♟️ U.S.–ISRAEL DISCUSS POTENTIAL SPECIAL FORCES OPERATIONS INSIDE IRAN TO SECURE NUCLEAR STOCKPILES AND TARGET KHARG OIL TERMINAL AS TRUMP SIGNALS GROUND OPTION
♟️ U.S. and Israeli ground operation options reportedly discussed: President Trump said: “I refuse to disclose the conditions under which we would send ground forces into Iran. Ground intervention in Iran is an option only if there are very compelling reasons”.
He added: “If we decide to intervene on the ground, the enemy will have suffered such destruction that they will no longer be able to fight on land”.
President Trump also said: “I can't confirm the shape of the Iran map after the end of the operations, and it's likely that it won't stay as it is”.
Axios reported that the United States and Israel have discussed sending special forces into Iran to secure its stockpile of highly enriched uranium at a later stage of the war. An Israeli defense official said President Trump and his team are seriously considering sending special operations units into Iran for specific missions.
The U.S. Central Command and Israel have also developed a plan for targeted ground operations inside Iran. The U.S. Army's special missions unit, Delta Force, is prepared for operations to secure or eliminate weapons of mass destruction.
Axios also reported discussion of seizing Kharg Island, a strategic terminal responsible for roughly 90% of Iran's crude oil exports.
🗣️ Disputed claims over school strike and captured U.S. soldiers: Iranian media reported last week that a girls' elementary school in Hormozgan Province was struck by U.S.-Israeli strikes earlier that day, killing at least 40 students and injuring 48 others.
Asked whether the United States bombed an Iranian school, President Trump said: “Iran is the one who did it”.
Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council, said: “They intended to incite ethnic groups against the government and held talks with the Kurds. Kurds are an authentic Iranian people, and they know what happened to Kurds in Syria and how they were abandoned”.
He also said: “I heard that several American soldiers have been captured in one of the neighboring countries”.
A CENTCOM spokesperson speaking to Al Jazeera denied Larijani’s claim that several U.S. soldiers were captured in a neighboring country.
🇺🇸 War costs and additional remarks by President Trump: Pentagon officials told Congress that the first week of the war with Iran cost about $6 billion, according to The New York Times.
President Trump said: “We don't want to make the war any more complex than it already is. We don't want to see the Kurds get hurt or killed. We have had a good relationship with them. They are willing to go in, but I have told them I don't want them to go in”.
President Trump also said: “The Iranians have been subjected to destruction and at some point, there will be no one left of them to declare surrender”.
🕍 Gunfire targets two synagogues in Toronto in suspected antisemitic attacks: Antisemitic attacks target synagogues in Toronto: Police across the Greater Toronto Area increased patrols around Jewish institutions after gunfire struck two synagogues late Friday night, marking the third shooting involving a Jewish site in the region within a week.
Shortly after midnight, Toronto Police responded to gunfire at the Shaarei Shamayim synagogue in North York, where officers found bullet holes in the front door of the building. No injuries were reported, but the incident prompted an immediate investigation.
Around the same time, York Regional Police responded to another shooting at the Bais Avraham Yosef synagogue in Vaughan. Authorities said suspects in a dark sedan drove past the building and opened fire while two people were inside. No injuries were reported.
Police condemned the attacks and deployed additional patrols around Jewish sites as the investigation continues.
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