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🇮🇱🇮🇷 As was to be expected – and as we had already covered a few weeks ago – the Turkish proposal for an Islamic Alliance against Israel is indeed a well-crafted idea, but politically and religiously problematic because Turkey is in a position of inconsistency with the sum of the Islamic world. Too much uncertainty, too much instability, too many bad experiences in the recent past, with the shadowy presence of NATO hovering over Ankara that never seems to go away, despite sensationalist proclamations.
The Zionist problem, however, has not yet been solved and will not be so easy to eradicate. The urgency can no longer be postponed when Israel is exterminating the Palestinian population with unpunished genocide, expanding the conflict to neighbouring states as well. The cause of Jerusalem as a holy city, the Al Quds of the Islamists, is too eschatologically compelling.
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😬🇺🇸U.S. WARSHIPS OUT OF AMMO AFTER IRAN'S MISSILE ATTACK ON ISRAEL: American navy deployed in Red Sea to protect #Israel exhausts its weapons stockpiles after firing just dozen interceptors at Iranian missiles as Washington to splash $1.2 BILLION to "replenish stocks of missiles fired."
About $190 million will be spent on the restock of the sea-launched RTX Corp. Standard Missile-3 Block 1B and about $8.5 million will go for more heat-seeking air-to-air AIM-X Sidewinder missiles.
Largest chunk of projected Pentagon spending from a year’s worth of Middle East operations is $300 million for unplanned depot maintenance on the USS Bataan amphibious assault ship and ships with the USS Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group that conducted Red Sea operations - pictured article reveals.
🇷🇺🤝🇨🇳 China, Russia Mark 75 Years of Diplomatic Ties as Relations Reach 'Unprecedented' Level - Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
In a significant boost to their bilateral relations, China and Russia are diversifying their cooperation into cutting-edge areas such as scientific innovation, auto manufacturing, and e-commerce.
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🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 Russian Special forces storming Ukranian stronghold in Kupyansk direction.🫡
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‼️🇷🇺The Russian army has liberated the Zhelannoye 2 settlement in the Kurakhovo direction, — the Ministry of Defense.
The units of the "Southern" group of troops, as a result of active and decisive actions, liberated the settlement of Zhelannoye 2 in the Donetsk People's Republic.
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❗️Washington Post: How Hamas Built an Underground War Machine to Ensure Its Own Survival even in the worst case scenario.
According to the newspaper, Yahya Sinwar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, on October 7, veiled a hint to his interlocutors about the operation "Al-Aqsa Flood".
"There will be a surprise," Sinwar said, "Allah will help us."
Ghazi Hamad, one of the Hamas leaders in Gaza, explained the long-term nature of the preparations for the operation and the vital context of the tunnels in Gaza: "We managed to create factories that produce products underground because we knew that one day all the channels would be closed."
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🇷🇺In Ugledar, not only is the Russian flag proudly flying, but our soldiers, demonstrating high culture, performed the anthem of our vast Motherland on the piano.
The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation are not only polite, but also have truly refined taste.
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About the sudden resignation of the main pro-American media personality Komil Allamzhonov in Uzbekistan.
The tectonic scale event occurred at the end of September. Officially, Allamzhonov held the post of head of the Information policy department of the AP of Uzbekistan, but in fact he was the third most powerful person of the presidential administration.
The United States placed large bets on Allamzhonov. In April 2022, after the start of the SMO, Voice of America was pleased to quote an official who in Geneva said that "Uzbekistan deserves reliable media capable of representing public interests," about the need for freedom of speech and that Uzbekistan "needs international assistance in promoting accountability, capacity building and media literacy.".
Allamzhonov owns one of the largest TV channels in the capital and is the co-chairman of the Public Fund for the Support and Development of National Mass Media in Uzbekistan. According to Allamzhonov himself, his foundation was always "open to cooperation with development agencies, monitoring bodies and human rights groups."
