U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) announced it concluded another round of strikes against Iran at 9:00 p.m. ET on July 20, targeting military command centers, maritime capabilities, missile and drone launch sites, and air defense systems for the tenth consecutive night intending to degrade Iran's ability to attack commercial shipping transiting the Strait of Hormuz.

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Counterterrorism expert Joe Kent breaks down how the Houthis have remained silent during this Iran war and warns they could decide to get involved:

“If we couldn’t beat the Houthis militarily last year, and now we haven’t been able to beat the Iranians, a world doesn’t exist where we could beat both simultaneously.”

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Iran shows aftermath of its strike on Jordan's Muwaffaq Salti Air Base

The Wall Street Journal reported the deadly hit landed right on U.S. troop housing units.

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Former director of the National Counterterrorism Center Joe Kent says "we’ve gotten our reprisal with Iran. Trump can claim he took out their navy, took out their military."

“Say that, get our guys out of there and Trump can probably convince a good deal of people in the US that we were successful. Then we can engage in quiet diplomacy to get the Strait of Hormuz open again. I pray he does that.”

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Israel begged Washington to intervene, and Iran is the one still standing.

Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson says the next round won't end the way the first one did:

"If this goes back hot, Iran is going to decimate Israel. They'll take out their power station.

They'll take out their ports. They'll take out their military bases."

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WATCH: Iran's IRGC released footage of the recent retaliatory missile and drone launches towards U.S. targets in the region.

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NATO is supplying Ukraine with outdated MiG‑29s, while modern Russian Geranium drones are steadily taking them out.

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WATCH: Ukrainian Hornet kamikaze drone strikes a vehicle used by a Russian mobile air‑defense unit on a highway in the Donetsk region.

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Iran launched a surprise strike on the U.S. special operations command center in Syria's strategic Al-Tanf region.

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The third U.S. Army soldier killed in action has been identified as 30‑year‑old Sgt. Michael Swinton, according to the New York Post. He died during a "controlled detonation" of a downed Iranian drone at Iraq’s Erbil Air Base on July 19. The incident remains under investigation.

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Pentagon faces BUDGET CRISIS as Iran war COSTS SOAR — WaPo

Officials say training exercises, maintenance & weapons purchases are already being SCALED BACK

The White House wants $67B in emergency funds, but Congress is divided with lawmakers set to leave for a one-month break

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‘American bases in the Gulf states are useless, they are not defending, protecting the Gulf states’ — Dr. Ali Al-Hail, Qatar University Political Science Prof to RT

'We [the Gulf states] are the ones who have been protecting these bases, not the other side [the United States]'

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"The Arab countries are dealing with the Americans who failed to defend their own bases. Also, the Arabs are paying for all the defense missile systems to protect the Americans and American assets in the Gulf," notes Middle East political analyst and war-zone correspondent Elijah J. Magnier in latest interview.

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Abdol-Nasser Hemmati, governor of Iran’s Central Bank, advises the US Treasury secretary not to post his “delusions” about Iran’s economy on social media.

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Executive Editor and Senior Columnist at Black Agenda Report, Margaret Kimberley, said that the entire war has been a joint collaboration between the US and "Israel."

"There was an effort to, in fact, merge the military of the US with Israel, and put some portions of it under Israeli control," she said.

Kimberley highlighted that people in the US are turning against "Israel every day, more and more," adding that most Americans now have a negative point of view about "Israel."

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Satellite images show extensive damage at Tower 22, a US military base in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian border, after recent Iranian strikes.

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Satellite images reveal the extensive damage to the Muwafaq al-Salti base in Jordan.

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'This is an Israeli operation through and through. We're sort of just their meat puppet' — Brandon J. Weichert, geopolitical analyst

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Multiple U.S. Air Force B-1 Lancers were spotted departing RAF Fairford in the UK.

Trump just promised to strike “Pickaxe Mountain” during Lebanese President Joseph Aoun's visit.

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ISRAEL SPENT 6 HOURS yesterday war-gaming escalation scenarios in IRAN

Midway through, Netanyahu stepped out to take a call from Secretary of State Rubio. A senior Israeli official summed up Israel's position:

"We don't want to enter another conflict only to be told to stop after a few days."

Here's the board right now:

Trump is leaning toward hitting Iran hard, but hasn't made a final call. Israel will join only if the objectives are clear and the campaign goes all the way. Oman has submitted a proposal to clear naval mines and reopen the Strait of Hormuz for the duration of talks.

And Iran? Tehran believes Trump will eventually blink and let them keep control of the Strait.

Everyone is reading everyone else's resolve and betting on who folds first. Who do you think will it be?

Source: Israeli Channel 12

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