🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- BREAKING: "PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS ORDERED AN ATTACK ON IRAN, BUT HAS NOT YET GIVEN FINAL APPROVAL." - Wall Street Journal.

President Trump is reportedly waiting to see if Iran will give up uranium enrichment.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "President Trump is weighing timing and broader regional implications before giving the green light." - Wall Street Journal.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- President Trump's National Security Council meeting has ended.

🇨🇳🇰🇷⚡- Seoul raises alarm over Chinese recon ships which have begun sailing closer to the Korean shoreline, especially near US bases.

🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡- "I am ready to meet with everyone, even Zelensky," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇨🇳🇯🇵🇹🇼⚡- Former Japanese military chief warns that the Chinese military exercises ongoing currently in the West Philippines Sea could be "setting the stage for a Chinese landing operation" against the first and second island chains.

🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- "Iran is not asking Russia for military assistance. We had previously offered Tehran to work on air defense systems, but they did not show much interest," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- "The strategic partnership agreement between Russia and Iran does not contain any articles on the defense sector, and Tehran is not asking for this," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia.

🇷🇺🇮🇷⚡- "I don't want to discuss it," - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, when asked what Russia's reaction would be if Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was to be assassinated.

🇺🇸🇰🇷⚡️- The American Bureau of Shipping (ABS) approved a floating nuclear power module by HD Hyundai Heavy Industries and HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering. Using small modular reactors (SMRs), it’s designed to power ports, coastal areas, and data centers. It could match fossil fuel costs, cut emissions, boost cargo space, and run for decades with minimal refueling.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Trump wants to make sure an attack on Iran is really needed, it wouldn't drag the US into a prolonged war in the Middle East, and - most of all - would actually achieve the objective of destroying Iran's nuclear program." - Axios, quoting unnamed senior US officials.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "President Trump has specifically asked his military advisors whether or not the Massive Ordinance Penetrator (MOP) would destroy Fordow. Pentagon officials told Trump they're confident they would, but it's not clear that Trump was totally convinced." - Axios, senior unnamed US officials.

🇺🇸🇮🇷 - In other words, Trump will only enter the war if he's confident that it'll be quick, painless, precise, and won't escalate into a wider war.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Drone alerts in eastern Israel. Iranian drones incoming.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- The single Iranian drone was intercepted.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Sirens in the north of Israel, another Iranian drone.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡- Another single Iranian drone was intercepted. Israel's Home Front Command has dropped all restrictions on staying near shelters.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "The Israelis told the Trump administration that while they may not be able to reach deep enough into the mountain with bombs, they may 'do it with humans.'" - Axios, quoting an unnamed senior US official.

Israelis are effectively encouraging the US to engage in a ground war with Iran if an air war doesn't immobilize Iranian nuclear sites.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Air defenses are active in Tehran, the capital of Iran. Explosions heard.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Reuters reports that Israeli drones were intercepted over Tehran.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- "Israel-Iran conflict may only last as long as their missiles can hold out." - The Washington Post.

Washington Post estimates that Israel may run out of interceptor missiles to defend against Iranian ballistic missile attacks within 2 weeks unless replenished by the United States.