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🇬🇷⚔️🇹🇷 Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis:
I am the only Greek Prime Minister who went to Ankara and raised the issue of the casus belli directly.
I told President Erdogan clearly, politely, but without retreating from Greece's positions:
"It is not possible, 31 years after the threat of war was issued, for you to want to move closer to Europe, for me—under certain conditions—to want to help bring you closer to Europe, and at the same time for you to keep open a threat of war in case Greece exercises a lawful sovereign right under international law."
🏴🇬🇧🥷 Ilia Belov, 22, a Roma from Bulgaria who calls himself the “Gypsy Gangster,” has been found guilty of assaulting a 12-year-old girl and making sexual remarks to children in Dundee last year.
Belov denied the charges and claimed the girls had called him a “f****** migrant”, but the sheriff rejected his account as “wholly unconvincing and self-serving”.
The girl was initially portrayed as the aggressor after footage emerged showing her holding an axe and knife.
🔗 Europa
🇺🇸 Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard:
Today, I’m releasing never before seen intelligence revealing new evidence of past US government funding for more than 120 biolabs in over 30 countries, including Ukraine.
In support of President Trump‘s Executive Order to end federal funding of dangerous gain of function research around the world, and increase transparency and accountability, ODNI will continue working with partners across the Administration to identify where these labs are, what pathogens they contain, and what “research” is being conducted.
🇺🇸 SpaceX becomes the 7th most valuable public company in the world
Elon Musk has officially become a trillionaire.
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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi:
‘The Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding has never been closer. Pending its finalization, the media should refrain from entering speculation about its content.
In line with our responsible and transparent approach, all details will be shared with the public in due course.’
@Middle_East_Spectator
🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸🇧🇭 Recent Iranian strikes on Sheikh Isa Air Base in Bahrain, which hosts U.S. forces, appear to have destroyed fuel bladders located at 25°54'28.43"N, 50°35'17.32"E within the base.
Recent satellite imagery also shows that a warehouse/hangar at the base has sustained damage.
🔗 Egypt's Intel Observer (@EGYOSINT)
🇪🇺📉 European defence stocks crash due to low investor trust in Europe's capacity to fund their militaries
The Stoxx Europe Targeted Defence index has fallen more than 15 per cent since its peak in January, with much of that coming since the start of the US-Israeli war against Iran, wiping billions of euros from the values of companies including BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, Thales, Leonardo and Rheinmetall.
The fall marks an abrupt reversal in what had become one of the biggest trades in European equity markets in recent years. The defence index had risen more than 40 per cent every year since 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, and in 2025 it almost doubled, fuelled by Germany’s massive infrastructure and military investment plans and a Nato agreement to raise defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP.
“Last year was all about ‘how great is this [spending]’,” said Charles Armitage, European defence analyst at Citi. “This year is all about ‘how are we going to pay for it?’”
Military spending plans have come under renewed scrutiny after government borrowing costs around the world soared this year because of the Iran war and the near-closure of the Strait of Hormuz, as the prospect of higher inflation raises expectations of interest rate rises.
At the same time, governments face growing pressure to offer relief to businesses and consumers hit by higher energy prices, putting a strain on state budgets in energy-importing Europe.
Germany this month told France it will withdraw from plans to develop a joint fighter jet - the central element of the €100bn Future Combat Air System programme, which was set to be one of the continent’s biggest defence projects.
Meanwhile, Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš told the FT last week the country would “probably” miss the Nato spending benchmark of 2 per cent of GDP.
In Europe, Rheinmetall, Airbus and Thales all disappointed with their reported revenues in the first quarter of 2026, raising questions about whether investors had priced in too much optimism for those companies from greater defence spending.
🔗 https://www.ft.com/content/1fa66019-c241-46f8-b9e4-7b3ac8575904
🇻🇪- Venezuela has deployed troops near Las Claritas in southern Bolivar state to target illegal groups controlling key gold deposits (garimpeiros) in the Orinoco Mining Arc as the government seeks to attract foreign investment to its mining sector.
➡️ Residents and human rights activists monitoring the area reported explosions, gunfire, and low-flying drones over the past few nights, with many people kept off the streets and businesses forced to close.
➡️ Venezuela passed a new mining law in April aimed at encouraging foreign investment, while US Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has said the government pledged security guarantees for incoming companies.
