I was working all day yesterday, this is me catching up with the TL.

Will be swamped all week but trying to monitor the developed situation to continue monitoring the situation

— 🇮🇱/🇮🇷/🇦🇪 NEW: At the request of the United States, the UAE delivered a plane carrying $3 Billion dollars in cash to Iran, in exchange for stopping its attacks on Israel – Kann

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: President Trump says he was informed that Iran shot down the American AH-64 Apache helicopter in Hormuz, saying the United States ‘must respond’

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

‘I have just been informed by our Great Military that last night the Iranians shot down one of our highly sophisticated Apache Helicopters while patrolling over the Strait of Hormuz.

There were two pilots involved, both are safe and uninjured. Nevertheless, the United States must, of necessity, respond to this attack. Thank you for your attention to this matter!’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araqchi, in response to Trump:

‘Foreign forces in proximity to our territory are at constant risk on account of their own human errors, plain accidents, or potentially being caught in crossfire.

To reduce risk, it is better for them [U.S. forces] to leave’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iranian analyst when asked to comment on Trump’s latest statement:

‘Why was an American military helicopter flying in Iran’s backyard?

Tell me, what would have happened if an Iranian helicopter flew in the San Francisco Bay?’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump to ABC News:

‘If Iran’s people keep being stupid, we'll end up in something where we have to wipe out the infrastructure of an entire nation’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: President Trump says the Apache incident is ‘not a big deal’

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Reporter: ‘You said the U.S. must respond to the Apache shootdown, do you still feel that way?’

President Trump: ‘I don’t have to do anything. We hold all the cards. I don’t have to do it—but look, we probably will, okay? They can’t be doing that.’

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Iran’s retaliation seems to be over.

Greatest ceasefire in history, I wonder for how long this is sustainable.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 U.S. Official to New York Times: ‘Nearly all Iranian missiles and drones were intercepted’

(In other words, some of them were not intercepted)

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❗️Iran's Quds Force chief declares regional security belt stretching from Persian Gulf to Red Sea

Brigadier General Esmail Qaani, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, has announced the establishment of a sweeping new security belt managed by the Axis of Resistance. This strategic defensive line will extend from the Strait of Hormuz to the Bab el-Mandeb strait, bridging the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea. In a statement reported by Tasnim News Agency, Qaani praised the recent naval operations executed by Yemen as tangible evidence of the rapidly growing operational coordination among regional anti-imperialist forces.

The Quds Force chief warned that the broader Resistance Front is now prepared to deliver unified, collective responses to ongoing US and Israeli aggression across the West Asian theater. Qaani emphasized that the newly fortified maritime security belt serves as a direct countermeasure to western interventions, signaling a major shift in regional deterrence. He further cautioned that if foreign powers continue their hostile actions, additional allied regional factions are ready to join the security architecture.

The announcement underscores a heightened level of integration within the regional alliance, transforming localized resistance efforts into a unified maritime front. The shift indicates that future Western aggression against any single member of the alliance will trigger a multi-front retaliation spanning from the Gulf to the Red Sea.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: The U.S. carried out airstrikes against Iran in response to the downing of the Apache

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Strikes targeted the naval base in Sirik, air defense sites near Bandar Abbas, a coastal missile site near Minab, and possibly the Qeshm Port (unconfirmed)

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— 🇮🇷/🇮🇶 NEW: Iranian drones targeted Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan

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Kurds every time anything happens

Yeah Caitlin, why was it there?

Why is an American helicopter in the PERSIAN Gulf?

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