🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Iranians are tough and capable of enduring immense pain, and I respect them for that, but they are better negotiators than fighters.” - President Trump to TIME magazine.

🇺🇸⚡️- SpaceX has boosted its IPO target valuation above $2 trillion, reports Bloomberg.

🇨🇳🇷🇺🇫🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Russia, China, and France are thwarting an initiative by Arab states to bring the UN Security Council to approve military action against Iran in order to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, according to the NYT.

🇺🇸⚡️- Army Chief of Staff General Randy George has resigned.

🇨🇳🇷🇺🇫🇷 - The last time Russia, China, and France were the only three Permanent Members of the UNSC to align on a major issue was in 2003, when they opposed the joint UK-US resolution for the invasion of Iraq.

This forced the UK and the US to withdraw the draft resolution, preventing the UN from issuing a formal mandate to invade Iraq.

🇺🇸🇮🇶🇮🇷⚡- Violent explosions in Erbil, Iraq's Kurdistan region.

🇺🇸🇮🇶⚡- US airstrikes the 30th Brigade of the Popular Mobilization Forces positions in Mosul, Iraq.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- Explosions heard in Kuwait, locals tell Rerum Novarum.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- A factory in Petah Tikva, Israel, was struck in the Iranian missile attack, indicating that it was a precision strike, according to Haaretz.

🇺🇸🇦🇪🇮🇷⚡- Dubai's government media office on X denies the reports of the IRGC striking Oracle's data center in Dubai.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- World-renowned journalist Seymour Hersh says the ground war in Iran is “on” following President Trump’s speech, and that the process has begun.

Hersh correctly predicted the weekend the United States bombed Iranian nuclear facilities in June, the Nord Stream pipeline bombing, the Abu Ghraib prisoner scandal, and many other events.

🇮🇷🇧🇭⚡️- Sirens activated in Bahrain, locals tell Rerum Novarum.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: US intelligence assesses Iran maintains significant missile launching capability, sources tell CNN.

Roughly half of Iran’s missile launchers are still intact and thousands of one-way attack drones remain in Iran’s arsenal despite the daily pounding by US and Israeli strikes against military targets over the past five weeks, according to recent US intelligence assessments, three sources familiar with the intel told CNN.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump has expressed frustration and disappointment with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer, and is considering making more changes to his cabinet, according to Politico.

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Iranian missile launches to central Israel.

🇺🇸⚡️- FBI Director Kash Patel and Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll are also at risk of being removed, according to The Atlantic.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- Sirens heard in Kuwait, locals tell Rerum Novarum.

🇺🇸⚡️- President Trump’s decision to fire Pam Bondi is universally supported across party lines in a snap YouGov poll.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Democratic voters and activists are increasingly angry at the Party's elected officials for not focusing enough on stopping the war in Iran and Trump Admin corruption.

Approval within the Party loyal towards its leadership remains at all time lows.