🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- NewsNation reports the US is moving the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group, CVN-72, from the South China Sea to the CENTCOM area of responsibility.

🇬🇧🇮🇱⚡- UK calls on its citizens to leave Israel, and avoid further travel to the country.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- US Embassy in Jerusalem urges US citizens to exercise extra caution in Israel amid the "ongoing regional tensions," and that US citizens should "review any travel plans" to the country in case of "disruptions, and make appropriate decisions for themselves."

🇺🇸🇶🇦⚡- US Department of State advised US personnel in Qatar to exercise caution, and limit travel to the al-Udeid Air Base.

🇮🇷⚡️- The skies of Tehran right now, likely the sound of Iranian jets can be heard.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The president has told his advisers he would want any action to deliver a decisive blow to the Iranian regime, but so far he hasn't gotten that guarantee from them.

Trump’s advisers have so far not been able to guarantee to him that the regime would quickly collapse after an American military strike, the U.S. official and two people familiar with the discussions said, and there is concern that the U.S. may not have all the assets in the region it would need to guard against what administration officials expect would be an aggressive Iranian response. - NBC.

🇫🇷🇩🇪🇬🇱⚡- French troops have begun deployment to Greenland, with German troops expected to join them over the weekend.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡- "The US Senate rejects a draft resolution that would prevent Trump from conducting another military operation in Venezuela without the approval of Congress," - Reuters.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇺🇳⚡- "The United States calls for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation in Iran," - al-Jazeera.

🇮🇷⚡️- Iran has extended its NOTAM for another two hours.

🇺🇸⚡️- BREAKING: ICE agents shot a person in the leg in north Minneapolis after the individual reportedly swung a shovel at them while they were trying to make contact.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "But other options, such as a cyberattack or a strike against Iran’s domestic security apparatus, which is using lethal force against protesters, were more likely, the officials have said. Any attack is at least several days away, and could prompt a vigorous retaliation from Iran, officials said." - NYT.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- U.S. intelligence has assessed that if the United States were to conduct a military strike against Iran, Tehran would retaliate by again attacking military bases in the region, according to U.S. officials briefed on the intelligence.

American spy agencies believe that in addition to the base in Qatar, Iran could possibly strike at U.S. forces stationed at bases in Syria and Iraq, one of those officials said. - NYT.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "But After Mr. Trump's remarks on Wednesday afternoon, the Pentagon was ready to have troops return to Al Udeid base, according to a U.S. military official, who called the president’s comments 'an off-ramp.'

Long-range bombers in the US had been put on alert to conduct secondary strikes if needed, but that appeared to have been paused as of Wednesday afternoon, another U.S. official said." - NYT.

🇮🇷⚡️- Iranian airspace has reopened.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Trump appears to have stopped an attack at the last minute tonight. - Walla military analyst Amir Bohbot.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "We are seeing the rats flee the sinking ship. We can see tens of millions of dollars being wired out of Iran. The money is being smuggled out by the Iranian leadership, who are abandoning the ship," - Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- The Israeli army was placed on maximum alert and was fully ready for a US strike last night. The Israeli Air Force was activated during the night for a possible escalation, but it seemed the US called off the attack in the last minute, Walla reports.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Turkey, Qatar and Saudi Arabia played a critical role in calling off the US strike on Iran last night. All three countries rejected an escalation and informed the White House they would not grant US forces their airspaces to strike Iranian territory from, Israeli Channel 14 reports.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- President Trump has made up his mind, the strike will come even if it is delayed by a few days, Israeli Channel 14 reports.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- "Despite Trump's peaceful statements yesterday, most American assessments this morning still tend to believe that Trump wants to launch a military strike against Iran," - Israeli Channel 12.