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On 6 July 2026, day 3 of the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s state funeral, state-orchestrated crowds—numbering in the millions—marched through Tehran chanting for President Donald Trump’s murder and revenge on the U.S. and Israel, even as a fragile cease-fire pauses the recent war.
On the eve of the 7–8 July 2026 summit in Ankara, President Trump arrived insisting every ally show a credible path to spend 5 % of GDP on defence, while Russia underscored the stakes by unleashing its largest missile-drone barrage on Ukraine in months.
At 12:01 p.m. on 6 July 2026, a People’s Liberation Army Navy nuclear submarine launched a dummy-warhead JL-3 ballistic missile into the South Pacific—China’s second Pacific-directed strategic test in two years—provoking immediate protests from the United States, Australia, Japan and others over inadequate notice and nuclear transparency.
After a four-month wartime delay, Tehran launched the public funeral procession for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on 5-6 July 2026, with previously hidden senior officials attending and negotiations with Washington paused until burial is completed.
On 3 July 2026 Kim Jong Un personally observed a nuclear-capable cruise-missile launch and other combat system checks from the 5,000-ton destroyer Kang Kon and then commanded that the once-capsized ship finish trials and join the fleet within two months.
Across back-to-back 4–5 July 2026 phone calls, President Trump re-opened a U.S. mediation channel for Ukraine by pledging envoy visits and personal involvement just 48 hours before the NATO summit convenes in Turkey.
On 3 July 2026, Kim Jong Un personally witnessed the repaired 5,000-ton Kang Kon fire nuclear-capable cruise missiles and immediately ordered the ship commissioned within two months.
In the early hours of 4 July 2026 Ukraine sent scores of long-range drones more than 850 km into Russia, igniting St Petersburg’s Kirovsky oil terminal and briefly disrupting the Vysotsk Baltic port despite Russian claims to have shot down 72 UAVs.
On 4 July 2026, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin held an 85-minute U.S-initiated phone call in which Trump pledged U.S. mediation to end the Ukraine war before the 7-8 July NATO summit in Turkey and dispatched envoys to Moscow.
At dawn on 4 July 2026 Tehran’s Grand Mosalla opened to the public, kicking off a tightly-secured, six-day, multi-city funeral for Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that has shut offices, roads and airspace as the government seeks to marshal up to 20 million mourners in a display of unity after the Feb 28 US-Israeli strike that killed him.
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