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📜 TRUMP BOASTS IRAN'S LEADERSHIP DECIMATED ACROSS A B C TEAMS Trump claims Iran's top brass from the A team, B team, and probably C team wiped out. U.S. now chats with whatever Iranian holdouts have any pull left, who keep inking deals only to trash them. Comes after his line on strikes nailing 70% of Iran's targets, Space Force eyeballing enriched uranium spots to spot and zap intruders, with combat dragging on since Iran's beaten but not quite scrapped. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 TRUMP CLAIMS IRAN MILITARILY DEFEATED BUT LEADERS MIGHT NOT REALIZE IT Trump declares Iran militarily crushed, suggesting its leaders are probably clueless about their own defeat—though he figures they know deep down from his "direct dealings" with them. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 TRUMP REPEATS CLAIM U.S. DESTROYED IRAN'S NAVAL FORCES Trump dusts off his favorite line again: "We destroyed Iran's naval forces." Critics call it false, tied to unverified U.S. boasts about hitting Iran's maritime setups. Iranian state media fires back at a U.S. proposal routed through Pakistan, demanding an end to the war everywhere—especially Lebanon—and guarantees for safe navigation. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 DUBAI TOURISM TAKES A NOSE DIVE WITH HOTELS EMPTYING OUT Dubai's tourism racket is cratering, hotel occupancy plunging, tourist hordes thinning out noticeably. Broader economic headaches pile on, squeezing hospitality and investment hustles. Some hotels slash prices and shutter wings from sheer lack of suckers, grinding toward operational ghost towns. @TheBabylonTimes

UPDATE:📜 IRAN DEMANDS END TO WAR ON ALL FRONTS IN RESPONSE TO US PROPOSAL Iranian state television and radio report Iran's reply to a US proposal, passed via Pakistani middlemen. The response insists on halting the war across all fronts—especially in Lebanon—and securing safe passage through regional waters. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 US STRONG-ARMING ARGENTINA AND CHILE TO SCRAP CHINESE ANDES TELESCOPES OVER SATELLITE SNOOPING FEARS Pressure kicked off under Biden, ramped up with Trump. Milei, fresh off a $20 billion U.S. bailout before midterms, ditched his Beijing buddy act—despite China's grip on Argentine trade, mining, and infrastructure. A shiny new U.S.-Argentina deal even bars space ties with others. China calls the U.S. gripes "ridiculous" and hegemonic, noting America's own telescopes dot the region. (New York Times). @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRANIAN INTEL BUSTS MOSSSAD WEAPONS CACHE IN WEST AZERBAIJAN Iranian intelligence sniffed out a Mossad-tied weapons haul in West Azerbaijan Province. Media footage shows off the seized goodies: firearms, explosives, and gear for their little infiltration games. Mossad's local networks were aiming to poke around Iranian turf. No civilian casualties from this particular score. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 TRUMP POPS UP IN VIDEO STATEMENT Trump appeared in a video statement. That's the big reveal from the former occupier-in-chief, dropping whatever fresh spin he cooked up this time. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 HEZBOLLAH RELEASES FOOTAGE OF ISRAELI STRIKE TORCHING LEBANESE CIVILIAN AREA Hezbollah's Islamic Resistance in Lebanon dropped footage of the aftermath from an Israeli strike on a civilian zone. Flames devour buildings, thick black smoke billows from rubble, and explosion damage scars the structures. Rescue teams pick through the mess left by the attack. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 MOSSAD AGENTS SNEAK INTO IRAQ KURDISTAN ON EUROPEAN PASSPORTS TO LOOT RELIGIOUS AND NATIONALIST TREASURES Informed sources say Mossad's using European passports to slip into Iraq's Kurdistan region. They're extracting valuable religious and nationalist materials for Israel, all cozy with local Kurdish groups. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 PAKISTAN PASSES IRAN'S MESSAGE TO US A Pakistani diplomatic source says Pakistan just handed over Iran's response to the US side. Because that's how these backchannel chats roll. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 TRUST CRISIS ERUPTS BETWEEN TRUMP AND NETANYAHU AS US SIDELINES ISRAEL Israeli paper Maariv lays out the growing trust meltdown between Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu, even as the PM insists on full coordination with Washington. The US has frozen Tel Aviv out of key decisions on Iran confrontations and Pakistan-mediated peace talks. Israel's left diplomatically isolated in the White House, with an unprecedented chill hitting the old allies. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 HEZBOLLAH FPV DRONES HIT IRON DOME LAUNCHERS AND CREWS AT JAL AL-ALAM Hezbollah flew FPV drones straight into Iron Dome missile launchers and their operators at the Jal al-Alam site on the Lebanon-Israel border. The strikes zeroed in on Israel's precious air defense setup there. Video catches the drones slamming home, explosions blooming, and the site's defenses thrown into disarray. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRAN DEMANDS END TO REGIONAL WAR AND SECURE GULF SHIPPING IN REPLY TO US PROPOSAL Iran's response to the latest US proposal, funneled through Pakistan after America's take on Tehran's prior 14-point plan, zeroes in on halting the war across the region and safeguarding navigation in the Persian Gulf and Strait of Hormuz. State media ISNA says the framework pushes negotiations to end the war outright, skipping ceasefire extensions, with a deal targeted in 30 days. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 IRANIAN EMBASSY IN LIBYA MOCKS TRUMP OVER ALIENS AS EPSTEIN DISTRACTION POST-IRAN ATTACK Iran's embassy in Libya took a jab at ex-US President Trump on social media, wondering if aliens are the latest ploy to dodge the Epstein mess after the aggression on Iran. The post quips:

