🇮🇷🇸🇾🇮🇱 - An audio recording of a speech, given by Brigadier General Behrouz Esbati, Iran's top ranking general in Syria, at a mosque in Tehran, surfaced publicly in Iranian media:

"Assad refused Iran's repeated requests to open a front against Israel from Syria after October 7. Iran had presented Assad with comprehensive military plans on how it could use Iran's military resources in Syria to attack Israel".

- The New York Times

🇱🇧 - The first round ended with Joseph Aoun receiving 71 votes. The Parliament fails to elect him as President in the first round.

The session will take place again in two hours.

🇪🇺🇦🇲🇷🇺 - Kremlin:

"It is impossible to be a member of both the EU and the Eurasian Economic Union, and the EAEU brings real benefits to Yerevan".

🇱🇧 - Lebanese parliament elects Commander of the Lebanese Army, Joseph Aoun, as president.

🇮🇱🇮🇷 — Netanyahu will hold a special session to discuss the army's preparations to strike Iran.

Source: Israeli Channel 12

🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 — General Shaykhian, Commander of the Air Defense Unit of the IRGC Aerospace Forces:

"We have plans to counter the enemy’s advanced fighter jets, including the American F-35 and F-22. We have prepared for this.

If a new confrontation arises, the enemy will face a combination of Iran's offensive capabilities and tough defensive measures".

🇷🇺🇱🇹 — Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda called Russia's Kaliningrad a historically Lithuanian city.

"No matter how hard Russia tries, Karaliaučius will never become Kaliningrad," he added.

🇷🇺🇱🇹 - Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Zakharova:

"I will simply remind you, thanks to whom the capital of Lithuania is called Vilnius, and not Vilno and Kaunas. It was the decision of I.V. Stalin. Let me also remind you that the largest Lithuanian port on the Baltic was finally renamed from Memel to Klaipeda and finally became Lithuanian in 1945 thanks to the selfless feat of the Red Army.

I recommend that modern Lithuanian politicians study history and take care of human rights in their country, and also attack the dying 'national' economy. There is something to do if they are so concerned about their identity, of which almost nothing is left after a couple of decades of 'independence'".