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📜 BRITISH SOLDIERS DUCK AND COVER AS IRANIAN MISSILES HIT THEIR BASE IN SOME UNNAMED SPOT A circulating video catches British soldiers hunkering down inside a military base in an unnamed regional country while Iranian missiles zero in on the site. The footage shows them ducking amid explosions and incoming fire. No confirmed details on casualties or the exact location. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRAN THANKS RUSSIA'S MUFTI FOR BACKING AGAINST ZIONIST AND US AGGRESSION Iran's ambassador in Moscow passed along Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei's thanks to Russia's Mufti Council head. Russia's Mufti fired back with Russian Muslims' solidarity alongside Iran's government and people against the Zionist entity and US aggression. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 DAVE SMITH SAYS TRUMP LET NETANYAHU DECEIVE HIM INTO BACKING THIS WAR Political commentator Dave Smith stated that former US President Trump allowed Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to deceive him into supporting this war. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 US LOSING GOLD RESERVES AND ECONOMIC POWER AMID IRAN WAR DEPLETION Professor Michael Hudson, US economist and ex-Wall Street analyst, says gold's been America's top commodity export for five straight months. He points out the US is hemorrhaging gold reserves and core international economic clout—much like its bombs, missiles, and aircraft in the Iran war—leaving the empire flat broke. Hudson notes this ain't like old US wars; other nations now have options, sparking de-dollarization and a global split from Washington's grip. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 ISRAEL RUSHES DRONE DETECTORS AND IRON DOME TO UAE UNDER IRANIAN ATTACKS Financial Times sources say Israel urgently shipped its "Spectro" compact drone-detection system to the United Arab Emirates amid recent Iranian attacks. The package tossed in Iron Beam lasers, Iron Dome batteries, on-site Israeli personnel, and real-time intel sharing. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 US DUMPS 6500 TONS OF MILITARY GEAR ON ISRAEL IN ONE DAY VIA SHIPS AND DOZENS OF FLIGHTS Two cargo ships offloaded around 6,500 tons of US military equipment in Israel that day—air-to-ground munitions, military trucks, JLTV armored vehicles—at Ashdod and Haifa ports. Dozens more flights brought extra gear to prop up Israeli operations. Since late February, America's shipped over 115,600 tons via 403 flights and 10 ships in about 60 days, clocking nearly 2,000 tons daily, while the Pentagon's factories strain under multiple wars. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 HEZBOLLAH HITS ISRAELI FORCES WITH 10 OPS IN SOUTH LEBANON, DOWNING DRONE AND KILLING SOLDIER Hezbollah pulled off 10 military operations in southern Lebanon today, the most since that April 16 ceasefire Israeli aggression conveniently ignored. Drone strikes hammered Merkava tanks, they downed a Hermes 450 drone, shelled with artillery, and sent coordinated drone swarms at Israeli troop positions across multiple spots. Tasnim News reports at least one Israeli soldier killed, several wounded. Video shows Hezbollah nailing Israeli Humvees in Al-Bayyada. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 DOJ DROPS CRYSTAL-CLEAR FOOTAGE OF WHITE HOUSE DINNER SECURITY FIASCO The U.S. Department of Justice released high-quality security footage from the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner incident. Video shows the alleged suspect sprinting unimpeded through a security checkpoint. Slow-motion reveals one Secret Service officer frozen stiff, another dawdling before reacting, and a lone police officer blasting at point-blank range—somehow missing. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 SLovAK PM FICO CALLS OUT EU LEADERS' HYPOCRITICAL PUTIN WHINING Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico slammed EU leaders for their two-faced stance on his chats with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Officials publicly bash the meetings, Fico says, then corner him in Brussels restrooms for the juicy details.

"I meet with Putin and everyone criticizes, and when I return after the meeting with Putin, everyone in the restrooms in Brussels asks me what he said. So, why do they not go and communicate with him too?"

