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Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister, announced in a message addressed to the Iranian people that conditions will be created in the coming days so they can "take control of their own destiny." Netanyahu published this message in English on the official Israeli Prime Minister's account on X network, writing: "People of Iran, we are in a historic war for freedom. This is an opportunity that may come only once in a lifetime to remove the ayatollahs' regime and achieve your freedom." He continued: "Together with the United States, we are targeting Tehran's tyrants harder than ever before." The Israeli Prime Minister also promised that these attacks will continue, saying: "We will continue to strike with increasing power against the tyrants who have kept you in terror for decades." Netanyahu concluded by emphasizing: "In the coming days, we will create conditions for you to take control of your destiny. When the right time comes, and that time is rapidly approaching, we will pass the torch to you." @VahidOOnLine Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's Prime Minister, said in a message to the Iranian people that he describes military operations against the Islamic Republic as a "historic war for freedom" and called on Iranians to use this opportunity to change their country's fate. In this message to the Iranian people, Netanyahu said: "We are conducting a historic war for freedom. This is an unparalleled opportunity for you to overthrow the ayatollahs' regime and achieve your freedom." He emphasized that Israel has intensified its attacks against Iran's government "together with the United States" and added: "We are hitting Tehran's tyrants harder than ever. The Ayatollah no longer exists and I know you don't want him replaced with another tyrant." The Israeli Prime Minister then called on the Iranian people to take action, saying: "You must act. We are creating conditions for you to do this." Netanyahu also added that Israel has struck "countless regime targets" during its military operations and said: "We have eliminated thousands of Revolutionary Guard thugs and hundreds of their missile launchers." He simultaneously emphasized that Israel's attacks target government structures, saying: "We are focused on regime targets and doing everything we can to avoid harming the Iranian people." In another part of his message to Iranians, the Israeli Prime Minister said: "We are your allies, your best allies. We completely respect your territorial integrity, culture, and heritage." Netanyahu said that helping the Iranian people was done in response to their requests and added: "You asked for help and help has arrived. We will strike with increasing power against the tyrants who have terrorized you for decades." He concluded by saying: "The ayatollahs and their lackeys are fleeing, but those cowards have nowhere to hide. In the coming days, we will create conditions for you to take control of your destiny and turn your dreams into reality." Netanyahu ended this message by adding: "When the right time comes - and that time is rapidly approaching - we will give you the torch." @VahidOOnLine 📡 @VahidOnline

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Ahmadreza Radan, Commander-in-Chief of the Police of the Islamic Republic, said on the evening of March 9 to Iran's state television news network: "If anyone comes [to the streets] at the enemy's behest, we don't see them as protesters or anything like that. We see them as enemies and we will deal with them the way we deal with enemies. All our boys have their hands ready on the trigger too." In recent days, reports have emerged of extensive security force presence on the streets. Some social media users have said that "Basij members and plainclothes forces" have set up numerous checkpoints in various parts of the city, creating an atmosphere of terror and fear. Meanwhile, the Coordination Council of Teachers' Trade Organizations described the atmosphere in Tehran these days as "military barracks" in a report. @ VahidHeadline 📡 @VahidOnline

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Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Speaker of the Islamic Consultative Assembly, wrote on the social media platform X on Tuesday, March 19, in response to statements by Steve Witkoff, the US special envoy and senior negotiator: "We are definitely not seeking a ceasefire. We believe the aggressor must be punished and taught a lesson that prevents another attack on Iran." He added: "The Zionist regime has consistently created a cycle of war, negotiation, ceasefire, and then war again throughout its history. We will break this cycle." Earlier, Steve Witkoff had told CNBC that Donald Trump has always shown he is ready to talk to anyone, and we should see whether Iran has any inclination to engage in dialogue or not. @VahidOOnLine 📡 @VahidOnline

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Images have been released showing the removal of an unexploded bomb from a house said to be in Kuhdasht, Lorestan. The BBC, in consultation with two military experts, has independently confirmed that this unexploded bomb is a "GBU-31 JDAM" with its guidance section and fins separated. The bomb seen in the image is only the main body of a "Mark 84 (Mk 84)" bomb. The "GBU 31" is a conventional bomb that has been fitted with a JDAM or Joint Direct Attack Munition guidance kit and converted into a guided bomb. Iranian media reported on March 8th that "police and security centers" in Kuhdasht came under attack. @VahidHeadline 📡 @VahidOnline

