😺😒🤖🇺🇸🇮🇱 — Israel hired Brad Parscale, a former adviser to U.S. President Trump, to run a multimillion-dollar campaign aimed at shaping how AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini portray Israel.
The strategy focuses on creating structured, fact-based websites designed to be picked up by AI systems, increasing the likelihood of pro-Israel content appearing in responses.
— Axios | @TheWarReporter
🇺🇸🇮🇷 — The Iranian General Staff (Khatam al‑Anbiya Central Headquarters):
"If the US military continues the siege and piracy, it will face a strong response from our armed forces".
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🇺🇸🇮🇱☀️🇮🇷 — The IRGC says it has dismantled groups in the provinces of Kurdistan and Kermanshah, allegedly backed by the US and Israel, which were working to create conditions for an attack from the western border.
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🇮🇷🇵🇰 — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqhchi met with Pakistani Army Chief Asim Munir in Islamabad.
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🇮🇱🇮🇷 — The IRGC Intelligence Organization says it has dismantled a cell allegedly affiliated with the Israeli intelligence service Mossad.
The cell was reportedly preparing to send the locations of Iranian air defense systems to Israel.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰 — Iranian officials say that Foreign Minister Araqhchi will head to Islamabad carrying a written response to the American proposal for a peace agreement.
— The New York Times | @TheWarReporter
🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰 — CNN reports that U.S. President Trump is sending special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Pakistan for talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqhchi this weekend.
Araqhchi is set to travel to Islamabad, Muscat, and Moscow as part of a regional tour, though Iranian media say he will not meet the American delegation in Islamabad.
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🇮🇱☀️🇩🇪 — Ron Prosor, Israeli ambassador to Germany, met with representatives of Iranian Kurds at the Israeli Embassy in Berlin.
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🇺🇸⚔️ — The U.S. State Department is offering a reward of up to $10 million for information on Hashim Finyan Rahim al-Saraji, also known as Abu Ala al-Walai, the leader and Secretary-General of the Iran-backed Iraqi group Kataib Sayyid al-Shuhada.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 — The U.S. military is preparing plans to strike Iran's defenses around the Strait of Hormuz if the current ceasefire fails, targeting assets such as small attack boats, mine-laying vessels, missiles, and drones used to control the waterway.
Other options under consideration include strikes on energy infrastructure and even direct action against Iranian military leaders seen as blocking negotiations or driving the conflict, with IRGC Commander Ahmad Vahidi among those mentioned.
— CNN | @TheWarReporter
🇮🇱🇱🇧🇱🇧 — The Israeli Air Force is carrying out airstrikes in southern Lebanon after Hezbollah launched rockets toward northern Israel.
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇱🇧 — The second round of direct talks between Israel and Lebanon has begun at the White House.
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🛳️🇮🇷 — Iran has laid new naval mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
Shipping traffic has collapsed sharply.
— Axios | @TheWarReporter
🇮🇱🇮🇷 — Israeli officials have denied any Israeli involvement in the events over Tehran.
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🇮🇱🇮🇷 — Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz:
"Israel is ready to resume the fighting against Iran, and the targets have been marked.
Israel is waiting for a green light from the US to target the new Supreme Leader, and Iranian energy and electricity facilities".
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇱🇧 — Israeli PM Netanyahu is expected to visit Washington in mid-May for a potential summit with Lebanese President Joseph Aoun.
The meeting, planned for the week of May 11, will only take place if the regional security situation allows him to leave Israel.
— Israeli i24 News | @TheWarReporter
🇮🇱🇮🇷 — Iran has executed Erfan Kiani, who was accused of collaborating with the Israeli intelligence service Mossad.
Kiani took part in protests in Isfahan during the 2026 anti-government demonstrations and was arrested during that period.
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🇦🇿🇺🇦 — Ukrainian President Zelensky is on an official visit to Azerbaijan and is meeting with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev.
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🇮🇷🇵🇰 — Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqhchi has arrived in Pakistani capital, Islamabad.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷🇵🇰 — White House:
"Witkoff and Kushner will be off to Pakistan again tomorrow morning to engage in direct talks with representatives of the Iranian delegation.
The Iranians reached out and asked for this conversation".
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 — The Trump administration has frozen $344 million in cryptocurrency it says was linked to Iran as the US ratchets up pressure on Tehran.
— CNN | @TheWarReporter
🇮🇱🇮🇷🇮🇶☀️ — The Kurdistan Regional Government has rejected Iranian claims that foreign intelligence services operate on its territory, following Tehran's execution of two men accused of contacting the Israeli intelligence service Mossad in Iraqi Kurdistan.
"The KRG hosts no foreign intelligence facilities or training centers. Such claims risk undermining the stability that the Kurdistan Region has consistently sought to preserve," the statement added.
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🇦🇪🇮🇷 — Anwar Gargash, an adviser to the Emirati President:
"It has now become very clear to the region, to the UAE and other countries, that Iran is the long-term threat.
You can't be attacked with 2,800 missiles and drones then talk to me about trust. That will take ages and ages".
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🇰🇼🇮🇶🇮🇷🇮🇶 — The Kuwaiti Army says that two drones launched from Iraq struck two northern border sites in Kuwait, resulting in material damage.
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇱🇧 — The ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon will be extended by three weeks.
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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 — Israel has conveyed a message to the US expressing interest in resuming the war against Iran.
— Israeli Broadcasting Authority | @TheWarReporter
🇮🇷 — The activation of air defense systems in Tehran and several other Iranian cities tonight was in response to the presence of small aerial vehicles and drones, including the Orbiter type.
— Fars News Agency | @TheWarReporter
🇺🇸 — CENTCOM announced that the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) carrier strike group has arrived in its area of responsibility.
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🇮🇷 — Air defense activity has been reported over Tehran, with Mehr News Agency saying that systems were activated to engage 'hostile targets'.
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🇺🇸🇮🇷 — U.S. President Trump shares another post by commentator Marc Thiessen:
"Trump doesn't need a deal to get what he wants from Iran".
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