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🇺🇸🤝🇬🇷⚡️Rubio in Athens today, Greek F-35 deal is being finalized, six advanced weapons on the table!

The finalization of the procurement of the fifth-generation F-35 fighters from Athens is marked by the arrival of the head of US diplomacy, Marco Rubio, in the Greek capital, the only stop on his tour of the wider region.

Given that the acquisition of 20 Greek F-35A Lightning IIs with an option for an additional 20, is expected to significantly strengthen the Greek superpower over the Aegean as strategic weapons, all eyes are now on the finalization of the agreement.

According to information, in the presence of the US Secretary of State, the relevant "letters of acquisition" that will "lock" the agreement for the F-35 are expected to be signed , while the Air Force intends to express interest in six advanced weapons: the AIM-120D AMRAAM, AIM-260 JATM and AIM-9X Sidewinder air-to-air missiles, the AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile, the AGM-158 JASSM-ER long-range cruise missile and the GBU-53/B StormBreaker guided bomb.

It should be noted that the first F-35 is expected to be delivered to the Air Force in 2028, while certified systems that Athens aspires to procure cannot be ruled out being integrated into the Greek F-16 Viper.

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🇹🇷⚡️Turkish Aegean Army: Commando landing exercises continue!

The Turkish Mavi Vatan website reports that the Aegean Army continues to provide landing training to commandos.

As noted, the Aegean Army, in collaboration with the Engineer Combat Battalion Command and members of the 19th and 7th Commando Brigade Commands, conducted the "Naval Assault Training" on September 29, 2026 in Fokaia/Izmir.

As part of the training, commando and engineer units carried out joint operations from sea to shore.

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📝🇮🇱🗳 CIA Report Warns Israel Could Head Toward Civil War, Total Collapse

Israel is at risk of civil war or state collapse, a classified CIA assessment warns, as years of genocide in Gaza and war in Lebanon and Iran deepen political, economic, and social fractures within the country.

The August report, titled “Fracture From Within,” was compiled by experts in the CIA’s Red Cell, according to two U.S. sources who described the contents of the report to Drop Site News. The Red Cell, which is the unit responsible for providing “alternative analysis” within the agency, produced the assessment through a combination of open source information and U.S. intelligence. The assessment appears to refer only to Israel’s Jewish citizens and does not consider its Palestinian citizens, who make up approximately 20% of Israel’s population and who live under various forms of discrimination that Amnesty International and other human rights groups have labelled as part of a broader system of apartheid. The CIA did not respond to a request for comment.

CIA experts pointed to a volatile mix of pressures converging ahead of Israel’s elections on October 27: economic crisis and soaring military spending; heavily armed veterans returning from prolonged combat, many carrying serious psychological trauma; growing fury over ultra-Orthodox men who are exempt from military service; escalating settler violence in the occupied West Bank; and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fighting to hold onto power and igniting a constitutional crisis.
The CIA’s “red teams” are tasked with developing analysis and ideas that challenge prevailing assumptions and expose groupthink or blind spots that can take hold within the intelligence apparatus. “The writers of this are Israel experts,” a source in the intelligence community noted, “this isn’t a fantastical what if—with the upcoming election and the fissures in Israel we should take seriously their conclusion that Israel is one spark away from real internal conflict.”

One of the deepest fractures in Israeli politics has emerged not over opposition to the country’s war crimes—but over who is expected to fight and who is exempt. Ultra-Orthodox men have historically received broad exemptions from military service while continuing to receive state benefits, an arrangement that has become increasingly contentious amid repeated reserve mobilizations. Their collective refusal to serve is not rooted in opposition to Israel’s wars, as ultra-Orthodox leaders argue that military service threatens religious life and their obligation to Torah study. But after years in which reservists have been repeatedly called away from their jobs and families, the exemption has become a potent source of resentment in Israeli society. Households have also been absorbing the costs of Israel’s belligerent policies. Food prices have reached record highs , with the cost of food—including fresh fruit and vegetables—rising 9.5 percent over the past two years, deepening an already severe cost-of-living crisis after years of war.

Yet much of the opposition to Netanyahu is not opposition to Israel’s brutality against Palestinians, but anger over how he has managed it. The major anti-Netanyahu Zionist parties are themselves divided over leadership and coalition strategy, while a central line of attack against Netanyahu has been his responsibility for the October 7 security failure. Recent polling has shown both the Netanyahu and anti-Netanyahu blocs struggling to reach the 61 seats required to govern.

The sources warned that the combination of political fracture and a growing population of heavily armed, traumatized veterans has historical precedents. “Famously the Freikorps of Germany were PTSD-addled veterans with weapons and bloodthirst,” he said. “I’m not saying Israel post Gaza is Germany post-WWI but there are certainly aspects of this that ring similar to me.”

