The Trump Administration has told Iran that it expects the Iranian delegation, led by Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, to arrive at their meeting next week “with meaningful substance and concessions,” after Tehran ruled out a total halt to its uranium enrichment during Friday’s talks in Oman, two people familiar with the matter told The Jerusalem Post.

Video reposted earlier today on TikTok by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu describing potential strikes by the U.S. Navy against Iran, involving the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and her Carrier Strike Group currently deployed to the Arabian Sea.

Oppositions channels in Venezuela are reporting that Juan Pablo Guanipa, the Leader of the Justice First Party who was released by authorities earlier today after being held as a political prisoner since May 2025, was kidnapped at gunpoint tonight in the Los Chorros Neighborhood of the Venezuelan capital of Caracas.

Engineers at NASA have successfully repaired a hydrogen leak on the Tail Service Mast Umbilical (TSMU) of Artemis II’s Space Launch System (SLS) which was detected during a wet dress rehearsal at Kennedy Space Center on February 3, allowing Artemis II to advance toward its next critical fueling test and a targeted launch window for the United States’ first lunar mission in over five decades of early March 2026.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said during an interview Saturday with Al Jazeera that Tehran would attack U.S. military bases across the Middle East if President Trump orders strikes against Iran, with him stating, “In my view this is very clear. If the U.S. attacks us, it is evident that we don’t have the ability and access to attack U.S. territory, and therefore have to attack or retaliate to U.S. bases in the region. And unfortunately, U.S. bases are spread all over the region.”

The U.S. Department of Defense announced this morning that forces under the United States Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) carried out a right-of-visit, maritime interdiction and boarding on the Panamanian-flagged crude oil tanker M/T AQUILA II in the Indian Ocean overnight without incident, after tracking the vessel - which was operating in defiance of President Trump’s established quarantine of sanctioned vessels linked to Venezuela - from the Caribbean Sea.

Participating in the operation were MH-60S “Seahawk” Multi-Mission Helicopters with the “Golden Falcons” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 12 (HSC-12), attached to Carrier Air Wing Five (CVW-5) and usually onboard the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76).

Airmen with the U.S. Air Force’s 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing (332 AEW), currently forward deployed to Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, pictured saluting during the National Anthem in the lead up to last night’s Super Bowl LX, while standing in front of several F-15E Strike Eagles assigned to the 391st Fighter Squadron (391th FS) based out of Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and Second Lady Usha Vance arrived in the Armenian capital of Yerevan this morning aboard Air Force Two, in the first visit ever by a sitting President or Vice President of the United States to Armenia.

Both Iran and Oman were notified in advance of White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner’s visit to the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) in the Arabian Sea on Saturday, at the invitation of Adm. Brad Cooper, the Commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), sources tell N12 and CNN.

Mona Juul, Norway’s former ambassador to Jordan who resigned on Sunday after it was revealed she had significant financial links to convicted sex offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, and her husband Terje Rød-Larse, were charged Monday with gross corruption as well as aiding and abetting by the Norwegian economic crimes unit, Økokrim, citing their inclusion in the Epstein Files.

Channels affiliated with Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) posted a video earlier today, clearly created using Artificial Intelligence (AI), which appears to show a attack using drones, gunboats, missiles, and submarines on the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and her Carrier Strike Group in the Arabian Sea.

Six F-35A Lightning lls with “The Green Mountain Boys” of the Vermont Air National Guard’s 158th Fighter Wing arrived earlier tonight at RAF Lakenheath in England from the United States, supported by three KC-135 “Stratotanker” Aerial-Refueling Tankers, GOLD81/82/83, who themselves landed at RAF Mildenhall.

The F-35s that arrived tonight in the U.K. join six other F-35s with the 158th that arrived in Europe last week from Roosevelt Roads Naval Station in Puerto Rico, all of which participated in last month’s operation against Venezuela and are now forward deployed to Naval Station Rota in Spain.

All twelve of the F-35As are likely bound for their ultimate destination of Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, in order to relieve twelve F-15E Strike Eagles assigned to the 391st Fighter Squadron based out of Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, that have been deployed to the region since early 2025.

U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) has published footage of and announced, that at the direction of Gen. Francis L. Donovan, the Commander of SOUTHCOM, military forces under Joint Task Force-Southern Spear (JTF-SS) carried out a strike today, February 9, against an alleged narco-trafficking vessel operating in the Eastern Pacific. According to SOUTHCOM, intelligence indicated that the vessel was transiting along a known narco-trafficking route and carrying illicit narcotics, with two suspected narco-terrorists killed in the strike while one survived, all believed to have been members of a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO). Following the strike, search-and-rescue assets were launched by the U.S. Coast Guard.

Israel’s far-right government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, took unilateral steps on Sunday to give itself and settlers greater control over the current occupation of the West Bank and Palestinians, despite direct opposition to the plan by President Donald J. Trump and his administration who are concerned that the move could seriously harm ongoing diplomatic talks between Arab allies in the region and Israel, according to the New York Times.

Changes to Israeli policy in the West Bank were decided by the Israel’s security cabinet during a closed-door meeting on Sunday, primarily making it easier for Jewish settlers to buy land and undercut the Palestinian Authority in areas under its control in the West Bank, while paving the way for the potential future annexation of the territory by Israel.

Neither Prime Minister Netanyahu nor his government publicly announced the changes, instead leaving the details to be published after the meeting by two far-right government ministers, specifically Bezalel Smotrich - Israel’s finance minister - who said in a statement after the meeting, “We are deepening our roots in all parts of the Land of Israel and burying the idea of a Palestinian State.”

Netanyahu is expected to meet President Trump at the White House on Wednesday, with a White House officials telling Axios regarding the Israel’s change in policy toward the West Bank, “A stable West Bank keeps Israel secure and is in line with this administration’s goal to achieve peace in the region,” once again alluding to its opposition to any Israeli annexation of the West Bank.

Four KC-135R/T “Stratotanker” Aerial-Refueling Tankers, BLUE61/62/71/72, departed this morning from Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar and are currently heading westward across the Mediterranean, briefly orbiting south of Crete, likely supporting the return of twelve F-15E Strike Eagles assigned to the 391st Fighter Squadron, out of Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, back to the United States from Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan.

The F-15E Strike Eagles will be replaced at Muwaffaq Salti by two flights of six F-35A Lightning lls with the “The Green Mountain Boys” of the Vermont Air National Guard’s 158th Fighter Wing, that over the last week have pre-staged at RAF Lakenheath in England and Naval Station Rota in Spain.