🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇧🇭 — IRGC announces conducting another attack against NSA Bahrain; claiming impacts against the management center, command & control center, and ammunition & fuel storages.

IRGC also announces that the U.S. should expect the closure of oil & gas routes outside the Strait of Hormuz, in response to the U.S. Navy reinstating the blockade against Iran and charging its own tolls.

Full statement:

The heroic and history-making people of the Islamic Republic of Iran,

Last night, the child-killing army and treaty-breaking regime of the United States, by deploying its sea raiders in the Indian Ocean under the pretext of controlling the Strait of Hormuz, blocked oceanic routes to shipping and deprived the world of the region’s oil and gas. In the early hours of this morning, it received its response to these acts of aggression through the crushing operation carried out by the IRGC Navy’s fighters.

In the fifth wave of Operation Nasr 2, under the blessed code phrase “O Ali ibn Abi Talib (peace be upon him),” the NSA Management Center, the Command and Control Center, large warehouses containing military parts and equipment, and the fuel storage facilities of the U.S. Fifth Fleet in Bahrain were struck, crushed, and destroyed.

Let the enemy know that now that its sea raiders have blocked the route for the export of the region’s oil and gas to the world through the Indian Ocean—endangering the interests of America’s economic competitors—it should expect the closure of other oil and gas export routes that serve the interests of the United States and its allies.

The region’s oil and gas exports will either be for everyone—or for no one.

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇯🇴 — IRGC announces conducting a strike against Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, Jordan; claiming to strike aircraft shelters hosting U.S. Air Force F-35A Lightning II stealth fighter jets, F-15E Strike Eagle & F-16C Fighting Falcon fighter jets, and MQ-9A Reaper UCAVs.

Full statement:

The honorable people of Jordan,

In the early hours of this morning, after the child-killing U.S. military once again resumed its acts of aggression against our nation, and in response to the crimes of the Great Satan—many of which are carried out using American bases on Jordanian soil—the IRGC Aerospace Force, in the sixth wave of Operation Nasr 2, under the code phrase “O Allah, O Allah, O Allah,” launched a retaliatory strike against the American base at Al-Azraq.

During this operation, shelters housing F-15, F-16, and F-35 fighter aircraft were struck and destroyed, and several U.S. MQ-9 strategic drones at the base were eliminated.

The sacred land of Jordan is the resting place of the prophets and has no place for occupiers and international criminals. The expectation of the Islamic Ummah from you, the honorable and courageous people—who more than any other nation have witnessed firsthand the crimes committed by the United States and the Zionist regime against the oppressed people of Palestine—is that you bring an end to the presence of the Great Satan’s military on your soil and do not allow that sacred land to serve as the launching point for aggressive attacks against Islamic countries or for the oppression of the Palestinian people.

Do not miss any opportunity to destroy American institutions and expel the occupying U.S. military from Jordan.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️ — President Trump convened his senior national security team in the Situation Room on Tuesday to discuss a much broader offensive against Iran beyond the ongoing strikes around the Strait of Hormuz, according to Axios.

➡️ Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Gen. Dan Caine, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and envoy Steve Witkoff were among those present.

➡️ The discussions focused on plans for major strikes against strategic targets deeper inside Iran.

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇰🇼 — IRGC announces conducting a missile and UAV strike against what is likely Camp Buehring in Kuwait; claiming to strike the satellite communications center, a missile & air defense radar, a MIM-104 Patriot air defense system, logistics units, and M142 HIMARS missile launchers attached to a U.S. military base in the country.

IRGC has also announced U.S. strikes were conducted against a wheat warehouse in Hoveyzeh, Iran and a bottled water factory in Dehloran, Ilam Province.

Full statement:

The honorable and generous people of Kuwait,

More than four months ago, the child-killing army of the Great Satan, the United States, began a war against us by assassinating the great Islamic leader and unparalleled religious authority, Imam Khamenei (may God have mercy upon him), and by killing and dismembering 168 children and school students at the Minab school. That war continues to this day, and many of the attacks carried out during it have originated from the bases of the occupying American forces on the sacred soil of Kuwait.

As part of these aggressions, last night the American aggressors targeted several bases in southern Iran. Among their actions, they bombed, out of helplessness and cruelty, a warehouse used to purchase wheat from farmers in the city of Hoveyzeh in Khuzestan Province and a bottled water factory in Dehloran, Ilam Province.

In response to these acts of aggression, during the seventh wave of Operation Nasr 2, under the blessed code phrase “O Messenger of God (peace be upon him),” the Ground Force and Aerospace Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps carried out missile and drone strikes against the satellite communications center, missile and air defense radar, Patriot air defense complex, logistics depot of the U.S. military base in Kuwait, and HIMARS missile launchers, destroying and crushing them.

You know well that we have no hostility toward you. On the contrary, we hold the honorable and noble people of Kuwait in high regard. This operation was directed against the American criminals. We expect you, the generous Muslim people, to expel these child-killing occupiers from your land. The pure soil of Kuwait should not remain under the occupation of criminals who, in just the past two years, have killed seventy thousand Palestinians—including twenty thousand children—in heroic Gaza, and who committed the Minab school massacre.

We expect that you will not miss any opportunity to destroy the institutions of the aggressive Americans and to free the lands of the Islamic world from the bases of the American occupiers.

🇮🇷❌🇺🇸🇯🇴 — Jordanian Armed Forces announces the interception of 3 ballistic missiles launched from Iran. However, more than 3 were launched, meaning the rest impacted Muwaffaq Salti Air Base.