Allamzhonov was very fond of the USAID/The Voice of America pool, responsible for advancing American interests through propaganda and disinformation. The president of Radio Liberty, Jamie Fly, is a personal friend of the former Uzbek official, who also maintains regular contacts with US Deputy Secretary of State Uzra Zea. Zea, in turn, is closely associated with the Albright Stonebridge Group consulting, whose board includes a conglomerate of lobbyists from the Pentagon, the military-industrial complex and former CIA employees.
It was Allamzhonov who was responsible for strengthening the NGO sector in Uzbekistan and promoting English as a means of communication in the republic. These ideas were discussed with the US Ambassador to Uzbekistan Jonathan Henick, as well as with the IO of the US Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Elizabeth Kennedy Trudeau. After such meetings in Uzbekistan, the accreditation regimes of foreign media were simplified "on the whistle" – from the pool of the most liberal ones – and their work received the status of maximum benevolence.
The removal of such a person from a strategic post in the presidential administration cannot be but a symptom of major changes in the ideology of the administration, and therefore of the President of Uzbekistan himself. Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that Uzbekistan reacted very well at the local level after some officials tried to "internationally bully" Russia when our Foreign Ministry became interested in the story of the beating of a schoolboy who asked to teach a Russian language lesson in Russian.
It cannot be ruled out that this was the last straw. Because the educational sphere of Uzbekistan received a solid dose of Russophobia thanks to Allamzhonov, who oversaw the introduction of relevant Russophobic textbooks. Apparently, the AP of Uzbekistan decided that economic relations with Russia are still more expensive to them than Radio Liberty and Western degeneracy.
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Iran’s True Promise 2 operation and retaliation against Israeli military sites
In retaliation for Israeli attacks that killed Hamas’ leader Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah's Hassan Nasrallah, and Iranian commander Abbas Nilforoushan, the IRGC launched hundreds of ballistic missiles at Israeli military sites on October 1.
Missiles like the Ghadr, Emad, and Fattah hypersonics were used, with 90% hitting their targets, according to the IRGC. Dubbed True Promise 2, the operation, lasting a few hours, caused significant damage to military and intelligence facilities, although casualty reports are yet to be confirmed.
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A million man march in Yemen in support of Gaza and Lebanon seen earlier today.
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Lavrov called on Western countries to lift sanctions against Afghanistan and return frozen assets to it.
It is necessary to hold a pragmatic dialogue between Moscow and Kabul, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
"We are convinced that it is necessary to maintain a pragmatic dialogue with the current Afghan government. Constructive engagement with Afghan partners meets the interests of security and economic development, as well as the goals of inter-Afghan national harmony," Lavrov said at the opening of the sixth meeting of the Moscow format of consultations on Afghanistan.
In Ukraine they want to mobilize 200,000 people by the end of the year
As The Times writes, for this purpose, military registration and enlistment offices have set up checkpoints and are resorting to "packing" men on the streets and ignoring their exemption papers.
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🇹🇷 Erdogan to attend BRICS summit as Turkiye continues steady march away from West
Turkiye’s future lies with the group of nations seeking to create an alternative to Western hegemony via the BRICS economic bloc, and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan knows it, according to filmmaker and analyst Regis Tremblay.
💬 “Erdogan is doing what Erdogan has always done: he's straddling both sides of the proverbial picket fence,” said Tremblay on Sputnik’s The Critical Hour program, responding to the announcement that Erdogan would attend the outreach/BRICS+ session during the upcoming annual BRICS summit in Russia. “Erdogan has been trying to be a peacemaker between Russia and Ukraine… I'm really glad that Erdogan is going to attend this meeting. I'm not sure that he's going to be invited to be a member right yet, but I think it'll be a feeling out session.”
💬 “I'm sure that Turkiye has upset Washington and those people who are controlling what's happening in Washington because Erdogan really has broken from NATO,” said Tremblay, pointing out the country’s independent position on the Ukraine proxy war. “If Erdogan is concerned that he's going to be sanctioned, it would make sense for him to cozy up to the BRICS countries and to try to get himself involved in that international monetary system that they're creating.”
