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The IRGC has issued a warning threatening the entire Israel. Psychological warfare in overdive

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirms that President Trump is heading back to Washington.

BREAKING: President Trump is leaving the G7 summit EARLY and will return to DC tonight.

Fox News anchor Brett Baier: “We are now, just moments ago, getting reports… that there are major explosions in Tehran at this hour.”

President Trump takes a swipe at Tucker Carlson – his second of the day – calling him “kooky” and stressing that Iran cannot be allowed to obtain a nuke

During a press briefing at the G7 summit on Monday, President Donald Trump stated that Iran is once again open to negotiations and predicted that a deal would be finalized. “They would be foolish not to,” he remarked.

The President elaborated on the current diplomatic dynamics, saying, “Iran wants to make a deal. A deal will be signed, or something will happen. Iran should have signed the deal. I gave Iran 60 days to reach an agreement, but they said no.”

He noted his ongoing communication with Israeli leadership, emphasizing collaboration with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. “We are on our way to making sure that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon.”

Trump concluded by indicating that further steps concerning Iran would be taken once the summit wraps up. “We will move forward on the Iranian issue after I leave the G7 summit,” he added.

{Matzav.com}

In the early hours of Tuesday, the Israeli military detected the firing of two missiles originating from Iranian territory, aimed at Israel. The country’s air defense systems were swiftly activated to intercept the threat.

Air raid sirens were triggered across numerous regions in Israel, including major cities in the south and center such as Be’er Sheva, alerting residents to seek shelter.

According to reports, the missiles fell in uninhabited areas in Israel’s southern region. There were no direct casualties reported.

A spokesperson from Magen David Adom released a statement saying, “Following the Red Alert sirens in the past few minutes in the center and south of Israel, at this stage no reports have been received in MDA’s Emergency Dispatch Center of missile strikes or casualties, apart from a number of people who were injured on their way to a protected space.”

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards issued a statement taking responsibility for the missile attack, claiming it was retaliation for what they allege was the origin of a strike launched the previous evening against Iran’s national broadcasting facility in Tehran.

The Tuesday strike came shortly after a separate, less intense missile barrage targeted the northern part of Israel on Monday around 7:30 p.m.

That same day, Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu conducted a visit to the Tel Nof Airbase, accompanied by Defense Minister Yisroel Katz and IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir.

Speaking at the base, Netanyahu outlined the objectives of Israel’s campaign, declaring, “We are on the way to achieve our two goals: eliminating the nuclear threat and eliminating the missile threat. When we control the skies of Tehran, we hit these targets, the enemy’s targets, in contrast to the criminal Iranian regime, which targets our civilians and comes to kill our children and women. We tell the civilians in Tehran: ‘Evacuate’ – and we are taking action.”

He continued by praising the military’s performance: “We are on our way to victory, and this is thanks to our heroic pilots. Our amazing ground crews are also doing an amazing job. I salute you, all citizens of Israel salute you, and I wish to tell you: many in the world salute you and are amazed by you.”

Netanyahu concluded with a message of perseverance and faith: “This is a basic part of the hope that we will achieve victory. Thank you, and with God’s help, we will do and succeed, and continue until victory.”

{Matzav.com Israel}

The Israeli military recently executed a covert mission aimed at disrupting Iran’s nuclear ambitions, hitting a location thought to play a key role in sustaining the country’s nuclear weapons development.

According to a report aired Monday by Channel 12’s Amit Segal, one of the primary objectives of this mission was to eliminate a duplicate version of Iran’s nuclear archive. This archive reportedly held a comprehensive collection of documents detailing the Islamic Republic’s expertise and strides in the realm of nuclear arms.

This strike is viewed as a highly significant strategic achievement, arriving seven years after the renowned Mossad operation that succeeded in removing Iran’s original nuclear archive from a heavily fortified site in Tehran. That mission culminated in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showcasing the materials to the world during a high-profile 2018 press conference.

The apparent obliteration of the backup archive is part of a broader pattern of clandestine operations widely linked to Israel, as described in various international outlets. These include precision strikes on Iranian scientists who were integral to the country’s nuclear and uranium enrichment initiatives.

