🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 An uptick in U.S. military transport flights to Diego Garcia has been observed over the past few days, with two flights in particular catching my attention.

✈️ 95-0104 — Fort Bragg → Prince Sultan Air Base, Saudi Arabia → Al Minhad Air Base, UAE → Dubai → Diego Garcia.

✈️ 05-5141 — Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, Japan → Diego Garcia.

Both Fort Bragg and Kadena are associated with US Patriot air defense systems, among other assets.

Could Washington be preparing Diego Garcia to host a potential deployment of USAF strategic bombers, B-1B or B-2?

🔗 EGYOSINT

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 U.S. CENTCOM has carried out new strikes on Iran’s Qeshm Island.

Iranian state media report loud explosions in both Qeshm and Bandar Abbas moments ago, while footage circulating online shows plumes of smoke rising from the island.

📝 Anon: Pretty sure that what's going on around the Strait over the past few weeks is the Iranians are stepping up attacks on US aircraft and CENTCOM's rules of engagement (ROE) says they can respond to being fired upon by firing back at the specific Iranian SAM site that targeted them. Not much of an escalation by either side.

This is why I think it's weird that people keep saying "why doesn't Iran respond" when the inciting incident in each case appears to be Iran blowing Reapers out of the sky and targeting US fighter aircraft and helicopters.

The war never ended, it morphed into a low-scale, low-intensity conflict over the Hormuz as the U.S. and Israel couldn't keep up a large scale bombing campaign without risking their own destruction.

🔗 Egypt's Intel Observer (@EGYOSINT)

🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸 Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, issued an ultimatum to the U.S. to accept Iran's demands "or else"

A few hours later, an Iranian delegation landed in Doha, Qatar and stayed on the ground for about an hour, likely just to deliver the message/ultimatum to the Qatari intermediaries and then left, as it appears that even the moderates in Iran are fed up with president Trump's refusal to hold good-faith negotiations.

@CIG_telegram