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Trump's latest post: I am pleased to report that over the past few hours, we have hit and completely destroyed 10 inactive boats and/or mine-laying ships, and more are on the way! President Donald J. Trump realDonaldTrump 📡 @VahidOnline

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Tehrānsar #Tehran, intersection of Laleh Boulevard and Gol-hā Boulevard - the sender wrote that today's attack happened on Tuesday, March 19th, but they don't know if the target was right here or the Police Station 150 across from it. Based on other text messages, time of attack: around 4 AM 📍 35.6982, 51.266 Vahid 📡 @VahidOnline

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Jolfa area, Seyed Khandann #Tehran, Monday 11 Esfand' Received video with description: 'Safe house of Intelligence Organization' Vahid 📡 @VahidOnline

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Trump's latest post, machine translation: If Iran has placed mines in the Strait of Hormuz – and we have received no reports on this matter so far – we demand their immediate removal! If for any reason these mines have been deployed and are not collected immediately, the military consequences for Iran will be at an unprecedented and unimaginable level. But if Iran removes what it may have deployed, this would be a major action and an important step in the right direction! President Donald J. Trump realDonaldTrump 📡 @VahidOnline

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Explosions from today's attack on '#Bonab in East Azerbaijan around 14:30' - received videos with description: they struck three times. Other sources wrote: 'near the police headquarters and courthouse area' Tuesday, March 19 Vahid 📡 @VahidOnline

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#Tabriz around 2:30 PM - Images received from citizens with descriptions of 'bombing of IRGC and police force centers and Ministry of Intelligence building' Tuesday, March 19th Vahid 📡 @VahidOnline

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Received images with the description 'pre-noon attack on #Kerman airport' were written in various messages and sources, reportedly stating that a fuel depot was targeted. Tuesday, March 9th Vahid 📡 @VahidOnline

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"Traffic police hit the intersection of Resalat and Bagheri around 2:30 PM." Received photo, Tuesday, Esfand 19 📍 35.7325, 51.5178 Vahid 📡 @VahidOnline

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West #Tehran 14:25 - Received photo with description: 'View from southern Mehrabad towards Azadi' Tuesday March 19 Vahid The left side of the image shows Azadi Tower clearly 📡 @VahidOnline

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East #Tehran 2:25 PM - Images received from citizens saying there was an attack towards the mountain 'behind Bagheri Highway and Tehranpars intersection and...' Tuesday March 9th Vahid 📡 @VahidOnline

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'Narmak #Tehran around 2:25 PM' Photo received with the above description, Tuesday March 19th Vahid 📡 @VahidOnline

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Fatemeh Mohajerani, spokesperson for the Islamic Republic government, said there are "considerations" regarding the nationwide internet outage and added that arrangements have been made for specific individuals. She said: "Arrangements have been made so that those who can get their voice heard by others will have facilities provided for them." @ VahidOOnLine 📡 @VahidOnline

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Images received from 'targeted building on Zamani Alley, South Bahar Street, Kaveh Boulevard' Received message: 'The story about 2 explosions is wrong, it was a safe house and a dark-windowed Peugeot always came and went there, unlike last night when they closed the alley for several minutes, it was open this morning.' Tuesday, March 19th The address was apparently correct and they say one person was killed: 📍 35.7845, 51.44820 Vahid 📡 @VahidOnline

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Received images from 'the targeted villa on 202nd Street in Mehrshahr #Karaj' Tuesday March 9th Vahid previous images 📡 @VahidOnline

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Images received of 'targeted and/or destroyed villas in the 30-minute early morning attack on Mehrshahr #Karaj: The first three images are from Street 202 and the last photo is from Street 209.' Tuesday 19 Esfand Vahid 📡 @VahidOnline

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"#Tehran Tuesday, March 19, 2024" Vahid 📡 @VahidOnline

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Brent crude oil price fell 4.3% on Tuesday to $94.74 per barrel. This comes after Brent crude had risen to $119.50 on Monday, putting pressure on global markets. This trend reversal occurred following Donald Trump's statements indicating that America is not seeking a prolonged conflict with the Islamic Republic. Alongside the drop in oil prices, Asian stock markets, which are highly sensitive to energy price increases, saw significant growth; South Korea's stock index rose nearly 5%, Japan's Topix grew over 2%, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng climbed about 1.6%. In financial markets, the dollar weakened 0.3% against major currencies and the yield on 10-year US Treasury bonds reached 4.12%. The S&P 500 index also gained 0.8% in Monday trading, though its Tuesday futures showed a slight decline. @ VahidOOnLine 📡 @VahidOnline