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A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses by flying in precise and fancy formation, providing hours of on-demand totality for scientists. The European Space Agency released the eclipse pictures at the Paris Air Show on Monday. Launched late last year, the orbiting duo have churned out simulated solar eclipses since March while zooming tens of thousands of miles (kilometers) above Earth. Flying 492 feet (150 meters) apart, one satellite blocks the sun like the moon does during a natural total solar eclipse as the other aims its telescope at the corona, the sun’s outer atmosphere that forms a crown or halo of light. It’s an intricate, prolonged dance requiring extreme precision by the cube-shaped spacecraft, less than 5 feet (1.5 meters) in size. Their flying accuracy needs to be within a mere millimeter, the thickness of a fingernail. This meticulous positioning is achieved autonomously through GPS navigation, star trackers, lasers and radio links. Dubbed Proba-3, the $210 million mission has generated 10 successful solar eclipses so far during the ongoing checkout phase. The longest eclipse lasted five hours, said the Royal Observatory of Belgium’s Andrei Zhukov, the lead scientist for the orbiting corona-observing telescope. He and his team are aiming for a wondrous six hours of totality per eclipse once scientific observations begin in July. Scientists already are thrilled by the preliminary results that show the corona without the need for any special image processing, said Zhukov. “We almost couldn’t believe our eyes,” Zhukov said in an email. “This was the first try, and it worked. It was so incredible.” Zhukov anticipates an average of two solar eclipses per week being produced for a total of nearly 200 during the two-year mission, yielding more than 1,000 hours of totality. That will be a scientific bonanza since full solar eclipses produce just a few minutes of totality when the moon lines up perfectly between Earth and the sun — on average just once every 18 months. The sun continues to mystify scientists, especially its corona, which is hotter than the solar surface. Coronal mass ejections result in billions of tons of plasma and magnetic fields being hurled out into space. Geomagnetic storms can result, disrupting power and communication while lighting up the night sky with auroras in unexpected locales. While previous satellites have generated imitation solar eclipses — including the European Space Agency and NASA’s Solar Orbiter and Soho observatory — the sun-blocking disk was always on the same spacecraft as the corona-observing telescope. What makes this mission unique, Zhukov said, is that the sun-shrouding disk and telescope are on two different satellites and therefore far apart. The distance between these two satellites will give scientists a better look at the part of the corona closest to the limb of the sun. “We are extremely satisfied by the quality of these images, and again this is really thanks to formation flying” with unprecedented accuracy, ESA’s mission manager Damien Galano said from the Paris Air Show. (AP)

Sec. of Defense Pete Hegseth has confirmed that additional deployments to the Middle East are for “defensive posture in the region.”

Operations at all BAZAN installations in Haifa Bay were completely halted Monday night after a missile struck the complex earlier that day, resulting in the deaths of three individuals.

According to a statement from BAZAN Group, the missile hit a section of the power plant that generates steam and electricity for multiple facilities across the company. The impact caused serious disruptions, prompting a full shutdown of the refinery and its affiliated businesses until further notice.

The company noted that it is working closely with the Israel Electric Corporation to reestablish a stable energy supply at the site as soon as possible. Simultaneously, BAZAN is conducting a detailed evaluation of the destruction and planning how to proceed with necessary repairs.

In response, the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure issued a statement saying, “The energy sector is prepared to support the country’s fuel needs. Minister Eli Cohen visited the facility Monday morning with professional teams to prioritize necessary repairs. The Ministry, along with the Minister, expressed condolences to the families of the victims and to the company for the tragic loss.”

Later Monday evening, authorities confirmed that the three people who lost their lives in the morning attack were located inside the BAZAN compound at the time of the missile impact.

Initial findings indicate that the victims were in what was considered the most secure internal room on the premises when the strike occurred. All three individuals were residents of Haifa and the surrounding Krayot region.

