🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- A very loud explosion rocked Parchin, Iran. The explosion was heard all the way from Tehran.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Eight US Senators have submitted legislation to prevent the US from going to war with Iran, according to Al Jazeera.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: "The United States will not join Israel offensively in its military operation." - CBS News, quoting two senior US defense officials.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Home Front Command is now allowing citizens to leave shelters. No new imminent missile threat detected.

🇺🇸 - The Pentagon Pizza Index is going crazy tonight.

Something to keep in mind right now— don’t pay too close attention to the minute-by-minute reporting or rumors, especially of decisions coming from Israel and the US.

This situation is evolving just as quickly, and what is true now may not be true in an hour.

What is important to watch and consider right now, just as before, is the strategic objectives of the parties involved.

Many people were waiting for a breakthrough Gaza ceasefire agreement throughout 2024 because they were paying too close attention to headlines and public statements rather than reading between the lines of what was actually happening.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "President Trump has instructed his administration to attempt to meet with Iranian officials as soon as possible." - CNN.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "It is incorrect that the United States is attacking Iran." - The White House, in a statement on the rumors that the US is currently engaging in / about to engage in military action against Iran.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Ballistic missile launches detected from Iran towards northern Israel. Sirens are expected imminently.

🇮🇷🇮🇱 - There will be very little information about the results of this barrage due to the information blackout imposed by Israeli police.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Red alerts in Haifa and surrounding settlements, northern Israel. Ballistic missiles launched by Iran detected.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Red alert area has expanded.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Explosions reported in northern Israel, likely interceptions.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli channels report cruise missiles - not ballistic missiles - were launched from Iran.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Scenes from southern Lebanon. Iranian missiles are seen in the sky.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Another very small attack, no more than 5 missiles.

🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Israeli media report that red alert sirens didn't start sounding until the missiles were already arriving- Israel's sirens were activated later than expected.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli media report that two missiles were fired. As of now, one interception is confirmed.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- No casualties and no damage reported.

🇺🇸🇫🇷🇮🇷⚡- "Publicity seeking President Emmanuel Macron, of France, mistakenly said that I left the G7 Summit, in Canada, to go back to D.C. to work on a “cease fire” between Israel and Iran.

Wrong!

He has no idea why I am now on my way to Washington, but it certainly has nothing to do with a Cease Fire. Much bigger than that.

Whether purposely or not, Emmanuel always gets it wrong.

Stay Tuned!" - President Donald Trump.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- The shell of an Iranian missile fell directly outside Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich's house in Kedumim, Israel.