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From the Q&A section of Donald Trump's press conference - machine translation: Question: Thank you Mr. President. You promised the Iranian people that you would help them, but it seems you want to end this battle after completing your military objectives. Isn't this a betrayal of the people? Donald Trump: Am I helping them? I'd like to help if they can behave properly, but they've been very threatening. You know, they're great people. They have an amazing population - intelligent, brilliant, and energetic. They're extraordinary people. I'd like to help them, but they need to be in a system that allows them to be helped. And now they're in a system that only makes failure possible, and I don't want that. I want a system that leads to years of peace. And if we can't have something like that (such a system), it's better to end it right now. youtube 📡 @VahidOnline

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From machine translation of the Q&A section of Donald Trump's press conference: Question: Thank you Mr. President. Regarding Iran, you described this as a "limited action" and said it will end soon. Do you mean it will end this week? Or within a few days? Trump: No. But I think soon. Very soon. Whatever they had is gone, including their leadership. Actually, two levels of leadership are gone and as it turns out, even more than that. But two levels of leadership have been eliminated. Most people have never even heard the names of the leaders being talked about. So it's clear this operation has been very powerful and very effective. Question: You said the war is "very complete" in your words, but your Defense Secretary says this is just the beginning. So which is correct? And how long should Americans prepare themselves for this war to continue? Trump: Well, I think you can say both. It's a beginning; the beginning of building a new country. But they definitely no longer have a navy. They don't have an air force. They don't have air defense. Everything has been blown up. They don't have radar. They don't have communications and they don't have leadership either. Everything is gone. So you can look at that statement from this angle. We can call this a tremendous success right now, as we leave here; or we can go further, and we will. But the main threat of that war ended three days ago. We took them down in those first two days. Question: You said earlier that we've already won in many ways, but we haven't won enough yet. What does "enough" mean to you? What's your benchmark— Trump: That they don't start a nuclear weapons development program again the day after this. That they look at that man and several other government members and say alright, we're not doing this anymore. They weren't willing to say such a thing. And when Steve called and told me this, I said alright, then we're taking the hard road. But I think the hard road is probably the easy road. When I actually see that they no longer have any capacity for a very long time to develop weapons that could be used against the United States, Israel, or any of our allies. We have great allies in the Middle East, great countries that are our allies and they hadn't gotten involved until they were targeted. A report should be made someday about why he did this? Why did they do this? But if I hadn't struck them earlier, they were going to attack these countries; they were going to hit our allies first. Based on intelligence and evidence, I believe they intended to take over the Middle East. They were seeking to control the Middle East. Now if Operation "Midnight Hammer" hadn't been carried out, this would have been certain, because they would have reached nuclear weapons within weeks. But that operation was carried out and dealt them a major blow. However, look at the number of missiles they were able to buy and build just in the past six months. And those missiles were aimed at various countries. When you see over a thousand missiles fired toward a country like the UAE, it's clear they were seeking to dominate the Middle East. We got there first. They got lucky. I'm telling you, the Middle East and those countries, which are very wealthy countries, are very lucky that I was president, not someone else. Question: Is there any disagreement between you and your Vice President regarding America's action in Iran? Trump: I don't think so, no. We're very well coordinated on this issue. I can say he was philosophically a bit different from me. I think maybe he had less enthusiasm than me for getting into this; but he was also completely enthusiastic. But I felt this was something we had to do. I didn't feel we had another choice. If we didn't do this, they would have done it to us. Based on negotiations that Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner and Marco and Pete and everyone was involved in, I felt they were ready to strike us before we struck, and if they had attacked us first, it would have been very bad. Question: You said you're considering taking control of the Strait of Hormuz. Is there a timeline? Trump: Yes, I want to keep it open. I want its situation to be good. You know, this issue isn't as important to us as it is to China. We're actually helping China and other countries here, because they get a large part of their energy through this strait. But look, we have a good relationship with China. It's an honor for me to do this work. 📡 @VahidOnline