{Matzav.com Israel}

President Donald Trump said Iran missed a crucial opportunity by not agreeing to a nuclear deal with the United States prior to Israeli military strikes, but said he is optimistic that Tehran may now be willing to come to the negotiating table. “As I’ve been saying, I think a deal will be signed, or something will happen, but a deal will be signed,” Trump said Sunday on the sidelines of the G7 summit. “And I think Iran is foolish not to sign.” The President reiterated his administration’s objective of preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, a long-standing concern that has escalated following recent hostilities in the region. “I want to see no nuclear weapon in Iran and we’re well on our way to making sure that happens,” Trump said. “Israel is doing very well, as you probably noticed,” he added. “I’ve spoken to everybody… I’m in constant touch.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

HY’D: Danny Abraham, a 59-year-old resident of Kiryat Motzkin, was one of the three fatalities from the Iranian missile strike on the Bazan facilities in Haifa last night. According to the assessment of investigative authorities, the three were in an inner room, considered the most protected area in the facility, and the strike likely hit near the building where they were located. As a result of the impact, a fire broke out, part of the structure collapsed due to the flames, and they were trapped under the rubble.

“Within 48 hours of starting its war on Iran, Israel said it gained air superiority over the western part of the country, including Tehran,” the Wall Street Journal reported. “Israeli warplanes began dropping bombs from within Iranian skies instead of relying on expensive long-range missiles.” The report continued by noting that this is an accomplishment that the giant Russian air force hasn’t achieved in Ukraine in 3½ years of war, resulting in a “grinding trench warfare” and staggering losses. Of course, the two wars are very different because Israel had not launched a ground offensive in Iran. Nevertheless, according to the report, the two conflicts reinforce what war planners have known for decades: Control over air is everything, if you can get it. “The two campaigns are showing the fundamental importance of air superiority in order to succeed in your overall military objectives,” said retired U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. David Deptula, dean of the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, who oversaw allied air operations against the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan in 2001. “In the case of the Russia-Ukraine war, you see what happens when neither side can achieve air superiority: stalemate and devolution to attrition-based warfare,” he said. “In the case of the Israel-Iran war, it allows them unhindered freedom to attack where they possess air superiority over segments of Iran.” The Israelis now have “the ability to use the whole suite of their offensive weapons—in greater mass, more efficiently, and spreading them out,” said retired British Air Marshal Martin Sampson, who directed British air operations against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq and now heads the Middle East office of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. “From Israel’s side, the campaign objective is to destroy and degrade—and Iran doesn’t have that ability.” Military analysts note that the Israeli Air Force is far more capable than the Russians, and Ukraine is much better at defense than Iran. “Israel achieved surprise and overmatch over Iran’s air defenses, which represented a much easier target set than Ukraine’s air defenses in almost every respect,” said Michael Kofman, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment and an expert on Russian and Ukrainian militaries. “The asymmetry in qualitative capability between Israel’s air force and Russia is also vast and can be easily observed.” Retired British Air Marshal Edward Stringer, who ran the air campaign in Libya in 2011 and headed operations for the British Ministry of Defense, said that the sophisticated training of the Israeli air force, combined with the IDF’s intelligence and cyber capabilities, is why the Israelis succeeded and the Russians failed. “All the Russians have is pilots. They grow these pilots to drive flying artillery, and that’s it,” he said. Iran has also failed to organize ground-based air defenses to impede enemy aircraft, instead relying on deterrence through its missile forces and those of its proxies. “Iran never relied on air defenses alone to ward off attacks like this. The idea was always to use deterrence,” said Fabian Hinz, a military expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Israel also relied on its advanced intelligence capabilities to carry out sabotage operations within Iran before and during its opening strike, destroying air defenses and missile launchers and carrying out a series of assassinations of senior Iranian and military intelligence […]

POTUS: “I want to see no nuclear weapon in Iran and we’re well on our way to making sure that happens.”

POTUS: “I’ve spoken to everybody… I’m in constant touch, and as I’ve been saying, I think a deal will be signed… I think Iran is foolish not to sign one.”

Hagaon HaRav David Yosef, the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel, recorded this message in Hebrew from the Kosel tonight.

What appears to have been a cyber attack (possibly from Iran), a live broadcast from Israel’s Channel 14 broadcast was temporarily interrupted.