🇮🇷⚡- Iran has closed its airspace in Khuzestan, southwest Iran, and surrounding area for military exercises. Which would likely explain the cancellation of flights between Iraq-Iran.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Heavy NATO recon activity over Iraq and the Persian Gulf, monitoring Iran's unannounced large-scale military exercises.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Iran has the intention and capability to launch a preemptive attack," - Israeli Channel 12.

🇷🇺🇮🇱⚡- Russia's RWZ015 aircraft, which carries the highest officials of the Russian Ministry of Defense, has landed at Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇺🇳⚡- "Iran’s suspension of nuclear inspections has triggered crisis talks between the IAEA and the US.

IAEA officials will travel to Washington next week to confer with the US as concerns grow about their inability to account for Iran’s stockpile of near-bomb grade uranium.

The trip has been planned after IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi’s top inspector failed in a recent attempt to win Iranian approval to resume monitoring of Iran's nuclear program.

The IAEA say urgent action is needed, reimposing sanctions through the snapback mechanism is critical to countering this threat and safeguarding international security," - Bloomberg.

🇮🇷⚡- The Foreign Ministers of the E3 (Germany, the UK and France) plan to hold a phone call with Iran's Foreign Minister Araghchi to discuss Iranian nuclear talks and the possibility of activating the snapback mechanism.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar to travel to Washington to meet Secretary of State Marco Rubio next week Wednesday.

🇵🇸🇮🇱⚡- Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has allowed an Israeli delegation to travel to Doha, Qatar, to discuss a hostage-ceasefire deal. According to Hillel Biton Rosen, of Israeli Channel 14, Netanyahu demands the release of all hostages, alive and deceased, in one go and will not accept partial releases.

Israel's Channel 13 have also confirmed the report.

🇮🇷🇦🇹🇺🇳⚡- "Tomorrow (Friday), a delegation from Iran will go to Vienna to meet with IAEA officials," - Laura Rozen, of Politico.

🇮🇶⚡️- An Iraqi Kurdish follower of ours is referring to this as a "civil war" in Iraqi Kurdistan.

🇷🇺🇺🇦🇨🇳⚡- "China is ready to play a constructive role in the political settlement of the Ukrainian crisis," - China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

🇵🇰⚡- Pakistan's Supreme Court grants political prisoner Imran Khan bail.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- China has deployed over a dozen small armed militia boats to be disputed Second Thomas Shoal, South China Sea.

🇨🇳🇵🇭⚡- A high-speed chase was underway in the early hours of Friday morning in the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, South China Sea.

Two small boats were deployed from the grounded Philippine vessel, BRP Sierra Madre, in the Second Thomas Shoal to travel to mainland Philippines. China had recently deployed over a dozen of armed militia boats to the region, as they prepare to prevent a possible Philippine resupply mission to BRP Sierra Madre.

🇮🇷⚡- Gunmen in Sistan-Balochistan region, southeast Iran, opened fire on a security forces patrol, killing five police officers.

Iranian outlet Fars News has confirmed the incident.