NEWS SUMMARY-INTELLIGENCE REPORT 6/20/2025*NEWSDUMP FRIDAY*PAKISTAN PUSHES TRUMP PEACE PRIZE AFTER WHITE HOUSE MEETING*BRITISH PARLIAMENT APPROVES "MAD"*TOP IRANIAN OFFICIAL SURVIVES ISRAELI ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT*DEBT CLOCK TOPS 37 TRILLION*TRUMP MESSAGING HE DOES NOT SEEK 'REGIME CHANGE' IN IRAN BUT...*
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Israel's Chief of Staff signaling a long war with Iran but first...
LATE NEWS TONIGHT:
At least two killed in an apparent Israeli assassination in the Iranian city of Qom southwest of Tehran.
The deadly attack on an apartment building.
THE LIBERAL PRO-EUROPEAN UNION ARMENIAN PRIME MINISTER NIKOL PASHINYAN VISITING TURKEY.
PASHINYAN MEETING TURKISH PRESIDENT RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN DISCUSSING THE PROCESS OF NORMALIZING RELATIONS BETWEEN ARMENIA AND TURKEY.
THEIR TALKS ALSO FOCUSED ON EFFORTS TO SIGN A PEACE AGREEMENT ENDING CONFLICT WITH THE TURKISH ALLIED NATION OF AZERBAIJAN.
THE CHANGES IN THE TRADITIONALLY TENSE RELATIONS BETWEEN TURKEY AND ARMENIA COME AMIDST INTERNAL TURMOIL IN ARMENIA WHERE CONSERVATIVE FORCES HAVE OPPOSED THE POLICIES OF THE PASHINYAN GOVERNMENT...MASSIS POST
Confrontation in the South China Sea today as Philippine ships resupplied fishing vessels in the disputed Scarborough Shoal.
The Philippine vessels confronted by China Coast Guard ships and People's Liberation Army Navy warships harassing their mission. Some of the China Coast Guard vessels used water cannon...USNI News
A STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED IN WESTERN PANAMA WHERE DEMONSTRATORS ARE ANGERED BY PENSION REFORMS. CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS HAVE ALSO BEEN SUSPENDED.
LABOR UNIONS ASSOCIATED WITH BANANA PLANTATION WORKERS LEADING OPPOSITION TO THE CUTS IN PENSION BENEFITS.
DEMONSTATIONS INCLUDING ACTS OF VANDALISM CONTINUING TODAY. SHOPS AND OFFICES LOOTED AND CARS SET ON FIRE.
"We're not prepared to negotiate with them anymore, as long as the aggression continues"
That is Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi concerning talks with the United States about Iran's nuclear activities.
He says those talks can't resume until Israel's attacks on Iran stop.
Araghchi suggesting the US used recent negotiations with Iran as a cover for Israel to start the war with Iran a week ago today...Tass Russia...NBC News USA
FEDERAL AGENTS DEPLOYING TEAR GAS AND SMOKE ON DEMONSTRATORS IN THE COMMUNITY MAYWOOD JUST OUTSIDE LOS ANGELES THIS AFTERNOON.
THE INCIDENT RELATED TO A POSSIBLE IMMIGRATION RAID IN THE AREA.
ANOTHER APPARENT IMMIGRATION RAID LEADING TO A PROTEST IN THE CITY OF BELL NEXT TO MAYWOOD. DEMONSTRATORS THROWING OBJECTS AT CARS...ABC 7 LOS ANGELES (VIDEO EMBED)...
The Los Angeles Dodgers baseball club committing one million dollars to support families impacted by the immigration crackdown in LA...ABC 7 Los Angeles
Spanish police raiding the offices of the ruling Socialist Party. It's because of a corruption probe of Santos Cerdan.
Cerdan was the secretary of the Socialist Party and a confidant of Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. Mr. Cerdan suspected of giving public contracts in exchange for bribes...NOS Netherlands (Translation Prompt)
ILLEGAL MIGRANTS MAY STILL BE ABLE TO WORK ON FARMS IN THE UNITED STATES.
PRESIDENT TRUMP SUGGESTING THAT 'GOOD REPUTABLE FARMERS' CAN TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR MIGRANT WORKERS.
