IRGC:

The gates of hell will open wider and wider for the United States and Israel.

Iran's Yahya Rahim Safavi:

We know where Netanyahu holds his meetings.

The missile sites that were struck had already been evacuated. They are destroying empty facilities — no personnel were inside.

They want to take Iran back to the Shah’s era and dominate the region’s oil and economy.

They will not achieve any of their objectives.

A CNN Türk reporting team was detained live on air in Tel Aviv near Israel’s Kirya military headquarters.

Israeli security forces intervened, confiscated equipment, and took the journalists in for questioning.

WATCH: A commercial airliner takes off from Beirut as Israeli strikes continue.

QatarEnergy has suspended LNG, chemical, and petrochemical production after Iranian drone strikes hit key facilities in Ras Laffan and Mesaieed.

Cristiano Ronaldo left Saudi Arabia for Madrid after the AFC suspended Gulf-region matches due to the Iran war.

Turkish President Erdogan on Iran:

Before more blood is shed, before the fire spreads further, and before greater hostility arises between brotherly nations, we have mobilized all our resources to ensure that our region is freed from this turmoil as soon as possible.

NEW: Iran bans exports of all food and agricultural products until further notice.

U.S. commanders across more than 30 military bases told troops the Iran war is part of “God’s plan” and linked it to “Armageddon.”

A commander said Trump was “anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon.”

The Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) says it has received over 110 similar complaints describing the war as “biblically-sanctioned” and a sign of the Christian “End Times.”

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UAE Defense Ministry spokesperson:

172 out of 186 ballistic missiles targeting the country were destroyed; 13 fell into the sea.

812 Iranian drones were detected and 755 were intercepted.

8 Iranian cruise missiles were destroyed.

Iranian attacks resulted in 3 deaths and 68 minor injuries.

Iran's Foreign Ministry Spox. Esmaeil Baghaei:

Whatever is said about the negotiation process is nothing more than a lie.

Claims that at the final stage something was offered to us and we refused it are a distortion of reality.

What does Marco Rubio say? He says they decided to intervene on behalf of Israel. The U.S. President says Iran was an imminent threat.

What imminent threat? The Pentagon’s own report says Iran posed no danger to the United States. Were we a threat?

Has Iran sent troops to America’s shores? Is it Iran’s fault that it is surrounded by hundreds of U.S. military bases in the region?

Did we send missiles to the White House?

Bahrain says its air defence systems has destroyed 73 missiles and 91 drones launched by Iran since the start of the war.

U.S. official to WaPo:

There are a million reasons to eliminate terrorists like Ayatollah Khamenei.

His plots to assassinate Trump are just one reason.

Russia says Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant is under threat due to escalating conflict, though it is not being directly targeted.

Rosatom CEO Alexei Likhachev said explosions have been heard just kilometres away.

Saudi Aramco is reviewing alternative crude export routes to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, including using its east-west pipeline to ship oil via the Red Sea.

The move comes after a drone strike hit the Ras Tanura complex, prompting the shutdown of its 550,000 barrels-per-day refinery.

Source: Reuters

IDF said it carried out a strike in Tehran targeting a senior Iranian official.

NATO's Rutte on Iran:

Iran is close to getting its hand on a nuclear capability and on a ballistic missile capability.

Iran's Foreign Ministry Spox. Esmaeil Baghaei:

The Leader remained at his workplace in the heart of Tehran, even as everyone was saying an attack was imminent.

He sacrificed himself for Iran.