🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Israel issues an evacuation order for Sefidrood Industrial Zone in Rasht, Tehran region.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israeli airstrike against Houla, southern Lebanon. Initial reports of two casualties.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- 3 Israeli airstrikes against Tehran. 2 in the north of the city, and 1 in the east.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Iranian air defenses operating over Azadshahr, a city just east of Gorgan, Golestan region, northeast Iran.

Gorgan was under heavy attacks earlier.

🇷🇺🇰🇷⚡️- Samsung Heavy Industries has officially scrapped its deal with Russia’s Zvezda shipyard to build 15 icebreaking LNG carriers for the Arctic LNG 2 project. Sanctions froze the work, and after legal wrangling and canceled contracts, Samsung now plans to sue for damages. Russia still needs a fleet of ice-class LNG ships.

🇺🇸🇵🇦🇨🇳⚡️- COSCO is in talks to join a consortium looking to buy Li Ka-shing’s 43 ports, including two key ports on the Panama Canal. The deal, which is led by MSC’s Terminal Investment and backed by BlackRock, could be worth over $19 billion. Beijing has strongly opposed the sale since it is against their interests. It is hoped that including a Chinese state-backed firm like COSCO will help push the deal along. If finalized, the deal would make MSC the largest terminal operator in the world. Negotiations are still underway, with a deadline approaching in late July.

🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Scenes from Beersheba, southern Israel, a short time ago.

An Iranian ballistic missile targeted the city, apparently debris / the missile itself impacted and damaged several apartment buildings in the city.

No casualties reported.

🇮🇷🇮🇱 - Negev Advanced Technologies Park, a Unit 8200 affiliate and believed to host a manufacturer of loitering drones used in Israeli assassination strikes, sustained damage in the Iranian ballistic missile attack.

The IRGC claims that this was the target of the ballistic missile attack.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "We are not ready for any talks with any party in light of the ongoing Israeli attacks," - Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Israel's Red Star of David says 18 injuries have been reported so far from the Iranian attack against Beersheba, southern Israel.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi says the US is desperate for talks, which Iran is refusing.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The United States wants dialogue and has sent serious messages in this regard," - Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "We confirmed to Washington that it is impossible to talk about negotiations while the aggression continues, and we are engaging in legitimate self-defense," - Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Defending our country against aggression will not stop, and there will be no dialogue with Washington because it is a partner in crimes," - Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "We have had no contact with Washington and will not do so at the present time," - Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: "Washington asked us to negotiate and we refused, but we have no problem engaging in dialogue with other countries," - Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Our negotiations with European countries in Geneva today are limited to the nuclear issue and regional issues," - Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "We will not negotiate with any party regarding our missile capabilities, and everyone knows that they are for the defense of our lands," - Abbas Araghchi, Iran's Foreign Minister.

🇺🇸🇬🇧🇦🇺⚡- BREAKING: Two US KC-46A tankers have arrived at Hawaii just moments ago. A British tanker has also landed at Darwin Air Base, northern Australia.

Tanker deployment in this arena usually indicates that the US is preparing to move something heavy to the Indo-Pacific / Middle East areas of operations. Identical deployment was seen the first time round when then US moved six B-2 Bombers to Diego Garcia. The Pacific route is preferred over the Atlantic as it requires far less aerial clearances from nations.

It is highly likely the B-2 Bombers are on the move back to Diego Garcia.