News of airstrikes or fires on Kharg Island are fake, oil refineries routinely show up on NASA heatmaps.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Ok, as you guys probably see the situation is very confusing, and covering these things is an ongoing process, but what I’ve gathered so far, is that yesterday night (or early hours of tonight, still unclear) two IRGC Navy speeboats were attacked

Tonight, the IRGC decided to respond to that event by firing at U.S. warships, which has then led to alleged American strikes on the eastern part of Bandar Abbas & activation of air defenses.

Apart from that, the situation is now mostly calm — will update if there are further developments.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Multiple American drones (possibly MQ-9 ‘Reaper’) were shot down about an hour ago near Bandar Abbas, likely when trying to identify the launch location of Iranian missiles towards U.S. warships

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— 🇮🇷 Iran’s Foreign Ministry: ‘We will definitely use a portion of our money [soon to be unfrozen by U.S.] to produce more missiles and drones’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Barak Ravid of Axios:

‘Trump’s comment seems to signal a softening in the U.S. position regarding the enriched uranium stockpile and closer to the Iranian position on this issue’

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Makes sense, it’s TACO Tuesday.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) spokesman to Fox News:

‘U.S. forces conducted self-defense strikes in southern Iran today to protect our troops from threats posed by Iranian forces.

Targets included missile launch sites and Iranian boats attempting to emplace mines.

U.S. Central Command continues to defend our forces while using restraint during the ongoing ceasefire.’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 U.S. Officials to Al-Jazeera:

‘The Iranians attempted to attack U.S. forces multiple times in the past 24 hours’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 U.S. Officials to Al-Jazeera:

‘One of the incidents involved the Iranians launching surface-to-air missiles at U.S. fighter jets’

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American woman converts to Judaism and gets rejected for Aliyah (migration) to Israel because she wasn’t born a Jew.

Hello sir, we hope you enjoyed your crossing of the Strait with us this evening

— 🇮🇷/🇶🇦 For those Gulf Arabs that call Iran a bad neighbor…

When Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain cut ties with Qatar and imposed an economic blockade, it was IRAN that kept them afloat, sending food and humanitarian supplies absolutely for free.

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— 🇷🇺/🇮🇷 NEW: A plane carrying high-ranking Iranian government officials is headed to Moscow

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— 🇺🇸 NEW: Donald Trump officially becomes the most unpopular President of all time at this day of their presidency

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Du’a for the day of Arafah as narrated by Imam Al-Hussain (عليه السلام)

— 🇮🇷/🇸🇦 NEW: Iranian pilgrims in Mecca on the day of Arafah chanted slogans against Israel and the America, and in support of Ayatollah Khamenei

Iranians are the only group of pilgrims that are tolerated by Saudi Arabia to make political slogans during Hajj.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇴🇲 NEW: Iran struck an oil tanker off the coast of Oman, per UKMTO

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— 🇮🇷 BREAKING: The international internet in Iran has been restored for companies and home WiFi connections

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— 🇴🇲/🇮🇷 NEW: The Sultan of Oman, His Highness Haytham bin Tariq, has signed an executive decree ordering Oman to increase its volume of trade and economic relations with Iran

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— 🇮🇷 NEW: For the first time after 88 days of 0%, internet connectivity in Iran has reached 34%

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