TRUMP SAYING THIS WOULD BE NEEDED BECAUSE 'WE CAN'T PUT THE FARMS OUT OF BUSINESS'...THE HILL USA
The Louisiana law requiring posting of the Ten Commandments in schools ruled unconstitutional by a federal appeals court.
That word from the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU in federal court seeking to overturn the law...Axios
THE GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN IS RECOMMENDING THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE FOR US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP.
PAKISTAN CITING TRUMP'S 'DECISIVE DIPLOMATIC INTERVENTION' IN THE BRIEF CONFLICT BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTAN LAST MONTH...DAWN PAKISTAN
THIS FOLLOWS A MEETING AT THE WHITE HOUSE WEDNESDAY BETWEEN MR. TRUMP AND FIELD MARSHAL ASIM MUNIR COMMANDER OF PAKISTAN'S MILITARY WHICH CONTROLS THE CIVILIAN GOVERNMENT.
THAT MEETING CAUSING MUCH SPECULATION IN RELATION TO PAKISTAN HELPING THE US ATTACK IRAN AND CAUSING PUBLIC DISDAIN IN INDIA...NDTV INDIA...
EARLIER THIS WEEK INDIAN PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI TOLD PRESIDENT TRUMP THERE WAS NO US MEDIATION LEADING TO A CEASEFIRE WITH PAKISTAN.
MODI SAYING THE MILITARY COMMANDS OF THE TWO COUNTRIES BROUGHT AN END TO THE EXCHANGE OF ATTACKS BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTAN...REUTERS-ASIA ONE SINGAPORE
TWO DEAD AND THREE INJURED AFTER A ROCKSLIDE AT BANFF NATIONAL PARK IN ALBERTA, CANADA.
SEARCH AND RESCUE OPERATIONS CONTINUING IN THE AREA...CBC NEWS CANADA
A US federal judge ordering release of Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil from a US detention center.
The State Department seeking Khalil's deportation from the US for activities opposing US foreign policy.
Judge Michael Farbiarz saying the government's effort to keep him in detention awaiting deportation is 'highly unusual"...The Hill USA
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN WARNING AGAINST ANY UKRAINIAN USE OF A RADIOACIVE 'DIRTY BOMB'.
PUTIN TELLING AN ECONOMIC FORUM IN ST. PETERSBURG USE OF SUCH A BOMB BY UKRAINE WOULD BE A 'COLOSSAL MISTAKE' AND THE 'LAST MISTAKE' OF THE 'NEO-NAZIS' RULING UKRAINE...TASS RUSSIA
In Memphis, Tennessee a 25-year-old man arrested accused of attempting to kidnap Democrat Mayor Paul Young.
Trenton Abston initially charged with criminal trespassing after he entered Young's home last Sunday.
Further investigation showing Abston went directly to Young's home after he scaled a wall and had gloves, rope, duct tape and a taser in his vehicle...The Hill
ISRAELI AIR ATTACKS IN SOUTHERN LEBANON.
ISRAEL SAYING THE ATTACKS WERE AIMED AT MILITARY SITES OF THE HEZBOLLAH MOVEMENT.
ISRAEL SPEAKING OF ROCKET LAUNCHERS AND WEAPONS STOCKS AT THE LOCATIONS IT ATTACKED...TIMES OF ISRAEL
The markets today.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average up 35.16 points.
The NASDAQ down 98.86 points or .51 percent.
The price of oil in New York closing tonight at 75 dollars a barrel down 14 cents for the day...
"Innocents are not killed for punishment but because they are inconvenient or, in stronger manifestations of the same cult, because they have the wrong opinions..."
BRITISH JOURNALIST PETER HITCHENS REACTS ON "X" AFTER THE MEDICALLY ASSISTED DEATH LEGISLATION WAS APPROVED JUNE 20, 2025...LINK
IN THE UK MEDICALLY ASSISTED DEATH (MAD) APPPROVED FOR ENGLAND AND WALES BY THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN A 314 TO 291 VOTE...BBC NEWS UK BLOG
ISRAEL-IRAN WAR
ISRAELI CHIEF OF STAFF POINTS TO LONG WAR
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"against such an enemy we must be prepared for a prolonged operation"
Israel's Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir signaling Israelis to expect a conflict with Iran that will last longer.
Zamir saying Iran made extensive preparations for many years ahead of the war seeking to destroy Israel...Ynet News Israel...
