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Iran launches missiles toward Israel after Trump announced incoming ceasefire. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-858748 Sirens sound across Israel after Iran missile attack despite Trump ceasefire announcement. Alarms issued for large swaths of Israel just hours after US president announced phased ceasefire agreement between Israel and Iran to take effect within a 24-hour window. Iran’s FM Rejects US Claim of Ceasefire Agreement with Israel. https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/847885 Report: One person was critically injured and 5 were slightly injured from a direct hit on a structure in the south. In the Shadow of Ceasefire Talks: Launches from Iran Across the Country - One Seriously Injured in Beer...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Gen Dan Caine will hold a press briefing at the Pentagon. Tune in on Sunday, June 22, 2025, at 7:30 am EDT on RSBN.

For 40 years, Iran’s relentless hostility toward the U.S. has fueled proxy wars, terror attacks, and nuclear ambitions. Now, after diplomatic overtures were rejected, America’s decisive strike on Iran’s nuclear sites signals a historic turning point in the Middle East power struggle. For 40 years, Iran has reverberated with the menacing chant of “Death to America” and “Death to Israel,” a rallying cry born from the 1979 Islamic Revolution under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Last night, Saturday, June 21, 2025, that decades-long hostility faced a decisive response when President Donald Trump authorized a U.S. military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities at...

Ocasio-Cortez Calls for Trump to Be Impeached over U.S Strikes on Iran Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) speaks at a town hall gathering on May 2, 2025 in NewDavid Dee Delgado/Getty Images Elizabeth Weibel21 Jun 20258 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) called for President Donald Trump to be impeached over the United States launching strikes on several nuclear sites in Iran. In a post on X, Ocasio-Cortez claimed that Trump’s decision to “bomb Iran without authorization” was a “grave violation” of the U.S. Constitution. “The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional...

Run time 12m 34 s BREAKING: Israel Finally ATTACKS Khamenei’s Bunker - President’s Plane Leaves Tehran https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pBUbT3T3Bk&pp=ygUIdG91c2kgdHY%3D

Trump’s actual positions (vs the strawmen many are arguing against) are enormously popular with Americans outside the online influencer bubble. https://t.co/9FMnZFvbnZ— AG (@AGHamilton29) June 18, 2025

Merz calls Operation Rising Lion 'the dirty work Israel is doing for all of us' in an interview about the conflict between Israel and Iran.

Russia has strongly defended Iran’s right to maintain peaceful nuclear installations. Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said Iran had the right to such facilities in the past, holds it now, and will continue to do so in the future. She made these remarks while speaking to Sputnik Radio, stressing that peaceful nuclear sites are now under direct attack. Zakharova warned that the threat of nuclear conflict in the Middle East is no longer a theory but a real and growing danger. She said these attacks are not only increasing tensions but also posing a serious threat to both the...

A GOP official in Congress told the Free Beacon 'there's no Republican divide,' stating that 'Republicans back Israel'

President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that he is an “easy target” and “our patience is wearing thin,” before demanding Tehran surrender in its conflict against Israel. “We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “He is an easy target, but is safe there - We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now,” he wrote after declaring “total control” over Iran’s airspace. “But we don’t want missiles shot at civilians, or American soldiers. Our patience is wearing thin.” Trump in a subsequent...

The anti-Israel, pro-Iran faction on the right lost Trump. Whether or not America takes part in the fighting, the administration is complicit in the battle against a rogue, terrorist state. And the isolationist “woke right” is furious about that. Jonathan S. Tobin. (June 16, 2025 / JNS). Who is losing the most in the successful strikes on Iran by the Israeli Defense Forces? At the top of the list is, obviously, the Islamist regime itself. It has had its terrorist infrastructure in the form of the leadership of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as well as what is left of...

G7 backs Israel as US and Iran eye reviving diplomacy. Summary. US President Donald Trump said Iran should have signed the “deal” I told them to sign," adding that "everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!"

