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🇮🇷 By the end of the current year, the Qom missile “megacity” will have completed its remaining sections and fully entered the operational phase.
Recognized as Iran’s largest and best-equipped missile city, the complex is rumoured to surpass even the Isfahan facility in terms of scale.
Another missile city in Alborz Province is also nearing completion.
An underground railway network is believed to connect Iran’s missile cities and missile production hubs.
@SimurghRes
🇮🇶🇮🇶❌🇺🇸🇮🇶— A security force affiliated with the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service, under orders from Ali al-Zaidi, the US puppet, kidnapped Haj Akram “Abu Jaafar” from his home. He is a member of the General Staff Office of the Popular Mobilization Forces.
@SimurghRes
🇮🇷🇺🇸| The Guardian is still pushing this fake fabricated story about Iran stoning a woman to death DESPITE it’s writer admitting that the entire story is fabricated.
Yet the Guardian still has the story up.
Even if they delete it, the story already did the damage it wanted. It’s picked up by multiple local outlets in countries and Iran will be once again falsely painted as gruesome.
@FotrosResistancee
https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/23465?single
And this is just the rare instance in which the author admits to wholesale fabrication. There are many more just as made up that will never be admitted to. And many where the author just had the entire story handed to them by intelligence agencies to publish in their name.
—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 NEW: Yemen’s Ansarallah struck a Saudi oil tanker 63 nautical miles off the coast of Yanbu, in the Red Sea
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/36034
—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The U.S. has only 41 days of crude oil supply left, the lowest since the 1970s
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/36036
China rejects US economic warfare on Iran, vows to protect own interests
A Chinese government spokesman warned that ‘sanctions lead to escalation,’ while Tehran says economic warfare will bring ‘further US defeat’
🇾🇪🇸🇦| Footage reportedly shows the vicinity of the Al-Udaida border crossing in northern Yemen, where a weapons depot was targeted by the AnsarAllah Yemen.
Yahya Saree also announced in a statement that a large military convoy carrying weapons from Saudi Arabia was targeted in Al-Abra and Al-Udaida.
@FotrosResistancee
The geopolitics of the ‘Kurdish Opening’
Ankara’s latest Kurdish peace bid carries ambitions far beyond the republic’s borders.
By Mehmet Ali Guller
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/66739
Some of the quotes in this article from Kurdish political leaders reek of opportunism. Allow me to give an example if what I mean, which has solidified for me that the Kurdistan movement is little more than a regional variant of labor Zionism.
I went to Iraq, I went to Syria. All Kurds have their eyes on Turkiye. They still see themselves as a part of Turkiye since the Ottoman era. Kurds can only live a just life and be free with Turks. They have no other choice.
This is one co-chairmen’s of DEM, an Iraqi Kurdish political party.
Iran vows to target ‘source and origin’ of any aggression in warning to EU state
The warning follows the deployment of US KC-135 refueling tankers to a base in Bulgaria, which departed the EU state over the weekend after Tehran protested the move
UPDATE | Iran denies receiving invitation to join Mecca defense pact
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Iran has denied reports that it was invited to join the Mecca defense pact between Saudi Arabia, Turkiye and Pakistan, while confirming that proposals have been made to hold talks with the three countries on regional security.
The clarification followed comments by Mehdi Rahimi, head of the Iranian parliament’s Khaneh Mellat news agency, who told Al-Mayadeen on Saturday that Tehran had received an invitation to join the pact and was considering the offer.
However, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei dismissed the claim on Monday, saying Tehran had received no formal invitation. He added that proposals for discussions with the three pact members on wider regional security issues had been made and were being considered.
https://t.me/thecradlemedia/66724
Gotta love Iranian broadcasters just essentially manifesting. Apologies for reporting on this, though, it’s not as if the broadcaster minced words.
❗️Less than 20 vessels transit Strait of Hormuz over weekend
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Fewer than 20 commodity vessels passed through the Strait of Hormuz over the weekend, according to shipping data released on Monday.
Kpler shiptracking data showed four vessels crossed the strait on Sunday by 02:28 GMT, following 13 crossings on Saturday. The figures could be revised as some ships turned off their transponders while navigating the waterway.
The weekend total compared with 16 crossings on Friday. Two empty very large crude carriers (VLCC) entered the Gulf with their tracking systems switched off, with one bound for Iraq and the other for Bahrain, according to the data.
A VLCC carrying 2 million barrels of Emirati crude left the strait on Thursday.
Kpler data also showed that eight very large gas carriers crossed the waterway over the three-day period. Six entered the Gulf empty, while two carrying liquefied petroleum gas loaded in Iran exited the Gulf.
Traffic remained subdued during the week ending 21 August, as vessels abandoned planned crossings or diverted to routes through the northern part of the strait following attacks, the UK Maritime Trade Operations said in a report.
According to the report, which was based on Automatic Identification System data, 89 vessels exited the strait while 103 entered during the seven-day period.
🇮🇷🇺🇸| Iranian analyst Khoshcheshm says he predicts the next war to begin in november & december with heavy bombing campaigns by the US.
@FotrosResistancee
❗️Gaza’s Government Media Office said Israel has committed 4,379 violations of the ‘ceasefire agreement’ since it took effect in October 2025, with 315 days having passed since its implementation.
According to the office, the Israeli violations have resulted in the deaths of 1,286 Palestinians, injuries to 4,257 others, and the arrest of 180 people. It said 813 bodies have been recovered, while the remains of more than 8,000 Palestinians are still believed to be trapped beneath the rubble of destroyed homes.
On humanitarian aid, the office said only 66,607 trucks have entered Gaza out of the 189,000 that were expected to arrive, representing a compliance rate of 35%.
It also said 11,759 people have been allowed to travel through the Rafah crossing out of the 29,800 who were expected to pass since the agreement to reopen the crossing, putting the reported compliance rate at 39%.
❗️Summary of Israeli attacks and violations in south Lebanon over the past hour:
4:16 PM — A drone detonated in the Al-Arish area between Haddatha and Haris.
4:28 PM — Artillery shelling targeted Wadi al-Salouqi.
4:34 PM — Artillery shelling targeted the outskirts of Houla.
4:44 PM — A D9 bulldozer moved toward Al-Khalla, between Haris and Haddatha.
4:14 PM — An artillery shell struck near an inhabited home between Haris and Haddatha.
5:27 PM — Warplanes carried out airstrikes on Mansouri and Byout al-Sayyad.
Videos: https://t.me/thecradlemedia/66734?single
BREAKING | Israeli occupation forces are setting fire to homes in the southern Lebanese town of Al-Khiam, while artillery shelling targets Mansouri.
⭕️ According to Gaza’s Health Ministry, 2 Palestinians were killed and 32 others were wounded in Israeli attacks across the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours.
The ministry said many victims remain trapped beneath the rubble and on roads, as ambulance and civil defense teams remain unable to reach them.
Since the so-called “ceasefire” of 11 October, 2025, the ministry says 1,288 Palestinians have been killed, 4,290 wounded, and 813 bodies recovered.
