❗️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

🔗 Middle East Observer

Large wave of tankers and undoubtedly fighters/strike aircraft with or near them. Passing north of Al-Jubail, 🇸🇦 KSA.

The 285 on a better day

🇺🇸 DHS Mullin: This is war

*moments later*

Raju: You concede this is war?

Mullin: We haven’t declared war.

Reporter: You just said it’s a war.

Raju: You’re not conceding it’s a war?

Mullin: We haven’t declared war.

"It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

— Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War (7 Feb 2003).

SecDef Pete Hegseth on Wednesday: “You can say four weeks, but it could be six, it could be eight, it could be three.”

Fruedian Slip by US Senator and pro-Israel stooge Chuck Schumer: "No one wants a Nuclear Israel"

🇺🇸 It’s the “Department of Defense” again.

.@SpeakerJohnson after House blocked War Powers Resolution: "We're not at war, we have no intention at being at war. The president and the Department of Defense have made it very clear, this is a limited operation."