🇮🇱⚔️🇱🇧🇸🇾 Ceasefires and construction: Satellite images reveal how Israel is cementing its presence in Lebanon and Syria
Israel has developed a string of military bases at strategic locations in newly occupied territory from the Mediterranean to the Yarmouk River. Sources say it looks like they're here to stay
With its sweeping panoramas of south Lebanon and flags rising over 1,000-year-old battlements, the footage Israel released last week of its troops seizing Beaufort Castle was intended to provoke awe and anger.
Between 1982 and 2000, Israel maintained a permanent base at Beaufort Castle, one repeatedly shelled by Hezbollah during a guerrilla campaign that eventually forced the occupiers out.
Israel invaded Lebanon in October 2024, escalating year-long, cross-border clashes with Hezbollah that the Lebanese movement launched in response to the genocide in Gaza.
By the time Israel agreed to fully withdraw in a 27 November 2024 ceasefire agreement, Lebanon was traumatised.
Hezbollah’s leadership had been largely wiped out, 4,000 people had been killed by Israel and more than a million had been displaced from the south and areas of Beirut.
Under the terms of that agreement, the Israelis had 60 days to pull out, with Hezbollah promising to retreat north of the Litani River in return. Yet, despite an extension, the deadline came and went, with Israel refusing to leave five positions it established in the first days of the invasion.
These five bases were all built on hilltop positions, giving a clear line of sight over large stretches of south Lebanon.
The end of Israel’s 2024 invasion of Lebanon dovetailed with dramatic events in Syria that opened the door for a new occupation to the east
Among the first locations seized was the summit of Mount Hermon, which at 2,814 metres is the Levant’s second-highest peak.
Netanyahu triumphantly visited troops there that December, insisting Israel would not retreat for at least a year.
Deep into 2026, Israel remains at the summit. Meanwhile, a series of bases has been established from Mount Hermon’s peak to the Yarmouk River on the Syrian-Jordanian border - a line of control 70km long.
MEE has identified at least 10 Israeli bases and observation posts set up in newly occupied areas of Syria since the fall of Assad.
Eight are within the neutral buffer zone, which was created along the boundary of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights after the 1973 Middle East war and is monitored by another UN peacekeeping force, Undof.
Satellite imagery also shows Israel has constructed long lines of earth fortifications along that boundary, known as the Purple Line, including elevated mounds allowing vehicles to ascend for surveillance.
🔗 https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/ceasefires-and-construction-how-israel-cementing-its-presence-lebanon-and-syria
🇨🇾🇬🇷🤝🇮🇱🇺🇸 Official X/Twitter account of the Israeli MFA:
Israel, Greece, Cyprus and the United States have launched, on Friday June 11th, the East Med Energy Center, a new platform for cooperation in energy, technology, innovation and research.
The initiative will strengthen cooperation on energy security, cybersecurity, innovation and critical infrastructure while bringing together governments, universities, researchers and industry leaders.
A major step forward in strengthening regional cooperation and building a more secure and connected Eastern Mediterranean.
🇮🇱🇬🇷🇨🇾⚔️🇹🇷 How Israel-led military architecture aims at encircling Türkiye in Eastern Mediterranean
The summit held in Jerusalem brought a decade-long process, which had taken on a symbolic character, under a single framework in the areas of energy security, maritime infrastructure, intelligence sharing, and military coordination.
The documents signed in Nicosia also include exercise schedules, technology transfers, and joint planning mechanisms. The Greek General Staff gave its approval, the Israeli Ministry of Defence issued a statement, and the Greek Cypriot administration confirmed the details.
The joint statement emphasized the "protection of critical infrastructure" and intelligence sharing. Behind the cold language of a diplomatic communiqué, however, lies a far warmer calculation.
Israel’s proven, refined electronic warfare capabilities, which have adapted to the complexities of the digital age, are being geographically repositioned as part of this process.
The anti-drone architecture, derived from Iron Beam, radar fusion systems for target detection across the electromagnetic spectrum, signal jamming technologies, and sensor networks that detect unmanned aerial vehicles, is now making its presence felt on the eastern shores of the Aegean and in the airspace of Cyprus.
The Maritime Cyber Security Center of Excellence, which opened in Nicosia in February 2026, is perhaps the most intriguing component of this framework. It was designed to serve as the nerve center of a surveillance and early warning network covering undersea cables, energy platforms, port infrastructure, and Mediterranean maritime traffic.
The joint structure comprising the Israeli Cyber Directorate, the Greek cyber security authority, and Cypriot institutions positions the cyber domain not as a battlefield, but as a ground for preparation.
