IRGC threatens to completely close the Strait of Hormuz if US strikes power plants

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Iranian President Pashakian on X: "The illusion of erasing Iran from the map shows despair against the will of a nation making history. Threats and terror only strengthen our unity. The Strait of Hormuz is open to everyone except those who harm our land. We are determinedly confronting absurd threats on the battlefield"

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to NBC network: The command and control of the Iranian regime in chaos. This is Hitler's bunker - Hitler is dead, Himmler is dead, Goering is dead. Most of what is seen right now are actions of lone wolves. The launch of medium-range ballistic missiles yesterday (to Diego Garcia island) are acts of desperation

Moments of missile interception outside the atmosphere (Arrow Defence System)

The Iranian regime is the mastermind of a global terror network.

With its long-range missiles & through the IRGC and its proxies - Hezbollah, Hamas, PIJ, the Houthis - it fuels chaos and bloodshed far beyond its borders, from the Middle East to Europe and beyond.

The Iranian regime is the greatest threat to world peace and the free world.

IRGC Major General Abdullahi: "We will disrupt the enemy's calculations with new advanced weapons" and "create new wonders on the battlefield."

Iran’s exiled prince Reza Pahlavi called on US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to continue targeting Iran’s leadership while avoiding civilian infrastructure, after Trump threatened to target Iran’s energy facilities.

“Iran’s civilian infrastructure belongs to the Iranian people and to the future of a free Iran. The Islamic Republic’s infrastructure is the machinery of repression and terror used to keep that future from becoming reality,” Pahlavi said in a post on X Sunday.

“I ask President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu to continue targeting the regime and its apparatus of repression, while sparing the civilian infrastructure Iranians will need to rebuild our country,” he added.
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Israel’s ambassador to the United States Yechiel Leiter said the war with Iran must continue until the country’s leadership is weakened to the point it has “no power” and the Iranian people can rise up and topple it.

“The campaign will end … when there is not an entity in Tehran that’s going to threaten the region,” Leiter said in an interview with CNN.

He said the goal was to degrade the leadership’s power to the point it has “no power,” adding that such an outcome could enable Iranians to rise up.

“I think that we need boots on the ground but they’ve got to be Iranian boots, and I think they’re coming,” he said.

Leiter said a popular uprising was likely, adding that “it’s going to take place because the Iranian people have had enough.”
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Breaking news: The Americans updated Israel that the operational plans for the Strait of Hormuz will take weeks - and therefore the war will be prolonged by additional weeks.

Gulf states opposed war with Iran. Most are now pushing to keep the fight going

Officials tell ToI that after being attacked, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain believe Iran's military must be cut down before a ceasefire can be called, with some considering joining the offensive

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US to Israel: Hormuz operation will take weeks; we won't let Iran hold world hostage — report

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Israel is interested in a wide-scale attacks on Iran’s energy facilities and supports the recent 48-hour ultimatum issued by U.S. President Donald J. Trump, according to the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation.

U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) has published a compilation of strikes against various one-way attack drones across Iran.

Iran has decided to limit its attacks on Saudi Arabia and Qatar out of concern that continued strikes could trigger a direct Saudi military response, however, strikes against Kuwait, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates will “continue as usual,” two sources told The Jerusalem Post.

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Noisy night in Tehran

(According to opposition channels)

Meet Mohammad Qalibaf. He is reportedly leading the Iranian regime's war effort since the death of Ali Larijani.

Via: MEMRI

Anwar Gargash, Senior Advisor to the President of the United Arab Emirates:

“The war must not end with yet another ceasefire - the event must conclude with the containment of the nuclear threat, the drones, the missiles, and Iranian bullying in the Strait of Hormuz”

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