Iran says 50 Israeli warplanes violated its airspace.
Iranian missile attacks in southern and northern Israel today with dozens wounded.
Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz says he has ordered additional attacks to "destabilize" Iran's government...(Times Of Israel)
In Tehran an Iranian nuclear scientist killed in an attack on an apartment building in the latest Israeli assassination of the war...Israel National News
IRAN'S PRESIDENT SAYING ISRAEL MUST AGREE TO AN 'UNCONDITIONAL CEASE-FIRE' AND GUARANTEE NO FUTURE AGGRESSION AGAINST IRAN...TASS RUSSIA
"The dawn of victory is near. The name of Iran will shine brightly in the annals of history as it always has..."
SOME OF THE WORDS OF ALI SHAMKANI, ADVISER TO IRAN'S SUPREME LEADER AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMANEI, RECOVERING FROM ISRAEL'S ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE HIM.
SHAMKANI SERIOUSLY WOUNDED LAST FRIDAY THE 13TH WHEN ISRAEL ATTACKED IRAN LAUNCHING THE ISRAEL-IRAN WAR.
MR. SHAMKANI A KEY PLAYER IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE UNITED STATES.ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR PROGRAM...PRESS TV
THE CLOCK TRACKING THE US NATIONAL DEBT NOW TOPPING 37 TRILLION DOLLARS...US DEBT CLOCK
PLENTY OF ISRAEL-IRAN WAR SPIN COMING OUT OF WASHINGTON.
THE 'NEW YORK TIMES' REPORTING ON SCENARIOS WHERE IRAN WOULD SWITCH GEARS AND START MAKING A NUCLEAR BOMB.
THIS HAPPENING IF A KEY URANIUM ENRICHMENT FACILITY WERE BOMBED OR IF SUPREME LEADER AYATOLLAH ALI KHAMENEI WERE ASSASSINATED.
US INTELLIGENCE WITH THESE SCENARIOS ACCORDING TO SOURCES LEAKING TO THE TIMES...TASS RUSSIA
The White House putting out a message saying President Trump not seeking "regime change" in Iran.
Bombing of nuclear facilities in Iran is still on the table and spun as something short of changing Iran's government.
The potential attacks on nuclear sites in Iran portrayed as a more reasonable alternative to extensive bombing like that done by the US in Libya back in 2011.
This story is published by the "New York Post"...Israel National News
THE BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY DAVID LAMMY IS MEETING IRAN'S FOREIGN MINISTER IN GENEVA TODAY.
THIS FOLLOWS A MEETING WITH US SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO IN WASHINGTON.
LAMMY ECHOING THE US-ISRAELI POSITION THAT 'IRAN MUST NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON'...TIMES OF ISRAEL
In the nation of Armenia near Russia and next to Turkey and Azerbaijan rising political tensions.
Russian-Armenian millionaire Samvel Karapetyan arrested this week by authorities after he supported the Armenian Apostolic Church under attack from Liberal Pro-European Union Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan.
He is accused of trying to overthrow the government.
Pashinyan accusing church leaders of involvement in sexual relationships not allowed by the church's rule of celibacy for its leaders.
Pashinyan facing an election a year from now against Conservative opponents supported by the Apostolic Church.
Former President of Armenia Robert Kocharyan describing the arrest of Karapetyan a 'national disgrace'...RIA Novosti Russia (Translation Prompt)...BBC News
THE UKRAINE WAR AGAINST RUSSIA
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In other news...
A major player in the rapidly expanding sports gambling industry creating a Political Action Committee.
DraftKings creating "Draft King's PAC" in papers filed with the Federal Election Commission.
DraftKings says the PAC will support federal and state candidates as well as organizations that take an interest in issues affecting its business.
There have been allegations in the past that the sports betting giant is trying to obstruct and impair competitors...The Hill USA
BELGIUM INCREASING CHECKS ON PEOPLE ENTERING THE COUNTRY.
SO-CALLED 'ENTRY CONTROLS' ARE ALLOWED ON PEOPLE ARRIVING BY BUSES AND TRAINS UNDER EUROPEAN UNION REGULATIONS.
THE MINISTER OF MIGRATION SAYING BELGIUM HAS BECOME A MAGNET FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION...NOS NETHERLANDS (TRANSLATION PROMPT)
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