🇬🇧🇮🇷 - Five men, 4 of which are iranian, have been arrested in the UK for planning a terror attack.

-AFP

🇺🇸🇨🇳🇹🇼⚡- "US Indo-Pacific Command says the risk of China seizing Taiwan is high.

The US command is considering two options for Beijing's aggression against the island - a blockade or a potential invasion through the strait with an amphibious operation to land troops and equipment," - The Wall Street Journal.

🇹🇷🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "Israel, unafraid to inflame the region, is clearly disturbed by Turkey's growing influence and achievements in the region," - Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey.

🇹🇷🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "We are closely monitoring any steps Israel takes, or plans to take, regarding Turkey," - Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey.

🇹🇷🇸🇾🇮🇱⚡- "Everyone must work toward building a new Syria based on unity and territorial integrity. Israel’s provocations promise nothing but blood, tears, and death," - - Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President of Turkey.

🇮🇱⚡- "Something big is on the way. The clock is ticking," - RakhaDashot, Israeli right-wing outlet.

🇾🇪🇮🇱 - Footage from inside of Ben Gurion International Airport captures the moment the Ansarullah ballistic struck 31.9971176, 34.8686917, just south of Terminal 3's car park.

🇮🇷⚡- Initial reports of an explosion in Mashhad, Iran.

🇮🇷⚡- Confirmed: An explosion occured at a motorcycle factory, leading to a large, currently uncontrolled, fire - Mashhad, Iran.

🇮🇷⚡- Masshad City Fire Department is on site and confirms the fire is spreading rapidly.

🇮🇷⚡- A second explosion in Qom, central Iran. Details unknown yet.

🇮🇷 - Rerum Novarum have geolocated the Qom fire footage to approximately 34.8369444, 50.9177778 - one of the warehouses in northeast of Mamhood Abad Industrial City, Qom, Iran.

Interestingly, the industrial sector is closed off to the general public, and has greatly expanded over recent years. Most of the warehouses remain unidentified. Unlike the neighbouring Shokohieh Industrial City, and any other industrial sector, Mahmood Abad lacks any sort of transportation link that you would normally expect to have to move cargo around. The closest highway, Route 7, is an incredible 5 km away.

What's more interesting is that the Fordow Nuclear Facility is less than 9km from this site, as well as two radar bases and and air defense base (for obvious reasons, we have not marked the bases on this map). Therefore, it's likely the warehouses are storage facilities for the bases and nuclear enrichment site.

🇮🇷 - Rerum Novarum have geolocated the Mashhad fire to 36.3876780, 59.5133354, a factory owned by Tizpar Toos, Mashhad, Iran.

From satellite imagery, the facility seems to have one large, open hanger filled with cars and bikes. It also has three smaller warehouses. The Tizpar Toos factory is owned by Tizpar Technical, which according to the UN, is a front for Shahid Hemat Industrial Group, SHIG.

The company has been sanctioned by the UK, Australia and the EU in 2010, and by Japan in 2022 for being linked to Iran's nuclear program - linked to Iran's "proliferation-sensitive nuclear activities or development of Iran's nuclear weapons delivery systems".

🇮🇷 - Interesting floor decorations exactly opposite the location of the fire in Masshad, Iran.

🇮🇱⚡- An IED, wrapped in an Israeli flag, was discovered on the side of Route 6, after it partially detonated - Kfar Qasim, central Israel.

🇰🇵⚡- North Korea's outlet, KCNA, says the country is 'undergoing massive rearmament' by 'giving Russia' all the 'old equipment' and 'producing new ones' for its military.

🇮🇷🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡- BREAKING: "Attacks by the Houthis emanate from Iran. Israel will respond to the Houthi attack against our main airport.

And at a time and place of our choosing, we will respond to their Iranian terror masters," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇮🇷🇾🇪🇮🇱⚡- "President Trump is absolutely right! The Houthi attacks are coming from Iran," - Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.

🇮🇷⚡- Two people have been detained in connection with the Shahid Rajaee Port explosion in Bandar Abbas, south Iran - according to Student News Network, Iranian outlet.

🇺🇳🇮🇳🇵🇰⚡- Pakistan seeks UN Security Council, UNSC, meeting over rising tensions with India.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- "Netanyahu has expressed frustration in closed-door conversations about Trump's actions concerning the Middle East.

He reportedly told his team that, during meetings and phone calls, Trump says the right things, particularly regarding Iran and Syria. However his steps do not align with his statements.

Netanyahu was dissatisfied with Trump's decision to open negotiations with Iran," - Israel Hayom, pro-Likud outlet.