Satellite imagery reveals a new IRGC underground facility under construction near Karaj, west of Tehran, with work beginning around May 21.
Time-lapse imagery from May through August shows progressive excavation, new access roads, and multiple possible tunnel entrances in mountainous terrain.
Source: @GEOIMINT
NEW: Pakistan's army chief Field Marshal Asim Munir will visit Tehran on Monday for talks with senior Iranian officials.
Pakistan has been a key mediator in the US-Iran conflict alongside Qatar.
Munir has made multiple trips to Tehran this year as part of those efforts.
NEW: Iran has reportedly been invited to join the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Türkiye.
Mehdi Rahimi, head of the Iranian parliament’s official news agency Khaneh Mellat, told Al-Mayadeen that Iran received an invitation and that “the matter is under consideration.”
For now, however, the invitation has not been independently confirmed by Iran’s Foreign Ministry or senior leadership, nor publicly by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, or Türkiye.
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani on Israel:
We believe there should be contact, especially with a party that constantly threatens the security of Syria. But if this contact doesn’t bring results, then we don’t need it.
We do not trust Israel currently.
Source: Reuters
An Israeli Air Force source told Mako that the decision to strike Syria's Abu al-Duhur Air Base was made by Netanyahu and Defense Minister Katz at the political level, pushing back against claims the IDF pressured for the operation:
The military presented options and implications.
Claims of IDF pressure to block a Turkish presence do not reflect the truth.
The source said intelligence assessed the implications of a potential Turkish presence as "relatively limited."
Options presented were "varied and not exclusively military."
Netanyahu and Katz decided independently that a Turkish military foothold would not be permitted.
This contradicts Katz's own earlier statement that the IDF recommended the strike "several times."
Syria, Türkiye, and the US envoy have all disputed Israel's justification for the strike.
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shibani on Israel:
Israel has tried to maintain its security through brute force and it hasn’t succeeded.
I believe negotiations will resume soon.
The U.S. is trying continuously to put pressure on Israel to return to the dialogue table.
Source: Reuters
Three years ago today, Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, military commander Dmitry Utkin, and their core leadership were killed when their jet broke apart mid-flight over Russia's Tver Region, exactly two months after their failed mutiny.
Videos showed the aircraft spiraling down missing a wing, with debris scattered across 3 km.
Western intelligence assessed it as an onboard bomb.
Putin claimed grenade fragments were found in the bodies but no official report was ever released.
Wagner as an independent force effectively ended.
Its fighters were absorbed into Russia's military, and African operations were rebranded as the state-controlled Africa Corps.
Three years later, no definitive forensic conclusion has been publicly issued.
Israeli Transport Minister Miri Regev traveled to Morocco on Wednesday aboard Israeli airline Arkia’s first direct flight to Marrakesh, following a 3-year suspension of direct flights.
*Regev in 2025: "There is no famine. There is no humanitarian disaster. There are also no innocents or uninvolved people in Gaza."
Mark Ruffalo rejected Paramount’s accusation that his criticism of the Ellisons and the Warner Bros. Discovery merger invoked antisemitic tropes.
“The accusation that I am antisemitic is appalling and fundamentally dishonest.”
He argued that criticizing Israeli government policy, military technology contracts, or the executives involved “is not the same as criticizing Jewish people.”
On the merger itself, Ruffalo said scrutiny of the Ellisons, Oracle’s surveillance and government-contract business, potential job losses, and threats to editorial freedom is “fair and necessary.”
“Now is the time to dive boldly into all these issues, not step back or concede.”
Canadian Premier Kinew on Trump:
Very wise people have said "you can't get a good deal with a bad person", and I think that rule applies here.
President Trump is the reason we're all paying so much at the gas pump right now because of his misguided war in Iran.
Fixed it for you.
If 130+ vessels move, on average, 20 million barrels in a day, how do only '40' move 16M barrels in the same time?
The least you could do is some basic journalism as opposed to pumping out the headlines you're handed.
Zelensky says Russia still has roughly 600–630 ballistic missiles and could produce up to 1,300 a year, calling the ballistic threat a key priority for Ukrainian strikes and sanctions.
He also said Ukraine recently destroyed an Iskander launcher near the border as part of an ongoing “hunt” for Russian missile systems.
On the ground war, Zelensky warned Russia could eventually try to push toward Kyiv or Chernihiv oblasts to create a “buffer zone,” while stressing that Kyiv remains one of Putin’s long-term objectives.
On Mykhailo Fedorov, Zelensky said he was offered “four different options” to remain on the team but refused them, adding that Fedorov had been “pushed towards the wrong things.”
Yes. In a 1996 Jewish Week interview, Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh stated: “If a Jew needs a liver, can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him? The Torah would probably permit that.” The image closely paraphrases this. He tied it to Jewish life’s infinite value while affirming non-Jewish lives remain holy.
Yes. In November 1278 Edward I ordered the arrest of Jews across England on coin-clipping charges; about 600 were held in the Tower of London. Special commissions tried them in 1279. Contemporary chronicles and Pipe Roll records show 269–293 Jews executed in London alone, with more elsewhere, so hundreds were convicted.