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You can read the text of Donald Trump's remarks at the press conference here. The text is plain without any images so it loads quickly: https://telegra.ph/trupm-iran-03-10 The continuation of this post contains highlights from the content of the above link: Their missile capacity has reached about 10 percent, maybe even less. ...So far we have hit more than 5,000 targets;.... We've also saved some of the most important targets for later, in case it becomes necessary, because if we hit them, rebuilding them would take many years. These targets relate to electricity production and many other things. So if we don't have to, we don't want to hit them. But these are the type of targets that are very easy to hit, but if they are targeted, they cause tremendous destruction. We're waiting to see what happens and then decide on hitting them. We can destroy all of them within one day, but overall these attacks have caused a 90 percent decline in various areas. .... Additionally, we have eliminated their leadership twice and maybe three times, and as you know, we want to have a role in this matter. ... We don't want another president to come to power who might not be willing to do what I'm prepared to do for the good of the world and the good of my country, and then face the same situation again in five or ten years. So we think they should put someone in the presidency or at the head of the country who can this time carry things forward peacefully. ... They told Mr. Whitkoff, who is standing right here next to me, that they basically want to continue building; in simpler terms, they want to continue building nuclear weapons, if we weren't implementing "Midnight Hammer." ... They never negotiated in good faith. They kept saying we want to build a nuclear program, we want to enrich at levels that were unacceptable. They even rejected a proposal that had been made to them for unlimited and free nuclear fuel forever and only for civilian purposes. These were people who were being offered free nuclear fuel. They weren't interested in this because they wanted to build nuclear weapons. ... They attacked their neighbors, while their neighbors were mostly neutral or at least weren't supposed to get involved in the situation... When I first heard this, I said no, someone must have made a mistake - but there was no mistake. The UAE saw more than a thousand missiles fired at it and shot down almost all of them. The very first day I came down the escalator in 2015, I said: "I will not allow Iran to get nuclear weapons." And now I'm just keeping my promise. Think about it. I said that in 2015. It was a threat then too, and now it had become a much bigger threat, but it's no longer a threat; at least not for a long time. We want it to stay that way. While we continue Operation "Furious Enthusiasm," we're also focused on maintaining the flow of energy and oil to the world, and I will not allow a terrorist regime to hold the world hostage and try to stop the world's oil supply. And if Iran wants to do such a thing, it will face a much, much harder blow. I will target those easy targets I mentioned earlier; we'll hit them so fast that they can never recover again, if they want to start such a game. They'd better not get into this game. In the long run, oil supply will be much safer without the threat of ships, drones, missiles, Iran's nuclear threat and everything else. Therefore, the Strait of Hormuz will remain safe. We have many naval ships there. We have the world's best equipment for mine inspection. Again I say, most of their ships are now at the bottom of the sea. But if necessary, we will hit them so hard that for them or anyone helping them, there will no longer be any possibility of recovering that part of the world. ========== After these remarks, a Q&A section of the press conference was held where many important points were also raised. You can read its text at this link: https://telegra.ph/iran-trump-03-10 In continuation, I'll also post a few posts from the content of this second link with related images. 📡 @VahidOnline

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Received images with description: 'At 4:12 we heard three very loud explosion sounds in Akbatan #Tehran. Then we saw this column of smoke towards Mehrabad.' Tuesday, March 9th Vahid 📡 @VahidOnline

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Received messages: It's hitting the west of Tehran 4:12 AM 4 loud explosion sounds came until now Tuesday 19 Esfand at 04:05 very scary explosions west of Tehran at 4:12 AM 4 severe explosions on the west side again it's severely attacking Tehran 3 very loud explosion sounds that shook Ekbatan but it was far away. From my viewpoint nothing is visible. Tehransar [west Tehran] Tuesday 19 Esfand 1404 at 04:10 Koohak district 22 in west Tehran 4:10 3 times very intense again explosion sounds 4 5 heavy ones it went right to the point of breaking glass I don't know where it is 📡 @VahidOnline

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Trump's post: If Iran takes any action that stops oil flow in the Strait of Hormuz, the United States of America will hit them twenty times harder than they have ever been hit before. Furthermore, we will eliminate easily destroyable targets that would make Iran's reconstruction as a nation nearly impossible – death, fire, and fury will reign over them – but I hope and pray that such a thing does not happen! This is a gift from the United States of America to China and all nations that heavily benefit from the Strait of Hormuz. I hope this gesture will be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Trump also said a lot of important things during the previous bombing that I still don't know what he said. You can probably read excerpts of his statements in my automated channels by searching for the word Trump. Or read from here down: VahidHeadline/284310 and read from here down: VahidOOnLine/224540 Update: I've posted several posts below about Trump's press conference. 📡 @VahidOnline

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Video from the past: Hamid Rasaei calls the "possibility" of Mojtaba Khamenei succeeding his father "impossible" due to his lack of leadership qualifications. @ VahidHeadline 📡 @VahidOnline