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IRGC Says Trump Ongoing Talks Narrative 'Not Reality' After Most Intense Clashes Since April Summary GCC blasts 'cowardly attacks' after Kuwait International Airport rocked by Iranian missiles: one dead, 63 injured. Overnight saw US-Iran exchange fire in Strait of Hormuz - as US attacked Qeshm Island - and Iran unleashed more projectiles on Gulf states. Most intense fighting since April. IRGC via state media: Tehran has frozen all back-channel communication with Washington over Israeli operations in Lebanon, calls Trump narrative a fantasy. Trump says Iran has agreed not to pursue a nuclear weapon, while saying...

Executive Order Execution: Three Reactors Achieved Criticality Before July 4th On July 1st, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced microreactor developer Deployable Energy had achieved criticality on their Unity reactor design at Idaho National Labs (INL).  CRITICALITY NUMBER THREE! 🎉 On June 30, 2026, at around 11:55 PM MDT, @DeployableE’s Unity microreactor achieved initial criticality at @INL. It is the third nuclear test reactor this year to go critical under @ENERGY authorization. Congratulations to Deployable Energy on… pic.twitter.com/TaIKbtnNTx — Office of Nuclear Energy | US Department of Energy (@GovNuclear) July 1, 2026 This is the...

Phantom Ayatollah? Iran's New Supreme Leader Has Never Been Seen Since Taking Office Amid widespread reporting that Iran had long ago moved into a emergency wartime decentralized command among autonomously-acting units, serious questions persist as to the role of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, who replaced his slain father, longtime leader Ali Khamenei. What's clear is that the new, younger Khamenei - who may have been wounded in the early days of US-Israeli strikes, hasn't been seen in any public way, not even on TV, throughout the war. There have not so...