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”

JUST IN: 🇦🇪🇮🇷 UAE Foreign Minister calls the Iranian regime "terrorists."

IRGC tells President Trump: "Hey Trump, you are fired! You are familiar with this sentence. Thank you for your attention to this matter."

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Iran's new leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, is injured, isolated, and not responding to messages sent to him, according to security sources in Israel and the U.S. However, Israeli sources said that the clerics and leaders of Iran's Revolutionary Guards who remain alive have managed to strengthen their grip on the country.

U.S. President Donald J. Trump:

“PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH, TO PUT IT MILDLY!!!”

Satellite imagery published by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) shows a before and after of the Qom Turbine Engine Production Plant near Tehran in Northern Iran, which produced gas turbine engines for attack drones and aircraft components used by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), following U.S. strikes that targeted and destroyed the plant earlier in March.

Extensive attacks last night in Tehran, Karaj, Tabriz, Urmia, Khorramabad, and other cities in Iran

CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper says in an interview with Iran International that it is still not the time for citizens in Iran to go out and protest and try to overthrow the regime: "They are launching missiles and drones from population centers and you should stay inside for now. As the president said, at some point you will have a clear sign to go outside"