🇺🇸⚔️🌾🇮🇷 The US has struck, a few hours ago, a wheat storage silo in Hoveizeh County and a silo location in Dasht Azadegan County, southwestern Iran, per the Deputy Governor of Khuzestan Province.

This is the first US strike on Iranian food supply infrastructure of the war.

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📱 Meta used AI to target workers with medical conditions for layoffs, according to a new lawsuit.

Twenty-six former Meta employees are suing, accusing the company of using AI that disproportionately targeted people with disabilities or workers who took medical leave in selecting people ​for mass layoffs.

🔗 https://www.reuters.com/world/meta-used-ai-target-workers-with-medical-conditions-layoffs-former-employees-2026-07-14/

🇺🇸 LRASM and JASSM Production to Triple Under New US Air Force Contract

The U.S. Air Force now anticipates buying more than 11,000 new JASSM and LRASM cruise missiles over the next five to seven years according to a notice of intent published Friday, dramatically expanding the Pentagon’s JASSM and LRASM topline inventory objectives for both weapons that have had their objectives periodically increased over the past decade.

The move comes amid large-scale reconstitution in the wake of Operation Epic Fury, as well as major demand signals from the Pentagon to push suppliers towards internal investments to support higher production rates of key weapons needed for a potential conflict in the Pacific.

The planned procurement would span JASSM Lots 27–33 and LRASM Lots 13–19, covering up to 11,200 missiles in multiple variants over the next five to seven years. The expansion would also increase sustainment capacity, missile repair infrastructure, software support, and production at Lockheed Martin’s two existing manufacturing facilities, with deliveries expected to begin 27 months after contract award.

The contract covers all current and future variants of the LRASM and JASSM, including the new LRASM-ER and JASSM-XR — two new variants of the shared missile family that add some of Lockheed Martin’s newest anti-spoofing and survivability equipment.

The LRASM-ER also includes a series of sensor upgrades that Lockheed Martin considers “the key to the future growth of [LRASM]”, according to a Lockheed Martin spokesperson who provided comments to Naval News during the Sea Air Space Symposium in April.

Air Force officials acknowledged that expanding production to support the larger procurement will require substantial upfront investment and an extended manufacturing ramp-up. The notice also says government-owned production equipment remains committed to Lockheed Martin’s existing JASSM and LRASM contracts in the interim, supporting the company’s initiative to begin investing heavily into its supply chains and current production lines to meet new production demands.

Lockheed Martin has already met that demand with heavy investments across its supply chain and major manufacturing centers.

🔗 https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2026/07/lrasm-and-jassm-production-to-triple-under-new-us-air-force-contract/

🇺🇸 New $500M Artillery Shell Plant Failed To Produce Any 155mm Parts

A scathing new Pentagon Inspector General report found problems at the plant delayed the Army's 100,000 round-per-month goal.

The inability of a munitions plant in Mesquite, Texas, to build a key part set back the U.S. Army’s plans for ramping up production of 155mm shells to 100,000 rounds per month, according to a scathing new report by the War Department’s Office of Inspector General (DOWIG). Despite receiving close to $500 million from the U.S. Army funded through supplemental spending bills from Fiscal Years 2022 and 2023, General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GD-OTS), failed to make a single subcomponent needed to produce the badly needed shells as of last March.

“Without the 30,000 additional projectile metal parts anticipated from the Mesquite facility, the Army will be unable to reach its monthly capability goal of 100,000 155-mm artillery rounds,” the report concluded. “As of March 2026, the CPE A&E [Capability Program Executive Ammunition & Energetics] officials have not developed a plan to produce the additional rounds that are supposed to be produced at the Mesquite facility.”

At present, the Army is only producing 36,000 rounds per month, inspectors revealed.

Through modernization efforts and two new facilities, the Army expects to exceed the 100,000-round-per-month goal significantly by the end of next year. The initial goal was established by Congress in the wake of the U.S. providing millions of rounds to Ukraine.

Still, the report highlights the challenges U.S. arms makers face in trying to meet tighter timelines to produce more weapons. This all comes as the U.S. is increasingly concerned about stockpiles of a wide array of munitions after heavy usage in past and current conflicts and donations to partners like Ukraine, as well as foreign military sales. These are issues that we raised long before and during the current war with Iran, but they have become major headlines in the aftermath of the initial stages of that conflict.

🔗 https://www.twz.com/land/new-500m-artillery-shell-plant-failed-to-produce-any-155mm-parts

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 U.S. president Donald Trump, signals a return to the hot phase of the 3rd Gulf War saying that the U.S. will hit Iran "hard tomorrow, and even harder tomorrow night".

Trump also reused his threat to "take out" Iran's power plants and bridges, contradicting CENTCOM's claims about the pure military nature of the places targeted by the USAF while also signalling that the conventional weapons the USAF possesses are ineffective on Iran's missile cities hence why they haven't been targeted since the 40 Day hot phase of the 3rd Gulf War ended.

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🇺🇸⚡️ — Senate Democrats blocked the annual National Defense Authorization Act in a 50-46 vote, arguing Congress should not advance a $1.15 trillion defense bill as President Trump continues the war with Iran.

➡️ Democrats also opposed measures deepening U.S.-Israel military ties, including expanded intelligence sharing, defense technology cooperation and greater integration between the two militaries.