🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "If you want to make an accurate assessment of Fordow, you better get a shovel," - Pete Hegseth, US Secretary of Defense.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "I spoke with one of our pilots, and he told me the strike was perfect," - President Trump, speaking from The Hague.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "I don't think it's necessary," - President Trump has ruled out negotiations with Iran on its nuclear program.

🇷🇺🇨🇳🇮🇷⚡- Aziz Nasirzadeh, Iran's Minister of Defense, has also landed in China.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The Israeli aggression has resulted in 627 deaths and 4,870 injuries so far," - Iran's Ministry of Health.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "We cannot trust the Zionist entity's promises, and we must be extremely vigilant in the coming days," - Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Our armed forces are acting with the utmost caution and preparedness," - Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "The Zionist entity will face a decisive and firm response if it repeats its aggression," - Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "US presence in the region only leads to insecurity," - Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇺🇳🇮🇷⚡- "Cutting cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency is the people's response to the illegal attacks against us," - Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇮🇷⚡- "Our nuclear facilities and scientists must be protected and security must be provided for them," - Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Our nuclear installations have been badly damaged, that's for sure, because they came under attack," - Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇬🇧🇳🇱⚡️- Wall Street Journal reports that Royal Dutch Shell is in talks to acquire British Petroleum.

🇺🇸🇳🇱⚡- "Mark Rutte, the NATO Chief who's your friend, he called you 'daddy' earlier. Do you regard your NATO allies as kind of children?" - Sky News reporter to President Trump.

"No, he likes me, I think he likes me. If he doesn't, I'll let you know, I'll come back and I'll hit him hard. He did it very affectionately: 'Daddy, you're my daddy,'" - President Trump.

🇨🇳⚡- "China has told companies in its rare-earth industry to give the government lists of employees with technical expertise, aiming to ensure they don’t divulge trade secrets to foreigners.

One of the people said some experts at Chinese companies have been asked to turn in their passports to their companies or local authorities, to ensure they don’t make any unauthorized trips," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "Independence provocations from [Taiwan's President] Lai and his administration will face resolute countermeasures," - Zhu Fenglian, Spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office in Beijing.

🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "China cannot invade Taiwan. It cannot invade what is already Chinese land," - Zhu Fenglian, Spokesman for the Taiwan Affairs Office in Beijing.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Senator Chuck Schumer and Representative Jerry Nadler, two of the most prominent Jewish Democrats in the country, have endorsed Zohran Mamdani in order to maintain party unity,

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Steve Witkoff says the US will soon make "major announcements" about new countries joining the Abraham Accords.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "The US Senate will hold a classified hearing on Thursday regarding the situation in Iran," - CNN.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- The CIA says it has credible intelligence that Iran's nuclear program was severely damaged by the US strikes, and that it would take years to be rebuilt.