Trump on the Iranian leadership:

It's going to work like it did in Venezuela. We have a wonderful leader there.

She's doing a fantastic job, and it's gonna work like that.

I don't mind religious leaders, I work with a lot of religious leaders and they are fantastic.

Source: CNN

Trump:

We have already figured out the Strait of Hormuz. We have knocked out their Navy.

When you knock out the Navy, they can't do what they want to do.

Source: CNN

Trump to CNN:

Cuba is going to fall pretty soon.

That's about about 7 so far seriously injured? Phenomenal results. About 16 Israeli soldiers so far injured?

❗️Eight IDF soldiers were wounded, five of them seriously, in a Hezbollah rocket attack in northern Israel earlier today, the military says.

The rocket struck an army position near the Lebanon border.

Several martyrs in the attack on Tyre and at least 8 in the attacks on Nabi cheet town in Beqaa

Most Beqaais didn't evacuate

❗️Lebanon: Ministry of Health: The death toll from the aggression has risen to 217 martyrs and 798 wounded.

Of these 217 the IDF claims at most there is 70 civilians, highlighting the wave of indiscriminate attacks ongoing in Lebanon

Price to leave UAE

❗️New attacks in Dahyeh. All random and all just for the sake of collective punishment

1) Unconditional surrender;
2) A U.S.- and ally-shaped leadership transition;
3) A rebuilt, pro-Western, economically stronger Iran under “acceptable” leaders

Fair definition: nation-building in Iran

This is what they said they don't plan to do in Iran to avoid what they did in Iraq

Less than 10 minutes after markets opened and the New York Stock Exchange is down more than 860 points.

🇸🇦 CIA’s station in Saudi Arabia is “inoperable”after drone attack this week. “It was a direct hit,” a source directly familiar tells me.

WaPo report said the extent of the damage wasn’t immediately clear

🇮🇷🇮🇱| Iran has published footages showing the interception of 2 Israeli drones above Isfahan.

WATCH: CCTV footage of U.S.–Israeli attack near Iran's Qazvin boys’ school, resulting in the killing of a teenager on the first day of the war.

🇺🇸 JUST IN: New FBI files reveal a girl, aged 13–15, alleges sexual assault by Donald Trump in the 1980s, previously missing from the Epstein files.

🇺🇸 Trump team did no advance planning for the possibility gas and oil prices would go up if we attacked Iran

🇺🇸 "...war in Iran is very unpopular. Not merely negative-number ... but worst-ever-support for war"

With just 38% of Americans in favor, support for bombing Iran is lower than retrospective support for the war in Iraq was in 2014."

❗️A new series of Israeli attacks in Dahyeh.

One Syrian was killed in the latest attack there

🚨🇺🇸🛢️ - US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: The US fleet will escort ships in the Strait of Hormuz as soon as possible, and we expect to see a decrease in prices within weeks, not months

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