Israel is also confronting growing isolation abroad, including an erosion of support in the United States that Israeli officials themselves have privately treated as a long-term threat. The August report pointed to Israel increasingly becoming a pariah state as a factor that could lead to state breakdown.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: President Trump says the Strait of Hormuz is more open now than it was before the war

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—❗️🇮🇷/☢️ NEW: Iran has resumed excavation and development at one of its largest dormant projects, the Abyek underground complex, codenamed ‘Site 311’ by Western and Israeli intelligence agencies

The site is located along the Tehran-Qazvin corridor, roughly 100 km from Tehran. The facility is excavated into mountainous terrain and includes several tunnel portals, likely connected to an extensive underground network including dozens of halls and bunkers, one of the largest of its kind in Iran.

Satellite imagery indicates a major project, with large volumes of excavated spoil, supporting infrastructure, and substantial rock overburden providing protection for facilities inside the mountain.

Most of the excavation work at this site took place between 2007 and 2016. Work largely ceased afterwards for unknown reasons.

Immediately following Operation Epic Fury, however, satellite imagery showed a clear change: Iran has returned to the project and resumed excavation at a rapid pace not seen at the site in roughly a decade.

The site attracted international attention in 2010, after it was accused of being a secret uranium-enrichment facility. The claim was never independently verified, and there is still no conclusive public evidence that uranium enrichment has taken place at the site. Its precise purpose remains unknown.

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—❗️🇮🇷/☢️ BREAKING: Significant new activity has been detected at the Minzadayi site, a highly secure compound east of Tehran that was alleged by the IDF in March 2026 to be involved in the research and development of nuclear warheads

After Israel attacked the compound during the recent war, the IDF officially stated that a group of nuclear scientists operated covertly at this location to advance ‘a key component in nuclear weapons development’, including the means to produce cores of enriched uranium and the explosive material required to cast them into the detonation chain.

According to the Institute for Science and International Security, a think-tank specialized in nuclear proliferation, recent satellite imagery from the Minzadayi site indicates a return to regular vehicle activity around the site following an extensive cleanup operation that included the clearing of rubble and debris and repair of damage on the hillside. Cars are parked outside in the parking lot, and many passenger vehicles and trucks can be seen inside the security perimeter. 

The current effort underway at this highly secure compound suggests that the work being conducted here is of top priority.

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—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 WATCH: Ansarallah have released footage of targeting PLC vehicles with FPV drones today

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— 🇸🇦/🇾🇪 NEW: The PLC attempted a counterattack west of Al-Wazi’iyah, but it failed and the convoys got destroyed by FPV drones, anti-tank guided missiles, and AT mines

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🇨🇦⚡️- "Québec deserves to be a country" - Independentist and PQ party leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon during his victory speech.

🇨🇦⚡️- During yesterday's Québec general elections, the ruling center-right party CAQ collapsed following the surge of independentists, liberals and right-wing forces.

PQ (right-wing independentists): 28% (+13.4)
PLQ (center-left liberals): 24.2% (+9.8)
PCQ (right-wing populists): 20.7% (+7.8)
CAQ (center-right federalists): 13.4% (-27.6)
QS (radical left): 12.4% (-3)
Others: 1.3%

+/- 2022

🇫🇷⚡️- Between 50,000 and 100,000 protesters marched in Paris today in an effort to rally other causes to the movement. From images and several declarations, this initiative has failed as only youths of African descent, syndicalists and far-left immigrationnists from LFI gathered during the march.

🇫🇷⚡️- Riots in France have barely cooled down in the past two days as over 400 high schools or teaching establishments were disturbed or outright closed. Emmanuel Macron will gather an emergency meeting tonight at the Elysée with multiple ministers.

🇺🇸🇫🇷⚡️- "What is happening in France is nothing less than mass migration out of control. This is not about schools; it is about Islam trying to take control of a once-great country!" - President Donald Trump regarding the riots in France.

🇫🇷 Low IQ foreign migrant monkeys vandalized the statue of the Virgin Mary in Corsica, France.

It is particularly interesting, considering that, in Islam, she is highly venerated and is the only woman explicitly named in the Quran. In Saudi Arabia, you would probably get death penalty for what they did in France.

🇾🇪❌🇸🇦 — KSA's General Authority of Civil Aviation has acknowledged successful Ansarallah strikes against King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Intl. Airport, Jazan and Najran Intl. Airport, Najran yesterday.

Three people were hospitalized for minor injuries, and airport property was damaged.

🇾🇪⚔️🇸🇦 Recent Houthi strikes appear to have hit AESSCO facilities at Riyadh’s King Khalid Airport, with burn marks visible on a warehouse or hangar..

AESSCO is a subsidiary of SAMI Advanced Electronics, part of state-owned Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI).

🔗 Egypt's Intel Observer (@EGYOSINT)

— 🇮🇷/🇧🇾 NEW: IRGC ground forces will take part in joint counter-terrorism exercises with Belarus

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