🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli security forces are conducting an operation in the Aida refugee camp, north of Bethlehem, West Bank.

🇮🇷⚡️- "Iran is planning to relocate the capital from Tehran to Makran." - Iranian spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani.

🇺🇸🔥⚡️- Scenes from Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles. Mandatory evacuations have been put in place.

🇺🇸✡️🔥⚡️- Fires in Pasadena, Los Angeles destroyed the Pasadena Jewish Center and Temple.

🇹🇷🇸🇾⚡️- "Turkey has begun the countdown to launching military operations in Syria against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) if negotiations between the Syrian authorities and the People's Protection Units (YPG) fail." - Hürriyet, Turkish outlet.

🇦🇲🇪🇺⚡- The Armenian parliament has approved a bill to launch the country's accession process to the EU.

🇮🇷🇸🇾⚡- "Iran was defeated very badly in Syria," - Behrouz Esbati, Senior General in Iran.

🇮🇷🇸🇾⚡- "I don’t consider losing Syria something to be proud of. We were defeated, and defeated very badly, we took a very big blow and it’s been very difficult," - Behrouz Esbati, Senior General in Iran.

🇮🇷🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "Iran’s relations with Mr. al-Assad had been strained for months leading to his ouster, he had denied multiple requests to open a front against Israel from Syria," - Behrouz Esbati, Senior General in Iran.

🇮🇷🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "Iran had presented Mr. al-Assad with comprehensive military plans on how it could use Iran’s military resources in Syria to attack Israel," - Behrouz Esbati, Senior General in Iran.

🇷🇺🇮🇷🇸🇾⚡- Behrouz Esbati, Senior General in Iran, blames Russia for the downfall of Bashar al-Assad.

🇷🇺🇮🇷🇸🇾⚡- "[Russia] mislead Iran by telling it that Russian jets were bombing Syrian rebels when they were actually dropping bombs on open fields. In the past year, as Israel struck Iranian targets in Syria, Russia had turned off radars, in effect facilitating these attacks," - Behrouz Esbati, Senior General in Iran.

🇮🇷🇸🇾⚡- "Iran will look for ways to recruit insurgents in whatever shape the new Syria takes," - Behrouz Esbati, Senior General in Iran.

🇺🇸⚡️- It appears enough Democrat Senators will vote for the Laken Riley Act to pass it with the Fillibuster, meaning no reconciliation or "nuclear option" will be needed.

🇮🇷🇸🇾⚡- "We can activate all the networks we have worked with over the years. We can activate the social layers that our guys lived among for years; we can be active in social media and we can form resistance cells. Now we can operate there as we do in other international arenas, and we have already started," - Behrouz Esbati, Senior General in Iran.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Behrouz Esbati, Senior General in Iran, rules out Iran's promised response [Operation True Prime III] to Israel's attacks on Iran on October 26th of last year.

Esbati said that "the situation couldn’t realistically handle another attack on Israel right now".

🇮🇷⚡- "Iran and its allies still have the upper hand on the ground in the region," - Behrouz Esbati, Senior General in Iran.

🇱🇧⚡- Lebanon's Presidential election voting has just ended. Counting has begun.

🇷🇺🇦🇲🇪🇺⚡- "It is simply impossible to be a member of both the EU and the EAEU [Eurasian Economic Union], and the EAEU brings real benefits to Yerevan," - Dmitri Peskov, Kremlin Spokesman.

🇱🇧⚡- The Lebanese parliament session was adjourned for two hours for consultations after the failure to elect Joseph Aoun in the first round. 86 votes are needed to win the elections, with Aoun receiving 71.

🇱🇧⚡- Lebanese Parliament Speaker, Nabih Berri, sets the second round of the session to elect a President at 2:00pm (Beirut time) today.