🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "No irreversible damage against the Fordow nuclear facility." - IRIB, Iranian state media.

Yeah, right. 😂

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- It’s unlikely Iran could close the Strait of Hormuz. Even during the 1980s Tanker War, it stayed open despite over 450 ship attacks. Iran can cause problems with missiles, mines, and submarines, but none are likely to fully halt traffic. Loaded tankers are hard to sink, and mines pose more risk to warships. The real disruption could be soaring war risk insurance, as seen in 2023.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "Trump expected to say that the US is not planning additional strikes against Iran." - NBC News.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "One of the reasons for launching the attack was the American intelligence assessment that Israel's attack set back Iran's nuclear program by 6 months." - New York Times.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: INITIAL REPORTS- IRAN IS PREPARING TO RETALIATE AGAINST THE UNITED STATES IN THE MIDDLE EAST

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- President Trump expected to give his statement in approximately 15 minutes.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "Tonight, President Trump and the United States acted with a lot of strength." - Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "Trump's bold decision to target Iran's nuclear facilities will change history." - Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Monitoring stations report the unprecedented movement of launchers and missiles. A large retaliation by Iran may be imminent.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Home Front Command has forbidden ALL gatherings in Israel, anticipating a massive retaliation by Iran against Israel.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "Power comes first, then peace." - Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "Iran will not allow the development of this national industry [atomic energy] to be stopped." - Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, in a statement.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "I am gravely alarmed by the use of force by the United States against Iran today. This is a dangerous escalation in a region already on edge - and a direct threat to international peace and security." - Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- President Trump expected to deliver his national address imminently.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: TRUMP HAS BEGUN SPEAKING!

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "A short time ago, the US military carried out massive precision strikes on the three key nuclear facilities in the Iranian regime: Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. Everybody heard those names for years as they built this horribly destructive enterprise." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "Our objective was the destruction of Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity, and a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the number one state sponsor of terrorism." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "Tonight, I can report to the world that the strikes were a spectacular military success. Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities have been completely and totally obliterated." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "Iran, the bully of the Middle East, must now make peace. If they do not, future attacks will be far greater, and a lot easier." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "For 40 years, Iran has been saying 'Death to America!' 'Death to Israel!' They have been killing our people, blowing off their arms and legs with roadside bombs. That was their specialty. We lost over 1000 people, and hundreds of thousands throughout the Middle East and around the world have died as a result of the hate, in particular so many were killed by General Qassem Soleimani." - President Trump.