Israel vs Palestine/Lebanon/Iran/Yemen/Syria: a New Middle East War

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Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده

Jun 16
Translated from Arabic
Hunger besieges their exhausted bodies, and the children of Gaza crawl into the chest of death, barefoot in dignity, wounded by the world's silence, only to return with a mere crumb of bread for their children. They face bullets instead of loaves, and their humanity is stripped from them in full view of the world, with no shadow of mercy and no echo of justice. #غزة_الإبادة_والصمود

https://x.com/RamAbdu/status/2066834806684418445

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Quds News Network

Heartbreaking scenes showing the moment the wounded and the martyrs were being transported to Nasser hospital after an Israeli airstrike targeted them on the beach of Khan Younis

https://x.com/QudsNen/status/2067288458385653925

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Quds News Network

Update | Two Palestinians reportedly killed, and six others injured, following an Israeli drone strike on a café by Al-Mawasi beach, southern Gaza Strip.

https://x.com/QudsNen/status/2067271116196888808

Quds News Network

Initial Reports: At least 4 Palestinians killed, and multiple others injured, in an Israeli drone strike on Al-Mawasi, southern Gaza Strip.

https://x.com/QudsNen/status/2067266960849592373

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Quds News Network

Israeli occupation forces storm Al-Shabat high school for girls in Wadi Al-Joz, east of occupied Jerusalem, and harass Palestinian female students.

https://x.com/QudsNen/status/2067270104010604550

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Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده

Jun 16
Breaking: Israel’s Supreme Court rejected the appeal against
@HussamAbuSafiya
’s detention & approved his continued imprisonment under the “Unlawful Combatant” law, without presenting any charges.

He remains in solitary confinement, deprived of medical care and basic rights.

https://x.com/RamAbdu/status/2066786004199972960

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https://x.com/RamAbdu/status/2066822205246263657

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MintPress News

🚨Israel’s Security Minister Defies The US & Vows To Continue Destroying Homes In Southern Lebanon

Despite Israel’s ongoing ceasefire violations & Iran’s threat to retaliate, the Trump administration has refused to act to stop Tel Aviv from violating its deal with Iran.

Itamar Ben Gvir makes it clear that his government will not listen to Donald Trump & instead prioritises attacking civilian infrastructure

https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/2067269756642615710

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MintPress News

🚨BREAKING: Israel Detonates Civilian Homes In Southern Lebanon’s Hadatha

This comes amidst non-stop ceasefire violations.

https://x.com/MintPressNews/status/2067261733186523292

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La Jornada

Translated from Spanish
🟫 Israel's far-right National Security Minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, canceled an upcoming trip to the U.S. after the U.S. embassy required him to appear in person and provide his fingerprints as a condition for receiving a visa, according to 'The Times of Israel'.

Ben Gvir was scheduled to travel to Miami to attend the wedding of an Israeli businessman's daughter.

The unusual measure of requiring fingerprints was apparently due to his criminal record.

Read more here 👇

https://x.com/lajornadaonline/status...86672965943735

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Ahmed Ashour 𓂆🇵🇸

What happened in Gaza: While we were searching for a single meal to ease our hunger and feed our children, Israel left behind explosive devices disguised as tuna cans. Many children were killed after mistaking these explosives for food

https://x.com/AhmedAAshour8/status/2067146613106126899

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DD Geopolitics

🇺🇸🇮🇷 BREAKING!!!! The White House has released the full text of 14-point MoU

The points summarised are as follows:

1. The U.S. and Iran, and their allies in the current war, by signing this MoU, declare the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon, and undertake from now on not to initiate any war or any military operation against each other, and to refrain from the threat or use of force against each other, and ensuring the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon.

2. The U.S. and Iran will respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity and refrain from interfering in each other's internal affairs.

3. The U.S. and Iran commit to achieving a final deal in a maximum of 60 days, extendable with mutual consent.

4. The U.S. will immediately begin the removal of its naval blockade and any disturbances or impediments against Iran, and will fully end the naval blockade within 30 days. During this period, the traffic will be in proportion to the number of pre-war traffic being restored by Iran. The U.S. further undertakes to remove its military forces from the proximity of Iran within 30 days after the final deal.

