🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — Explosions heard in Kermanshah, western Iran, as Iranian air defenses confront IDF projectiles.

🇺🇸❌🇮🇷❓ — Multiple media reports indicate that Donald Trump is leaning towards not attacking Iran unless it is certain that the GBU-57 "Massive Ordnance Penetrator" bomb can destroy the Fordow nuclear facility and is asking his military advisers to investigate if the GBU-57 can do the job.

⚡️🇯🇴🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 - Sirens sound in Amman, Jordan.

⚡️🇮🇷❌🇮🇱 - Sirens sound in northern Israel, amidst an ongoing Iranian missile attack.

🇮🇱❌🇮🇷 — No impacts reported as of now.

💥 — About the GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator:

➡️ The GBU-57 is a munition held solely by the U.S. Air Force that is designed for the use of destroying heavily fortified and deep-underground bunkers, and the only current operational bomber capable of carrying the bomb is the B-2 , which is also only operated by the USAF with nineteen currently being in service.

➡️ The GBU-57 is capable of penetrating up to 60 meters of reinforced concrete, which is weaker than the natural fortifications present defending the Fordow nuclear facility; multiple will be required, and the efficiency of the bomb diminishes after each use on the same target. The B-2 can carry up to two GBU-57s at a time, and at least 20 are owned by the USAF.

➡️ Combined use of the GPS and INS on the bomb makes it capable of it reaching its targets with a variance of only meters.

➡️ The GBU-57 is America's most capable bunker buster bomb.

🇺🇸🇮🇱 The US is reopening visas to foreign students, but with a catch.

All applicants must have public social media accounts so the State Department can vet them for anti-Israel and “antisemitic” opinions.

Instead of a restriction on all foreign students that prioritizes native-born American students, only foreign students critical of Israel or Jews will be restricted.

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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇬🇧❌🇮🇷— The UK is weighing up whether they should join the US if they decide to go to war with Iran

➡️ Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his ministers are expected to discuss how the UK should respond at this afternoon's COBRA meeting if Trump requests support for military action.

➡️ British military sources believe the US could seek to use Diego Garcia - the joint UK-US base in the Indian Ocean - as a staging point for any operation against Iran, automatically making them a party in the conflict.

🇺🇸🛫🇮🇶 — U.S. State Department begins evacuating its employees from Baghdad, Iraq.

—❗️🇮🇷 🇮🇷 IRGC Aerospace Force: 'We launched the 15th wave of operation True Promise-3 against the Zionist regime. Effect-oriented missile operations against Israeli military and industrial targets will continue and increase at a calculated but escalatory pace'

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🇮🇷❌🇮🇱 - Satellite images show the effects of the Israeli attack on Iran's inactive Arak nuclear reactor.

🇮🇷❌🇮🇱 - More scenes of damage in Ramat Gan emerge from the Iranian missile attack earlier today.

🇺🇸🛫🇮🇱 — FOX News reports Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has sent four planes to evacuate 1500 Americans stranded in Israel.