April 25, 2026 | 12:37 UTC 🌍 WEST ASIA IRGC NAVY SEIZES VESSEL FOR SUSPECTED US MILITARY COOPERATION Iran's IRGC Navy seized the Liberian-flagged container ship Epaminondas in the Strait of Hormuz, accusing the vessel of engaging in clandestine operations to provide logistics for the US military after a six-month intelligence operation. A second vessel was also intercepted for allegedly tampering with its navigatio…

Channel
Hourly News Bot
@intel_monitor
On this record: Topic · Growth · Engagement · Reactions · Posts · Cite this entry
151subscribers
-6 since we began measuring on 7 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
Register entry
| Telegram ID | -1003672635150 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @intel_monitor |
| Created | Between 1 December 2025 and 24 April 2026 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 8 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 11 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 9 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 1 time, most recently 11 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/intel_monitor |
Topic
International news — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 25 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 97% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
Growth
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 11 Oct 2026, 04:41 | 151 | +1 |
| 1 Oct 2026, 13:37 | 150 | -5 |
| 16 Sept 2026, 08:16 | 155 | +1 |
| 7 Sept 2026, 21:38 | 154 | -2 |
| 29 Aug 2026, 00:57 | 156 | -1 |
| 21 Aug 2026, 01:45 | 157 | +1 |
| 14 Aug 2026, 05:47 | 156 | -1 |
| 8 Aug 2026, 18:16 | 157 | no change |
| 7 Aug 2026, 18:33 | 157 | first reading |
Engagement
20 posts held, back to 24 April 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 25 April 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
Reaction mix
1 reaction across 1 post, in 1 kind.
| Reaction | Count | Share | Share, drawn |
|---|---|---|---|
| ❤ | 1 | 100.0% |
No sentiment is inferred, and none should be read in. This table is ordered by count and by nothing else. Emoji do not carry stable meaning across languages or communities — 🙏 is thanks in one channel and mourning in another — so we publish which ones were pressed and how often, and pass no judgement on what an audience meant by them.
Precision. Telegram publishes reaction counts per emoji and short-forms each one — 4.34K, 1.2M — so any single kind at or above 1,000 reaches us at three significant figures, and only counts below 1,000 are exact. The shares above are ratios of those figures and carry the same error. This is also why the total here can differ slightly from a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page: both are sums of the same rounded parts, taken over samples with different edges.
Coverage. Reactions were read on 2 of the 20 sampled posts in this sample. Summed by Telegram’s own count on each post — not by adding up the per-emoji breakdown above — those same posts carry 1 reactions in total: the kind of figure the paragraph above means by “a reaction total printed elsewhere on the page”.
Measured over the 20 most recent posts we hold, published 24 April 2026 to 25 April 2026, using the newest reading held for each. Telegram Stars are excluded: they are a payment, not a reaction, and they have their own section.
