—❗️🇮🇱/🇮🇷 BREAKING: Iran carried out a ballistic missile attack on Haifa with ~10 missiles

Hebrew media claim no impacts, but two settlements in Northern Israel reportedly lost power immediately following the attack.

@Middle_East_Spectator

—❗️🇮🇱/🇱🇧 NEW: Israelis who fled to Cyprus by sea reportedly got stranded on the coast of Lebanon, and the Israeli Navy has been dispatched to rescue them

@Middle_East_Spectator

— Surprisingly, Israel did not do that much damage to the Arak reactor

Obviously the reactor itself is destroyed, as well as some distillation towers. But most adjacent buildings seem fine and undamaged.

This can likely be rebuilt within a few months.

@Middle_East_Spectator

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff called Iran's Foreign Minister multiple times this week, Israeli media reports

Witkoff reportedly urged Iran to 'reconsider' a nuclear deal and to end hostilities with Israel as fast as possible.

@Middle_East_Spectator

— 🇮🇷/🇮🇱 Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Ismael Baqaei, on X:

'A video of a violinist playing a love song amidst the thunder of Israeli missiles over residential areas of Tehran.

Here is Iran: proud, courageous, civilized, artistic, dynamic, peace-loving, patriotic, loving life, and determined to defend a land that has never bowed down in the face of countless hardships and hostilities.

For Iranians, Netanyahu's aggressive war is reminiscent of Saddam Hussein's imposed war on Iran in the 1970's.

We are all determined to defend our beloved homeland and our dignity with all our might, against a genocidal enemy whose expansionist and warmongering ideology knows no bounds.'

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "The first contact between Araghchi and Witkoff was initiated by Washington," - Reuters.

Iran did not reach out. America did.

—❗️🇮🇱/🇮🇷 Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu: 'My instructions to the IDF are that there is no immunity for any figure in Iran, including the Ayatollah'

@Middle_East_Spectator

Netanyahu now says 'half' of Iran's TEL launchers have been destroyed. The IDF today said 'two thirds'. What is it?

—❗️🇮🇱/🇮🇷 NEW: Senior Israeli officials say Israel is now intercepting about 65% of Iran's missiles, compared to 90% in the previous days – NBC

@Middle_East_Spectator

—❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇸 NEW: President Trump is expected to make his decision on whether to join the war on Iran within the next 24-48 hours – Israel Times

@Middle_East_Spectator

The U.S. going into Iran will finally seal the coffin of U.S. hegemony and secure China's future as the world's superpower.

—❗️🇮🇱/🇮🇷 BREAKING: A high-ranking Israeli official, speaking on the condition of anonimity, says Iran can likely sustain the current rate of missile fire at Israel for 'possibly as long as 5 months', provided that their missile launchers are not destroyed – NBC

@Middle_East_Spectator

Assuming Iran's production of missiles somehow falls to zero and is not replenished.

Which is a very naive thing to assume.

—❗️🇮🇷/🇺🇸 BREAKING: President Trump will make his decision whether to attack Iran 'within the next 2 weeks' – White House

@Middle_East_Spectator

🇮🇷| Iran to take legal action against Grossi, the IAEA chief

After almost a week, quadcopters and one-way drones are still roaming in major Iranian cities, although many are being shot down and the frequency is decreasing due to high amount of arrests and confiscations.

The amount of actual Israeli airstrikes has steadily decreased, focusing on 1 or 2 high value targets daily (like the Arak reactor today). Talks of total Israeli air superiority is exaggerated, the Center and East is still heavily contested, although Israel has comfortable superiority over Western Iran.

@Middle_East_Spectator