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Ahmadinejad killed in strike on Tehran

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the former president of Iran, was killed in US and Israeli strikes on Tehran, Iranian state media reported.

Earlier reports on Saturday said three of his bodyguards were killed when strikes hit near his home in Tehran’s Narmak district, but that the former president had survived.

Ahmadinejad served as Iran’s president from 2005 to 2013, winning elections as an outsider who promised to “bring oil money to people’s tables” and govern as “a man made from the people’s essence”.

His tenure was marked by confrontation with the West over Iran’s nuclear programme, economic mismanagement that deepened poverty despite soaring oil revenues, and an increasingly authoritarian response to dissent.

After leaving office, Ahmadinejad increasingly positioned himself as a critic of the system he once championed, questioning corruption, calling for political prisoners’ release, and challenging the legitimacy of Iran’s power structure.

His defiance of Khamenei – from a figure who once embodied loyal implementation of the supreme leader’s vision –  made him a unique voice in Iranian politics: a hardline conservative who had become an opposition figure, not through ideological transformation but through personal grievance and political calculation.

He is survived by his wife Azam Sadat Farahi and their three children.

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An American-Iranian Democrat destroys the Democratic Party for refusing to back the war on the Islamic Regime:

“It is imperative that the Democratic Party wake and gets past their dislike of Donald Trump…

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“The U.S. military carried out 900 strikes in 12 hours. That might be a record. The Israelis carried out 1,200 strikes in the past 24 hours, more than during the entire 12-day war last summer.”

This is just the beginning.

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Pakistan is in ‘open war’ with Afghanistan after latest strikes, defense minister says

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan and Afghanistan exchanged cross-border attacks overnight in a dramatic escalation of tensions that led Pakistan’s defense minister to say on Friday that the two countries are in a state of “open war.”

Afghanistan launched an attack on Pakistan late Thursday, saying it was in retaliation for deadly Pakistani airstrikes on Afghan border areas Sunday. Pakistan then carried out airstrikes in Kabul and two other Afghan provinces early Friday, saying it targeted military installations.

Reports from Axios and the Wall Street Journal describe Washington’s push to dismantle facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, while the US aircraft carrier Gerald Ford moves toward Israel. Analysts warn that diplomacy is nearing collapse, and both sides may be preparing for possible military confrontation. Meanwhile, protests erupt across Iranian universities, prompting the government to move many classes online in an effort to suppress student activism. In Washington, lawmakers debate limiting the president’s war powers as political pressure over Iran intensifies.