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told ABC News on Monday that targeting Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei would end, not escalate, the ongoing fight between Israel and Iran that erupted late last week. When asked by ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl about reports from ABC News and other outlets that President Donald Trump rejected an Israeli plan to assassinate Iran's Supreme Leader, concerned that it would escalate the conflict, Netanyahu said, "It's not going to escalate the conflict, it's going to end the conflict." SNIP "Today, it's Tel Aviv. Tomorrow, it's New York. Look, I understand 'America First'....

Warning to Khamenei On Sunday, Israel targeted the city of Mashhad, located 2,300 kilometers from the Jewish State, for the first time. A diplomatic source in the Middle East told Iran International that the Israeli airstrike on Mashhad was a warning to Iran’s Supreme Leader that he is not safe anywhere in the country. The diplomatic source added that Israel could have eliminated Khamenei on the first night of the operation, but the Israeli government chose to keep him alive to give him a final chance to decide on completely dismantling the Islamic Republic’s uranium enrichment program.

“For those people who say they want peace, you can’t have peace if Iran has a nuclear weapon," said the U.S. president. June 15, 2025. U.S. President Donald Trump dismissed allegations that his support for Israel in its war against Iran was at odds with his “America First” commitment, stating that preventing Tehran from obtaining nuclear arms was a top U.S. priority. “Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb, very simple. Regardless—Israel or not Israel—Iran cannot have a nuclear bomb,” Trump told The Atlantic for an interview published on Saturday

("an analyst told CNN." CNN, June 15, 2025 https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/israel-iran-strikes-news-06-15-25) _______ CAMERA Special Report: The National Iranian American Council; Tehran’s Best Friend in Washington. By: Sean Durns November 24, 2015. [...] Parsi’s dissertation on Israeli-Iranian relations served as the basis for his book Treacherous Alliance (2008, Yale University Press). Parsi is a resident alien, with Swedish and Iranian passports, not an American citizen, although he runs an organization that claims to represent Iranian-Americans... Upon coming to the United States in 2001, Parsi worked as a managing director for Hooshang Amirhadmadi of the American Iranian Council (AIC) while completing graduate study. Parsi...

Israel targets Iran: IRGC, Iran military chiefs killed, Khamenei threatens revenge Tehran planning 'a harsh response,' Iranian security source says • IDF hits Natanz nuclear site • IDF attacks on Iran expected to continue 'for days at a time'. June 13, 7:24 AM Israel expecting Iranian response over coming hours ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF Israel is expecting retaliatory strikes from Iran to begin over the coming hours, Israeli media reported on Friday morning, citing defense assessments. June 13, 7:20 AM Iran can't have nuclear weapon, Trump says after Israeli strike By Reuters. US President Donald Trump said that Iran cannot have...

President Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that will restore his “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran in a bid to stop Tehran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and drive its oil exports down to zero. The move brings back the tough-on-Iran policies that Mr. Trump imposed during his first term. It also comes just hours ahead of his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. -snip- The order directs the Treasury Department to impose “maximum economic power” on Iran, including sanctions and enforcement mechanisms on those violating existing sanctions. It will also implement a campaign aimed at driving Iran’s oil...

Uzay Bulut @bulutuzay_: İsmet Özel, a well-known Muslim poet from Turkey, said at a conference: "Muslims are terrorists. The first duty of Muslims is to be terrorists. Kafirs [infidels] should be afraid of Muslims. If they are not afraid, then a Muslim is not a Muslim." https://t.co/oyNMAnLP7E — Uzay Bulut (@bulutuzay_) September 27, 2024.

Against the background of the indirect talks between the US and Iran in the Sultanate of Oman that were exposed in Walla! Iraqi senior officials announced today that the Biden administration gave the government in Baghdad a one-point exemption from the sanctions on Iran in order to pay debts to Tehran. Against the background of the indirect talks conducted by the United States and Iran in Oman and which were exposed in Walla!, senior Iraqi officials announced that the Biden administration gave the government in Baghdad a one-time exemption from the sanctions on Iran in order to pay Tehran about...