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#️⃣ 🇮🇷 Iran's Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters has announced that the Strait of Hormuz is closed to all vessel traffic, including oil tankers and commercial ships. It warned that any vessel attempting to transit the strait would be targeted.

🔥 🇮🇷 Iran's IRIB: Explosions have just been heard in Bandar Abbas.

💨 🇺🇸🇮🇷 U.S. strikes against Iran are underway. - Barak Ravid

💥 🇺🇸🇮🇷 The US and Iran exchanged strikes overnight. CENTCOM launched attacks on Iranian air-defense systems, radar sites, and command facilities near the Strait of Hormuz. Iran responded by launching missiles and drones at US targets across the Middle East. By early morning, CENTCOM said its operation had concluded. Iran claimed it had struck the US Fifth Fleet in Bahrain and a US military base in Jordan.

💬 🇺🇸 Asked whether the U.S. might help rebuild Iran afterward, Trump replied, "Yeah," comparing it to a Marshall Plan before adding: "But we'll get half their oil." - ABC News

💬 🇺🇸 Trump: I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz. There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

💬 🇮🇷 Iran's Ghalibaf: We prefer the language of diplomacy, but we speak other languages far more fluently. Break your commitments, and we'll switch to what we speak best. You ride the horse you saddled!

#️⃣ 🇮🇷 Iran agreed to halt fire against Israel after the US unfroze $3 billion in Iranian assets, flown from Abu Dhabi to Tehran despite active airspace restrictions — according to an IRGC-affiliated news agency. The deal was brokered via a Qatari delegation, with the US also promising Israel would restrain its attacks on Lebanon. - KAN

#️⃣ 🇺🇸 Trump has claimed at least 38 times since March that an Iran deal was imminent or that Iran was desperate to make one. - CNN

🌫 🇱🇧 Today: IDF strikes in Tyre, Lebanon intensified, expanding into new western neighborhoods near the city's Christian quarter. A morning strike killed 9 people and injured 28.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸 WEAPONIZED MOSQUITOES WERE REAL: A DECLASSIFIED PENTAGON DOCUMENT REVEALS THAT THE UNITED STATES TESTED INFECTED INSECTS AS A POTENTIAL BIOLOGICAL WEAPON IN THE LATE 1950s. As part of Project Bellwether, military researchers studied how infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes could spread diseases through bites in hot and desert climates. These mosquitoes are known carriers of dengue fever, yellow fever, chikungunya, and the Zika virus.

#️⃣ 🇷🇺🇪🇺 INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (ICC) PROSECUTOR KARIM KHAN, WHO ISSUED THE ARREST WARRANT FOR VLADIMIR PUTIN, HAS BEEN SUSPENDED FROM HIS DUTIES PENDING THE OUTCOME OF DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS RELATED TO ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL MISCONDUCT. The corresponding statement was published on the court’s official website.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump on Iran: You're really going to win it over the next two weeks when we declare total victory. It'll be a total victory. It'll happen very soon.

💬 🇺🇸 Reporter: Did you ask Netanyahu not to hit back? Trump: No, I said do what's right, but I want you to stop as quickly as you can because they have to stop. It had to do with Lebanon and it has to stop. We want to get it finished.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump on Iran: If we go and bomb, which we can do very easily if we want, and we spend another two or three weeks bombing, they'll have nothing left whatsoever. But you won't have the strait open for months. Uh, if we do the bombing, you know, a lot of people are going to be killed. Who wants to do that? I don't. And we'll get—we'll have a signed document that's actually stronger than doing the bombing.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump on Netanyahu: Netanyahu was hit and he hit back and I can't blame him for that, but he was hit. He hit back and now they've called it quits. So, they're going to just leave each other alone for another week or something. It's been going on for a long time. You could say about 3,000 years if you really—but certainly it's been going on for 47 years.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump: You know, grass has a life just like a human being has a life.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump on Iran: We have ongoing negotiations in Iran and with Iran, and that hasn't stopped. We could have at least an idea by one or two days from now. But I think it's going well.