The same logic applies to the Barak MX system deployed in Cyprus. With a range of 150 kilometers and 3D radar capability, this system translates a topographical advantage into a technological reality.
Türkiye's response and broader geopolitical reality
The Blue Homeland doctrine has been at the center of debates for years, both in the legal sphere and on the operational front. NAVTEX notifications, drilling activities, the maritime jurisdiction agreement signed with Libya, and the strengthening of military infrastructure in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).
All of these represent countermeasures taken by Ankara in the context of a rivalry and realignment that has been ongoing for over a decade.
Every step taken has a response, every agreement signed has a countermeasure. The TRNC’s growing strategic importance adds a whole new dimension to this equation: Northern Cyprus is no longer merely a political issue, but is becoming a technical chokepoint.
There is no need to analyse every nuance to understand the situation unfolding in the Eastern Mediterranean. It is enough to look at the bigger picture: on one side, Türkiye—a country grappling with challenges both to its east and west, seeking to expand its maritime rights, and acting out of a desire to maintain its regional influence.
On the other side, three countries are seeking to build a common regional architecture against Türkiye by pooling their vulnerabilities, whilst seeking to transform those vulnerabilities into strength. And between these two, a rapidly evolving technological, operational, and diplomatic reality.
🔗 https://www.turkiyetoday.com/opinion/the-silent-war-in-the-mediterranean-3219517?s=5
🇮🇱🇸🇴⚔️🇸🇴🇹🇷 Another theater in the Israel-Turkey rivalry to watch is Somalia/Somaliland.
For Israel, Somaliland is not just depth for the Houthis/Iran, but also to "contain" Turkish influence in the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea, given Ankara's strong partnership with Somalia.
One of many factors in the complex competition in the Horn of Africa/broader Red Sea region.
🔗 Liam Karr
🇮🇱🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:
As long as I am the Prime Minister of Israel - Iran will not have nuclear weapons. There is full agreement between me and President Trump on this matter.Читать полностью…
For more than 30 years, I have been at the forefront of the international struggle against Iran's nuclear program. If it weren't for this struggle, Iran would have had atomic bombs to destroy Israel long ago.
Iran is working to destroy the Jewish state, and I dedicate my life to preventing them from doing so.
As long as I am the Prime Minister of Israel, this will not happen.
🇺🇸 Vance Boelter pleaded guilty Thursday to assassinating Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark Hortman, and to shooting State Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette Hoffman, in attacks that prosecutors described as politically motivated.
• Prosecutors said Vance Boelter carried out the shootings while disguised as a police officer and driving a vehicle made to resemble a squad car.
• As part of the plea agreement, federal prosecutors will not seek the death penalty.
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🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 8× U.S. Air Force aerial refueling aircraft are currently operating over Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf, while a USAF E-3B Sentry AWACS remains airborne over the region.
🔗 EGYOSINT
🇬🇷🤝🇮🇱 Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis:
Greece has a strategic relationship with Israel. I emphasize that this relationship is not necessarily with the current government, but with the State of Israel.
It is a relationship that has depth, and a relationship that allows us to criticize Israel whenever it takes actions that we believe do not serve either national interests or regional security.
I am referring, for example, to the war and the expansion into southern Lebanon, an operation that we have condemned many times.
🇺🇦☣️🇺🇸 The Ukrainian biolabs funded by the U.S. date from the Soviet era and contain Soviet stocks of bioweapons (BWs) and dangerous strains.
The U.S. funded these labs to keep those pathogens safely deposited and trained Ukrainian virologists to handle said pathogens.
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🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 American & Allied Naval Groupings in the Middle East as of June 12th 2026.
There are 34 warships present, down from the peak in April 2026 when there were 37 warships in CENTCOM's AoR.
🔗 /channel/rybar_mena/5516
📊 Trump has a 52% approval rating among U.S. Evangelicals.
The decline in his approval rating is a result of rising inflation, a trend which began prior to the 3rd Gulf War but that was exacerbated by it as a result of gas and food prices.
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🇺🇸🚢 Trump claimed a secret U.S. operation helped 200+ commercial ships transit the Strait of Hormuz.
Now a June 5 INTERTANKO advisory reviewed by gCaptain describes a U.S.-coordinated nighttime route along the Omani coast involving ships operating with AIS off, navigational lights extinguished, and limited radar use.
The advisory not only corroborates with Trump's claims, but also offers the clearest description yet of how limited shipping has continued through Hormuz during the conflict.