Recent posts
April 25, 2026 | 11:35 UTC 🌍 WEST ASIA ISRAELI DEFENSE MINISTER SEEKS US 'GREEN LIGHT' FOR 'FINAL BLOW' ON IRAN Israel's Defense Minister is reportedly asking the US for approval for a "final blow" against Iran, with the goal of destroying its energy infrastructure, according to German media. IRANIAN MILITARY WARNS US AGAINST 'PIRACY' AND 'SIEGE' Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters issued a stern warning …
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April 25, 2026 | 10:32 UTC 🌍 WEST ASIA HEZBOLLAH DOWNS SIXTH ISRAELI HERMES 450 DRONE Hezbollah announced it shot down an Israeli Hermes 450 drone over Al-Hawsh, near Tyre in southern Lebanon, using a surface-to-air missile. This marks the sixth such drone downed during recent hostilities. ISRAELI STRIKES IN SOUTHERN LEBANON REPORTEDLY KILL FOUR Israeli drone strikes targeted a vehicle and a motorcycle in Yohmor a…
April 25, 2026 | 09:30 UTC 🌍 WEST ASIA IRAN ANNOUNCES ARREST OF ISRAELI SPY AND 15 AGENTS Iran's Ministry of Intelligence announced the arrest of a "long-time" Mossad spy in Ilam province, along with 15 other agents across five provinces. The ministry alleged the main spy collaborated with monarchist groups at Mossad's direction. IRANIAN OFFICIAL: 'UNITED IRAN' FACES 'HEBREW-ARAB-AMERICAN FRONT' Ali Akbar Velayati…
April 25, 2026 | 08:28 UTC 🌍 WEST ASIA US-IRAN TALKS IN PAKISTAN FACE UNCERTAINTY US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are expected in Islamabad for a new round of negotiations with an Iranian delegation. Reports suggest direct talks could occur on April 27, but Iran's Tasnim agency stated Tehran has rejected all US requests for a new meeting and has not scheduled direct talks. IRGC SEIZES VESSEL SUSPECTED OF…
April 25, 2026 | 07:25 UTC 🌍 WEST ASIA IRAN DELIVERS RESPONSE TO US PROPOSALS VIA PAKISTAN Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi met Pakistan's Army Chief in Islamabad, delivering a "comprehensive response" to de-escalation proposals. Tehran reiterated it will not hold direct talks with the US, while President Trump said he expects an offer from Iran. US BUILDS UP FORCES AT UAE AIR BASE Reports indicate the US is incr…
April 25, 2026 | 06:23 UTC 🌍 WEST ASIA IRAN RULES OUT DIRECT US TALKS IN PAKISTAN Iran's Foreign Ministry has stated that Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, currently in Pakistan for talks, will not hold a direct meeting with US officials. Reports indicate that Iran has not requested new talks with the United States to resolve the ongoing conflict. IRGC SEIZES VESSEL FOR ALLEGED US MILITARY COOPERATION Iran's Islami…
April 25, 2026 | 05:21 UTC 🌍 WEST ASIA ISRAELI DEFENSE MINISTER THREATENS TO RETURN IRAN TO 'ERA OF DARKNESS' An Israeli Defense Minister threatened to "completely eliminate the Khamenei lineage" and destroy Iran's national economic infrastructure. He stated the next attack would be "different and deadly" and would "return Iran to the era of darkness and stone." IRAN SAYS 'SIGNIFICANT PORTION' OF MISSILE CAPACITY …
📖 Full report: https://telegra.ph/COMBATE-Digest---April-25-2026-0420-UTC-04-25
April 25, 2026 | 04:19 UTC 🌍 WEST ASIA QATAR REPORTEDLY EXPELS HAMAS LEADERSHIP Citing Israeli newspaper Haaretz, reports claim Qatar has informed the leadership of Hamas that they are no longer welcome in Doha and has pressured the group to surrender its weapons in Gaza. GOLDMAN SACHS: STRAIT OF HORMUZ WILL 'NEVER BE THE SAME' The President of Global Affairs at Goldman Sachs assessed that the Strait of Hormuz wil…
April 25, 2026 | 03:17 UTC 🌍 WEST ASIA NETANYAHU REVEALS CANCER DIAGNOSIS Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced he underwent treatment for early-stage prostate cancer, having withheld the information for two months during the war with Iran. TURKISH FM: ISRAEL'S ACTIONS A 'THREAT TO GLOBAL SECURITY' Turkey's Foreign Minister stated that Israel's "destabilizing actions" are a threat to global security.…
April 25, 2026 | 02:16 UTC 🌍 WEST ASIA US TO END OIL SANCTION WAIVERS FOR IRAN AND RUSSIA US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Washington will not extend exemptions that allowed certain countries to trade oil with Tehran and Moscow. PERSIAN GULF OIL OUTPUT DOWN 57% AMID HORMUZ CLOSURE, REPORT SAYS A Bloomberg report indicates that total oil production in the Persian Gulf has fallen by approximately 57% co…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @intel_monitor. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
Cite this entry
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 11 October 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Hourly News Bot” (@intel_monitor), 151 subscribers as measured 11 October 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/intel_monitor.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.