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📹🇺🇸 US munition directly hit Iranian wedding — reports A deadly strike on a wedding celebration in Kuhestak, southern Iran, was likely a direct hit by a US munition, rather than secondary damage from another strike or an Iranian air-defense missile, according to a weapons analysis reviewed by Reuters. Experts examining verified images and video said the blast pattern was consistent with a weapon detonating on or just above the roof of the residential building. 💬 “The weight of evidence leans towards a U.S. 500 lb air-dropped munition,” one explosives expert told the outlet. A US-made Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW) glide bomb struck the residential area where the wedding was being held, a New York Times analysis separately concluded. Its analysis relied on verified video, satellite imagery and weapons remnants, including a tail fin and casing consistent with a JSOW. The strike turned a wedding into a scene of devastation, killing civilians and wounding dozens. 💬 “Tonight was supposed to be a night of love and laughter. But the wedding turned into mourning,” one wedding guest wrote afterward. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei has condemned the attack as a war crime, calling it part of a broader pattern of US attacks on civilians during the US-Israeli aggression against Iran. Footage from social media 📌 Subscribe to @SputnikInt

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🪖 Trump names Adam Telle acting Army secretary US President Donald Trump announced that Adam Telle, currently Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, will become acting secretary of the Army effective immediately. Telle replaces Dan Driscoll, who resigned this week. Driscoll gave no public reason for his departure, but his resignation came amid months of tensions with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Reuters reported. 📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🏳️ US has won ‘almost none’ of its wars in 42 years — Vance 💬 “America has fought a lot of wars since I’ve been alive — 42 years. And we have won almost none of them,” US Vice President JD Vance admitted. The US vice president went on to describe the past four decades as “40 years of, frankly, military misadventures,” questioning both military planning and the political leadership behind it. 📉 And now the US is looking at yet another “misadventure” in Iran. 📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🗣 Trump claims he is 'saving' the UK from Iran 💬 “I’m saving your country from the threat, too. Because if Iran had a nuclear weapon, they’re more likely to use it in Europe, where they do have missile capability, than they are to America,” US President Donald Trump claimed. In March 2025, the US Intelligence Community said Iran was “not building a nuclear weapon” and that its leadership had not authorized the nuclear weapons program suspended in 2003. The current US-Israeli war of aggression against Iran began with strikes by the US and Israel. Iran has maintained that its response to the aggression is an exercise of its right to self-defense. 📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

🇧🇩 Bangladesh mulls being part of the Mecca defense pact—Bangladeshi diplomat 💬 “Since it is an alliance of Muslim countries, probably the Bangladeshi government might consider it positively because we have very good bilateral relations with all these nations,” Bangladeshi Ambassador to Russia Nazrul Islam told Sputnik on the sidelines of the 2026 EEF in Vladivostok. The Mecca Joint Defense Agreement is a trilateral mutual defense pact signed by Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan on August 7, 2026, a document that stipulates that an armed attack against any single member is treated as an attack against all three. 📌Subscribe to @SputnikInt

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🗣 Vance dismisses US war crimes as Iran counts wedding dead 💬 “The United States never targets civilians in combat. We never will do that. We never have done that,” US Vice President JD Vance declared amid an investigation into the deadly strike on a wedding in Kuhestak. “Sometimes things happen,” he added, reducing civilian deaths to the language of a mishap. The attack hit a residential home where a wedding was underway, killing five people and wounding 68 others, including children, Press TV reported. A four-year-old was among those killed. Iran has formally protested to the UN, calling the strike a war crime. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei condemned the attack as part of a wider pattern of US strikes on civilians during the US-Israeli aggression against Iran: 💬 “The United States’ catalogue of atrocities against the nation of Iran is now complete.” Vance’s claim also comes months after the Feb. 28 US strike on the Shajareh Tayyebeh School in Minab, where Iranian officials say 168 people were killed, including 120 students and 26 teachers. When “mistakes” happen this often, they reveal an atrocious pattern. 📌 Subscribe to @SputnikInt

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