Fico's pointing out the obvious double standards in Brussels. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 TEHRAN PROF SAYS TIME'S ON IRAN'S SIDE UNDER US SQUEEZE Hassan Ahmadian, University of Tehran professor, told CNN that time favors Iran despite relentless US pressure. He pointed out Iranian oil exports tanked to 300,000 barrels a day for a year under Trump's first go-round, but the economy held steady—and now exports top that. Ahmadian ticked off US munitions shortages, Israel's creaky defenses, looming US midterms, and market chaos from any Hormuz Strait shutdown. Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya warned of payback for provocations, hinting at bigger blowups. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRAN WARNS AGAINST TRUSTING US PROMISES OR SOCIAL MEDIA HYPE IN TALKS Via Tasnim News Agency, he confirmed Pakistan stays the mediator, crediting its solid work. Baghaei stressed deep distrust of the US and Israel for their track record of ditching deals, insisting Iran's own strength is the real shield against fresh war. He flagged US social media and statements as often misleading, prioritizing war risk elimination while calling for national unity sans internal rifts. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 PALESTINIAN FOOTBALL BOSS JIBRIL RAJOUB SNUBS ISRAELI COUNTERPART AT FIFA CONGRESS Palestinian Football Association President Jibril Rajoub refused to shake hands with an Israeli Football Association rep at the FIFA Congress. FIFA President Gianni Infantino tried to make it happen anyway. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 EPSTEIN'S MYSTERIOUS NOTE HIDING IN COURTHOUSE VAULT SINCE 2019 A New York Times report uncovers a note penned by Jeffrey Epstein, snagged by his cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione—serving four life sentences for quadruple murder—weeks before Epstein's death. Tartaglione found it tucked between pages of a graphic novel in late July 2019, right after Epstein's apparent suicide attempt. The note's been sealed in a courthouse vault ever since, cryptically name-dropped in the Epstein Files chronology. DOJ claims it never laid eyes on the thing; Times is begging a US district judge to unseal it. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 SETTLER BEATS CATHOLIC NUN NEAR MOUNT ZION IN JERUSALEM A 36-year-old Zionist settler assaulted a 48-year-old Catholic nun working at the French School of Biblical and Archaeological Research near Mount Zion in Jerusalem. The attack injured her. Police arrested the suspect and are probing it as a possible religiously motivated hate crime. Video shows the man shoving and striking the nun as she walks, sending her to the ground before bystanders step in. Hebrew University faculty, partnering with the school, say it fits a pattern of rising hostility toward Christians there. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 SLOVAK PM FICO SAYS OIL PRICES DANCE TO TRUMP'S SLEEP SCHEDULE Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico laid it out plain: oil prices stay jittery, swinging with Donald Trump's shut-eye. Trump sleeps well, prices dip. He skips sleep and drops a statement, oil shoots up on cue. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 US DEFENSE SEC PETE HEGSETH DOUBLES DOWN ON CALLING WAR CRITICS PHARISEES US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth sticks to labeling critics of the Iran war as "Pharisees." He stated,

"I feel like it's a pretty accurate term for folks who don't see the plank in their own eye... so I stand by it,"

invoking biblical hypocrisy. Senator Jacky Rosen fires back, deeming it wrong and slapping on an antisemitism charge, while demanding leaders skip such talk. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRAN'S REZAEI SAYS SUPREME LEADER YOUNG, HEALTHY, ENERGETIC DESPITE MOSSAD RUMOR PLOT Mohsen Rezaei, from Iran's Assembly for the Discernment of Expediency, insists the Supreme Leader's young, in good health, and energetic, still running the show. He claims the rumors aim to bait the leader or his inner circle into a slip-up, handing Israel's Mossad his spot on a platter. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRANIAN AIR DEFENSES SWAT DOWN HOSTILE DRONES AND RECON AIRCRAFT OVER TEHRAN Video catches Iranian air defenses springing to life over Tehran's skies. Systems lock on and engage small hostile drones plus a reconnaissance aircraft buzzing the capital. Footage shows interceptors blasting off amid the unwelcome flyby. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRAN SLAMS DOOR ON US TALKS AMID TEHRAN AIR DEFENSE SHOWDOWN WITH HOSTILE DRONES Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesperson flatly states no negotiations with the United States are happening. The only talks in play are with Pakistan mediating. This follows Iranian air defenses over Tehran taking on hostile small drones and a reconnaissance aircraft right in the capital's skies, all caught on video as they sprang into action. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 IRAN CLAIMS HISTORIC ROLE IN GULF SECURITY, REJECTS US DOMINANCE AS AIR DEFENSES ACTIVATE IN TEHRAN Iranian Shura Council security chief Ibrahim Azizi boasts that Iran has long propped up Persian Gulf stability, insisting the region's future unfolds sans American overlords. Meanwhile, Iranian air defenses spring to life in Tehran for reasons that remain a mystery. The UAE, in a predictable panic, slaps a travel ban on its citizens heading to Iran, Lebanon, or Iraq, demanding they scram immediately. @TheBabylonTimes