🇺🇸🇹🇷🇮🇷⚡- "Iranians are liars, they're cheats, they're sick people," - President Trump in a meeting with NATO's Secretary General Rutte at the Ankara summit.

🇺🇸🇹🇷🇮🇷⚡- "I don't want to waste my time on the Iranians anymore. I will let our wonderful negotiators keep talking with them if they want, but I don't see the point," - President Trump in a meeting with NATO's Secretary General Rutte at the Ankara summit.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡- Secretary of War Hegseth had unexpectedly canceled his visit to Israel today.

🇹🇷🇮🇱⚡- "We are preparing for every scenario, including military action. We understand that there is a threat, and we will not allow Turkey to threaten Israel's existence, just as we have not allowed—and will not allow—the Iranian regime to do so," - Bezalel Smotrich, Israeli Finance Minister.

Over the past 48 hours, multiple senior Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Netanyahu, have sharply escalated their rhetoric towards Turkey, which notably coincides with the NATO summit currently taking place in Ankara.

🇮🇷🇦🇪⚡- "Iran will pay a very heavy price tonight," - A senior Emirati official tells Haaretz.

🇪🇺🇮🇷⚡- European Union Aviation Safety Agency, EASA, has issued a new warning to all European airlines to avoid Iranian, Iraqi, and Lebanese airspaces.

🇮🇷🇴🇲⚡- "At least 6,000 sailors are still stranded in Gulf waters," - International Maritime Organization.

🇯🇵 - Today marks four years since the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- BREAKING: "We hit them [Iran] very hard last night, very very hard, probably hit them hard again tonight. I'll give them a little warning, we're gonna hit them hard tonight." - President Trump

🇺🇸🇯🇵⚡️- "111 missiles shot by the Islamic Republic of Japan, they were shot at the aircraft carrier over a period of about 1 hour." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️- Trump while pointing at Ukrainian President Zelenskyy: "Do you have a question for President Putin?"

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- "We may take over Kharg Island [Iran's largest oil-loading island], there's not a thing they can do about it." - President Trump.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- Secretary of War Hegseth: "Tonight, if we need to, on your order Mr President, we will hit even more and even deeper because that's the consequence."

President Trump: "We may put down the blockade, we may put it back, it will only be blockade for Iran, anyone else can have whatever they want.".

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- President Trump: "We knocked out 28 boats last night, little ones, that's all they have is little ones.”

Reporter: “Are you going to try to take out more tonight?”

Trump: “Will we go tonight? normally i wouldn't tell you, but you know what, there's not a thing they can do about it, so the answer is probably”

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡️- President Trump: “These people lie and they cheat, and you have an agreement, and they'll go outside, for instance they agreed 'wed never have a nuclear weapon', then they go outside and have the news conference where they say we never discussed the subject. Who would believe we never discussed the subject? Because for me that's 99.9% of what we're doing.

It’s the de-nuclearisation of Iran."

🇺🇸🇺🇦⚡- President announces he has given Ukraine the licenses to produce their own Patriot missiles in Ukraine.

🇺🇸🇱🇧🇮🇱⚡- President Trump in a meeting with Syria's al-Sharaa at the NATO summit in Ankara says that he believes Israel will withdraw all forces from Lebanon.

🎮⚡️- The Esports World Cup's 3rd edition is starting today in France. 100 nations, 40 clubs and 2000 players will compete in 21 video games for a record $75M cash prize, the largest in esports history.

🇺🇸🇮🇱⚡️- Maine Democratic Senate nominee Graham Platner mentioned Israel in more than half of his fundraising emails.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Iran has confirmed that eight members of its military were liquidated in U.S. strikes conducted last night and early morning today.

🇺🇸🇮🇷⚡- Multiple U.S. attacks against Bushehr and Chabahar, southern Iran.