💥 STRIKES ACROSS IRAN: The IDF completed a wide-scale wave of strikes targeting infrastructure of the Iranian regime in several areas, including Isfahan. Further details are expected to follow.
Visuals released from across Iran show strike impact sites, including a Basij Force headquarters, an IRGC headquarters, a ballistic missile production site, and an Iranian aerial defense industry development complex.
🎯 IRGC NAVY COMMANDER ELIMINATED: Defense Minister Israel Katz says the IDF eliminated Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy commander Alireza Tangsiri. According to Israeli officials, he was targeted in the Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas while meeting with senior IRGC Navy commanders.
"The IDF eliminated the commander of the IRGC Navy, the person directly responsible for the terror operation of mining and blocking the Strait of Hormuz to maritime traffic," Katz says during an assessment this morning with military officials.
"The IDF will hunt you down and eliminate you one by one."
"We will continue to operate in Iran with full force to achieve the objectives of the war."
⚠️ U.S. MESSAGE TO IRAN: President Trump says: "The Iranian negotiators are very different and strange. They are begging us to make a deal, which they should be doing since they have been militarily obliterated, with zero chance of a comeback, and yet they publicly state that they are only looking at our proposal. Wrong! They better get serious soon, before it is too late, because once that happens, there is no turning point back, and it won't be pretty".
🪧 TRUMP REPORTEDLY BLOCKED NETANYAHU CALL FOR IRANIAN STREET PROTESTS: Axios reports that Prime Minister Netanyahu wanted to call on Iranians to flood the streets to protest their government last week.
President Trump reportedly rejected the idea, saying, "Why the hell should we tell people to take to the streets when they'll just get mowed down," while Israeli officials said the killing of Gholamreza Soleimani, commander of the IRGC's Basij paramilitary force, was intended to enable a popular uprising because he was tasked with suppressing protests.
🗣️ IRGC CLAIMS U.S. FIGHTER JET WAS DOWNED, CENTCOM DENIES IT: The IRGC said a U.S. F/A-18 was hit by Iranian air defenses off Chabahar and crashed into the Indian Ocean.
CENTCOM responded: "No U.S. fighter aircraft have been shot down by Iran".
❌ KUWAIT ARRESTS HEZBOLLAH-AFFILIATED CELL ACCUSED OF ASSASSINATION PLOT: Kuwait’s State Security Agency said it arrested a cell allegedly affiliated with Hezbollah made up of five Kuwaitis and one foreign national.
The cell was reportedly plotting assassination attempts against state figures and leaders, and recruiting individuals to carry out the operations.
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