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#️⃣ 🇺🇸 CENTCOM: Iran does not control the Strait of Hormuz. It remains an international waterway. U.S. forces are positioned and prepared to keep it that way.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸 CENTCOM: The Strait of Hormuz is open to all vessels seeking to lawfully transit the international waterway. U.S. forces are positioned and prepared to ensure that freedom of navigation remains available despite unwarranted Iranian aggression, harassment, threats, and arbitrary declarations. Iran does not control the strait. Traffic is flowing.

💬 🇮🇷 Reza Pahlavi: I am deeply saddened by the sudden passing of Senator Lindsey Graham, a steadfast friend of the Iranian people and a proud defender of freedom. At moments when moral clarity was required, Senator Graham stood on the right side. When friends were seldom found, he stood alongside the people of Iran in their struggle against tyranny.

💬 🇮🇷 Iranian MP Ebrahim Rezaei: We have taken control of the Strait of Hormuz with power, and we will preserve it with power as well.

#️⃣ 🇺🇸 U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham has died.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 THE UNITED STATES STRUCK 140 MILITARY TARGETS, INCLUDING MISSILE AND DRONE SYSTEMS, NAVAL INFRASTRUCTURE, AMMUNITION DEPOTS, COMMUNICATION HUBS, AND COASTAL SURVEILLANCE FACILITIES, ACCORDING TO CENTCOM. The statement said the strikes were carried out in response to Iran’s attack on a civilian vessel. The third series of strikes against Iran in a week has been completed. More than 300 targets were hit over three days. Explosions were reported in the southern Iranian cities of Bushehr and Asaluyeh. Pete Hegseth said Iran “made a bad choice and is now paying the price.” Iran has launched a retaliatory series of strikes against U.S. facilities in the Middle East. The IRGC claimed it had destroyed American military facilities in Jordan, Kuwait, and Bahrain. A command-and-control center, as well as hangars housing MQ-9 drones at a U.S. base in Jordan, were reportedly destroyed. Air-raid alerts were issued across several countries in the region. Air defense systems intercepted missiles and drones in the UAE, Kuwait, and Qatar, while warning sirens also sounded in Bahrain.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷 THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS (IRGC) HAS ANNOUNCED THE CLOSURE OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ UNTIL THE UNITED STATES ENDS ITS MILITARY INVOLVEMENT IN THE REGION. NO VESSEL WILL BE ALLOWED TO PASS. The same statement said that the IRGC forced a vessel to stop after issuing several warnings. Following Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament stated: "The era of one-sided deals is over. We warned you: either keep your word or pay the price. Reality is already knocking at your door."

💬 🇺🇸 Trump: 1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME! Orders have already been given, and the U.S. Military is ready, willing, and able, for a one year period of time, subject to extension, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran - PRAISE BE TO ALLAH!

💬 🇺🇸 Trump on Iran: We can walk in there tomorrow. We could take soldiers—I don't want to have boots on the ground—but if I wanted to, we could put a small group of soldiers and take over the whole place.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump on Iran: U.S. aircraft are flying over Tehran, and they are unaware.

💬 🇺🇸 Trump: The United States will be hitting Iran (Whose Navy, Air Force, Radar, Anti Aircraft, and all other forms of Defense, together with most its offensive capability, are GONE!), VERY HARD TONIGHT. At some point in the not too distant future, we will be taking Kharg Island, and other oil infrastructure points, and assume total control of their Oil and Gas Markets, much like we have with Venezuela, which is working out brilliantly for both Venezuela and the United States of America. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

💬 🇺🇸 Tucker Carlson: Like it or not, Iran are uniquely standing up for Palestinians and the people of Lebanon. The rest of the world is watching this in horror and no one else is doing anything about it.

#️⃣ 🇮🇷 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!