🇮🇷🚫🇺🇸 Iranian Foreign Minister: Every time a diplomatic solution is on the table, the U.S. opts for a reckless military adventure. Is it a crude pressure tactic? Or the result of a spoiler once again duping POTUS into another quagmire?
Whatever the causes, outcome is the same: Iranians never bow to pressure.
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🇩🇪A hostage situation is underway at a bank in Sinzig in western Germany, police told AFP on Friday. There are reportedly “several hostage-takers and hostages inside the bank,” and the “driver of an armored truck” is believed to be among the hostages, the Koblenz police said in a statement.
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🇮🇱🚫🇮🇷Spy: Israel announces the arrest of three soldiers and one civilian suspected of spying on behalf of Iran.
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🇺🇸🇦🇪🇰🇼🇶🇦🇧🇭 The Trump administration has quietly approved $17 billion in Patriot interceptor missile sales to Kuwait ($9.3B), the UAE ($6.25B), and Bahrain ($1.625B), all without public announcement, the New York Times reports today citing State Department and congressional officials.
▪️The three orders amount to roughly 4,250 missiles total, based on a per-unit cost of approximately $4 million. A separate $4 billion Qatar order — around 1,000 additional interceptors — was also authorized last Friday, bringing total U.S. arms sales authorized that day to approximately $25.7 billion, as opposed to the $8 billion publicly announced. It is not clear when these missiles will be delivered.
▪️The sales come as stockpiles have been severely depleted. Since the war began Feb. 28, the U.S. and Gulf states have together fired nearly 1,900 Patriot interceptors (US:1300, Gulf allies: 600) close to three years of current production.
▪️The Washington Post reported Wednesday the U.S. military had burned through at least 53% of its THAAD interceptors and 43% of its Patriot interceptors since the war began. According to a recent analysis by CSIS, Patriot depletion ranges from roughly 45% to 61% of pre war inventory of 2,330 missiles. THAAD depletion ranges from roughly 53% to over 80%.
▪️American manufacturers currently produce just over 600 Patriot missiles per year. The administration has announced plans to raise that to 2,000 annually, but the increase will take time.Most reporting says the buildup will take roughly seven years.
🇮🇷🚫🇺🇸 : Iranian state media aired footage it says shows the Navy’s missile and drone units targeting U.S. destroyers in response to what Tehran said were American attacks on two Iranian oil tankers near the Strait of Hormuz.
CENTCOM confirmed U.S. warships transiting the strait came under Iranian missile, drone, and small boat attacks Thursday, but said Iran’s response was “unprovoked.”
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🇺🇸🚫🇮🇷 Trump to ABC: Retaliatory strikes against Iranian targets after #Iran attacks are nothing more than a "slap on the wrist."
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🇮🇷🇮🇷🚫🇺🇸 As previously reported, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy disputes CENTCOM’s claim that no damage was caused. They assert that “significant damage” was inflicted.
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🇺🇸🚫🇮🇷 U.S. CENTCOM says Iranian forces launched multiple missiles, drones and small boats against U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyers that transiting the Strait of Hormuz. No U.S. assets were struck.
In response, U.S. forces "eliminated inbound threats and targeted Iranian military facilities responsible for attacking U.S. forces including missile and drone launch sites; command and control locations; and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance nodes."
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🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — CBS News, citing U.S. officials: A severe and ongoing Iranian attack is targeting two U.S. destroyers.
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🇮🇷🚫🇺🇸 Unconfirmed sources report that a warship was hit by a cruise missile in a direct strike.
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🇮🇷 — Air defense systems have been activated again in western Tehran, the Iranian capital.
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🇮🇷🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — Additional missiles and drones were launched toward U.S. warships and naval vessels in the Arabian Sea.
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🇮🇷🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — Tasnim News Agency, citing sources: Three U.S. destroyers were attacked with missiles and drones by the Iranian Navy near the Strait of Hormuz.
– The U.S. destroyers targeted near the Strait of Hormuz by the Iranian Navy are heading toward the Arabian Sea.
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🇦🇪 — Unconfirmed reports of explosions being heard in Abu Dhabi.
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🇮🇷🇨🇳China and Iran Signal Deepening Alignment as FM Wang Yi Hosts FM Araghchi in Beijing
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi met Chinese FM Wang Yi in Beijing on Wednesday, with both sides issuing statements signaling increased strategic alignment and shared pressure on Washington to negotiate.
Araghchi said the meeting was “constructive,” reaffirming that “a political crisis cannot be solved through military means.” He said Iran appreciates China’s four-point proposal for regional peace and “trusts China” to play an active role in ending the conflict and building a post-war regional framework.
