🇮🇱❌🇮🇷❗️ — Israel’s Head of Military Intelligence:

30 Iranian commanders, including their chief of staff who fled to the mountains, were eliminated at a secret headquarters.

🇮🇱❌🇮🇷❗️ — Head of IDF Military Intelligence Shlomi Binder:

“We attempted to eliminate Iran’s new military Chief of Staff. He initially escaped, but was killed a few hours later.”

#BREAKING

🇺🇸📞🇮🇷❗️ — U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi have spoken directly by phone several times since Israel began its strikes on Iran last week, in a bid to find a diplomatic end to the crisis, three diplomats told Reuters.

🇺🇸🪖⚠️ — U.S. officials have confirmed to CNN that non-sheltered USAF aircraft have been evacuated from Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar, and U.S. Navy vessels previously forward-deployed at Naval Support Activity Bahrain have also repositioned.

➡️ Additionally, medical logistics have been reinforced, with pre-positioned blood supplies deployed across the CENTCOM region incase U.S. forces are attacked.

🔗 GMI (@Global_Mil_Info)

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷❗️ — CBS News reports US President Trump now sees the need to disable Fordow Nuclear Site as a necessary step

“He believes there’s not much choice,” one source said. “Finishing the job means destroying Fordo.”

➡️ US President Trump has been briefed on both the risks and the benefits of bombing Fordo, Iran's most secure nuclear site, and his mindset is that disabling it is necessary because of the risk of weapons being produced in a relatively short period of time, multiple sources told CBS News.

➡️ The president approved attack plans on Iran on Tuesday night, but has not made a final decision on whether to strike the country and formally join Israel's air campaign, a senior intelligence source and a Defense Department official told CBS News on Wednesday.

➡️ Mr. Trump held off on deciding to strike in case Tehran agrees to abandon its nuclear program, the sources said.

#BREAKING

🇮🇱❌🇮🇷🇮🇷❗️ — Israeli Defense Minister Katz says Iranian Supreme Leader can no longer be allowed to live!

Dictator Khamenei is a modern-day Hitler who has carved out the destruction of the State of Israel on his banner and is enslaving all of his country's resources to further this terrible goal.

He cannot continue to exist.

https://fxtwitter.com/Israel_katz/status/1935725384206807082

🇸🇦🇦🇪🔥❗️ — In a new report, Bloomberg says Khaleeji Arab Kingdoms started to prepare contigency plans for an eventual US-Iran war, and, fear the fallout of potential US strikes on Iran could spiral into chaos.

➡️ Gulf leaders worry the collapse of Iran’s regime might echo the turmoil of Iraq and Syria unleashing sectarian violence, proxy wars, and mass instability.

➡️ At a hotel in a forested estate outside Oslo, Araghchi briefed Prince Faisal Bin Farhan on the progress of US nuclear talks, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter.

➡️There, Prince Faisal repeated what his country had told Iran for months, including during Defense Minister Prince Khalid Bin Salman’s visit to Tehran in April: Israel wants to attack you; reach a deal with the Americans fast.

➡️ Israel’s intentions were no secret. But Arab states were still shocked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attacked as US-Iran talks were ongoing, said individuals briefed on the matter. There’s a sense they misjudged President Donald Trump’s ability to restrain Netanyahu, the people added.

➡️ While quietly urging restraint, they’re also preparing for worst-case scenarios no one wants to face.

➡️ With the US now preparing for potential strikes on Iran in the coming days, Gulf states are seriously assessing the possibility the Islamic Republic’s clerical regime falls, and all the chaos that could bring.

➡️ The seemingly endless conflict that followed the Arab Spring uprisings in 2011 and the sectarian warfare and terrorism unleashed by the toppling of Saddam Hussein in Iraq loom large.

https://archive.is/9qSam