— UPDATE: The second hearing of explosions in Bandar Abbas is related to the air defenses that are active

For now what’s confirmed is that three explosions took place about 40-50 minutes ago, and the source is being investigated by the authorities.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 UPDATE: The news of two IRGC Navy speedboats being targeted is from the past 48 hours, according to a source, and publication was delayed in order not to put pressure on the ongoing negotiations process.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Iran’s Student News Network (SNN) confirms the attack on two IRGC Navy speedboats, saying the attack took place last night off the coast of Larak

So far, three martyrs have been officially identified, but the total number and names have not yet been determined and published.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Initial reports of IRGC Navy launching anti-ship missiles at American warships in the Gulf of Oman

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 What has happened so far, confirmed events:

– Three explosions were heard in Bandar Abbas from the East, the direction of the airport.

– Small columns of smoke were seen rising in Bandar Abbas.

– Air defenses, at the same time, were also activated.

– News surfaced that two IRGC Navy speedboats were targeted by the United States, likely in the last few hours or last night.

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

‘The Enriched Uranium (Nuclear Dust!) will either be immediately turned over to the United States to be brought home and destroyed or, preferably, in conjunction and coordination with the Islamic Republic of Iran, destroyed in place or, at another acceptable location, with the Atomic Energy Commission, or its equivalent, being witness to this process and event. Thank you for your attention to this matter!’

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— NOTE: This is the first time Trump has openly admitted that Iran may not transfer the uranium stockpile abroad

I suspect that the wording ‘destroyed’ will also later change to ‘diluted’ (which has been Iran’s proposal all along).

It seems Iran is getting what it wants; NO transfer of uranium to a third country, but rather diluting it to 20% and 3.67% purity inside Iran.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: SNN clarifies the event of destroying two IRGC-N speedboats took place on Monday night (last night), several hours ago, which has led to the currently ongoing ‘clashes’ after Iran responded now by firing missiles at U.S. warships

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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.

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