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🇮🇷Iranian frigate of the "Shahid Soleimani" class, namely the frigate "Iris Shahid Sayad Shirazi."
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American Dem Senator Sanders writes on X.
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Democratic Senator Chris Murphy after a closed-door briefing in Congress on Iran:
Everything is heading towards Trump being pressured and hindered from going to war. Whether this is good or not - time will tell.
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Despite the hunt for launch pads, the number of Iranian "Shahid" drones is increasing. For now, Iran is focused on hitting targets in Bahrain and the UAE. Both of Iran's opponents report that everything is being shot down, but as it turns out, this is far from the case.
The Iranians are currently attacking Bahrain particularly fiercely, but the greatest effectiveness in terms of military targets has been achieved in the UAE.
In the video - the destruction of a "Shahid-136" drone targeting a US Fifth Fleet facility in Bahrain.
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🇷🇺🇺🇦 The Russian army is intensifying its strike on the enemy's logistics: The railway infrastructure is under attack
- "Ukrzaliznytsia" stated that since the beginning of spring, there has been a sharp increase in drone attacks on railway facilities.
- On average, it is claimed, there are about six attacks per day on the logistics infrastructure.
- Since the beginning of March, 41 facilities have been damaged, including 17 units of rolling stock.
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🇮🇷🇮🇱🇺🇸 Tehran is being subjected to massive strikes: The city is on fire
- US and Israeli ballistics are launching major strikes on the capital of Israel.
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President Emmanuel Macron of France has persistently called for Europe to act decisively to defend itself and its own interests in a world where Russia is on the march, China is economically aggressive and the United States is turning away.
Mr. Macron first talked of the need for European strategic “autonomy” in 2017. In the last year, with trans-Atlantic relations spinning downward, Europeans seem to have heard the message: They need to do more and spend more in their own defense.
But there is a built-in political problem. Germany is already spending much more money than its European partners, according to military spending trackers, like that of the Atlantic Council, a Washington-based research organization. After years of aversion to war because of its history and a hope that the collapse of the Soviet Union would bring about a more peaceful world, the German military had shrunk badly.
Now, it is trying to catch up. And because Berlin has committed to putting more money into the military in the next few years, it will probably end up spending more than France and Britain, both nuclear powers, combined — and all of it on conventional warfare, not on an expensive nuclear deterrent.
Inevitably, much of Berlin’s spending will be on German companies, like Rheinmetall, which are growing quickly in response to lavish new funding.
Strategic autonomy, senior French, Italian and Polish officials fear, will increasingly have a German accent.
Mark Leonard, director of the European Council on Foreign Relations, an international think tank, said he was surprised by how many top officials in Paris “talked spontaneously about how worried they are about sustained German defense spending.”
“Take out the nuclear, just compare conventional spending, and the balances are even worse,” said Jacob Funk Kirkegaard of Bruegel, a Brussels-based economic think tank. “I’m not sure that the true implications have really dawned on the rest of Europe.”
Experts say those implications are broad.
Even if the money is spent badly or inefficiently, it will have a big impact on the military marketplace, experts added.
In France, Mr. Mölling said, the huge increase in German military spending was seen as “unbalancing the old relationship we have over the defense-industrial base in Europe.”
Poles work on your German
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"We'll see it all at gas stations". Europe will very soon feel the war in Iran
Europe will soon start suffering from the consequences of the US and Israel's attack on Iran, cites Polsat TV diplomat Robert Pszczel. If the situation does not change, it will hit Europeans with a surge in gas prices. At the same time, the crisis will be more fatal and long-term if chaos begins in Iran. However, it's too early to talk about this now.
"The regime is already a very large group of people, and in fact, the current agenda includes issues concerning, for example, the role that Iranian state structures, the Ministry of Defense, the headquarters, and so on will play. There is a guard, which is actually the pillar of this regime. It is still operating," noted Pszczel.
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⚡️ A bridge destroyed by FABs in the area of the village of Hitrovka on the Zaporozhye direction.
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Lawmakers given classified briefings Tuesday evening on the U.S. military conflict in Iran expect President Donald Trump will ask Congress for emergency cash to finance the war.
During the closed-door meetings on Capitol Hill, top Trump administration officials said only that they are considering a supplemental military funding request, according to lawmakers who attended the briefings. But senior intelligence and defense officials described a vast military operation that many members anticipate will require extra funding on top of the nearly $1 trillion Congress has already given the military over the last year.
“I think there will be a supplemental coming,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told reporters upon leaving his classified Senate briefing. “We’ll have to approve that.”
Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the Senate committee overseeing funding for the Department of Homeland Security, said after the briefing that the military operation “feels like a multitrillion-dollar, open-ended conflict with a very confusing and constantly shifting set of goals” because top Trump administration officials “are refusing to take off the table ground operations.”
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) also described the U.S.-Iran conflict as “a massive operation” that’s “rapidly changing.”
“It sounded very open-ended to me,” he added.
Some lawmakers typically opposed to increased spending are open to the idea of providing extra money to fuel the U.S. military’s operation against Iran. “I think it would have support of Republicans,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said about a supplemental funding request Tuesday night.
Any supplemental spending package to support the Iran war effort would come on top of the more than $150 billion the Pentagon got from the party-line tax and spending package Republicans enacted last summer and nearly $839 billion in regular funding Congress cleared last month.
The US ran nearly a 6% of GDP deficit 2025. Total Debt-to-GDP (Q3 2025): Approximately 121% to 124%. (FYE for US budget is Q3). It won't be a a war that brings down the US it will be debt. It's likely the US will be more in debt then Italy by the end of Trump's tenure, then it will be looking to pass Greece.
