Report in The New York Times: The leadership in Iran is divided and dispersed and struggles to make decisions and coordinate broad attacks and responses, according to intelligence assessments in the U.S. and other Western countries. Israeli sources said that communication problems in Iran are somewhat similar to the problems recorded in the negotiations for the release of hostages in Gaza, where proposals went through Hamas leaders in Qatar and were transmitted in writing to Gaza in a slow and cumbersome process

Baruch Dayan HaEmet 🇮🇱🥺🥲

Staff Sergeant Maxsim Enti, Captain Noam Madmoni, and Staff Sergeant Ben Cohen tragically fell in battle against Hezbollah terrorists in Lebanon. May their memories forever be a blessing. 🕯️

Satellite photo from the Institute for Science and International Security: The heavy water plant in Arak, which Israel attacked on Friday and where the research reactor is also located, was destroyed. In the June attack, one production stage was destroyed, but in the weekend attack, all three production stages and additional support buildings were destroyed.

Channel 14 says it obtained an exchange among Iranian leaders:

President Pezeshkian: “I want to be involved in the negotiations with the U.S. Without a quick deal, our entire economy will collapse in 3 weeks.”

IRGC chief Vahidi: “That’s exactly why you can’t be involved. You’ll give up everything for a deal.”

After the call ended, the report says the Iranian president told his companions he feels like a ‘hostage’, “I’m unable to resign, I cannot make my own decisions, all I can do is read from a script I’m given”

Channel 14 concludes its report by saying that the IRGC is effectively running the country now.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Iran:

"They tried to kill Trump twice - and they are still trying to kill him. I don’t hear North Korea shouting ‘Death to America,’ nor China or Russia. All these are hostile countries, but they are not driven by jealousy - Iran is."

"Many European countries have shown exceptional weakness in front of a regime that calls America ‘the great Satan,’ Israel ‘the little Satan,’ and sees Europe as something in between - a civilization that must also be crushed."

"There are military solutions to the Strait of Hormuz issue, led by the United States. I hear interesting ideas from Arab countries and also from the U.S. - to divert energy, oil, and gas pipelines from the Gulf, where the Iranians have a geographical choke point, westward through Saudi Arabia to the Red Sea and from there to Mediterranean ports - to our ports in Israel. This bypasses the choke point. The Gulf countries are effectively encouraging the United States to accelerate action against Iran."

"We destroyed about 70% of Iran’s steel production capacity."

"People don’t know history - there was a Nazi regime, with the German army, the Wehrmacht, and alongside it elite forces, the SS. The elite units of that regime are the Revolutionary Guards and the Basij.”

The IRGC has hijacked Iran 🇮🇷

Baruch Dayan HaEmet 🇮🇱🙏

Released for publication: Gilad Harel, 21, from Modiin, is the fourth fighter killed in the incident in Lebanon

The foreign ministers of Germany, France, Italy, and the United Kingdom in a joint statement on the death penalty law for terrorists: "We express our deep concern regarding the proposed law that would greatly expand the possibilities of imposing the death penalty in Israel. The death penalty is an inhumane and degrading form of punishment with no deterrent effect. That is why we oppose it"

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There is deterrent effect.

Report on Iran International: At least 4,770 members of the Revolutionary Guards, Basij, and police in Iran have been killed since the start of the war, and another 20,880 have been injured

Amit Segal

Netanyahu: We are creating alliances with Arab countries that talk about joint fighting alongside us. In the past, I had secret conversations with Arab leaders. I told them that the moment Iran can, it will conquer you and topple your kingdoms. So they didn’t really internalize these things - today they understand

Amit Segal

Prime Minister Netanyahu at the government meeting: The US threatens to handle the Hormuz Strait issue by force - I hope it succeeds, this switch must be taken from Iran. It should be bypassed after the war through pipelines from Saudi Arabia to the Mediterranean Sea

Exactly 💯❤️

Barak Ravid

Trump continues on Truth Social: "France did not allow planes that were on their way to Israel, loaded with military equipment, to fly over its territory. France was very unhelpful regarding the 'Iranian pace' that was successfully eliminated! The US will remember this!"

The Dahieh district after the attacks

Production crushing of weapons manufacturing in full swing: among the targets attacked last night in Tehran -

- A factory used for casting and filling warheads with explosives for ballistic missiles intended to be launched towards the State of Israel.

- A research and development complex for components of advanced weapons and a production site for ballistic missile components.

- A production, research, and development site for components of anti-tank missiles, miniature surface-to-air missiles, and other weapons.

- Launch sites and missile launch positions against aircraft were also attacked.

Amit Segal

From a military correspondents' briefing:

• The Chief of Staff and the CENTCOM commander planned targets for the next month yesterday.

• In the next day or two, we will finish attacking the essential and urgent targets in the military industry in Iran.

Secretary of War Hegseth: Our intelligence is clear, the attacks cause damage to the morale of the Iranian army and defections from its ranks, as well as frustration in the leadership

Chief of Staff Kein: We destroyed more than 150 ships of the Iranian navy

Trump to CBS on the Wall Street Journal report: Not yet ready to abandon efforts to force Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz