#BREAKING

🇮🇱❌🇮🇷❗️ — Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz announced that Saeed Izadi, commander of the IRGC - Quds Force’s Palestine Corps and a Central figure in arming and financing Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades ahead of the October 7 massacre, was assassinated in Qom!

➡️ Katz hailed the operation as a major achievement for Israeli intelligence and the Air Force, declaring it a form of justice for the victims and hostages, and affirming that Israel will continue to pursue its enemies wherever they are.

🔗 Joe Truzman (@JoeTruzman)

🇺🇸🪖🗺 — U.S. Air Force B-2 stealth bombers are all, but confirmed to have taken off from their base in Missouri.

➡️ These are the exact aircraft needed to hit the heavily fortified Iranian Fordow Nuclear Site.

➡️ Eight tankers are in flight, headed the same direction, refueling the B-2 bombers over Kansas.

🔗 Hunterbrook (@hntrbrkmedia)

🇺🇸🪖🗺 — Obsevers report that a USAF plane by callsign NITRO61 (KC-135) was spotted refueling MYTEE21 (B-2) on the AR309

➡️ NITRO71 is the next cell of tankers

➡️ As observers noted, the B-2's needed to refuel shortly after takeoff, thus the bombers must be carrying something heavy, likely the aforementioned bunker busting bombs

🔗 Thenewarea51 (@thenewarea51)

🇮🇱🇨🇾❌🇮🇷❗️ — Israeli and Cyprus Foreign Ministers announced the thwarting a IRGC Terror plot in the European island

In Statement, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar said:

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps – the terror arm of the Iranian regime – tried to carry out an attack on Israeli citizens in Cyprus.
Thanks to the activity of the Cypriot security authorities, in cooperation with Israeli security services, the terror attack was thwarted.

Israel thanks Cyprus for its swift and effective actions.

The Iranian criminal regime is deliberately targeting Israeli civilians both in Israel and abroad.

Israel will continue to act to remove the existential threat posed by the Iranian terror regime.

https://fxtwitter.com/gidonsaar/status/1936454240878084501

🇺🇸🪖🗺 — GMI: B-2 stealth bombers under the callsigns MYTEE11 FLT and MYTEE21 FLT-estimated to include 4 to 6 stealth bombers-departed Whiteman Air Force Base overnight.

➡️ They are currently en route to Guam, now approaching Hawaiian airspace, supported by USAF aerial refueling tankers.

Key observations:
🔴 Immediate post-takeoff refueling was conducted, which strongly suggests the aircraft may be heavily loaded, potentially with ordnance, indicating operational intent.
🔴 Over the past several days, a deliberate aerial refueling bridge was established, with tankers pre-positioned along the flight path.

🔗 GMI (@Global_Mil_Info)

🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — New York Times: Wary of assassination, Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei mostly speaks with his commanders through a trusted aide now, suspending electronic communications to make it harder to find him, three Iranian officials familiar with his emergency war plans say

https://archive.is/0Gx5h

🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — New York Times: Ensconced in a bunker, the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has picked an array of replacements down his chain of miliary command in case more of his valued lieutenants are killed.

➡️ And in a remarkable move, the officials add, Ayatollah Khamenei has even named three senior clerics as candidates to succeed him should he be killed, as well — perhaps the most telling illustration of the precarious moment he and his three-decade rule are facing.

➡️ Ayatollah Khamenei has taken an extraordinary series of steps to preserve the Islamic Republic ever since Israel launched a series of surprise attacks last Friday.

https://archive.is/0Gx5h

🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — NYT: Succession has long been an exceedingly delicate and thorny topic, seldom discussed publicly beyond speculations and rumors in political and religious circles.

The supreme leader has enormous powers:

He is the commander in chief of the Iran Armed Forces, as well as the head of the judiciary, the legislature and the executive branch.

He is also a Vali Faqih, meaning the most senior guardian of the Shiite faith.

➡️ Ayatollah Khamenei’s son Mojtaba, also a cleric and close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, who was rumored to be a front-runner, is not among the candidates, the officials said. Iran’s former conservative president, Ibrahim Raisi, was also considered a front-runner before he was killed in a helicopter crash in 2024.

https://archive.is/0Gx5h

🇮🇷❌🇮🇱🇺🇸 — Islamic Republic leadership is focused on three major concerns, officials say to NYT:

➡️ A possible assassination attempt on Ayatollah Khamenei
➡️ U.S. entry into the war
➡️ And further crippling strikes on key infrastructure like power plants, refineries, and dams

https://archive.is/0Gx5h