🇮🇷⚡️- Three explosions were heard in Bandar Abbas, Iran.

Air defense is currently active.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: Initial reports of an exchange of fire by the IRGC Navy and "hostile elements."

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: The U.S. military carried out new strikes on an Iranian military site that posed a threat to U.S. forces and commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, according to Reuters.

The U.S. military also intercepted and shot down multiple Iranian drones during the strikes.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "Iran attacked a U.S. navy vessel and commercial ship, the U.S. then responded by attacking a drone launching platform." - Axios.

The IRGC once again attempted to challenge the U.S. blockade, according to local Iranian reports.

🇺🇸🇻🇪⚡️- The Trump administration has ordered federal prosecutors at the Department of Justice to avoid pursuing any criminal investigations into Venezuela's acting President Delcy Rodriguez, according to AP.

🇺🇸🇨🇳⚡️- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang agreed to join the advisory board of Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management, according to the Financial Times.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Iran's newly created Persian Gulf Strait Authority.

🇮🇷⚡️- Earlier today, Iran fired warning shots at four vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, forcing them to turn back and retreat.

Note: This was a separate incident from the U.S. Navy and IRGC clashes that occurred hours later.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- BREAKING: Sirens and alerts in Kuwait.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- Confirmed to be an Iranian ballistic missile launch to Kuwait, according to local Iranian reports.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- Kuwait announces it is engaging hostile missiles and drones.

🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- Reports indicate the missile launch came from Khuzestan, Iran, according to Vahid Online.

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- BREAKING: Iran has targeted a U.S. airbase allegedly used to launch attacks on Bandar Abbas in southern Iran, according to Tasnim News Agency.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Full Statement:

Urgent / The IRGC targeted a U.S. airbase

Following the aggression carried out at dawn today by the invading U.S. military against a location on the outskirts of Bandar Abbas Airport using aerial projectiles, the American airbase that served as the origin of the aggression was targeted at 4:50.

Statement by the IRGC Public Relations Office:

In the name of God, the subduer of tyrants.

“So whoever has assaulted you, then assault him in the same way that he has assaulted you.”

Following the aggression carried out at dawn today by the invading U.S. military against a location on the outskirts of Bandar Abbas Airport using aerial projectiles, the American airbase that was the source of the aggression was targeted at 4:50.

This response is a serious warning so that the enemy knows aggression will not go unanswered, and if repeated, our response will be more decisive.

Responsibility for its consequences lies with the aggressor.

“And victory is only from Allah, the Almighty, the Wise.”

🇺🇸🇮🇷🇰🇼⚡️- Visual confirmation shows an Iranian missile in flight toward a U.S. airbase in Kuwait, despite earlier claims that the attacks originated from Iraq and only involved drones.

🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- Israel has yet again issued evacuation orders for the entire south of Lebanon, which includes all areas south of the Zahrani River.

(The map attached was provided by the IDF during a previous order in the past.)