— 🇮🇷/🇴🇲/🇸🇦 NEW: A second Saudi supertanker was struck by Iranian missiles in the same incident, while exiting the Strait of Hormuz

The tankers were carrying 2 million barrels of oil each, according to Kpler.

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— 🇷🇺/🇮🇷 NEW: Iran’s President Pezeshkian held a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin

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— 🇩🇪 NEW: Sources report to MES the attack against a coal plant in Germany was likely carried out by climate activists, not Russian cells

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The United States seriously has the audacity to talk about lying and cheating? What a messed up world.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Ghalibaf:

‘If the U.S. fails to honor its commitments, we will use the language of power to force them into submission.

The Strait of Hormuz will not be reopened until the U.S. fulfills its commitments under the Memorandum of Understanding.’

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Explosions heard in Bandar Abbas and Qeshm, southern Iran.

Cause is currently unknown.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: The U.S. is carrying out airstrikes in southern Iran

Explosions have so far been heard in Chabahar, Bandar Abbas, and Qeshm.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Explosions in Konarak and Jask

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Explosions in Sirik and Minab

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Legitimately what is the American plan?

Just keep hitting the Iranian coastline while their Patriots run out and their airbases in the region get decimated?

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Tomahawk missile impacts at Konarak

Most of the current wave of attacks is apparently being carried out by ship-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇧🇭 NEW: At least several ground-to-ground missiles were fired from Bahrain towards southern Iran

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: The price of Brent Crude Oil has shot up to $94 dollars per barrel

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 U.S. Central Command:

‘Today at 12 p.m. ET, U.S. forces began striking Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) targets in Iran.

The strikes follow recent attempted attacks by the IRGC against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and against American service members deployed to the region.’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 IRGC Spokesman:

‘A severe punishment awaits the aggressors. America will come to regret its most recent attacks.’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump on Truth Social:

‘United States is, as we speak, striking Iranian Targets near the Strait of Hormuz.

The strikes are large and powerful, and in retaliation for the Iranians' failed attempt at adding sea mines to the Strait, which currently has no mines (They have been completely removed or detonated!), and the Iranians shooting eight missiles, all successfully knocked down, at our Military Base in Jordan.

If the failed Nation of Iran retaliates for this very justified attack, they will be hit again at a much harder and higher level, but it will not be the biggest attack of them all, that is waiting in the wings and, when it is over, there will be very little left of the Islamic Republic of Iran!’

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New strikes in southern Iran.