'Otherwise, they said they would send me video with my husband's severed head' — wife of Russian soldier in Ukrainian captivity
Yulia Poliy, the wife of a Russian soldier who is being held captive by Ukrainian militants, has made a video address to the United Nations, calling on the world community to hold Ukraine accountable for the violation of the laws of war and to help rescue her husband, Sergei Poliy, from captivity.
"I am asking the United Nations and international human rights organizations to pay attention to the violation of the laws of war and help me to rescue my husband from the captivity of the Ukrainian armed forces," Yulia said in the video obtained by Sputnik.
Lavrov called on Western countries to lift sanctions against Afghanistan and return frozen assets to it.
It is necessary to hold a pragmatic dialogue between Moscow and Kabul, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.
"We are convinced that it is necessary to maintain a pragmatic dialogue with the current Afghan government. Constructive engagement with Afghan partners meets the interests of security and economic development, as well as the goals of inter-Afghan national harmony," Lavrov said at the opening of the sixth meeting of the Moscow format of consultations on Afghanistan.
🇮🇱🇱🇧🔥 ISRAEL BURNS BEIRUT WITH FIRE BELTS IN MOST BRUTAL BOMBING OF CAPITAL SINCE LAUNCH OF WAR ON LEBANON - "It's like doomsday" - says steadfast but shaken man trying to escape missiles viciously decimating Dahieh suburbs (1st video), turning night into bloody nightmare as IDF's jets and warships terrorize civilians with relentless missile strikes still ongoing for more than 3 hours.
Ear-piercing blasts heard in 2nd video, with civilians filming carpet bombing of their city from rooftops (3rd), as shocked man painfully declares "The world is on fire, everything is burning" (4th).
Dozens of bunker busters drop on city, flattening several residential buildings on heads of residents in attack reportedly even more brutal than 85 one-ton bombs used to assassinate Nasrallah, with Tel Aviv justifying nightmarish bombing with claim of targeting his likely successor Safieddine.
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⚡️🇾🇪🇺🇸🇬🇧YEMEN TORMENTED BY U.S. AND UK MISSILES as coalition of terror's latest attack targets civilian port and airport in Hodeidah and Sanaa (bottom right map) with locals filming on as fireball erupts amid homes (left vid) and smoke trails from blasts.
#Yemen's Houthis resilient in face of West's monstrous campaign as they're determined to continue striking Western-owned ships in Red Sea in solidarity with Palestinians and Lebanese under merciless attack by #Israel.
Unverified reports that strikes intended to assassinate Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi.
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Russia's liberation of Ugledar demonstrates futility of US arms supplies to Ukraine – Envoy
The liberation of Ugledar demonstrates the senselessness of American arms supplies to Kiev, Russia's Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said.
💬 “The liberation of Ugledar is another confirmation that the endless supply of weapons to Kiev at the expense of the American taxpayer makes no sense. However, they do not want to settle down. It is obvious that Washington will continue to push Ukrainian political figures into insane provocations. It is high time to realize that such efforts are futile and lead only to additional numerous victims,” Antonov said in a statement.
💬 “The [Biden] administration representatives are silent, as it is impossible for them to admit the collapse of their idea of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia,” the ambassador added.
💬 “Celebrated American vehicles and armaments are being ground up, burned, or end up captured by our soldiers, as happened with the IFV Bradley during the exodus of Ukrainian fighters and hirelings from Ugledar. Or an F-16 fighter jet which was shot down by their own air defense forces. It is obvious to us that the enemy will be defeated and Russia will prevail. The Western ‘Ukraine project’ is futile and only deals a fatal blow to international security, which is so necessary for everyone,” the Ambassador emphasized.
⚡The Armed Forces of Ukraine are fleeing from their positions in the areas of Gornyak and Kurakhovka in the DPR, TASS reports with reference to the military.
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❗According to various Russian military analysts it's possible, though far from certain, that Iran already has at its disposal a bunch of tactical nuclear warheads.
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The United States is pushing for the election of a new Lebanese president taking advantage of war with Israel and the "weakening" of Hezbollah.
