🇺🇸🇸🇦❌🇮🇷🇮🇷 — US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, explains to CBS News why US CENTCOM has bases on Persian Gulf and vows to protect the GCC from Iranian aggression:

"We'll defend our people... but let's hope they don't choose that route.
Let's all hope that they actually decide, 'let's go negotiate' because we want a diplomatic and peaceful solution."

🔗 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47)

🇺🇸📞🇮🇷 — US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says to CBS News that the ball is on the Ayatollah's court:

"This is very simple. The President wants to resolve this diplomatically and peacefully.

He gave them a chance to do that

What happens next is up to the regime."

🔗 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47)

🇺🇸 After claiming that the U.S. would limit itself to just bombing the Iranian nuclear program, Trump moves the goalpost and says that the regime in Iran must be replaced with one that can "Make Iran Great Again".

MIGA — Make Israelran Great Again

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🇺🇸🇮🇷 Op. Midnight Hammer | New Map + Report

- 125+ aircraft + 1x guided-missile sub
- Main strike package: 7x B-2 bombers
- Employed decoy + deception tactics
- 75+ precision-guided munitions (MOP, TLAM, HARM) targeted 3 Iranian nuclear sites

Largest B-2 strike in U.S. history

🔗 Ian Ellis

🇩🇪🇮🇹🇺🇸 Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245bn of gold home from US

Germany and Italy are facing calls to move their gold out of New York following President Donald Trump’s repeated attacks on the US Federal Reserve and increasing geopolitical turbulence.

Fabio De Masi, a former Die Linke MEP who joined the leftwing populist BSW party, told the Financial Times that there were “strong arguments” for relocating more gold to Europe or Germany “in turbulent times”.

Germany and Italy hold the world’s second- and third-largest national gold reserves after the US, with reserves of 3,352 tonnes and 2,452 tonnes, respectively, according to World Gold Council data. Both rely heavily on the New York Federal Reserve in Manhattan as a custodian, each storing more than a third of their bullion in the US. Between them, the gold stored in the US has a market value of more than $245bn, according to FT calculations.

This is largely down to historic reasons but also reflects New York’s status as one of the world’s most important trading hubs for gold, along with London.

Yet Trump’s erratic policymaking and wider geopolitical unrest are fuelling a public debate about the issue in parts of Europe. The US president said earlier this month he may have to “force something” if the US central bank did not lower borrowing costs.

https://www.ft.com/content/e39390cc-ea02-4197-843a-1e4c242422cc

🇦🇪 — UAE prepares to close its airspace according to reports.

🇶🇦🇦🇪🇴🇲❌🔫 GPS jamming and disruptions over the Persian Gulf countries.

Air forces in the region are on high alert.

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🇺🇸🇶🇦🇮🇷 If Al Udeid airbase in Qatar is the target that Iran has chosen, it seems that they are signalling an intent to deescalate with the US. Al Udeid was very publicly emptied over the last week or so. On June 5 there were approx 40 aircraft at the base, this morning, there is 1.

🔗 Kyle Glenn

🇮🇷 Iranian missiles launched over the Persian Gulf!

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🇮🇱🇶🇦⚡️Qatar

🇧🇭🇺🇸❌🇮🇷 — Sirens sound in Bahrain.

🇮🇷❌🇮🇶🇺🇸— Sirens sound at the US Al-Harir Air Force Base in Iraq.