🇮🇱🇮🇷 Israel arrested an IDF soldier serving with an Iron Dome battery for passing information to Iran in exchange for financial remuneration.

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🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸🇮🇱 Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Mohammed Bagher Ghalibaf, on X/Twitter:

"The F-35 wasn’t merely a fighter jet but a monument to the invincibility and arrogance of the American military. A theological symbol, claimed to be invisible to any eye and superior to every power; yet the hand of God is above their hands.

This symbol was struck for the first time in the world, though God cast projectiles. And this was the moment of the collapse of an order".

🔗 MB Ghalibaf

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 A father of a U.S. service member killed in the Iran war says Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth overstated what families told him.

Hegseth claimed families urged them to keep fighting, but at least one father says he never said that.

Charles Simmons (the father) pushed back:

“That was not something we talked about. No, I didn’t say anything along those lines.”

Instead, he expressed uncertainty about the war:

“Who wants war?… I just don’t know what’s going on.”

Another official also didn’t hear families telling Trump to “finish the job.”

Source: NBC

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🇮🇷⚔️🇺🇸 After a US F-35 was damaged during a mission over Iran, a US army Chinook helicopter from Jordan carried out a search operation somewhere in Saudi Arabia.

US says the aircraft landed safely and the pilot is in stable condition.

🔗 Current Report (@Currentreport1)

🇮🇱🇮🇷⚡️ — Up to 20 Israeli drones have been shot down over Iran during the war, according to Israeli officials, who described the losses as acceptable, The Times of Israel reports.

🇱🇧⚔️🇮🇱 Yesterday, Hezbollah published footage of their operation against Israeli tanks inside Taybeh village.

Long range night vision captured how at least 1 tank was burned completely while 1 or 2 others were damaged with smoke coming out of it.

Israeli forces can be seen retreating.

Israel didn't acknowledge a single casualty.

🔗 Arya Yadeghaar (@AryJeay)

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 The Trump Admin is considering plans to seize or blockade Iran’s Kharg Island as a way to pressure Iran to stop blockading the Strait of Hormuz.

📝Marko Jukic: Yesterday: "We will no longer be striking Iran's oil and gas sites or sanctioning Iranian oil because it is crucial to keep the price of oil low"

Today: "We are considering setting up a second blockade of the Strait of Hormuz to block Iranian oil"

This is the disastrous doom spiral I've been describing for weeks. Trump wants more leverage to negotiate with Iran, so he escalates, worsening the situation inadvertently and ending up with less leverage and less off-ramps.

People were talking like the war was over yesterday because Netanyahu promised to be a good boy and not strike oil and gas sites. Not 24 hours later we are reading the White House is considering an invasion or blockade against Iran's oil and gas sites.

Every apparent de-escalation or de-escalatory statement so far has only served to calm down the oil prices and markets long enough to launch another escalatory action. Are people getting it yet? Of course not. It will take six weeks. It's only week four.

On some level it is impossible for this war to end *until* oil prices hit $180/barrel or whatever, because until then nobody is going to be begging Trump to make a peace deal, and until then Trump has every incentive to escalate for negotiating leverage, and so does Iran.

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