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🥀 Participants of the Special Military Operation laid flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier The Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation, Andrey Belousov, and servicemen of the assault units of the United Group of Forces in the zone of the special military operation, who participated in a meeting with the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on June 12, laid flowers at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and honored the memory of the soldiers who died defending their homeland with a minute of silence. The ceremony ended with a ceremonial march of the Honor Guard company.

Iranian officials unanimous on not backing down against enemy: Judiciary chief Iran’s Judiciary chief says all state officials are united in resisting foreign pressure, stressing that there is no disagreement over standing firm against threats despite possible differences over methods. @PressTV

🤔 Hormuz Strait: Closed? Open? Either way JPMorgan plans to make a profit The critical waterway is no longer slammed totally shut to global energy flows, but the leakage isn’t enough to nurse the global economy back from the brink of disaster anytime soon, the world’s top bank by market cap says. JPMorgan’s Commodities division estimates oil shipping via Hormuz has reached an average of 5.1M barrels per day (bpd) over the past two weeks, ~1/4 of the estimated 20M bpd going through the Strait before February 28. Total Gulf nation exports are close to 9M bpd thanks to alternative shipment routes including pipelines.

“The result is a paradox where the strait’s status is simultaneously ‘open’ and ‘closed’ mirroring the famous quantum thought experiment of Schrodinger’s cat,” the bank said in a note.

🔊“Whether the Strait is open or closed depends almost entirely on what day it is, what metric you use, and whether the metaphorical ‘box’ has been opened to see if oil is actually flowing.” JPMorgan’s new evaluation follows a worrying note from late April saying the oil market had been thrown out of whack by the Hormuz crisis and that higher energy prices were inevitable. Despite the crisis triggered by Trump’s Iran war, CEO Jamie Dimon praised him for murdering the nation’s leader and kicking off the current conflict. 👍 Boost us | Chat | @geopolitics_prime

Prominent Palestinian doctor Abu Safiya appeared at Israeli supreme court by video link Ghada Ebrahem reports from Gaza City. @PressTV

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❗️🇬🇧🇷🇺BRITISH PIRATES HAVE SEIZED A RUSSIAN TANKER 🚢Keir Starmer has just triumphantly reported that British forces have seized a tanker from the 'Russian shadow fleet' 📢The British Prime Minister emphasized: 🔘

This successful operation deals another blow to Russia and reminds those fueling Putin's war in Ukraine that we will not allow them to get away with it.'

🔘As long as Russia does not begin to act symmetrically against their tankers and merchant ships, they will become more brazen and will eventually cut Russia off from the seas. #News #CurrentEvents #UK #Russia 🔘Subscribe now! Chat

🇫🇷🇷🇺 "Macron wants war. The French need to know that he wants to take us to war. But that's not the right war. Russia is not an existential threat. The real existential threat is demographic change & Islamization of France." — leader of "Movement for France", Philippe de Villiers *you can rarely hear things like this on French TV... 🔗 Join us | @MyLordBebo

🇮🇱🏳️‍🌈 In Tel Aviv, huge pink LGBT trucks were brought to the beach ordinary people take photos of them like they're the "stars"... 🔗 Join us | @MyLordBebo

🇵🇰🇮🇷🇺🇸 US-Iran deal could be finalized within 24 hours — Pakistani PM 🔴 @DDGeopolitics | Socials | Donate | Advertising

❗️Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said on Saturday that the US and Iran have agreed on a framework for a peace deal aimed at ending the war in West Asia, adding that a final version of the agreement has already been reached. He also said Pakistan is now preparing for an electronic signing expected within the next 24 hours, followed by technical-level talks next week. (Reuters)

🇶🇦 🇮🇷How Qatari secret bid to shield gas site from Iran ultimately failed An Iranian missile attack on the Qatari Ras Laffan liquefied natural gas (LNG) complex in March destroyed more than infrastructure, The Washington Post reports. The attack, in response to an attack on the South Pars gas field shared between Iran and Qatar – torched a secret back-channel deal that the emirate had spent months trying to arrange to keep its economic crown jewel off Iran’s target list. 🇶🇦 Qatar's energy gamble At the start of the US-Israeli war against Iran, Qatar reportedly approached Tehran with a proposal: 🔶 Iran would refrain from targeting Ras Laffan 🔶 Qatar would voluntarily halt gas production 🔶 The resulting spike in global energy prices would increase pressure on the US and Israel to end the war more quickly In effect, Qatar sought to use its influence over global gas markets to support Iran's strategic objectives while protecting its own critical infrastructure. Iran never formally accepted the proposal, but its actions initially suggested it was willing to give diplomacy a chance. On the third day of the war, Qatar shut down Ras Laffan, officially over missile threats. But satellite photos showed no visible damage and the facility remained untouched even as Iranian missiles hit targets across the region. 💀 Day the deal died For nearly two weeks, the tacit deal appeared to hold. Qatar—a key US ally—kept Ras Laffan offline, while Iran did not hit it. That changed after the US-Israeli campaign escalated with attacks on the South Pars gas field—the Iranian half of the giant offshore reservoir shared with Qatar. 👉 By targeting Iranian strategic energy reserves, Washington and Tel Aviv crossed a red line. Tehran hit back at energy targets in neighboring Gulf Arab nations friendly to Washington. Tehran launched missiles at Ras Laffan, reportedly knocking out nearly 20% of Qatari LNG export capacity. Repairs are estimated to take between three and five years. The Qatari offer reveals how Gulf nations sought to use their control over energy – but it was Iran that played that card. Using its grip on the Strait of Hormuz, Iran showed who held the upper hand.

🇷🇺 The Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai was lit up in the colors of the Russian tricolor on Russia Day.

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡️— The Director of National Intelligence of the USA, Tulsi Gabbard, published a press release stating that the US government funded more than 120 biolaboratories in over 30 countries worldwide, including Ukraine. Many of these biolaboratories are currently or have previously been engaged in research using dangerous and highly contagious pathogens, including dangerous research on enhancing the function of the virus. On the territory of Ukraine, more than 40 biolaboratories were built and maintained, which were involved in: ▪️storing pathogens of biological weapons from the Soviet era, ▪️training Ukrainian scientists by US specialists to work in conditions of biological defense, ▪️certifying particularly dangerous pathogens, ▪️serving as a repository for pathogens of biological weapons and the causative agents of many diseases, including tularemia, tuberculosis, African swine fever, Ebola, etc. According to Gabbard, the laboratories were located in Lviv, Ternopil, Vinnytsia, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Luhansk, Donetsk, Kherson, Odessa, Zaporizhia, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Zakarpattia, and Crimea.

🇪🇺🇷🇺⚡️– Russia is not seeking war with NATO, said the commander-in-chief of the alliance's forces in Europe, General Aleksus Grynkevich. @Intelslava

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ — An oil depot was burned down in a strike near Kiev. @Intelslava

🇺🇦🇷🇺⚡️— In Nizhnekamsk, Russia (Tatarstan), all festive events scheduled for Russia Day were cancelled following a night-time drone attack. Ukrainian and Russian opposition groups are reporting on the attack on an oil refinery in the city and publishing footage of the fire. @Intelslava

No enemy can stop our homeland’s growth and prosperity. Happy Russia Day!