Steve Dodangoda

🇮🇷 Iran's Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf posted this photo on his way to the Islamabad talks. The empty seats around him are filled with photographs of children killed when a U.S. Tomahawk missile struck a girls' school in Minab. "My companions on this flight." He's walking into the most important negotiation of the conflict carrying the faces of dead schoolkids as his delegation. The same strike that the U.S. tried to distance itself from, that neither Washington nor Tel Aviv wanted to claim, is now sitting in empty seats on that plane. Iran fought the entire war using asymmetry. Now they're bringing that same asymmetric playbook to the diplomatic table. Vance arrives with talking points about nuclear weapons and shipping lanes. Ghalibaf arrives with dead children on airplane seats. Whatever you think of the Iranian regime, this image tells you exactly how they plan to frame these talks: not as a military negotiation, but as a moral reckoning in front of the whole world.

Footage shows a U.S. Air Force F-15 pursuing but failing to intercept a low-flying Iranian Shahed drone over northern Iraq. The drone later struck near a burning Castrol facility in Erbil.

BREAKING 🇷🇺🇮🇷 Dmitry Medvedev says after the attack, Iran will definitely have nuclear weapons: “After the U.S.-Israeli assassination of Khamenei, there is no doubt that Iran will eventually acquire nuclear weapons.”