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⚡🇸🇾 The First Lady of Syria, Asma Al Assad and the wife of Bashar Al Assad has been diagnosed with leukemia. @medmannews

— 🇮🇷 Tabriz, more than half a million mourners are currently in the city @Middle_East_Spectator

— 🇮🇷 WATCH: The people of Tabriz came to the streets, in the first funeral procession of President Raeesi and his companions @Middle_East_Spectator

— 🇮🇷 The streets are entirely full in Tabriz with mourners for the Martyr President @Middle_East_Spectator

⚡️🇵🇸🇾🇪 The Yemeni Houthie Forces shot down an American unmanned aerial vehicle MQ-9 Reaper while it was carrying out hostile missions in the airspace of Al Bayda Governorate. Few days ago they shot down another one in Ma'rib region. @medmannews

🇺🇸🇮🇱 U.S. Representatives introduce bill that extends U.S. Military benefits to IDF servicemembers that have U.S. citizenship. It is estimated that around 20,000 U.S. citizens are serving in the IDF. One of the representatives is Rep. Max Miller, a self proclaimed "proud Jew" who previously got a woman fired from her job because she had posted "salvation can only come through having faith in Jesus Christ". @medmannews

⚡⚡⚡ Hamas released a statement regarding the ICC report. The full statement without editing. In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful 🔻A press statement issued by the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas regarding the issuance by the General Prosecutor of the Criminal Court of arrest and detention warrants against a number of leaders of the Zionist occupation. The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) followed up on the arrest and detention warrants issued today by the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court against only two war criminals of the Zionist entity. They are Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, who were proven involved in committing the crime of genocide, aggression and crimes against humanity against the Palestinian people. The arrest and detention warrants against the aforementioned occupation leaders came seven months late, during which the Israeli occupation committed thousands of crimes against Palestinian civilians, including children, women, doctors, and journalists, and destroyed private and public property, mosques, churches, and hospitals. The Public Prosecutor was required to issue arrest and detention orders against all officials from the occupation leaders who gave orders, and soldiers who participated in committing crimes in accordance with Articles 25, 27 and 28 of the Rome Statute, which emphasized the individual criminal responsibility of every official, commander, or any person who ordered, or instigated, committed, assisted or assisted in the commission of crimes, or failed to take measures to prevent the commission of crimes. The Hamas movement strongly denounces the attempts of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to equate the victim with the executioner by issuing arrest warrants against a number of Palestinian resistance leaders, without a legal basis, in violation of the international conventions and resolutions that gave the Palestinian people and all the peoples of the world under occupation the right to resist the occupation in all forms. Including armed resistance, especially the United Nations Charter, as stipulated in Article 51. Hamas demands the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to issue arrest and detention orders against all war criminals, including occupation leaders, officers and soldiers who participated in crimes against the Palestinian people. It also demands the cancellation of all arrest warrants issued against leaders of the Palestinian resistance, for violating UN conventions and resolutions. Monday: 12 Dhul-Qi’dah 1445 AH Corresponding to: May 20, 2024 AD @medmannews

Admin note: Mojtaba Khamenei will never become the next Supreme Leader Also, it has never been proven that Raeesi was on track to become the next Supreme Leader. In reality, nobody knows.

🇮🇷 📰 While Politico claims that Raisi's death makes the son of Iran's leader and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Mojtaba, the main possible successor to his father, Bloomberg claims the opposite:

Iran has a fraught legacy with the concept of inherited rule — the leaders of the 1979 Islamic Revolution vehemently opposed any sort of system that resembled the monarchy they overthrew. Mojtaba’s popularity has also never been tested give that he doesn’t hold any government position and isn’t seen publicly very often. The Supreme Leader needs to at least have an appearance of having authentic support from the masses who support the current religious system if he’s to have any sort of legitimacy.

Пока Politico утверждает, что смерть Раиси делает сына руководителя и верховного лидера Ирана аятоллы Али Хаменеи – Моджтабу – основным возможным преемником отца, Bloomberg утверждает обратное:

В прошлом Иран не раз сталкивался с проблемами из-за концепции наследуемого правления: лидеры Исламской революции 1979 года яростно выступали против любой системы, напоминающей свергнутую ими монархию. Да и популярность Моджтабы никто никогда не проверял, поскольку он не занимает государственных должностей и нечасто появляется на публике. С точки зрения легитимности Верховному лидеру необходимо иметь хотя бы видимость подлинной поддержки народа, одобряющего нынешнюю религиозную систему.

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⚡🇵🇸🇺🇳 Yair Lapid, the opposition leader in the Israeli Knesset: "The arrest warrants are a disaster and we will not remain silent about this matter. This is a grave political failure, and Gantz must leave the government today, otherwise he is completely complicit in its failure." @medmannews