WATCH: CCTV footage of U.S.–Israeli attack near Iran's Qazvin boys’ school, resulting in the killing of a teenager on the first day of the war.

🇺🇸 JUST IN: New FBI files reveal a girl, aged 13–15, alleges sexual assault by Donald Trump in the 1980s, previously missing from the Epstein files.

🇺🇸 Trump team did no advance planning for the possibility gas and oil prices would go up if we attacked Iran

🇺🇸 "...war in Iran is very unpopular. Not merely negative-number ... but worst-ever-support for war"

With just 38% of Americans in favor, support for bombing Iran is lower than retrospective support for the war in Iraq was in 2014."

❗️A new series of Israeli attacks in Dahyeh.

One Syrian was killed in the latest attack there

🚨🇺🇸🛢️ - US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: The US fleet will escort ships in the Strait of Hormuz as soon as possible, and we expect to see a decrease in prices within weeks, not months

🔗 Middle East Observer

Large wave of tankers and undoubtedly fighters/strike aircraft with or near them. Passing north of Al-Jubail, 🇸🇦 KSA.

The 285 on a better day

🇺🇸 DHS Mullin: This is war

*moments later*

Raju: You concede this is war?

Mullin: We haven’t declared war.

Reporter: You just said it’s a war.

Raju: You’re not conceding it’s a war?

Mullin: We haven’t declared war.

"It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months."

— Donald Rumsfeld on the Iraq War (7 Feb 2003).

SecDef Pete Hegseth on Wednesday: “You can say four weeks, but it could be six, it could be eight, it could be three.”

Fruedian Slip by US Senator and pro-Israel stooge Chuck Schumer: "No one wants a Nuclear Israel"

🇺🇸 It’s the “Department of Defense” again.

.@SpeakerJohnson after House blocked War Powers Resolution: "We're not at war, we have no intention at being at war. The president and the Department of Defense have made it very clear, this is a limited operation."

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told Arab foreign ministers in calls Thursday that the war with Iran is expected to last several more weeks, according to sources familiar with the conversations.

Rubio said the current military focus is on Iran’s missile launchers, stockpiles and factories, adding that Washington’s stated goal is not regime change, while simultaneously making clear the U.S. wants different leadership in Tehran. — Axios

Iranian forces bombed a tugboat attempting to render assistance to another vessel hit by Iranian fire in the Strait of Hormuz.

This appears to be the UAE tug Mussafah 2. Reports are that all eight crewmembers have been lost. The tug was responding to the containership Safeen Prestige which was in distress after being attacked by Iran.

This raises the death toll of mariners to 11 and attacks on ships to 14.

❗️Hezbullah attacked the Israeli base Balat again with ATGM, confirming hits

Israeli media reporting 5 new injuries.

Despite everything... everything... phenomenal work.

Hezbullah's isn't at its prime, however what's happening shows us that had the mishaps of 2023 didn't happen, the situation would have been so different.

People do not understand how hard it is to operate in south Lebanon in a range of 5 km of the border area.

I would like to note, the IDF so far is reluctant about the deepening of the invasion in Lebanon and prefers airstrikes to have us pay a toll.

They hope they can wait this off until Iran's war becomes lower in intensity or manageable by the U.S alone to focus on here

❗️ Israeli forces attacked the 🇺🇳 UN Ghana forces in Al-Kawzah area near Aita al-Shaab

Per WaPo, the U.S. Army in recent days abruptly canceled a major training exercise for the headquarters element of the 82nd Airborne Division, fueling speculation within the Pentagon that its personnel might be deployed to the Middle East region to take part in combat operations against Iran.

🇦🇪🛢 Murban Crude has surpassed the 100$ mark.

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