— 🏴 NEW: The Hawza of Najaf announces the passing of Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Ishaq Al-Fayyadh, one of the foremost Shia Islamic scholars of Iraq

He was a distinguished student of Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, and was one of the Najaf seminary’s leading scholars alongside Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Al-Sistani throughout his life.

‎إِنَّا لِلَّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعُونَ

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— 🇺🇸 NEW: YouTubers captured thermal footage of a classified new experimental U.S. fighter jet at Area 51

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I’m pretty sure Israel will attack Beirut at some point, sooner rather than later.

Iran will then retaliate, and the ceasefire will be over.

— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 President Trump:

‘Iran’s new leader [Mojtaba Khamenei] is a great guy. Some say he’s bad, but people say bad things about me too.

I would be honored to meet the Ayatollah. I’m probably not his favourite person, but I think he’s a professional, and very well respected.’

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: For the third time, two Arleigh Burke-class destroyers USS Truxton (DDG-103) and USS Mason (DDG-87), tried to enter the Persian Gulf without Iran’s permission

The Iranian Navy announces it targeted the vessels with suicide drones and anti-ship missiles, forcing them to return back to the Sea of Oman.

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— 🇴🇲 NEW: An unidentified drone impacted at Mina Fahal Port today in Oman, temporarily suspending operations for safety reasons but not causing any material damage

The drone was not launched by Iran. It is likely that another Arab country in the region launched it to cause problems in Iranian-Omani relations.

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— 🇮🇷 The father of Heidar Salehi, one of the boys killed in the American bombing of the Minab School in Iran, still sleeps alongside the grave of his son three months after he was martyred

‘I can’t leave his side. How can I let him stay here all alone? I have nobody else’, he says.

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— 🇱🇧/🇮🇷 Lebanese President, Joseph Aoun: ‘I call upon Iran to have mercy on southern Lebanon and stop destroying our country’

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— 🇧🇭 NEW: A group calling itself the Bahraini resistance set fire to a police station of the Al-Khalifa regime in Manama

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— There are no explosions heard or anything out of the ordinary in Kharg, according to Mehr News.

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: U.S. CENTCOM says it shot down four Iranian drones headed towards the Strait of Hormuz

They also announce and that the U.S. targeted radar sites in Garuk (near Sirik Naval Base) and Qeshm Island.

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— 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NOTE: Iranian media only denied the news of explosions on Kharg (which was indeed false) but didn’t comment on Qeshm

It’s now been confirmed explosions did indeed take place on Qeshm Island and in Sirik / Garuk, southern Iran.

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—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: According to a good source, one of the U.S. strikes targeted Sirik Naval Base, and unfortunately led to a martyr

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