🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡- Scenes from Baghdad, Iraq.

🇮🇱⚡- "Netanyahu is convincing the Haredim that we are in a dangerous security situation and cannot go to elections, instead of convincing them to enlist in the army," - Benny Gantz, Knesset Opposition Leader.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: "Iranian military officials met to discuss a response to a possible Israeli strike," - The New York Times, citing an Iranian official.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Tehran has developed a response plan that includes an immediate counterattack on Israel with hundreds of ballistic missiles," - The New York Times, citing an Iranian official.

🇺🇸🇮🇶🇮🇷⚡- BREAKING: The US Department of State raises the travel warning for Iraq to 'Level Four".

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "US officials have been informed that Israel is ready to launch a military operation against Iran," - Bloomberg.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "US officials have been informed that Israel is fully prepared to launch a military operation against Iran," - CBS.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇶⚡- "Washington expects Iran to respond by targeting American sites in Iraq," - CBS.

Which would likely explain the Level Four travel warning issued for Iraq by the US DoS.

🇺🇸⚡️- "Trump Card" waitlist website launches for new visa program offering path to citizenship for $5 million.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- The Omani Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said that the 6th round of US-Iran talks will still go ahead on Sunday in Muscat, despite several US publications claiming the talks have been called off.

🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: The Knesset vote has ended:

- 61 voted against the dissolution of the Knesset.
- 53 voted in favor of dissolving the Knesset.
- 6 abstained.

The Likud-bloc coalition survives, and another vote cannot take place for 6 months.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu is currently speaking to US Envoy Witkoff over the phone.

🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- The Israeli Defense Force says they carried out a night-time operation in Syria, arresting multiple Hamas members.

The Israeli Alexandroni Brigade were responsible for the military operation. The operation occured in the Beit Jinn area, southern Damascus. Fighter jets and helicopters were used. The Hamas members were transferred to Israel for further investigation by Special Unit 504.

This would likely explain the unusually heavy Israeli aerial movement noticed last night.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: "A 'friendly' country in the region warned Iran of a possible attack by Israel," - Reuters, citing Iranian officials.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Iran won't give-up its rights to enrichment," - Reuters, citing Iranian officials.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Washington, under the influence of the Israeli lobby, is trying to project a state of alert at its military bases and diplomatic missions. Washington's goal is to pressure Iran to make concessions in the nuclear negotiations and accept the US proposal," - al-Mayadeen, Hezbollah-funded outlet, citing Iranian officials.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Any Israeli military step against Iranian nuclear facilities will be met with an unprecedented response from Tehran," - al-Mayadeen, Hezbollah-funded outlet, citing Iranian officials.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian, President of Iran, addresses the recent escalation in the Middle East:

"Our people stand firm and resist and have not allowed the enemy to attack even a single centimeter of their land.

The Americans and Europeans are trying to exert maximum pressure on our people to stop our path of progress, but they are mistaken in their illusions. The US will never be able to pressure us and we will never be afraid of threats because we have many capabilities.

The escalating regional tensions are a psychological war aimed at influencing the nuclear negotiations between Tehran and Washington on Sunday."

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "One thing is clear: the window of opportunity for an attack is not unlimited. Iran is working to restore its air defense systems that were destroyed by Israel several months ago," - Yaron Avraham, Israeli journalist for Channel 12.

🇮🇷🇴🇲🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: Yaron Avraham, Israeli journalist for Channel 12, has blasted Oman for sharing details of a potential Israeli attack on Iran. Avraham believes Oman is the 'friendly' nation in question, and has demanded Tel-Aviv take retaliation against Muscat.

🇮🇷🇴🇲🇮🇱 - Israeli Channel 12 is openly declaring "retaliation" against Muscat citing its friendly attitude towards Iran. Ironically when Oman is preventing the talks from collapsing.