—❗️🇾🇪/🇸🇦 NEW: Armored vehicles belonging to Ansarallah continue to advance in Bani Bakari, Jabal Habashi area, west of Taizz city

Judging by the amount of armor involved, this is clearly intended as a serious assault on the city.

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—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 NEW: Major General Muhammad Salem Al-Khawlani, Chief of Staff of the Saudi-backed PLC ‘Emergency Forces’, has been killed during clashes with Ansarallah

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump: ‘Either Iran signs a deal, or they won’t exist any longer’

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇬🇧/🇺🇸 BREAKING: A British-Iranian dual national has been arrested in London in connection with the RAF Fairford plot

UK police suspect he is the ‘mastermind’ behind the operation.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷/🇺🇳 NEW: At the UN, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi offered the U.S. that IAEA inspectors could gain access to Iran’s bombed nuclear facilities, in exchange for easing economic sanctions – Bloomberg

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—❗️🇮🇷/🇴🇲 NEW: Iran has struck a VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier) loaded with 2.5 million barrels of oil in the Strait of Hormuz

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An important operational update regarding the Taizz front in a few minutes.

—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 BREAKING: Ansarallah have entered Safiya junction, cutting off the Taizz–Aden road

All roads leading out of Taizz are now cut off; the city is besieged.

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—❗️🇮🇷 NEW: Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei, came to one of the rallies in Tehran two nights ago, stayed and watched for about 30 minutes, and then departed, according to the organizers

The Leader is in full health, and he has been attending specific events from the shadows, for security reasons.

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—❗️🇸🇦/🇾🇪 Map of the latest situation on the Taizz front, Yemen:

– Ansarallah have made significant advances on several sectors.

– Most importantly, Ansarallah forces have broken through some heavy defensive lines at Jabal Habashi heights west of Taizz city, and they have cut off the Taizz–Aden road in Al-Safiya junction (not shown on this map, as it’s not yet been fully consolidated).

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— This entire green circle was simply abandoned by Saudi-backed PLC forces without a fight. Now, after many hours passed, they’ve sent some reinforcements to the area.

Events of the Red Sea coast are repeating in Taizz, and the men of Ansarallah are advancing with unprecedented speed and coordination, while the Saudi-backed forces are disorganized, suffer from a lack of morale, and betray each other turn after turn.

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— 🇺🇸/🇾🇪 NEW: A Department of Energy electrical engineer has been arrested by the FBI on charges of providing support to the Houthis, including by buying materials for homemade explosives and drones

The FBI identified the suspect as Ashton Hames Ellaboudy, 51, from Washington, and alleges had a goal of helping the Houthis improve their communications capabilities and traveled last September to Yemen.

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"General, we must distract from the coming disaster in Taiz, send a suicide bomber to the Kabba and then blame it on Houthis, or Iran or both, I don't care just get it done"

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: According to Axios, the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group and the 13th Marine Expediationary Unit have left San Diego Naval Base to the Middle East

The ARG consists of an amphibious assault ship, the USS Makin Island, and two amphibious transport docks, the USS Anchorage and USS John P. Murtha.

They will bring about a dozen F-35B Lightning II fighter jets and around 2200 U.S. Marines, as well as infantry fighting vehicles and armored personnel carriers.

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That’s a naval landing force.

There’s enough marines, transport helicopters, and amphibious vehicles in there to make a beachhead.

Very troublesome sign, possibly pointing towards Trump wanting to initiate a naval landing in Iran.