Dutch airline KLM announced that it is temporarily canceling its flights to Israel.

The opposition channel Iran International reports from its sources that with the escalation of tensions and fears of a military attack against Iran, and after Ali Khamenei was moved to a hiding place - senior officials wishing to meet with him are transferred to the place where he is staying with their eyes covered. This step is intended to prevent the exposure of the location of the hiding place.

A source in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who wished to remain anonymous, told Iran International that among the senior officials recently transferred to Khamenei's hiding place with their eyes covered was also Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council.

According to him, Larijani met with Khamenei before his trip to Oman and before meetings he held there with official figures.

According to the report, Khamenei was moved to a special underground shelter, including a network of tunnels in the city of Tehran.

According to the information, Masoud Khamenei, his third son, handles daily office affairs, while Mojtaba Khamenei, another son, maintains contact with senior regime officials.
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Rubio about Iran:

If what you really care about is a peaceful nuclear program, you can do it like most countries in the world, meaning having above-ground reactors and importing fuel. We currently have agreements to do this with countries.

If what they really wanted was energy, they could use small modular reactors, which are relatively affordable and accessible for many countries.

But when you say "we want to enrich, and we want to enrich deeply underground," and you have a history of enrichment up to 20 and even 60 percent, plus you build missiles that can probably carry warheads

Rubio about Iran:

Ultimately, we need to talk about more issues beyond the nuclear program, but if you can't even make progress on the nuclear program, progress on ballistic missiles will also be difficult.

Rubio about Iran:

They are facing sanctions, their economy is in shambles, their people are suffering, and somehow they still find the money needed to invest in missiles with greater and greater capacity every year.

This is an unbearable threat.

Rubio about Iran:

They are trying to acquire intercontinental ballistic missiles. For example, you have seen that they have tried to launch satellites into space.

They are on a path to one day develop weapons capable of reaching the American continent.

They currently have weapons that can target a large part of Europe, right now as we speak.

Rubio about Iran:

Iran refrains from talking about its ballistic missiles.

This is a big problem.

Rubio about Iran:

Iran has a very large number of ballistic missiles, especially short-range ballistic missiles that threaten the United States, our bases in the region, and our partners in the region. And all our bases in the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain.

They also have naval assets that threaten maritime transport and attempt to threaten the U.S. Navy.

So I want everyone to understand that beyond the nuclear program, they have these conventional weapons that are solely designed to attack the U.S. and Americans.

Rubio about Iran:

They are not enriching right now, but they are trying to reach a point where they can eventually do so.

Trump has been pressuring Dan Quinn, the US Chief of Staff, for weeks to develop a wide range of military plans, which now include everything from attacking the ballistic missile and nuclear facilities of the Islamic Republic to destroying the senior leadership of the Islamic Republic regime as a way to change the regime.

Source: CNN

General Dan Keane, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Army, has been drafting military options for a possible attack on Iran. A large number of senior officials from the Army, Navy, and Air Force have been quietly summoned directly to his office.

Source: CNN

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

On the eve of our joint dinner, I surprised my friend Prime Minister Modi with traditional Indian clothing

Prime Minister Netanyahu and Modi visited Yad Vashem - the Israeli National Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.

Report in Politico: Official sources in the White House believe that politically it is preferable for Israel to be the one to strike first against Iran.

According to those sources in the White House, while the administration is considering military action against Iran, it is preferable that Israel makes the first move.

It was also written that according to those sources, "There is thinking within the administration and its surroundings that, politically, the situation is much better if Israel acts first, alone, and then Iran reacts against us, thus giving us more justification to act."

Now at the Holocaust memorial: Prime Minister Netanyahu shows Indian Prime Minister Modi the names of the relatives of his wife Sara who perished in the Holocaust.

High-resolution Chinese satellite images show 11 F-22 aircraft of the U.S. Air Force deployed at Ovda Air Base in Israel.

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The Wall Street Journal reports on the demands the Americans brought to Iran in Geneva:

1. Destroy all 3 nuclear sites: Fordow, Natanz, Isfahan

2. Hand over all enriched uranium to the US

3. No sunset clauses - meaning the restrictions are forever, unlike the 2015 nuclear agreement

4. Zero enrichment, but allowed to keep the Tehran reactor

5. Minimal sanctions relief upfront, but more if Iran meets the conditions