🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- “The US military is prepared to strike Iran as early as this weekend, though President Donald Trump has yet to make a final decision on whether he’ll authorize such actions,” sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Congressmen Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna will force a vote next week on a bipartisan war powers resolution on Iran.

It will be aimed at preventing the executive branch from launching an operation against Iran without congressional approval.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Senior national security officials have told the president that any operation that aims to change the Iranian leadership is not guaranteed to be a success, the officials said." - NYT.

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡️- Initial reports from Iraq say that the Iraqi militia and the Iran-aligned group Al-Nujaba have set up a "corps system," which would allow their soldiers to attack U.S. military targets in the region if Iran is attacked, without waiting for approval from their leadership.

They claim to have over fifty designated targets in the region.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "The U.S. is sending significant numbers of jet fighters and support aircraft to the Middle East, assembling the greatest amount of air power in the region since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The firepower will give the U.S. the option of carrying out a sustained, weekslong air war against Iran instead of the one-and-done “Midnight Hammer” strike the U.S. carried out in June against three Iranian nuclear sites, U.S. officials said

Trump has received several briefings on his military options should he choose to strike, all of them designed to maximize damage to Iran’s regime and its regional proxies, U.S. officials said.

The options include a campaign to kill scores of Iranian political and military leaders, with the goal of overthrowing the government, as well as an air attack that would be limited to striking targets including nuclear and ballistic-missile facilities. Both would inv