Wang Yi said the region is at “a critical stage of whether the conflict could end,” warning that restarting the war “would be even more ill-advised.” China “supports Iran in safeguarding its national sovereignty and security” and is ready to “play a greater role in restoring peace and tranquility in the Middle East.”
On the nuclear file, Wang Yi said China recognizes Iran’s right to peaceful use of nuclear energy while appreciating its commitment not to develop nuclear weapons.
On the Hormuz standoff, Wang Yi said “the international community has a common concern” about restoring safe passage and urged parties to respond to that call quickly.
The meeting comes one week before Trump’s scheduled summit with Xi in Beijing.
🇦🇪 Emirates says its air defenses confronted 2 ballistic missiles and 3 drones.
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🇮🇱🚫🇮🇷 LEBANON - ISRAEL: THE SOUTHERN FRONT IS BURNING
Emergency evacuations: The Israeli army has ordered residents of several villages in southern Lebanon (including Al-Abassiya) to move at least 1,000 meters away from their homes.
Israeli offensive: Intensified airstrikes and artillery fire (Toula, Al-Halousiyah, Khiam, etc.). A member of the Lebanese Civil Defense was killed.
🇮🇷🚫🇺🇸 IRAN: TARGETED STRIKES AND NAVAL TENSIONS
Strikes on Iranian soil: The Wall Street Journal reports attacks on missile and drone launch sites and radar stations, particularly on Qeshm Island and in Bandar Abbas.
Naval conflict: Iran seized the tanker Ocean Koi in the Gulf of Oman under a court order.
Meanwhile, Tehran is accused of carrying out attacks against U.S. warships using drones and speedboats.
🇮🇷 Iranian TV: The situation is calm and normal in 13 cities in Hormozgan Province and on the southern islands
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🇺🇸🚫🇮🇷 Hebrew media: US warships withdraw from the Strait of Hormuz.
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🇮🇷 — Mehr News Agency: An explosion has been heard in Sirik, in Iran’s Hormozgan Province.
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🇺🇸🚫🇮🇷 The tankers are up in the Middle East (only the ones we see) -
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🇮🇷🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — IRGC Navy: After the ceasefire was violated and the terrorist U.S. military attacked an Iranian oil tanker near the port of Jask, and as U.S. destroyers approached the Strait of Hormuz, we opened fire on enemy destroyers with powerful warheads in a large-scale and highly precise joint operation, using a variety of ballistic missiles, anti-ship cruise missiles, and destructive drones.
– Intelligence reports indicate severe damage inflicted on the American enemy, and that the three attacking enemy frigates quickly fled from the Strait of Hormuz.
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🇺🇸🚫🇮🇷 The US military has struck Iran’s Bandar Kargan naval checkpoint in Minab, a senior US official told Fox News.
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🔵🇮🇶❌🇺🇸 — A security source responsible within the Iraqi factions: The Iraqi resistance is closely monitoring developments in the region and is preparing for a new round of confrontation, after introducing modern weapons and technologies into the field.
– The source added that the targets of the next round may include American interests and sites that were not targeted during the first round.
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🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸 Spokesman of Khatam al-Anbiya Central HQ:
🔺The aggressive, terrorist, and rogue U.S. army violated the ceasefire by targeting an Iranian oil tanker ship moving from Iranian coastal waters in the Jask area towards the Strait of Hormuz, as well as another ship entering the Strait of Hormuz, opposite the port of Fujairah, UAE. Simultaneously, they carried out aerial assaults on civilian areas in cooperation with some regional countries along the coasts of Bandar Khamir, Sirik, and Qeshm Island.
🔺The Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran immediately retaliated by attacking U.S. military vessels in the eastern Strait of Hormuz and south of Bandar Chabahar, inflicting significant damage on them.
🔺The criminal and aggressive United States and its supporting countries must know that the Islamic Republic of Iran, as in the past, powerfully and without the slightest hesitation, will respond decisively to any aggression and invasion.
🇱🇧❌🇮🇱 — Two Israeli Merkava tanks were targeted and caught fire after attempting to advance into Beit al-Siyad in southern Lebanon.
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🇺🇸🚫🇮🇷 A US official tells Axios that US forces bombed Iran tonight, but the strikes are not a resumption of the war.
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🇮🇷🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy launched missiles toward three U.S. destroyers in the Strait of Hormuz.
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🇮🇷❌🇺🇸 — Tasnim News Agency: The U.S. proposal includes unacceptable provisions.
– U.S. reports about the agreement are aimed at justifying Trump’s pullback from his actions in the Strait of Hormuz.
– The language of threats toward Tehran is ineffective and could worsen the situation for the United States.
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