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Topics: Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Israel, World News, Vladimir Putin
Callum Jones
Topics: Russia, Ukraine, Iran, Israel, World News, Vladimir Putin
A general to Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a disturbing demand that World War 3 has 'already begun' amid rising tensions in the Middle East.
Talk of a third World War is never far away from the headlines amid the Russia-Ukraine war and rising tensions between Israel and Iran.
Israel’s surprise bombardment of Iran’s nuclear and military facilities last week (June 13) has resulted in the nation firing back at the country.
Both Israel and Iran have been trading strikes over the weekend, with three civilians being killed in an Iranian missile strike on Tel Aviv.
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Iran have even warned that intervention from the West will lead to strikes on its own bases, while Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz adding further warnings, stating: "If Khamenei continues to fire missiles at the Israeli home front, Tehran will burn."
Add that to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the world is certainly a scary place right now.
Well, Apti Alaudinov, one of Putin's generals, has added fuel to the fire after calling for the Russian leader to mobilize troops and remind the world of the country's vast nuclear arsenal.
Taking to Telegram, Alaudinov wrote, "We need to declare mobilisation."
Suggesting that Russia could deploy up to one million troops, the Russian chief added: "We need to prepare at least half a million people in advance. But realistically one million people. We need to call them up and start preparing them for the fact that the war has already begun, which we already know is happening - World War 3. But it has already taken on a new turn and a new momentum.
"And so that no one dares to play with us the way they played with all the other countries, and now with Iran. Believe me, we all need to unite, unite, unite at all levels."
Israel's attack come as tensions have escalated over Iran's rapidly advancing nuclear programme, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu saying that the strikes were 'a targeted military operation to roll back the Iranian threat to Israel's very survival'.
Donald Trump has even weighed in on the tensions forming in the Middle East with the president writing on Truth Social: "Certain Iranian hardliner's spoke bravely, but they didn't know what was about to happen. They are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!
"There has already been great death and destruction, but there is still time to make this slaughter, with the next already planned attacks being even more brutal, come to an end.
"Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire. No more death, no more destruction, JUST DO IT, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. God Bless You All!"