5. Iran will make arrangements for the safe passage of commercial vessels with no charge for 60 days from the Persian Gulf to the Sea of Oman, and vice versa. The traffic of commercial vessels will immediately start, considering the need for removing the technical and military obstacles and demining, within 30 days. Iran will conduct a dialogue with Oman to define the future administration and maritime services in the Strait of Hormuz in discussion with other Persian Gulf littoral states in line with international law and the sovereign rights of coastal states of the Strait of Hormuz.

6. The U.S. undertakes with its regional partners to develop a definitive, mutually agreed plan with at least USD 300 billion for the reconstruction and economic development of Iran, as part of the final deal after 60 days. All required licenses, waivers, and permissions will be granted.

7. The U.S. will terminate all types of sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the UNSC resolutions, IAEA Board of Governors resolutions, and all unilateral US sanctions, primary and secondary, in an agreed-upon schedule as part of the final deal.

8. Iran reaffirms that it shall not procure or develop nuclear weapons. The U.S. and Iran have agreed to resolve the disposition of stockpile enriched materials, pursuant to a mechanism that will be mutually agreed upon in accordance with the schedule mentioned in paragraph seven, with at a minimum a downblending on site under the supervision of the IAEA. The two parties also agreed to discuss the issue of enrichment and other mutually agreed matters related to Iran's nuclear needs.

9. Pending the final deal, the U.S. and Iran agree to maintain the status quo. Iran will maintain the current status quo of its nuclear program, and the U.S. will not impose any new sanctions and will not deploy additional forces in the region.

10. The U.S. undertakes that immediately upon the signing of this MoU, waivers will be issued for the export of Iranian crude oil, petroleum products, and derivatives, and all associated services, including banking transactions, insurances, transportation, etc.

11. The U.S. undertakes to make fully available for use the frozen or restricted funds of the Islamic Republic of Iran upon the implementation of this MoU. The U.S. and Iran will mutually agree on the procedures related to the release of these funds during the negotiations.

12. A monitoring mechanism will be established to supervise the implementation of this MoU and the subsequent deal.

13. After signing this MoU and subject to the beginning of the implementation of paragraphs 1, 4, 5, 10, and 11, and the continuing implementation of these measures, the U.S. and Iran will start negotiations regarding the final deal.

14. The final deal will be endorsed by a UNSC Resolution.

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2067323116477645189

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الرادع المغربي 🇲🇦🔻🇵🇸

Translated from Arabic
Saudi Foreign Minister to the Israelis:

You cut off aid to the people of Gaza, bomb them, and say they want voluntary departure,

There is no such thing as voluntary departure for the residents of Gaza; every image of Gaza residents leaving the Strip is forced displacement. Forced displacement must be categorically rejected.

https://x.com/Rd_fas1/status/2067221437593633221

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Pepe Escobar

That was myself solo - with plenty of nuggets. Tonight it's Larry and myself - and we have MAJOR breaking news on the MoU.

Transition Protocol already recovering a great deal of the audience we had with Power Shift before we got cancelled by the US government

https://x.com/RealPepeEscobar/status...06266012381689

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In light of the ongoing Israeli atrocities, these are some rather extraordinary beliefs:

US ambassador to the Israeli-occupied territories has said that his country owes its very existence to the Israeli regime and its legacy of occupation.

Mike Huckabee said on Wednesday that he is not only the US ambassador in the occupied territories, but also an ambassador of the Israeli regime to the American public.

"Without Israel, there would not be an America. We owe our very existence to what happened in this land," he said while addressing a settlement construction meeting near Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank.

Huckabee’s remarks appeared to directly counter comments made a day earlier by US President Donald Trump, who claimed that Israel would not exist without him.

Trump said during the G7 summit in France that no other president would have rendered a greater service to the Israeli regime than he did by striking Iran twice within a year.

"Without the United States, there would be no Israel. Without me, there would be no Israel, because no other president was willing to do what I did," he said.

"Israel would have been blown up a long time ago, had I not gotten involved," Trump added.

The contrasting remarks from the US President and his ambassador to the occupied territories come amid growing discord between the US and Israel over how to manage the aftermath of their joint aggression on Iran, which began in late February and ended with a ceasefire in early April.

I mean, it is broadly understood that Zion would not exist in its current form without US support, although the personal credit-taking is delirious.

As for the Arkansas expert's opinion, that is so inscrutably preposterous that only a Zionist would believe it. Just make it up like you always do.