📝 Matt Burnell: We have steady Synthetic Aperture Radar coverage of the Strait over the last five weeks (since Project Freedom). All but five days over that time has at least partial coverage of the Strait.
I have not seen one single commercial vessel underway in the inshore traffic scheme in that time. In fact the only vessel there is the BARAKAH, which was disabled and remained anchored in place from early May until June 7th or 8th.
Much of the imagery is very early morning, prior to sunrise, when we should be seeing vessels on the East side of the Strait having exited overnight. Ships aren't there.
I want to believe all of this reporting is true, but there is no evidence anywhere that backs up the numbers being reported by the administration. It isn't just that saying 5 or even 15 or 26 vessels a day is a stretch, there are NO ships in the Omani traffic scheme in any of these images.
There is no amount of lights off and dark mode that can hide a ship from SAR. I should also add that the intelligence community has long suspected that the IRGC has observation posts aboard fishing vessels at Khasab and Iranian observation drones are both night vision and IR capable (because they reverse engineered one of ours). The idea that we are secretly sneaking 1-2 dozen ships out a night is absurd and the imagery backs that up.
Timelapse of satellite imagery from May 2nd to June 11th showing the Strait of Hormuz. Its completely empty of ships.
🔗 https://gcaptain.com/tanker-industry-advisory-sheds-new-light-on-trumps-secret-hormuz-transit-operation/
🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 President Trump denied the veracity of the MOU terms presented by Iranian medias claiming they had "nothing to do" with the "real" terms agreed before in writing.
📝: Allegedly, a draft for a deal between the U.S. and Iran exists but the terms presented by each side are denied by the other. Without a document made public, its impossible to know which side's story is fact and which side's isn't.
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🇺🇸⚡️ — NOW: Elon Musk's SpaceX debuts on the Nasdaq exchange after world's biggest IPO.
➡️ The IPO has made Elon Musk the world's first trillionaire.
🇮🇷🇺🇸- According to Fars News, a source close to the Iranian negotiating team has flatly denied claims by Donald Trump and some foreign media outlets that an agreement has been finalized and is set to be signed in Geneva on Sunday.
➡️ The source stated that the review and decision-making process in Iran has not yet been concluded and that both the Sunday date and the Geneva location are "completely denied."
🇹🇷 Turkey's is carrying out large-scale naval exercises across the Black Sea, Aegean Sea, Eastern Mediterranean and Sea of Marmara, including strategically important areas that geographically separate Cyprus from Greece.
The drills are among the largest conducted by the Turkish Navy in recent years, involving approximately 120 vessels, 85 naval and aerial assets, and around 22,700 military personnel. Dunav Intel monitored the activity of at least 3 Bayraktar TB3 UCAVs operating consecutively from the TCG Anadolu, Turkey's drone-capable amphibious assault ship commissioned in 2023.
Over the past year, Dunav Intel has also observed a noticeable increase in Turkish aerial activity in strategically important areas, including the waters off Antalya and over the so-called Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
Recently, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan employed strong rhetoric against Israel, while also criticizing the expanding strategic cooperation between Israel, Greece and Cyprus.
🔗 Dunav Intel
🇹🇷❌🇫🇷 Türkiye lashes out at France-Cyprus military deal, says ready to give 'harshest response'
Türkiye's Ministry of National Defense (MoND) issued a sharp warning Thursday following the signing of a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) between France and the Greek Cypriot Administration (GCA).
Ankara called the pact contrary to the 1960 Cyprus treaties and international law. It warned that the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) "have the strength and determination to give the harshest response to hostile attitudes that threaten the security of Cypriot Turks."
The France-GCA SOFA, signed by the two countries' defense ministers, grants French military forces access to bases and military infrastructure in Greek Cyprus, expanding France's military footprint in the Eastern Mediterranean amid heightened regional tensions.
Türkiye and the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) view the deal as a unilateral attempt to alter the island's sensitive balance and as a direct violation of Ankara's guarantor rights under the 1960 agreements.
🔗 https://www.turkiyetoday.com/nation/turkiye-lashes-out-at-france-cyprus-military-deal-says-ready-to-give-harshest-respons-3221717?s=2
🇹🇷⚔️🇮🇱 A warning, not a threat: Understanding Erdogan’s speech on Israel
A journalist asked U.S. President Donald Trump a remarkably simple question: Could President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s harsh rhetoric toward Israel push the two countries toward conflict?