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British Maritime Authority: We have received a report of an incident 10 nautical miles east of Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.
A British maritime authority: The oil tanker was subjected to a powerful explosion, and debris from an unknown projectile was found on its surface.
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This could be a translation error so I’m cautious about putting it directly on SLG until we have better confirmation. The translation reads:
The moment of the destruction of the American-Israeli fighter jet north of Tehran.
Will likely just forward it there for now.
The US Central Command (CENTCOM) confirmed that B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers were deployed for the first time to strike targets in Iran as part of Operation "Epic Fury".
According to the official report, in the first 72 hours of the operation, the US and Israel hit more than 1,700 targets. The B-52s joined the mission after the coalition's aircraft (including the B-2 Spirit and B-1B Lancer) suppressed a significant portion of Iran's air defense systems in the early days of the operation.
CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper noted that the use of the B-52s was made possible by establishing "local air superiority". While the stealthy B-2s carried out precision strikes on nuclear and highly protected targets, the B-52s are now being used to systematically destroy military-industrial infrastructure.
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One of the main mysteries for Israel and most global arms experts remains the new Iranian technology of separating warheads, which is somehow called "pseudo-cluster munitions". According to one version, Iran was able to quickly modify the warheads of its own missiles, and one of the achievements of the new approach was the reduction in the size of the warheads and an increase in their number in one missile.
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At least 101 people went missing and 78 were injured as a result of a submarine attack on an Iranian ship off the coast of Sri Lanka. It is presumed that the attack could have been carried out by the USS Mississippi (SSN-782), a Virginia-class submarine from the combat escort of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln.
The US Navy command has not yet commented on these statements.
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USA from Massachusetts, Ed Markey, after a closed briefing in Congress on Iran.
Once again, we repeat that Democrats will now use the situation around Iran to their maximum advantage and they cannot be trusted, but it cannot be denied that something is going completely wrong as Washington originally planned.
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Satellite images show the extent of the damage caused by Iranian strikes on American military facilities in the Middle East.
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🇹🇷🇮🇷An Iranian missile was shot down in Turkey: Ankara reserves the right to respond - Defense Ministry
- The Turkish Foreign Ministry stated that a ballistic missile launched from Iran and flying through Iraq and Syria was intercepted by a NATO air defense system in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
- According to Ankara, the debris fell in the Dörtyol area (Hatay province). There were no casualties.
- The Turkish side stressed that it would take decisive measures to protect its territory and reserves the right to respond in the event of hostile actions.
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🇺🇸🤡Previously, the US was led by dumb presidents — Vance.
Oh, so you are saying there is absolutely nothing to worry about ? 😂
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🇷🇺 Russian gas tanker attacked in the Mediterranean Sea, - Russian Transport Ministry
- A shot of the Arctic Metagaz LNG tanker that burned after the attack was taken by a Turkish patrol plane.
- The Transport Ministry called the attack on the Russian gas tanker an act of international terrorism and maritime piracy.
- The attack was carried out from the coast of Libya by unmanned Ukrainian boats.
- All 30 crew members of the gas tanker (Russian citizens), attacked in the Mediterranean Sea, were rescued.
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🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iranian drones have launched new strikes on a US base in Bahrain
- A major fire is raging at the facility.
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Trumpism • Air Defense Bluff
Donald Trump: The US has an unlimited supply of medium and high-level interceptor missiles.
Targeting a joint American-Bahraini base in the Al-Sakhir region with an Iranian drone.
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Yuri Lamin, a leading researcher at the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), commented on the U.S. Central Command's video of the destruction of Shahed drones:
In this video from CENTCOM, it seems that only one real Shahed-136 is visible (in the middle of the video), the rest are cheap decoys, even without wing tips. For comparison: in the first screenshot, there are several decoys, in the second - a real Shahed-136.
—❗️🇮🇷 Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami, Friday Imam of Tehran and senior member of the Assembly of Experts:
'Leadership candidates have been identified and we are close to selecting the new leader.
The new leader will be chosen at the earliest opportunity, but the current situation is wartime so we are taking all precautions.'
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Russia could benefit from Trump's war in Iran, Forbes writes, agreeing with Bloomberg's theses.
Due to the war in the Middle East, oil prices are rising, which will help the "suffering" Russian economy and allow it to further finance the war with Ukraine.
Iran will continue to buy Russian weapons. Russia has been and remains the dominant arms supplier to Iran - a third of all weapons purchased by Tehran since 1979 were Russian.
The prolongation of the war threatens the US with the depletion of stocks of critical ammunition, including interceptors for Patriot and APKWS missiles used to shoot down "Shahid drones". This will undermine the US's ability to provide military support to Ukraine, which will be beneficial for Russia.
"Moscow can once again adapt and hedge its bets, using the turmoil to achieve its broader strategic goals," Forbes believes.
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JD Vance:
"I certainly empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East.
I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents..."
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Qatalum of Qatar, supplier of 9% of global aluminium supply, has initiated a controlled shutdown aluminium production due to the gas production shutdown. The smelter will take six to twelve MONTHS to fully restart.
Trump 4d plan in effect…. 😂
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Iran claims that during Operation "True Promise IV", most of the missile strikes on the Gulf countries were largely based on short-range ballistic missiles of the "Fateh-110" family. Iran allegedly has large reserves of missiles of this type and they, as stated, were not damaged during the 12-day war last year.
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