, grenades and RPGs.

– The unit then entered the building, killing severel Israeli soldiers at point-blank range, while also losing several of their own fighters in the process.

– When an Israeli rescue force arrived, the last Al-Qassam fighter emerged from a tunnel and blew himself up amidst the soldiers, leading to casualties.

– Lastly, the Al-Qassam Brigades fired mortar shells upon the entry and exits of the outpost, cutting off supply lines and preventing easy evacuation.

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— 🇮🇱/🇵🇸 NOTE: The IDF claims zero soldiers were killed in the incident

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The message from U.S. Envoy Steve Shitkoff, which was conveyed to Iran's SNSC chairman Ali Larijani today by Switzerland, contained 'guarantees' that the U.S. would not attack Iran during any renewed nuclear negotiations – Al Mayadeen

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