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🇮🇷🇺🇸| CONFIRMED: Iranian air defenses shot down a USAF MQ-9 drone in the vicinity of Qeshm Island, southern Iran, tonight.
@FotrosResistancee
https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/24496
—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: According to my sources, Iranian air defenses on Qeshm launched a surface-to-air missile at an American F/A-18 ‘Hornet’ intruding Iran’s airspace
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/38021
🇮🇷🇺🇸| NOW: More air defense activity countering USAF fighter jets in the vicinity of Qeshm Island.
Note: this is new and seperate to the air defense activity from earlier.
@FotrosResistancee
https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/24490
🇮🇷🇺🇸| Tasnim has confirmed there were 2 impacts in Qeshm earlier tonight
— 🇮🇶/🇹🇷 NEW: Bafal Talabani, head of the Iraqi Kurdish party ‘PUK’, announces his intention to secede from the current Iraqi Kurdistan autonomous region and create a ‘Kurdistan 2.0’ that includes the cities of Sulaimaniyah and Halabja.
Talabani declared that his party would withdraw from what he called the ‘failed government’ in Erbil with immediate effect, vowing to create a parallel government and institutions.
The announcement likely marks the first time in history that a non-existent country splits up and forms a second non-existent country.
@Middle_East_Spectator
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/38018
Average Kurdish puppet behavior.
—❗️🇺🇸 NEW: Trump’s long-time aide Susie Wiles has left her position as White House Chief of Staff, and is being replaced by Stephen Miller
Miller is one of Trump’s staunchest supporters. He is also known for being very hawkish on Iran.
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🇧🇭 Bahrainis express their revulsion of the Al Khalifa regime’s new wave of arbitrary arrests through street protests across the country.
The protests have intensified following an escalation in repressive measures by the Bahraini rulers against Shia religious figures and citizens.
@SimurghRes
Bahrain’s American shield becomes its greatest liability
The US Fifth Fleet was meant to secure the Al-Khalifa monarchy. After Iranian strikes, Bahrain faces damaged military facilities, mounting debt, and an opposition returning to the streets.
By Mawadda Iskandar
Tehran, Moscow agree to build gas pipelines after Putin hosts Iran’s security chief
Rezaei told Putin that Tehran will neither reopen the Strait of Hormuz nor negotiate an end to the war unless Washington meets its seven conditions
🇮🇷🇺🇸| Iran’s top security deputy chief, Ali Bagheri, Iran will no longer accept written promises from the US and demands concrete US actions before entering a new phase of diplomacy.
He says the US has broken its commitments and derailed all 4 rounds of negotiations over the past 18 months.
@FotrosResistancee
This is a significant diplomatic escalation. Iran’s doctrine of strategic patience is in place precisely to develop leverage towards this orientation.
❗️Iranian lawmaker warns retaliatory strikes could target Europe and drive oil past $150
An Iranian lawmaker warned that any renewed aggression by the US or Israeli occupation forces will trigger a wide-scale response capable of expanding missile strikes to targets across Europe and driving global crude prices beyond $150 a barrel.
Speaking to Iran’s Tasnim News Agency, Hossein Ali Haji Deligani, a member of parliament representing Shahin Shahr, declared that Tehran’s retaliatory operational doctrine will not be constrained by geographical boundaries or the initial scale of an attack.
“The range of the responding missiles will also encompass Europe, and this will lead to the oil price crossing the $150 threshold,” Deligani stated, characterizing the expected Iranian response as “massive, multiplied, and strategic.”
Addressing Washington’s ongoing naval blockade against Iranian ports, the lawmaker described the maritime enforcement actions as an explicit act of war against the country, warning that armed forces will strike back “at the appropriate moment.”
The comments signal growing readiness within parliament for a broader escalation as economic pressures and maritime blockades continue to threaten regional stability.
—❗️🇾🇪/🇸🇦/🇺🇸/🇮🇱/🇬🇧 NEW: Ansarallah (the Houthis) have established an email-based clearance system for ships seeking safe passage through the Red Sea, according to the Wall Street Journal
Captains submit vessel details and declare they have no ties to the U.S., UK, Israel or Saudi Arabia.
The Houthis usually respond within 24 hours, issuing 7-day transit approvals and navigation instructions.
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VIDEO | Israeli occupation forces violently assaulted two young Palestinian men as they were picking olives near Jabal Aybal, north of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, before releasing them and withdrawing from the area.
❗️Israeli forces detain foreign activists & journalists during West Bank olive harvest
Israeli forces detained 17 people, including 12 foreign activists, two foreign journalists, and three Palestinians, while they were participating in the olive harvest in the occupied West Bank village of Kafr Ni’ma, west of Ramallah.
The arrests followed an attack by a group of Jewish settlers on olive harvesters in the Salem area near Jabal al-Risan in the village.
Israeli occupation forces have recently intensified their targeting of international activists taking part in solidarity initiatives and agricultural activities across the West Bank. On 22 October, they arrested several foreign activists in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, before deporting them from the country.
❗️Congenital anomalies spike in Gaza, up 75% since genocide
The number of birth defects recorded among newborns in the Gaza Strip during the first nine months of this year has surpassed the total number of cases documented throughout 2022 prior to the start of the genocide, local medical sources told WAFA.
Health officials reported 260 cases of congenital anomalies between January and September, exceeding the 184 cases recorded in all of 2022. Medical records further showed that 322 cases were documented across 2025—marking a 75 percent increase compared to pre-genocide figures.
Documented conditions include cleft lip and palate, ambiguous external genitalia, shortened upper limbs, and umbilical hernias, with several infants presenting multiple severe malformations.
Medical sources highlighted maternal starvation, prolonged exposure to toxic environmental pollutants from Israeli bombardment, and the systematic collapse of prenatal healthcare under the blockade as major contributing factors.
Calling for an urgent, independent international scientific investigation into the spike, Palestinian health authorities echoed warnings issued by Human Rights Watch detailing catastrophic, life-threatening risks faced by pregnant women and newborns due to the deliberate destruction of health infrastructure and severe shortages of essential food, clean water, and medical supplies.
❗️Turkiye says proposed gas pipeline with Turkish Cypriots could power all of Cyprus
Turkish Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said a proposed natural gas pipeline connecting Turkiye with the breakaway Turkish Cypriot community could eventually supply electricity to the entire island of Cyprus.
Announced earlier this year, the project involves constructing a mostly subsea, 101-kilometer pipeline to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) to supply the community with natural gas. Ankara says the infrastructure could also eventually be connected to Europe.
Speaking to international media representatives in Istanbul on Thursday, Bayraktar said Turkiye plans to transport gas to the island to fuel a power plant, allowing the Turkish Cypriot administration to generate its own electricity. If an agreement is reached between the two sides, the TRNC could eventually supply some of that electricity to the Greek Cypriot government.
“If we find some gas or someone else can find some in the eastern Mediterranean, they can use this pipeline with the reverse flow and they can bring the gas to the island and from the island to Turkey and to the European market,” he said.
Bayraktar also said Ankara remained open to energy cooperation with Greece.
—❗️🇰🇼 NEW: Columns of smoke were seen rising near Kuwait International Airport; the cause remains unknown
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