America removing itself from a position of industrial leadership coincides with the epoch of Israeli favoritism.

I suppose you can talk around that in a million ways in order to not be aware of it, which fits our mode of politics very well. Israel can still be blown up in the near future as 47 runs out of capabilities.

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MOU has been signed in Versailles.

Pepe Escobar

Emperor of Barbaria signed the MoU with Iran in Versailles.

Germany signed its capitulation in 1918 at the end of WWI in Versailles


https://x.com/RealPepeEscobar/status...70056233759081

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DD Geopolitics

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump confirms Iran MoU signed!!

Leaving Versailles after a dinner with his French counterpart, the US president confirmed the memorandum of understanding with Iran has been signed.

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2067390805405540401

✦ Margot Haddad ✦

The Élysée Palace confirms to
@TF1Info
that the MOU was signed at Versailles tonight at dinner and NOT electronically

https://x.com/margothaddad/status/2067386148868022449

https://x.com/dana916/status/2067385960728346757

https://x.com/RapidResponse47/status...86376278949991

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✦ Margot Haddad ✦

President Trump officially signed the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Iran by hand this evening at Versailles.

https://x.com/margothaddad/status/2067390398792683774

The White House

🚨 President Donald J. Trump has SIGNED the Iran Memorandum of Understanding at Versailles in France. 🇺🇸

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2067393004239814711

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DD Geopolitics

🇺🇸🇮🇷 IRAN PUBLISHED THEIR VERSION OF THE MoU FULL TEXT - AND THEY DIFFER. AGAIN.

Both Washington and Tehran have now officially published what they each describe as the authoritative text of the Islamabad MOU.

We compared both versions article by article - and they are not identical. Shocking, right?

Here are the four articles where the texts diverge:

Article 5 — Strait of Hormuz passage

🇮🇷 "Iran will make arrangements for safe passage "with no charge, for 60 days only."

🇺🇸 "with no charge for 60 days" — the word only is absent.

This has real implications: Iranian version makes explicit that toll-free passage through the Strait is strictly time-limited — after 60 days, Iran reserves the right to introduce charges. The US version leaves that question open. Given that the future administration of the Strait is itself subject to negotiation between Iran and Oman (a clause both texts agree on), the presence or absence of "only" will matter when that negotiation begins.

Article 11 — Frozen funds

🇮🇷 "Released funds must be fully available for payment to any ultimate beneficiary designated by the Central Bank of Iran — with the US required to issue all necessary licenses and permissions."

🇺🇸 The funds will be "made fully available for use." The beneficiary designation clause is entirely absent.

This is the most consequential difference in the document. The Iranian text establishes that Iran's Central Bank has complete, unilateral discretion over where the released funds go — and that the US is obligated to approve whatever transactions Iran designates, with no conditions.

The US version says nothing of the sort.
Whether those funds could flow to entities currently under separate US sanctions — including military or proxy-related entities — is precisely the question this clause answers in the Iranian text and leaves unanswered in the US one.

Four articles, four differences, all four favour Iran's interpretation in the Iranian text.
This is not unusual in NORMAL diplomacy — both sides routinely leave deliberate ambiguities in agreed documents to sell the deal domestically.

What is unusual is that both sides have now published their version as the official, authoritative text.

The discrepancies will need to be resolved before the formal signing in Switzerland on Friday — or they will become the first disputes of the 60-day negotiation period.
https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2067355025572032834

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World updates

SHOCKING 🤯 🇹🇷Turkey & Saudi Arabia Just Found a Way to DITCH the Strait of Hormuz FOREVER!

🇮🇱Israel is getting pushed out of the picture…

🇸🇦Saudi Arabia just signed a HUGE deal with 🇹🇷Turkey to AGGRESSIVELY build a massive new railway that connects them through Syria, Jordan, and Oman!

Goods, oil, and trade will now go over land straight from the Gulf to Turkey and Europe!

This changes EVERYTHING! 🔥

https://x.com/itswpceo/status/2067310840911643108

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JUne, 16
The Young Turks
6.65M subscribers
Loomer CRASHES OUT Over Tucker Carlson & Candace Owens

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yt2-Txi2cY4

Laura Loomer is calling for investigations into the "woke right". Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks. Do you agree with TYT's take?

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DD Geopolitics

🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump and Pazeshkian signing the MoU.

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2067404887751610776