Trump’s answer was not diplomatic. It was personal. He described Erdogan as “a very good friend” and “a strong leader,” then brushed aside the possibility of conflict by referring to the respect Erdogan supposedly has for him. “I don’t think that will happen as long as I’m president because he respects me.”
A few years ago, Tel Aviv quietly began developing a new strategic concept, as I discussed in a previous article. It was no longer enough to position Türkiye as a Sunni buffer against Iran. For Israel, it became far more useful to frame Ankara as the next major threat.
The plan operated on several levels. Türkiye would be portrayed, alongside Qatar and Pakistan, as part of a hostile Sunni bloc. Ankara’s growing ties with Gulf capitals would be undermined. Its expanding defense cooperation with the UAE would be disrupted. Turkish influence in Syria would be rolled back.
Behind this approach stood a coherent scenario. Iran’s regime would not survive for long. Gaza would fall under Israeli control. Syria would ultimately accommodate Tel Aviv’s demands.
In this victory scenario, Türkiye would find itself increasingly isolated across the region and gradually transformed into an unreliable actor in Washington’s eyes.
None of that happened.
While political pressure campaigns continued, something much more tangible was taking shape in the Eastern Mediterranean.
The trilateral framework linking Israel, Greece, and the Greek Cypriot administration presented itself as a platform for regional stability and energy security. Yet when examined alongside the joint cybersecurity center in Nicosia, the deployment of the Barak MX air defense system in Greek Cyprus, and military exercises such as Noble Dina and Iniochos, a different picture emerges.
Together, these initiatives form a layered containment architecture designed to constrain Türkiye’s operational freedom.
The latest piece was added in Houston last week. The Greece-Cyprus-Israel-US 3+1 format activated a previously dormant provision of the 2019 EastMed Act and established the Eastern Mediterranean Energy Center. The legislation itself states that one of the center’s missions is to analyze crises and threats related to competition over regional natural resources, energy reserves, and strategic investments.
In other words, this is not merely an energy cooperation mechanism. It is also an early warning and strategic analysis platform focused on a specific regional actor.
Türkiye, meanwhile, has pursued a different path. Rather than investing in EastMed, a project burdened by high costs and long implementation timelines, Ankara has moved toward an initiative with greater potential at a moment when tensions around the Strait of Hormuz are forcing the world to consider alternatives.
By signing a memorandum of understanding with Saudi Arabia, Türkiye has taken a step toward integrating Gulf oil and commodities into secure overland railway routes, Turkish ports, and existing pipeline infrastructure.
🔗 https://www.turkiyetoday.com/opinion/a-warning-not-a-threat-understanding-erdogans-speech-on-israel-3221731?s=2
🇪🇹⚔️🇪🇹 Ethiopia's intelligence chief and former Tigray interim president Getachew Reda published a joint op-ed on Al Jazeera warning that hardline TPLF elements — backed by Eritrea — are preparing to launch an offensive against the federal government "in the coming days."
TPLF has not publicly responded to the "imminent offensive" claim.
The op-ed calls on the international community to pressure both TPLF hardliners and Eritrea before the situation collapses back into full-scale war.
If accurate, renewed conflict would be catastrophic — Tigray is still devastated from the last war.
A new round could pull in Eritrea directly while Ethiopia is already managing the Amhara Fano insurgency on a separate front.
🔗 Clash Report
🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸🇧🇭 SoarAtlas found an impact on a newly-built hangar (2025) at ISA Air Base in Bahrain, base hosting US Navy P-8 Poseidon.
The damage was done between June 2-7, IRGC targeted US Bases in Bahrain with Missiles & Drones on June 3 & June 6.
🔗 MenchOsint (@MenchOsint)
⚡️🇫🇷 Few days after a rally of the french far left and pro-great replacement party led by J-L. Mélenchon in St-Denis, an identitarian group has deployed a "remigration" banner on the basilique.
This is a highly symbolic monument, the birthplace of gothic architecture, and used to be the burial grounds of the french monarchy, until the revolutionnary scum sacked it in 1793.
Furthermore the city mayor is an african man belonging to the aforementionned party.
Thus the spectacle of them proclaiming the advent of "the new france" which is simultaneously a leftist repackaging and an acclamation of the great replacement is a tremendous insult to french people.
@medmannews
🇺🇸🇺🇸- A US Air Force F-35A Lightning II fighter jet has squawked 7700 (General Emergency) minutes after taking off from Abu Dhabi's Al Dhafra Air Base.
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