"After the aggression against Iran, have aliens become a new partner in diverting attention from the Epstein case?"

No extra details on timing or context. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRAN SAYS STRAIT OF HORMUZ WON'T BUDGE UNDER MILITARY MUSCLE AS UAE SHIP BURNS Iran's Deputy Speaker of the Shura Council, Ali Nikzad, laid it out plain: the Strait of Hormuz stays shut despite any military ops. He tells the world to wake up to a global power that ignores pressure. This as a large fire hits a ship in Khor Dubai, UAE. @TheBabylonTimes

📜 LARGE FIRE ERUPTS ON SHIP IN DUBAI CREEK A large fire broke out on a ship in Dubai Creek, United Arab Emirates. That's all the details trickling out so far on this latest maritime mishap. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 ISRAEL'S AI SYSTEM TRACKS AND KILLS HEZBOLLAH VIA SMARTPHONES DRONES CAMERAS AND SOCIAL MEDIA Israel's AI targeting setup pulls data from smartphones, drones, traffic cams, security cams, Wi-Fi, and social media to hunt Hezbollah in Lebanon. Built on Palantir's Maven, it crunches data flows to map networks and flag threats in seconds—what used to drag on for weeks. Los Angeles Times reports a 62-year-old Hezbollah liaison, Ahmad Turmus, got a call from an Israeli officer asking if he wanted to die with others or alone. Missiles took him out 30 seconds after he drove off. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

UPDATE:📜 UAE DETAINS AND DEPORTS THOUSANDS OF PAKISTANI WORKERS RIGHT AFTER PAKISTAN HELPS BROKER US-IRAN CEASEFIRE UAE rounded up thousands of Pakistani workers—many reportedly Shia Muslims—and shipped them out. This hits soon after Pakistan brokered a US-Iran ceasefire. Deported folks say they got snatched suddenly, crammed into harsh detention, bank accounts frozen, then booted with zero explanation. Targets part of 2 million Pakistanis in UAE sending billions in remittances home. New York Times. @TheBabylonTimes | Forum

📜 IRAN SLAMS IAEA BOSS GROSSI FOR OVERSTEPPING INTO POLITICAL TERRITORY In an X post, Baghaei laid it out:

"The IAEA's mission is verification, not sending political messages about the Strait of Hormuz, Iranian missiles, or Tehran's approach. When professional neutrality is sacrificed for political behavior or personal ambitions, the credibility of institutions erodes, and over time their effectiveness weakens as well."

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