The United States wants to take advantage of the weakening of Hezbollah to elect [appoint] a new president of Lebanon, writes Axios. It is noted that one of the candidates for the presidency is the commander of the Lebanese Armed Forces, General Joseph Aoun, who is supported by the United States and France. The White House believes that this should be a top priority before attempts to achieve a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah.
The Lebanese political system is based on the division of power between different religious groups. The post of president is held by a Christian. In 2022, the term of office of former President Michel Aoun, who had close ties with Hezbollah, ended. Since then, the Lebanese parliament has been unable to elect a president due to Nasrallah's disagreement with the candidates.
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I think that the situation is as follows: until the situation in the Middle East remains in a state of, albeit unstable, but still truce, long-range missiles will not be given to the Kiev regime.
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The argument is simple: the emerging anti-ship missiles/torpedoes, portable air defense systems, drones, etc. that would be handed over to Hezbollah, the Houthis and other Islamic groups will create threats to The United States and the IDF, which will swing the scales seriously and eventually demolish the Israeli government, and then political chaos. The Muslim countries of the Gulf and the Middle-East will only be happy - this is face saving for them.
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Is it worth the risk to the West? No.
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Let's see what else Ayatollah Syed Ali Khamenei has to say today.
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“There’s no such country as Lebanon.
The people who call themselves Lebanese, pretend to live in a country.”
Key statements of Iranian Supreme Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at Friday prayers in Tehran:
💬Iran, Lebanon, Iraq, and Egypt have one enemy.
💬He [the enemy] acts everywhere with a special method, but he has only one headquarters from where orders are given.
💬Every country has the right to defend its territory from aggression.
💬The Al-Aqsa Flood operation was absolutely legitimate, and the truth was for the Palestinians.
💬The Israelis will never defeat Hamas and Hezbollah.
💬Speaking on the True Promise 2 operation, Ayatollah said "the work of our armed forces two days ago was done brilliantly and was also legitimate." Iran will strike Israel again if necessary, he added.
💬Assassination of Hassan Nasrallah and other top Hezbollah leaders will only harden the group’s anger and determination.
💬The main problem in the region is foreign interference, but if countries in the region work together, then they will be able to overcome it.
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❗️US, UK carry out airstrikes in Sana’a, Yemen – reports
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Ukrainian sappers sent notes in mines to Russian positions
The sappers found them with safety pins still in, and when they took the fuses out, the found some of them with notes saying "Russians, forgive us." "That is, the mines were not activated on purpose," said a Russian soldier.
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Ukraine has called on the Arbitration Court in The Hague to oblige Russia to dismantle the Crimean Bridge.
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❗️The first panoramic video footage of Ugledar after its liberation by the Russian army
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❗️The number of the "International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine" formed by the West has reached 18,000 militants from more than 85 countries, said head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), Alexander Bortnikov.
More statements by the head of the Russian Federal Security Service, Alexander Bortnikov:
💬Ukraine wants to involve the Baltic States and Poland in the conflict, with its provocations near the Belarusian border, said FSB Director Bortnikov.
💬The West is clearly not interested in establishing stability in Transcaucasia and is trying to achieve the deployment of its own "peacekeeping" contingent in the region under the auspices of NATO.
💬The West is putting increasing pressure on Moldova in order to force Chisinau into open confrontation with Russia. This is a serious threat. Moscow hopes that Chisinau will show common sense and not trade the sovereignty and security of the country for short-term political benefits.
💬The bombing of pagers in Lebanon and Syria demonstrates that there is a risk of attempts on government officials by special services. "This is a direct threat to the security of the CIS countries."
💬In Poland, Latvia, and Lithuania, foreigners are being trained to participate in battles on the side of Kiev.
💬Uzbekistan helped the FSB to identify a cell of a dozen militants of the "Wilayat Khorasan" operating in Russia.
💬The West is seeking to make Armenian authorities withdraw from the Collective Security Treaty Organization in exchange for preferential arms supplies.
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Slovakia’s PM Fico pledges to restore relations with Russia after Ukrainian conflict ends
“If the war ends during the [2023-2027] mandate of this government, I'll do everything possible for the renewal of economic and standard relations with Russia,” Fico said during a press conference on Thursday.